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Origin Of EverythingEvery aspect of our daily reality, whether its the words we use, the pop culture we love, the technology that get us through the day, or even the identities we give ourselves, emerge from thousands of intersecting histories. And on this show, we're going to explore them ALL!
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- Now Playing14minOur Understanding of Floods is ALL Wrong
- Now Playing22minCan AI Help Us Talk to Whales?
- Now Playing16minWhy Is The World Rushing Back To The Moon?
- 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?
It's Okay to Be Smart
- Now Playing6minThe Science of Kissing
- Now Playing7minWhat Are The Most Important Science Images Ever?
- Now Playing7minIs Your Brain Too Old For Video Games?
- Now Playing5minThe Superb Owl!
- Now Playing6minDo Plants Think?
- Now Playing6minHow the Toilet Changed History
- Now Playing4minThis Is Not a Rainbow
- Now Playing8minIs There Intelligent Life Beyond Earth?
- Now Playing5minI Don't Think You're Ready for These Jellies
- Now Playing7minEngines of Destruction: How Hurricanes Work
- Now Playing7minThe Strange Science of the Placebo Effect
- Now Playing6minInside an ICE CAVE! - Nature's Most Beautiful Blue
- Now Playing5minThe Cosmic Origins of Earth's Water
- Now Playing10minIs There Life on Earth?
- Now Playing3minBuilding Curiosity
- Now Playing6minWhy Don't Other Animals Wear Glasses?
- Now Playing7minInside the World of Fire Ants!
- Now Playing8min20 MILLION Year-Old Spider!! Unweaving Spider Silk
- Now Playing6minHow Atom Bombs Can Uncover Forged Art
- Now Playing6minWhy Salt & Pepper?
Origin of Everything
- Now Playing11minWhy Do So Many Religions Have Headwear?
- Now Playing10minHow WWII Created Godzilla & Mecha Robots
- Now Playing8minWhy Do Kids Have Their Own Bedrooms?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do Women Shave Their Legs?
- Now Playing7minIs Poisoned Halloween Candy a Myth?
- Now Playing9minIs the Rosa Parks Story True?
- Now Playing12minWhy Do Schools Teach Sex Education?
- Now Playing7minThe True Origin of Killer Clowns
- Now Playing7minHow Your Rubber Ducky Explains Colonialism
- Now Playing7minIs Poisoned Halloween Candy a Myth?
- Now Playing5minWhat Was Jesus' Real Name?
- Now Playing11minWhat is Racial Passing?
- Now Playing10minWhy Is There a Minimum Wage?
- Now Playing9minWhat If Islam Conquered Europe?
- Now Playing9minWhy Do We Drink Milk in School?
- Now Playing10minHow Did Makeup Ads Go From Style to Science?
- Now Playing7minWhen Men Wore High Heels
- Now Playing12minWhy Doesn't the US Have Paid Parental Leave?
- Now Playing10minWhy Does the Government Need to Know My Race?
- Now Playing10minWhat is Ethnicity?
Two Cents
- Now Playing7minIs the Stock Market Just a Big Casino?
- Now Playing5minBudgeting Basics
- Now Playing6minWhat the Heck Are Mutual Funds?
- Now Playing6minDoes Wealth Make You Meaner?
- Now Playing6minThe Ugly Truth About Airline Miles
- Now Playing6minShould You Break Up With Your Big Bank?
- Now Playing4minWhat is the DOW?
- Now Playing6minShould I Buy Bitcoin?
- Now Playing6minWhat is The Cost of Pet Ownership?
- Now Playing8minAre "Free" Video Games Really Free?
- Now Playing8min5 Ways People Are Dumb About Money
- Now Playing6minHow Do You Actually Buy A House?
- Now Playing6minHacking Your Brain to Get Out Of Debt
- Now Playing6minWhat Are The Most Lucrative Trades?
- Now Playing7minCan You Really Retire in Your 30s?
- Now Playing5minHow Cars Can Keep You Poor
- Now Playing6minMoving Without Spending a Fortune
- Now Playing6minWomen Financial Superpowers
- Now Playing7minLove and Money
- Now Playing7minIs It Even POSSIBLE to Save for Retirement?
Monstrum
- Now Playing6minRethinking Frankenstein's Monster
- Now Playing11minThe Original Urban Legend: Spring-Heeled Jack
- Now Playing11minBasilisk or Cockatrice? The Mysterious King of Serpents
- Now Playing10minJorōgumo: The Deadly Spider Woman from Yokai Lore
- Now Playing10minWill-o'-the-Wisp: Monstrous Flame or Scientific Phenomenon?
- Now Playing6minThe Origin of Medusa
- Now Playing11minThe Fatal Song of the Sirens
- Now Playing8minNuckelavee: Scotland's Skinless Evil Monstrosity
- Now Playing14minThe Evolution of Creepy Dolls
- Now Playing8minCreepy Clowns: The Horror Behind the Laughter
- Now Playing12minWas Púca the Nightmare Bunny That Inspired Donnie Darko?
- Now Playing10minHow Bloody Mary Turns Fear Into Fun
- Now Playing11minCan All Monsters Be Traced Back to Tiamat?
- Now Playing12minThe Origins of 'Big Bug' Science Fiction
- Now Playing13minLeprechaun: From Gold-Loving Cobbler to Cultural Icon
- Now Playing10minIs Yuki-onna the Most Terrifying Snow Monster?
- Now Playing17minModern Zombies: The Rebirth of the Undead
- Now Playing10minYara-ma-yha-who: Australia's Regurgitating, Blood-Sucking Mo
- Now Playing15minBaba Yaga: The Ancient Origins of the Famous 'Witch'
- Now Playing8minWerehyena: The Terrifying Shapeshifters of African Lore
Eons
- Now Playing10minHow Whale Evolution Kind Of Sucked
- Now Playing9minWhen Plants Doubled Their DNA
- Now Playing9minWhen Fish First Breathed Air
- Now Playing10minWhy The Giraffe Got Its Neck
- Now Playing10minWhen Giant Amphibians Reigned
- Now Playing11minWhat Happened to the World's Greatest Ape?
- Now Playing12minWhen We Tamed Fire
- Now Playing10minWhen Fish Wore Armor
- Now Playing8minThe Extinction That Never Happened
- Now Playing9minWhat a Dinosaur Looks Like Under a Microscope
- Now Playing11minWhen the Synapsids Struck Back
- Now Playing10minYou're Living On An Ant Planet
- Now Playing9minHow the Turtle Got Its Shell
- Now Playing8minWhen the Sahara Was Green
- Now Playing8minPrimates vs Snakes (An Evolutionary Arms Race)
- Now Playing9minThe Island of the Last Surviving Mammoths
- Now Playing10minThe Missing Link That Wasn't
- Now Playing8minWe Were Wrong About The Dodo
- Now Playing8minWhen Giant Millipedes Reigned
- Now Playing10minWhen Our Culture Changed Our DNA
Hot Mess
- Now Playing5minWhy Don't We Hear About the Ozone Hole Anymore?
- Now Playing7minHow To Make Clothes Less Terrible for the Planet
- Now Playing6minHow To Suck Carbon Dioxide Out of the Sky
- Now Playing5minWho Should Pay To Fix Climate Change?
- Now Playing5minWho Should Pay To Fix Climate Change?
- Now Playing5minClimate change will push millions out. Where will they go?
- Now Playing6minWill Big Oil Have To Pay Up Like Big Tobacco?
- Now Playing6minCan We Get Solar Power To Everyone Who Wants It?
- Now Playing6minWhat If We Burned All The World's Fossil Fuels?
- 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 Indigenous Communities Teach Us About Climate Change
- Now Playing6minHow To Suck Carbon Dioxide Out of the Sky
- Now Playing10minFeeling Guilty About Climate Change feat. Hank Green
- Now Playing7minWhat's The Best Car For The Climate?
- Now Playing6minWhat If We Burned All The World's Fossil Fuels?
- Now Playing7minWhat's The Best Car For The Climate?
- Now Playing3minCould climate change make you allergic to meat?
- Now Playing5minWhat Happened to Nuclear Power?
Space Time
- Now Playing13minThe Phantom Singularity
- Now Playing6minSeeing Beyond the Human Eye
- Now Playing14minAre We Running Out of Space Above Earth?
- Now Playing8minThe First Humans on Mars
- Now Playing8minAre Space and Time An Illusion?
- Now Playing15minDid JWST Solve The Mystery of Supermassive Black Hole Origin
- Now Playing13minFirst Detection of Light from Behind a Black Hole
- Now Playing10minThe Vacuum Catastrophe
- Now Playing16minWhy String Theory is Wrong
- Now Playing10minStrange Stars
- Now Playing13minIs an Ice Age Coming?
- Now Playing12minAnti-Matter and Quantum Relativity
- Now Playing12minThe Real Science of the EHT Black Hole
- Now Playing15minWhat If the Galactic Habitable Zone LIMITS Intelligent Life?
- Now Playing14minAre Virtual Particles A New Layer of Reality?
- Now Playing20minDoes Many Worlds Explain Quantum Probabilities?
- Now Playing16minGalaxies, part 2: Crash Course Astronomy #39
- Now Playing5minCould NASA Start the Zombie Apocalypse?
- Now Playing11minMartian Evolution
- Now Playing14minDoes Life Need a Multiverse to Exist?
Beat Making Lab
- Now Playing3minBeat Making Challenge #2: Kora Riddim
- Now Playing3minExclusive Zenga (Music Video) by Flamme Kapaya
- Now Playing3minFemale Hip Hop Crew Makes Beats in Senegal
- Now Playing3minEpisode 1: Goma, Congo
- Now Playing4minDiablos (music video)
- Now Playing3min#FijiChallenge w/ Walshy Fire of Major Lazer
- Now Playing3minProf. Angel Sound Prison Beats Interview
- Now Playing3minSampling w/ Flip Flops and Ski Beatz
- Now Playing4minPortobelo (music video)
- Now Playing3minBehind The Beat: First Beat Making Lab (2011)
- Now Playing4minTrapped In Paradise
- Now Playing2minHealth Worker Beat
- Now Playing3minPanama: Meet the Kids Behind the Beats
- Now Playing3minBeat Making Challenge #1: Accordion Trap
- Now Playing5minBehind the Beat: Portobelo
- Now Playing2minWhat's In the Backpack?
- Now Playing2minMashup: National Anthems
- Now Playing10minHeartbeats of Fiji
- Now Playing3minGet Your Drums Right
- Now Playing2minField Trip: Prison Beats
Infinite Series
- Now Playing8minTelling Time on a Torus
- Now Playing8minThe Multiplication Multiverse
- Now Playing14minCan We Combine pi & e to Make a Rational Number?
- Now Playing11minWhat was Fermat's "Marvelous" Proof?
- Now Playing13minWhat is a Random Walk?
- Now Playing14minHow Big are All Infinities Combined? (Cantor's Paradox)
- Now Playing14minKill the Mathematical Hydra
- Now Playing8minHow to Divide by "Zero"
- Now Playing11minDefining Infinity
- Now Playing9minProving Brouwer's Fixed Point Theorem
- Now Playing17minHacking at Quantum Speed with Shor's Algorithm
- Now Playing10minWhat Does It Mean to Be a Number? (The Peano Axioms)
- Now Playing9minCan You Solve the Poison Wine Challenge?
- Now Playing8minAre Prime Numbers Made Up?
- Now Playing12minWhen Pi is Not 3.14
- Now Playing11minWhat was Fermat's "Marvelous" Proof?
- Now Playing13minThe Mathematics of Quantum Computers
- Now Playing9minThis Video was Not Encrypted with RSA
- Now Playing8minTelling Time on a Torus
- Now Playing11minDefining Infinity
Idea Channel
- Now Playing6minShould "Happy Birthday" be Protected by Copyright?
- Now Playing6minIs Doctor Who a Religion?
- Now Playing5minIs Homestuck the Ulysses of the Internet?
- Now Playing5minThere's No Such Thing as Online?!?
- Now Playing5minA Visit to Mr. Monfre's Class
- Now Playing6minThe Retro Awesomeness of Adventure Time
- Now Playing9minIs a DOS Attack a Weapon?
- Now Playing3minAn Interview with Minecraft EDU Creator Joel Levin
- Now Playing4minThe Bronies Phenomenon
- 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 Playing6minWhat Do Santa and Wrestling Have In Common?
- Now Playing6minWhat do MP3s and Magic Spells Have in Common?
- Now Playing5minIs Facebook Changing Our Identity?
- Now Playing5minIs CSS and Website Design a Fashion Statement?
- Now Playing5minAre Olympic Competitors Geniuses?
- Now Playing9minIs the Universe a Computer?
- Now Playing5minHow will the Animated GIF affect the Presidential Election?
- Now Playing4minIs Twitter the Newest Form of Literature?