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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 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?
- Now Playing13minSpace is Full of Junk. Here's How to Clean It Up...
- Now Playing15minDark Forest: Should We Not Contact Aliens?
It's Okay to Be Smart
- Now Playing5minWhy Are You Multicellular?
- Now Playing7minWhy People Don't Believe In Climate Science
- Now Playing5minThe Auroras
- Now Playing6minThe Science of Kissing
- Now Playing4minThere's Science Hidden In Our National Monuments
- Now Playing6minThe Physics of Space Battles
- Now Playing7minWhy Are We The Only Humans Left?
- Now Playing6minDefusing the Population Bomb
- Now Playing7minWhy Do We Laugh?
- Now Playing3minWhat Color is the Universe?
- Now Playing6minIt's Okay to Fart
- Now Playing7minThe Real "Doctor Frankenstein"
- Now Playing8minThe Deadpool Salamander That Can Regrow Limbs
- Now Playing4minThe Ruin and Rise of Monterey Bay
- Now Playing6minShould You Be Worried About Zika?
- Now Playing6minAttack of the Cosmic Space Junk!
- Now Playing4minWhose Air do we Share?
- Now Playing7minHow Do Glaciars Move?
- Now Playing6minCould We Clone Ourselves?
- Now Playing3minHow Do Squirrels Find Their Nuts?
Origin of Everything
- Now Playing7minWhy Do We Say "Asian American" Not "Oriental"?
- Now Playing8minWhen DId Marriage Become about Love?
- Now Playing8minWhy Was Crossdressing Illegal?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do Women Give Birth Lying Down?
- Now Playing11minWhy Do We Have Private Prisons?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do People Have Pets?
- Now Playing10minWhy was Pink for Boys and Blue for Girls?
- Now Playing7minHow Columbus Invented Cannibals
- Now Playing8minWhy is there a North and South Korea?
- Now Playing7minHow Your Rubber Ducky Explains Colonialism
- Now Playing10minIs Breakfast the Most Important Meal?
- Now Playing7minHow did Makeup, WWII, & Communism Create U.S. Healthcare?
- Now Playing12minWhy Do Schools Teach Sex Education?
- Now Playing10minHow Did Martin Luther King Jr. Get a Holiday?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do Women Give Birth Lying Down?
- Now Playing10minWhat is Cultural Appropriation?
- Now Playing7minHistory of the Word "Gay"
- Now Playing7minIs Poisoned Halloween Candy a Myth?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do We Get Grades in School?
- Now Playing10minWhat is Ethnicity?
Two Cents
- 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 Playing7minFighting the Financial Pitfalls of the Supermarket
- Now Playing7minHow Retailers Stalk You Online
- Now Playing5minInsta-Everything
- 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 Playing5minHow are credit scores calculated?
- Now Playing8min5 Strange Investor Crazes!
- Now Playing5minHow Do Your Tax Dollars Get Spent?
- Now Playing6minDo I Need To Buy A House?
Monstrum
- Now Playing11minThe Macabre Origins of the Grim Reaper
- Now Playing12minHow Gargoyles Became Monsters
- Now Playing11minWhy Has the Majestic Griffin Been Forgotten?
- Now Playing9minThe Hidden Origins of Nixie, the Scariest Little Mermaid
- Now Playing18minUnlocking the Mystery of Loch Ness
- Now Playing6minThe Original Headless Horseman
- Now Playing11minIs Siren Head the Ultimate Modern Monster?
- Now Playing17minTrolls: Scandinavia's Malevolent, Magical Outcasts
- Now Playing13minMonster Plants and the Humans who Invent Them
- Now Playing12minWho Is This Japanese Yōkai That Is Obsessed With Your Butt?
- Now Playing10minHow a Children's Book Introduced Us To Our Inner Demons
- Now Playing10minEl Silbón: The Deadly Whistler of the Grasslands
- Now Playing10minSlender Man: How The Internet Created a Monster
- Now Playing17minThe Origins of the Zombie, from Haiti to the U.S.
- Now Playing10minA Giant Monster With a Giant Problem
- Now Playing14minHero, Beast, or Both? The Complex Lore of the Centaur
- Now Playing9minKrampus: Origins of the Yuletide Monster
- Now Playing20minWhy George Romero Changed Zombies Forever
- Now Playing15minEgyptian Mummies: From Sacred Vessels to Scary Undead
- Now Playing7minWhat Dragons Say About Us
Eons
- Now Playing6minHistory's Most Powerful Plants
- Now Playing10minA Short Tale About Diplodocus' Long Neck
- Now Playing10minWhat Will Earth Be Like 300 Million Years From Now?
- Now Playing13minFrom the Fall of Dinos to the Rise of Humans
- Now Playing10minFAQs From Our First Year
- Now Playing12minA Natural History of Mars
- Now Playing9minThe Huge Extinctions We Are Just Now Discovering
- Now Playing9minThe Two People We're All Related To
- Now Playing6minThe Search for the Earliest Life
- Now Playing10minWhen Ants Domesticated Fungi
- Now Playing12minCan We Get DNA From Fossils?
- Now Playing9minThe Two People We're All Related To
- Now Playing10minHow 7,000 Years of Epic Floods Changed the World
- Now Playing7minWhen Giant Fungi Ruled
- Now Playing5minStegosaurs: Tiny Brains & Thagomizers
- Now Playing8minThe Extreme Hyenas That Didn't Last
- Now Playing7minThe Other Explosion You Should Know About
- Now Playing12minWhen We Took Over the World
- Now Playing10minWhen Pterosaurs Walked
- Now Playing9minWe Helped Make Mosquitoes A Problem
Hot Mess
- Now Playing6minHow To Suck Carbon Dioxide Out of the Sky
- Now Playing5minWho Should Pay To Fix Climate Change?
- Now Playing7minHow To Make Clothes Less Terrible for the Planet
- Now Playing5minWhy Don't We Hear About the Ozone Hole Anymore?
- Now Playing6minWhat If We Burned All The World's Fossil Fuels?
- Now Playing6minCan We Get Solar Power To Everyone Who Wants It?
- Now Playing6minWill Big Oil Have To Pay Up Like Big Tobacco?
- 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 Playing10minFeeling Guilty About Climate Change feat. Hank Green
- Now Playing10minAre You Scared Enough? feat. David Wallace-Wells
- Now Playing5minWhy Climate Change is Unjust
- Now Playing6minWhat If We Burned All The World's Fossil Fuels?
- Now Playing7minWhat's The Best Car For The Climate?
- Now Playing10minFeeling Guilty About Climate Change feat. Hank Green
- Now Playing6minHow To Suck Carbon Dioxide Out of the Sky
- Now Playing11minClimate Change is Too Big for our Brains feat. Mike Rugnetta
- Now Playing6minWould Your Neighbors Save You From a Flooding Home?
- Now Playing3minCould climate change make you allergic to meat?
Space Time
- Now Playing10minThe Origin of Our First Interstellar Visitor
- Now Playing16minWhat If The Speed of Light is Not Constant?
- Now Playing9minThe Star at the End of Time
- Now Playing13minCould We Move Planet Earth Across the Universe?
- Now Playing10minCan You Trust Your Eyes in Spacetime?
- Now Playing8minThe Higgs Mechanism Explained
- Now Playing10minThe End of the Habitable Zone
- Now Playing9minHow Close To The Sun Can Humanity Get?
- Now Playing10minThe Death of the Sun
- Now Playing10minTelescopes of Tomorrow
- Now Playing17minDoes Antimatter Create Anti-Gravity?
- Now Playing11minThe Future of Space Telescopes
- Now Playing12minFeynman's Infinite Quantum Paths
- Now Playing14minSolving the Three Body Problem
- Now Playing15minHow to Find ALIEN Dyson Spheres
- Now Playing10minThe Andromeda-Milky Way Collision
- Now Playing16minThe Equation That Explains (Nearly) Everything!
- Now Playing15minWill Wormholes Allow Fast Interstellar Travel?
- Now Playing15minWhat If Our Understanding of Gravity Is Wrong?
- Now Playing11minHabitable Exoplanets Debunked!
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 Playing3minBeat Making Challenge #2: Kora Riddim
- Now Playing3minExclusive Zenga (Music Video) by Flamme Kapaya
- 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 Playing9minBeyond the Golden Ratio
- Now Playing11minSingularities Explained
- Now Playing11minVoting Systems and the Condorcet Paradox
- Now Playing14minInfinite Chess
- Now Playing15minDissecting Hypercubes with Pascal's Triangle
- 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 Playing8minHow to Divide by "Zero"
- Now Playing9minA Hierarchy of Infinities
- Now Playing15minArrow's Impossibility Theorem
- Now Playing11minTopology vs "a" Topology
- Now Playing17minHacking at Quantum Speed with Shor's Algorithm
- Now Playing10minThe Mathematics of Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange
- Now Playing9minBeyond the Golden Ratio
- Now Playing14minCan a Chess Piece Explain Markov Chains?
- Now Playing14minSolving the Wolverine Problem with Graph Coloring
Idea Channel
- Now Playing8minIs Sad Music Actually Sad?
- Now Playing9minDoes Math Really Exist?
- Now Playing6minIs Doctor Who a Religion?
- Now Playing3minAre Holograms Nostalgia or a New Form of Art?
- Now Playing3minAre Holograms Nostalgia or a New Form of Art?
- Now Playing6minIs Futurama the Best Argument Against Transhumanism?
- Now Playing3minSuper Mario Brothers as Surrealist Art?
- Now Playing6minAre Virtual Video Game Economies Becoming Real?
- Now Playing8minIs Developing Artificial Intelligence (AI) Ethical?
- Now Playing5minAre You a Hipster?
- Now Playing3minIs the Web Browser Replacing the Art Gallery?
- Now Playing3minWhat Makes a Pop Star Authentic?
- Now Playing4minIs Twitter the Newest Form of Literature?
- Now Playing9minIs Community a Postmodern Masterpiece?
- Now Playing8minIs Piracy Helping Game of Thrones?
- Now Playing7minCan Dungeons & Dragons Make You Confident & Successful?
- Now Playing6minAre MP3s & Vinyl Better than Live Music?
- Now Playing6minWhat do MP3s and Magic Spells Have in Common?
- Now Playing5minIs Facebook Changing Our Identity?
- Now Playing4minHas the Microsoft Kinect revolutionized art?