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- Now Playing11minThe Hazy Evolution of Cannabis
- Now Playing11minMeasuring the Universe With a 14-Billion Light-Year Ruler
- Now Playing16minHow Eclipses Revealed Our Solar System
- Now Playing10minA Giant Monster With a Giant Problem
- Now Playing10minWhat Will Earth Be Like 300 Million Years From Now?
- Now Playing16minWhat If Gravity is Not A Fundamental Force?
- Now Playing15minDoes Space Emerge From A Holographic Boundary?
- Now Playing8minIs the Southern Accent Disappearing?
- Now Playing15minThis Winter Trend Is Overpowering Global Warming
- Now Playing8minWhat Was The Earliest Surgery?
It's Okay to Be Smart
- Now Playing5minWhy Are The Bees Dying?
- Now Playing7minSonic the Hedgehog Is Why You Have Thumbs!
- Now Playing4minThe Romantic Lure of Moonlight
- Now Playing2minCan Evolution Create Information? - 12 Days of Evolution #9
- Now Playing2minAre Humans Still Evolving? 12 Days of Evolution #11
- Now Playing6minCan Coral Reefs Survive Climate Change? #OursToLose
- Now Playing8minIs Ultron Inevitable?
- Now Playing3minWhy Does Time Go Forward?
- Now Playing5minWhy Is The Universe So Empty? (ft. PHD Comics!)
- Now Playing5minHow Your Body Knows Left From Right
- Now Playing5minThis Rainforest Caterpillar Looks Like Donald Trump
- Now Playing6minUnderstanding Climate Science
- Now Playing8minWhere On Earth Do You Weigh The Least?
- Now Playing5minHow Science Defines A Year
- Now Playing8minIs There Intelligent Life Beyond Earth?
- Now Playing8minIs Space A Thing?
- Now Playing6minWhat Has New Horizons Taught Us About Pluto?
- Now Playing8minThe Deadliest Flu Season in History?
- Now Playing5min%$?# Allergies!
- Now Playing5minWhy Does The Earth Have Layers?
Origin of Everything
- Now Playing9minThe Origin of Gender
- Now Playing9minWhy Do All Malls Look the Same?
- Now Playing8minWhere does the Nuclear Family Come From?
- Now Playing10minThe 2nd Amendment Explained
- Now Playing11minWhy Do So Many Religions Have Headwear?
- Now Playing10minWhy Do We Have Hobbies?
- Now Playing7minWhy Do We Eat Popcorn at The Movies?
- Now Playing9minThe Origin of Gender
- Now Playing7minThe True Origin of Killer Clowns
- Now Playing8minWhy Did Europeans Enslave Africans?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do We Get Grades in School?
- Now Playing9minWhy Do We Drink Milk in School?
- Now Playing10minWhat is Ethnicity?
- Now Playing7minWhy Does Santa Wear Red?
- Now Playing11minWhat is Racial Passing?
- Now Playing6minWhy Do We Have Middle Names?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do People Have Pets?
- Now Playing12minSix Historically True Facts about Money
- Now Playing8minWhy Do We Eat Artificial Flavors?
- Now Playing12minWhy Do We Have Housing Projects?
Two Cents
- Now Playing7minFighting the Financial Pitfalls of the Supermarket
- Now Playing5minInsta-Everything
- Now Playing7minHow Retailers Stalk You Online
- Now Playing5minDo Kids Need to Learn About Money?
- Now Playing7minIs Your Side Hustle Hustling You?
- Now Playing7minWhich College Majors Give the Most Bang for Your Buck?
- Now Playing6minFighting the Wedding Industrial Complex
- Now Playing6minIs My Identity Safe From Hackers?
- Now Playing7minMoney, A Global Game of Trust
- Now Playing6minI'm Young & Healthy, Can I Skip Health Insurance?
- Now Playing9minHow Smart Entrepreneurs Think About PRICES!
- Now Playing6minTop 5 Biggest Financial Scams
- Now Playing7minWhy It's More Expensive To Be Poor
- Now Playing6minHow to Ask for a Raise
- Now Playing7minWhat's The Real Cost of Dying?
- Now Playing7minShould I Invest In Cannabis Stocks?
- Now Playing6minHow Do You Actually Buy A House?
- Now Playing8min5 Ways People Are Dumb About Money
- Now Playing8minAre "Free" Video Games Really Free?
- Now Playing6minWhat is The Cost of Pet Ownership?
Monstrum
- Now Playing17minTrolls: Scandinavia's Malevolent, Magical Outcasts
- Now Playing11minIs Siren Head the Ultimate Modern Monster?
- Now Playing6minThe Original Headless Horseman
- Now Playing9minThe Hidden Origins of Nixie, the Scariest Little Mermaid
- Now Playing18minUnlocking the Mystery of Loch Ness
- Now Playing12minHow Gargoyles Became Monsters
- Now Playing11minThe Macabre Origins of the Grim Reaper
- Now Playing11minWhy Has the Majestic Griffin Been Forgotten?
- Now Playing9minKrampus: Origins of the Yuletide Monster
- Now Playing20minWhy George Romero Changed Zombies Forever
- Now Playing14minHero, Beast, or Both? The Complex Lore of the Centaur
- Now Playing10minA Giant Monster With a Giant Problem
- Now Playing10minHow a Children's Book Introduced Us To Our Inner Demons
- Now Playing17minThe Origins of the Zombie, from Haiti to the U.S.
- Now Playing10minEl Silbón: The Deadly Whistler of the Grasslands
- Now Playing10minSlender Man: How The Internet Created a Monster
- Now Playing13minMonster Plants and the Humans who Invent Them
- Now Playing12minWho Is This Japanese Yōkai That Is Obsessed With Your Butt?
- Now Playing7minRelease the Kraken!
- Now Playing7minAre White Walkers Really Nordic Zombies?
Eons
- Now Playing8minHow Ankylosaurs Got Their Clubs
- Now Playing9minThe Sudden Rise of the First Colossal Animal
- Now Playing8minWhere Did Viruses Come From?
- Now Playing8minThe Mystery of the Eocene's Lethal Lake
- Now Playing11minWhen Penguins Went From The Sky To The Sea
- Now Playing10minThe Last Time the Globe Warmed
- Now Playing9minThe Whole Saga of the Supercontinents
- Now Playing6minThe Most Useful Fossils In The World
- Now Playing6minHistory's Most Powerful Plants
- Now Playing10minHow a Supervolcano Made the Cenozoic's Coolest Fossils
- Now Playing10minThe Facts About Dinosaurs & Feathers
- Now Playing10minWhen Ichthyosaurs Led a Revolution in the Seas
- Now Playing8minThe Ancient Human Species With A Missing Body
- Now Playing10minThat Time The Ocean Lost (Almost) All Its Oxygen
- Now Playing9minThe Rise and Fall of the Bone-Crushing Dogs
- Now Playing7minWhy Do Things Keep Evolving Into Crabs?
- Now Playing10minHow Pollination Got Going Twice
- Now Playing11minHow the Starfish Got Its Arms
- Now Playing11minThe Story of the Dino Stampede
- Now Playing9minHow Plankton Created A Bizarre Giant of the Seas
Hot Mess
- Now Playing7minHow To Make Clothes Less Terrible for the Planet
- Now Playing5minWhy Don't We Hear About the Ozone Hole Anymore?
- Now Playing6minHow To Suck Carbon Dioxide Out of the Sky
- Now Playing5minWho Should Pay To Fix Climate Change?
- Now Playing6minWill Big Oil Have To Pay Up Like Big Tobacco?
- Now Playing6minWhat If We Burned All The World's Fossil Fuels?
- Now Playing6minCan We Get Solar Power To Everyone Who Wants It?
- Now Playing5minClimate change will push millions out. Where will they go?
- Now Playing5minWho Should Pay To Fix Climate Change?
- Now Playing6minWhat Indigenous Communities Teach Us About Climate Change
- Now Playing10minAre You Scared Enough? feat. David Wallace-Wells
- Now Playing5minWhy Climate Change is Unjust
- Now Playing10minFeeling Guilty About Climate Change feat. Hank Green
- Now Playing6minWhat If We Burned All The World's Fossil Fuels?
- Now Playing6minHow To Suck Carbon Dioxide Out of the Sky
- Now Playing7minWhat's The Best Car For The Climate?
- Now Playing10minFeeling Guilty About Climate Change feat. Hank Green
- Now Playing5minWhat Happened to Nuclear Power?
- Now Playing3minCould climate change make you allergic to meat?
- Now Playing7minWhat's The Best Car For The Climate?
Space Time
- Now Playing11minS2: How the Quantum Eraser Rewrites the Past
- Now Playing13minHorizon Radiation
- Now Playing15minWhy Is 1/137 One of the Greatest Unsolved Problems
- Now Playing9minThe Real Meaning of E=mc²
- Now Playing13minDid Dark Energy Just Disappear?
- Now Playing15minIs Interstellar Travel Impossible?
- Now Playing9minWhy the Big Bang Definitely Happened
- Now Playing9minThe Great American Eclipse
- Now Playing15minThe Holographic Universe Explained
- Now Playing8minWhat Happens At The Edge Of The Universe?
- Now Playing15minDid Life on Earth Come from Space?
- Now Playing13minQuantum Theory's Most Incredible Prediction
- Now Playing9min5 Ways to Stop a Killer Asteroid
- Now Playing11minWill A New Neutrino Change The Standard Model?
- Now Playing11minS2: The Quantum Experiment that Broke Reality
- Now Playing12minThe Missing Mass Mystery
- Now Playing16minWhat If The Speed of Light is NOT CONSTANT?
- Now Playing16minWhat If Gravity is Not A Fundamental Force?
- Now Playing14minWhy String Theory is Right
- Now Playing17minHow Does the Earth Really Move Through The Galaxy?
Beat Making Lab
- Now Playing3minBeat Making Challenge #1: Accordion Trap
- Now Playing5minBehind the Beat: Portobelo
- Now Playing2minWhat's In the Backpack?
- Now Playing3minPanama: Meet the Kids Behind the Beats
- Now Playing3minGet Your Drums Right
- Now Playing2minField Trip: Prison Beats
- Now Playing2minMashup: National Anthems
- Now Playing10minHeartbeats of Fiji
- Now Playing4minCho Cho Cho (Music Video) filmed in Goma, Congo
- Now Playing2minWalshy Fire [of Major Lazer] Wants Your Riddims
- Now Playing3minEpisode 1: Goma, Congo
- Now Playing4minDiablos (music video)
- Now Playing3minExclusive Zenga (Music Video) by Flamme Kapaya
- Now Playing3minBeat Making Challenge #2: Kora Riddim
- Now Playing3minFemale Hip Hop Crew Makes Beats in Senegal
- Now Playing3minProf. Angel Sound Prison Beats Interview
- Now Playing3min#FijiChallenge w/ Walshy Fire of Major Lazer
- Now Playing4minPortobelo (music video)
- Now Playing3minBehind The Beat: First Beat Making Lab (2011)
- Now Playing3minSampling w/ Flip Flops and Ski Beatz
Infinite Series
- Now Playing8minHow to Divide by "Zero"
- Now Playing9minHow Many Humans Have the Same Number of Body Hairs?
- Now Playing10minThe Assassin Puzzle
- Now Playing9minHow Many Humans Have the Same Number of Body Hairs?
- Now Playing10minUnraveling DNA with Rational Tangles
- Now Playing14minTopology Riddles | Infinite Series
- Now Playing12minThe Honeycombs of 4-Dimensional Bees ft. Joe Hanson
- Now Playing11minVoting Systems and the Condorcet Paradox
- Now Playing14minInfinite Chess
- Now Playing15minDissecting Hypercubes with Pascal's Triangle
- Now Playing9minBeyond the Golden Ratio
- Now Playing11minSingularities Explained
- Now Playing15minArrow's Impossibility Theorem
- Now Playing9minA Hierarchy of Infinities
- Now Playing11minThe Geometry of SET
- Now Playing15minArrow's Impossibility Theorem
- Now Playing10minWhat Does It Mean to Be a Number? (The Peano Axioms)
- Now Playing14minCan a Chess Piece Explain Markov Chains?
- Now Playing14minSolving the Wolverine Problem with Graph Coloring
- Now Playing14minBuilding an Infinite Bridge
Idea Channel
- Now Playing6minThe Retro Awesomeness of Adventure Time
- Now Playing5minIs Homestuck the Ulysses of the Internet?
- Now Playing5minA Visit to Mr. Monfre's Class
- Now Playing5minThere's No Such Thing as Online?!?
- Now Playing6minIs Doctor Who a Religion?
- Now Playing6minShould "Happy Birthday" be Protected by Copyright?
- Now Playing9minIs a DOS Attack a Weapon?
- Now Playing3minAn Interview with Minecraft EDU Creator Joel Levin
- Now Playing4minThe Bronies Phenomenon
- Now Playing6minWhat do MP3s and Magic Spells Have in Common?
- Now Playing5minIs Facebook Changing Our Identity?
- Now Playing6minWhat Do Santa and Wrestling Have In Common?
- Now Playing9minCan Video Games Become the Next Spectator Sport?
- Now Playing4minAre Mashups the End of Music Genres?
- Now Playing8minDo Knock-Offs Prove the Value of a Brand?
- Now Playing5minHow will the Animated GIF affect the Presidential Election?
- Now Playing9minIs the Universe a Computer?
- Now Playing5minAre Olympic Competitors Geniuses?
- Now Playing5minIs CSS and Website Design a Fashion Statement?
- Now Playing4minHas the Microsoft Kinect revolutionized art?