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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 Playing7minWhy Do Disney Princesses All Look Like Babies?
- Now Playing4minThere Was No First Human
- Now Playing7minWhat Are The Most Important Science Images Ever?
- Now Playing8minHow Evolution Turned A Possum Into A Wolf
- Now Playing6minVENOM: Nature's Killer Cocktails
- Now Playing3minElectric Buzzaloo: How Bees See the Invisible
- Now Playing3minEight Incredible Deep Sea Oddities
- Now Playing7minWhy Do More Species Live Near The Equator?
- Now Playing3minWhat Color is the Universe?
- Now Playing2minCan Evolution Make an Eye? - 12 Days of Evolution #4
- Now Playing6minWhich Came First - Flowers or Bees?
- Now Playing5minIs Inheritance Really All In Our Genes?
- Now Playing6minThe Science of Snowflakes
- Now Playing5minLife by the Numbers
- Now Playing6minIs Santa Real? (A Scientific Analysis)
- Now Playing6minPigeon Story: How the Rock Dove Became the Sky Rat
- Now Playing7min3 Incredible Examples of Evolution Hidden In Your Body
- Now Playing7minWhy Do We Laugh?
- Now Playing5minThis Rainforest Caterpillar Looks Like Donald Trump
- Now Playing8minTuatara All the Way Down
Origin of Everything
- Now Playing10minWhat is Cultural Appropriation?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do Women Give Birth Lying Down?
- Now Playing10minHow Did Martin Luther King Jr. Get a Holiday?
- Now Playing7minIs Poisoned Halloween Candy a Myth?
- Now Playing7minHistory of the Word "Gay"
- Now Playing10minWhat is Ethnicity?
- Now Playing10minWhy Does the Government Need to Know My Race?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do We Get Grades in School?
- Now Playing7minWhen Men Wore High Heels
- Now Playing12minWhy Doesn't the US Have Paid Parental Leave?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do Women Give Birth Lying Down?
- Now Playing8minWhy Was Crossdressing Illegal?
- Now Playing8minWhen DId Marriage Become about Love?
- Now Playing7minWhy Do We Say "Asian American" Not "Oriental"?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do People Have Pets?
- Now Playing11minWhy Do We Have Private Prisons?
- Now Playing10minIs Breakfast the Most Important Meal?
- Now Playing7minHow Your Rubber Ducky Explains Colonialism
- Now Playing7minHow Columbus Invented Cannibals
- Now Playing8minWhy is there a North and South Korea?
Two Cents
- Now Playing8min5 Ways People Are Dumb About Money
- Now Playing6minHow Do You Actually Buy A House?
- Now Playing6minShould I Buy Bitcoin?
- Now Playing6minWhat is The Cost of Pet Ownership?
- Now Playing8minAre "Free" Video Games Really Free?
- Now Playing6minWhat the Heck Are Mutual Funds?
- Now Playing6minDoes Wealth Make You Meaner?
- Now Playing6minShould You Break Up With Your Big Bank?
- Now Playing6minThe Ugly Truth About Airline Miles
- Now Playing4minWhat is the DOW?
- Now Playing7minIs the Stock Market Just a Big Casino?
- Now Playing5minBudgeting Basics
- Now Playing8min5 Strange Investor Crazes!
- Now Playing5minHow are credit scores calculated?
- Now Playing5minHow Do Your Tax Dollars Get Spent?
- Now Playing7minLove and Money
- Now Playing7minIs It Even POSSIBLE to Save for Retirement?
- Now Playing6minDo I Need To Buy A House?
- Now Playing6minWhat Are The Most Lucrative Trades?
- Now Playing7minCan You Really Retire in Your 30s?
Monstrum
- Now Playing8minCreepy Clowns: The Horror Behind the Laughter
- Now Playing12minWas Púca the Nightmare Bunny That Inspired Donnie Darko?
- Now Playing8minNuckelavee: Scotland's Skinless Evil Monstrosity
- Now Playing14minThe Evolution of Creepy Dolls
- Now Playing11minThe Fatal Song of the Sirens
- Now Playing10minWill-o'-the-Wisp: Monstrous Flame or Scientific Phenomenon?
- Now Playing6minThe Origin of Medusa
- Now Playing10minJorōgumo: The Deadly Spider Woman from Yokai Lore
- Now Playing11minBasilisk or Cockatrice? The Mysterious King of Serpents
- Now Playing6minRethinking Frankenstein's Monster
- Now Playing11minThe Original Urban Legend: Spring-Heeled Jack
- Now Playing10minThe Enchanting Fairies of Celtic Lore
- Now Playing10minPontianak: The Vampiric Ghost of Southeast Asia
- Now Playing12minDeath Worms: Fact or Fiction?
- Now Playing13minWhat Happened During Our Scary Slumber Party
- Now Playing15minBaba Yaga: The Ancient Origins of the Famous 'Witch'
- Now Playing8minWerehyena: The Terrifying Shapeshifters of African Lore
- Now Playing13minThe SCP Foundation: Declassified
- Now Playing10minYara-ma-yha-who: Australia's Regurgitating, Blood-Sucking Mo
- Now Playing17minModern Zombies: The Rebirth of the Undead
Eons
- Now Playing12minWhen Mammals Only Went Out At Night
- Now Playing9minThe Evolution of the Heart (A Love Story)
- Now Playing12minThe Island of Huge Hamsters and Giant Owls
- Now Playing11minWhen We First Walked
- Now Playing12minWhat Was the Ancestor of Everything?
- Now Playing10minHow Horses Took Over North America (Twice)
- Now Playing10minThe Last Time the Globe Warmed
- Now Playing9minThe Fuzzy Origins of the Giant Panda
- Now Playing4minThe Strange Case of the Buzzsaw Jaws
- Now Playing8minHow Dinosaurs Coupled Up
- Now Playing9minWhen Insects First Flew
- Now Playing9minThe First and Last North American Primates
- Now Playing6minHow Did Dinosaurs Get So Huge?
- Now Playing6minThe Story of Saberteeth
- Now Playing8minHow We Domesticated Cats (Twice)
- Now Playing9minHow Vertebrates Got Teeth... And Lost Them Again
- Now Playing10minWhen Camels Roamed North America
- Now Playing6minHow Sex Became A Thing
- Now Playing9minWhat a Dinosaur Looks Like Under a Microscope
- Now Playing12minWhen We Tamed Fire
Hot Mess
- Now Playing5minWhy We Confuse Weather and Climate
- Now Playing5minWhy Climate Change is Unjust
- Now Playing4minHow Much Energy Does the Internet Use?
- Now Playing6minCoral Reefs Are Dying. But They Don't Have To.
- 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?
- Now Playing5minWhat Happened to Nuclear Power?
- Now Playing7minWhat's The Best Car For The Climate?
- Now Playing6minCoral Reefs Are Dying. But They Don't Have To.
- Now Playing4minHow Much Energy Does the Internet Use?
- Now Playing12minOur Food System is Rigged feat. Sheril Kirshenbaum
- Now Playing13minThe Rise of Climate Fiction feat. Lindsay Ellis & Amy Brady
- Now Playing5minWhat's actually the worst greenhouse gas?
- Now Playing6minWill Big Oil Have To Pay Up Like Big Tobacco?
- Now Playing8minHow One Conservative Texas Town Went 100% Renewable
- Now Playing5minWhat Happened to Nuclear Power?
- Now Playing5minCan Farms and Forests Coexist?
- Now Playing4minWhy Are Hurricanes Getting Stronger?
- Now Playing6minWhat If We Burned All The World's Fossil Fuels?
Space Time
- Now Playing10minExtinction by Gamma-Ray Burst
- Now Playing10minHow Much Information is in the Universe?
- Now Playing10minShould Space be Privatized?
- Now Playing8minShould the First Mars Mission Be All Women?
- Now Playing13minThe First Quantum Field Theory
- Now Playing13minZeno's Paradox & The Quantum Zeno Effect
- Now Playing10minWhat Do Stars Sound Like?
- Now Playing11minThe Future of Space Telescopes
- Now Playing17minDid AI Prove Our Proton Model Wrong?
- Now Playing13minComputing a Universe Simulation
- Now Playing15minHow To Simulate The Universe With DFT
- Now Playing7minAre We Alone? Galactic Civilization Challenge
- Now Playing14minSpace DOES NOT Expand Everywhere
- Now Playing11minThe Fate of the First Stars
- Now Playing14minAre Virtual Particles A New Layer of Reality?
- Now Playing15minIs Pluto a Planet?
- Now Playing10minThe Eye of Sauron Reveals a Forming Solar System!
- Now Playing16minWhat Happens Inside a Proton?
- Now Playing7minCan A Starfox Barrel Roll Work in Space?
- Now Playing10minThe Origin of Matter and Time
Beat Making Lab
- Now Playing3minGet Your Drums Right
- Now Playing2minField Trip: Prison Beats
- Now Playing2minMashup: National Anthems
- Now Playing10minHeartbeats of Fiji
- 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 Playing2minWalshy Fire [of Major Lazer] Wants Your Riddims
- Now Playing4minCho Cho Cho (Music Video) filmed in Goma, Congo
- Now Playing3minProf. Angel Sound Prison Beats Interview
- Now Playing3min#FijiChallenge w/ Walshy Fire of Major Lazer
- 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 Playing2minHealth Worker Beat
- Now Playing4minTrapped In Paradise
- Now Playing4minPortobelo (music video)
Infinite Series
- Now Playing11minTopology vs "a" Topology
- Now Playing10minThe Mathematics of Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange
- Now Playing9minBeyond the Golden Ratio
- Now Playing17minHacking at Quantum Speed with Shor's Algorithm
- Now Playing8minA Breakthrough in Higher Dimensional Spheres
- Now Playing13minThe Mathematics of Quantum Computers
- Now Playing14minBuilding an Infinite Bridge
- Now Playing14minCan a Chess Piece Explain Markov Chains?
- Now Playing14minSolving the Wolverine Problem with Graph Coloring
- Now Playing10minWhat Does It Mean to Be a Number? (The Peano Axioms)
- Now Playing11minThe Geometry of SET
- Now Playing15minArrow's Impossibility Theorem
- Now Playing14minHow Big are All Infinities Combined? (Cantor's Paradox)
- Now Playing9minThis Video was Not Encrypted with RSA
- Now Playing13minWhat is a Random Walk?
- Now Playing16minHow to Break Cryptography
- Now Playing17minSplitting Rent with Triangles
- Now Playing14minWhy Computers are Bad at Algebra
- Now Playing11minSingularities Explained
- Now Playing10minThe Assassin Puzzle
Idea Channel
- Now Playing4minThe Bronies Phenomenon
- Now Playing6minWhat do MP3s and Magic Spells Have in Common?
- Now Playing4minHas the Microsoft Kinect revolutionized art?
- Now Playing5minIs Facebook Changing Our Identity?
- Now Playing7minCan Dungeons & Dragons Make You Confident & Successful?
- Now Playing6minAre MP3s & Vinyl Better than Live Music?
- Now Playing9minIs Community a Postmodern Masterpiece?
- Now Playing8minIs Piracy Helping Game of Thrones?
- Now Playing4minIs Twitter the Newest Form of Literature?
- Now Playing3minWhat Makes a Pop Star Authentic?
- Now Playing8minIs Developing Artificial Intelligence (AI) Ethical?
- Now Playing5minAre You a Hipster?
- Now Playing3minIs the Web Browser Replacing the Art Gallery?
- Now Playing6minAre Virtual Video Game Economies Becoming Real?
- Now Playing6minIs Futurama the Best Argument Against Transhumanism?
- Now Playing3minSuper Mario Brothers as Surrealist Art?
- 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?