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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 Playing5minMuch A-Do About Hair
- Now Playing7minWhy Do You Love Your Family?
- Now Playing4minOrchid Mantis: Looks That Kill
- Now Playing7minEngines of Destruction: How Hurricanes Work
- Now Playing5minSolving the Puzzle of Plate Tectonics
- Now Playing11minWhy Are So Many People Allergic To Food?
- Now Playing4minHow Many Stars Are There?
- Now Playing7minWe Got Ants In Our Plants!
- Now Playing7minYour Salad Is Trying To Kill You
- Now Playing10minThe Impossible Hugeness of Deep Time
- Now Playing7minWhy Vaccines Work
- Now Playing8minHow Big is the Solar System?
- Now Playing2minEvolution Is Dumb - 12 Days of Evolution #6
- Now Playing7minWhat is Farthest Away?
- Now Playing6min100,000,000 Years From Now
- Now Playing4minMy Date With A Giant Pacific Octopus!
- Now Playing7minSonic the Hedgehog Is Why You Have Thumbs!
- Now Playing9minThe Sixth Extinction
- Now Playing5minHow Many Species Are There?
- Now Playing5minDo Animals Mourn Their Dead?
Origin of Everything
- Now Playing9minWhat If There Were No Taxes?
- Now Playing11minWhy Are We Obsessed with Cults?
- Now Playing6minWhy it Was Illegal to be Ugly?
- Now Playing10minWould You Have Joined the American Revolution?
- Now Playing8minWhere does the Nuclear Family Come From?
- Now Playing11minWhy Do We Have Private Prisons?
- Now Playing10minDo Standardized Tests Do More Harm Than Good?
- Now Playing10minHow Did Makeup Ads Go From Style to Science?
- Now Playing9minHow Did Edison Invent Christmas Lights?
- Now Playing5minWhat Was Jesus' Real Name?
- Now Playing10minThe Origin of Race in the USA
- Now Playing10min6 Weird Facts About the History of Birth Control
- Now Playing10minWhy Do We Have Hobbies?
- Now Playing6minWhy Do We Have Middle Names?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do We Wash Our Hands After Going to the Bathroom?
- Now Playing7minWhy Are There So Few Women in Computer Science?
- Now Playing11minModern Warfare and Alien Invasions
- Now Playing7minWhy are 18 Year Olds Considered Adults?
- Now Playing9minCan Tattoos Be Taboo?
- Now Playing11minWhy Does the Government Pay for Art?
Two Cents
- Now Playing6minI'm Young & Healthy, Can I Skip Health Insurance?
- Now Playing9minHow Smart Entrepreneurs Think About PRICES!
- 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 Playing6minIs My Identity Safe From Hackers?
- Now Playing6minFighting the Wedding Industrial Complex
- Now Playing7minMoney, A Global Game of Trust
- Now Playing6minHow to Ask for a Raise
- Now Playing7minWhat's The Real Cost of Dying?
- Now Playing7minShould I Invest In Cannabis Stocks?
- Now Playing6minTop 5 Biggest Financial Scams
- Now Playing7minWhy It's More Expensive To Be Poor
- Now Playing4minWhat is the DOW?
- Now Playing6minShould You Break Up With Your Big Bank?
- Now Playing6minThe Ugly Truth About Airline Miles
- Now Playing6minWhat the Heck Are Mutual Funds?
Monstrum
- Now Playing8minCreepy Clowns: The Horror Behind the Laughter
- Now Playing12minWas Púca the Nightmare Bunny That Inspired Donnie Darko?
- Now Playing11minThe Fatal Song of the Sirens
- Now Playing8minNuckelavee: Scotland's Skinless Evil Monstrosity
- Now Playing14minThe Evolution of Creepy Dolls
- Now Playing10minJorōgumo: The Deadly Spider Woman from Yokai Lore
- Now Playing11minBasilisk or Cockatrice? The Mysterious King of Serpents
- Now Playing6minThe Origin of Medusa
- Now Playing10minWill-o'-the-Wisp: Monstrous Flame or Scientific Phenomenon?
- Now Playing11minThe Original Urban Legend: Spring-Heeled Jack
- Now Playing6minRethinking Frankenstein's Monster
- Now Playing10minPontianak: The Vampiric Ghost of Southeast Asia
- Now Playing10minThe Enchanting Fairies of Celtic Lore
- Now Playing10minYara-ma-yha-who: Australia's Regurgitating, Blood-Sucking Mo
- Now Playing12minDeath Worms: Fact or Fiction?
- Now Playing13minWhat Happened During Our Scary Slumber Party
- Now Playing8minWerehyena: The Terrifying Shapeshifters of African Lore
- Now Playing15minBaba Yaga: The Ancient Origins of the Famous 'Witch'
- Now Playing13minThe SCP Foundation: Declassified
- Now Playing12minThe Origins of 'Big Bug' Science Fiction
Eons
- Now Playing11minWhere Did Water Come From?
- Now Playing8minInside the Dinosaur Library
- Now Playing10minWhen We First Made Tools
- Now Playing7minWhen Giant Fungi Ruled
- Now Playing12minWhen We First Talked
- Now Playing12minWhen Giant Scorpions Swarmed the Seas
- Now Playing13minWhy Is It So Hard to Tell the Sex of a Dinosaur?
- Now Playing11minWhen the Earth Suddenly Stopped Warming
- Now Playing6minWhat Colors Were Dinosaurs?
- Now Playing12minWhen We Took Over the World
- Now Playing12minWhy Male Mammoths Lost the Game (w/ TierZoo!)
- Now Playing10minWhen Hobbits Were Real
- Now Playing7minThe Trouble With Trilobites
- Now Playing10minNautiloids Thrived For 500 Million Years Until They Appeared
- Now Playing9minThe Raptor That Made Us Rethink Dinosaurs
- Now Playing5minWhen Did the First Flower Bloom?
- Now Playing10minWhen Our Culture Changed Our DNA
- Now Playing10minWhen Giant Amphibians Reigned
- Now Playing8minWhen Giant Millipedes Reigned
- Now Playing6minWhen The Earth Was Purple
Hot Mess
- Now Playing5minWe've Ignored Climate Change For More Than a Century
- Now Playing5minBeef Is Bad For The Climate. Can We Make It Better?
- Now Playing5minWhat the Cutest Animal Can Teach Us About Saving Ourselves
- Now Playing6minWhat if Carbon Emissions Stopped Tomorrow?
- Now Playing5minWhat Can You Actually Do About Climate Change?
- Now Playing5minWhat's actually the worst greenhouse gas?
- Now Playing5minHow A Sticker Kept 3 Billion Tons of CO2 Out of The Air
- Now Playing5minWhat the Cutest Animal Can Teach Us About Saving Ourselves
- Now Playing4minWhy Are Hurricanes Getting Stronger?
- Now Playing5minWe've Ignored Climate Change For More Than a Century
- Now Playing5minBeef Is Bad For The Climate. Can We Make It Better?
- Now Playing5minClimate change will push millions out. Where will they go?
- Now Playing6minWhat if Carbon Emissions Stopped Tomorrow?
- Now Playing11minClimate Change is Too Big for our Brains feat. Mike Rugnetta
- Now Playing6minWhat Indigenous Communities Teach Us About Climate Change
- Now Playing7minHow To Make Clothes Less Terrible for the Planet
- Now Playing5minHow A Sticker Kept 3 Billion Tons of CO2 Out of The Air
- Now Playing9minHow to Talk About Climate Change
- Now Playing8minHow One Conservative Texas Town Went 100% Renewable
- Now Playing3minCould climate change make you allergic to meat?
Space Time
- Now Playing8minKronos: Devourer Of Worlds
- Now Playing8minDoes Dark Matter BREAK Physics?
- Now Playing10minSelf-Replicating Robots and Galactic Domination
- Now Playing14minWhy String Theory is Right
- Now Playing13minAre We Living in an Ancestor Simulation? ft. Neil deGrasse T
- Now Playing9minHow Gaia Changed Astronomy Forever
- Now Playing8minWhat Happens At The Edge Of The Universe?
- Now Playing10minLife on Europa?
- Now Playing11minWhat Happened Before the Big Bang?
- Now Playing14minThe NEW Warp Drive Possibilities
- Now Playing13minIs an Ice Age Coming?
- Now Playing13minIs Time Travel Impossible?
- Now Playing14minDoes Life Need a Multiverse to Exist?
- Now Playing11minFirst Detection of Life
- Now Playing15minPerpetual Motion From Negative Mass?
- 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 Playing12minThe Real Science of the EHT Black Hole
Beat Making Lab
- Now Playing4minCho Cho Cho (Music Video) filmed in Goma, Congo
- Now Playing2minWalshy Fire [of Major Lazer] Wants Your Riddims
- Now Playing3minPanama: Meet the Kids Behind the Beats
- Now Playing2minWhat's In the Backpack?
- Now Playing5minBehind the Beat: Portobelo
- Now Playing3minBeat Making Challenge #1: Accordion Trap
- Now Playing10minHeartbeats of Fiji
- Now Playing2minMashup: National Anthems
- Now Playing2minField Trip: Prison Beats
- Now Playing3minGet Your Drums Right
- Now Playing3minSampling w/ Flip Flops and Ski Beatz
- Now Playing3minBehind The Beat: First Beat Making Lab (2011)
- Now Playing4minPortobelo (music video)
- Now Playing4minTrapped In Paradise
- Now Playing2minHealth Worker Beat
- Now Playing3minFemale Hip Hop Crew Makes Beats in Senegal
- Now Playing3minExclusive Zenga (Music Video) by Flamme Kapaya
- Now Playing3minBeat Making Challenge #2: Kora Riddim
- Now Playing4minDiablos (music video)
- Now Playing3minEpisode 1: Goma, Congo
Infinite Series
- Now Playing9minAssociahedra: The Shapes of Multiplication
- Now Playing14minBuilding an Infinite Bridge
- Now Playing16minHow to Break Cryptography
- Now Playing11minThe Geometry of SET
- Now Playing11minDefining Infinity
- Now Playing8minTelling Time on a Torus
- Now Playing13minNetwork Mathematics and Rival Factions | Infinite Series
- Now Playing10minInstant Insanity Puzzle
- Now Playing12minProving Pick's Theorem
- Now Playing14minMaking Probability Mathematical
- Now Playing11minWhat are Numbers Made of?
- Now Playing15minDissecting Hypercubes with Pascal's Triangle
- Now Playing17minSplitting Rent with Triangles
- Now Playing10minWhat Does It Mean to Be a Number? (The Peano Axioms)
- Now Playing8minAre Prime Numbers Made Up?
- Now Playing9minCan You Solve the Poison Wine Challenge?
- Now Playing17minHacking at Quantum Speed with Shor's Algorithm
- Now Playing9minProving Brouwer's Fixed Point Theorem
- Now Playing11minDefining Infinity
- Now Playing8minHow to Divide by "Zero"
Idea Channel
- Now Playing4minAre Mashups the End of Music Genres?
- Now Playing5minIs William Gibson A Modern Day Oracle?
- Now Playing4minRussian Meteorites and Surveillance Culture
- Now Playing4minAre LOLCats and Internet Memes Art?
- Now Playing5minAre Olympic Competitors Geniuses?
- Now Playing7minHow are Justin Bieber, Franz Liszt and Jerusalem Connected?
- Now Playing5minAre Memes and Internet Culture Creating a Singularity?
- Now Playing6minIs Minecraft the Ultimate Educational Tool?
- Now Playing5minIs William Gibson A Modern Day Oracle?
- Now Playing8minIs a Tagged Instagram More Than Just a Photo?
- Now Playing4minFrom Sherlock Holmes to 50 Shades of Grey
- Now Playing3minIs the Web Browser Replacing the Art Gallery?
- Now Playing5minNicolas Cage, Taoism, and YOLO
- Now Playing9minWill Kickstarter Replace Hollywood?
- Now Playing4minHas the Microsoft Kinect revolutionized art?
- Now Playing4minIs Twitter the Newest Form of Literature?
- Now Playing9minIs the Universe a Computer?
- Now Playing5minHow will the Animated GIF affect the Presidential Election?
- Now Playing5minIs CSS and Website Design a Fashion Statement?
- Now Playing5minAre Olympic Competitors Geniuses?