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It's Okay To Be SmartI'm Joe Hanson, Ph.D and this program is all about science, the amazing universe we live in and how science connects to every part of our life.
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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 Playing8minHow Evolution Turned A Possum Into A Wolf
- Now Playing7min3 Incredible Examples of Evolution Hidden In Your Body
- Now Playing3minDoes The Moon Really Orbit The Earth?
- Now Playing6minThe Cheerios Effect
- Now Playing5minDo Fish Pee?
- Now Playing6minDo Trees Talk?
- Now Playing7minYour Salad Is Trying To Kill You
- Now Playing6minThe Amazing Science of DUST?
- Now Playing6minWhy Did We Blow On Nintendo Games?
- Now Playing5minDe-Extinction: A Mammoth Undertaking
- Now Playing6minIlluminating the Universe: The History of Light
- Now Playing6min100,000,000 Years From Now
- Now Playing6minWhy Salt & Pepper?
- Now Playing5minHow Does A Canyon Become Grand?
- Now Playing3minEight Incredible Deep Sea Oddities
- Now Playing3minElectric Buzzaloo: How Bees See the Invisible
- Now Playing6minVENOM: Nature's Killer Cocktails
- Now Playing7minWhat Are The Most Important Science Images Ever?
- Now Playing7minWhy Do Disney Princesses All Look Like Babies?
- Now Playing4minThere Was No First Human
Origin of Everything
- Now Playing11minWhy Do So Many Religions Have Headwear?
- Now Playing10minHow WWII Created Godzilla & Mecha Robots
- Now Playing7minIs Poisoned Halloween Candy a Myth?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do Women Shave Their Legs?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do Kids Have Their Own Bedrooms?
- Now Playing12minWhy Do Schools Teach Sex Education?
- Now Playing7minThe True Origin of Killer Clowns
- Now Playing9minIs the Rosa Parks Story True?
- Now Playing7minHow Your Rubber Ducky Explains Colonialism
- Now Playing5minWhat Was Jesus' Real Name?
- Now Playing7minIs Poisoned Halloween Candy a Myth?
- Now Playing9minWhat If Islam Conquered Europe?
- Now Playing11minWhat is Racial Passing?
- Now Playing10minWhy Is There a Minimum Wage?
- 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 Playing10minWhat is Ethnicity?
- Now Playing10minWhy Does the Government Need to Know My Race?
Two Cents
- Now Playing7minWhat's The Real Cost of Dying?
- Now Playing6minHow to Ask for a Raise
- Now Playing7minShould I Invest In Cannabis Stocks?
- Now Playing7minWhy It's More Expensive To Be Poor
- Now Playing6minTop 5 Biggest Financial Scams
- Now Playing9minHow Smart Entrepreneurs Think About PRICES!
- Now Playing6minI'm Young & Healthy, Can I Skip Health Insurance?
- Now Playing7minIs Your Side Hustle Hustling You?
- Now Playing5minDo Kids Need to Learn About Money?
- Now Playing7minHow Retailers Stalk You Online
- Now Playing5minInsta-Everything
- Now Playing7minFighting the Financial Pitfalls of the Supermarket
- Now Playing7minMoney, A Global Game of Trust
- Now Playing6minIs My Identity Safe From Hackers?
- Now Playing6minFighting the Wedding Industrial Complex
- Now Playing7minWhich College Majors Give the Most Bang for Your Buck?
- Now Playing7minLove and Money
- Now Playing7minIs It Even POSSIBLE to Save for Retirement?
- Now Playing6minDo I Need To Buy A House?
- Now Playing6minHacking Your Brain to Get Out Of Debt
Monstrum
- Now Playing14minHero, Beast, or Both? The Complex Lore of the Centaur
- Now Playing10minA Giant Monster With a Giant Problem
- Now Playing20minWhy George Romero Changed Zombies Forever
- Now Playing9minKrampus: Origins of the Yuletide Monster
- Now Playing13minMonster Plants and the Humans who Invent Them
- Now Playing12minWho Is This Japanese Yōkai That Is Obsessed With Your Butt?
- 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 Playing10minHow a Children's Book Introduced Us To Our Inner Demons
- Now Playing11minIs Siren Head the Ultimate Modern Monster?
- Now Playing6minThe Original Headless Horseman
- Now Playing17minTrolls: Scandinavia's Malevolent, Magical Outcasts
- Now Playing11minWhy Has the Majestic Griffin Been Forgotten?
- Now Playing11minThe Macabre Origins of the Grim Reaper
- Now Playing12minHow Gargoyles Became Monsters
- Now Playing18minUnlocking the Mystery of Loch Ness
- Now Playing9minThe Hidden Origins of Nixie, the Scariest Little Mermaid
- Now Playing12minWhat Hellhounds Reveal about Humans' Oldest Companion
- Now Playing12minAre Cyborgs Really Monsters?
Eons
- Now Playing10minHow Blood Evolved (Many Times)
- Now Playing12minWhen Bats Took Flight
- Now Playing8minThat Time It Rained for Two Million Years
- Now Playing6minThe Time Terror Birds Invaded
- Now Playing8minHow Two Microbes Changed History
- Now Playing8minThe Case of the Dinosaur Egg Thief
- Now Playing9minHow the Squid Lost Its Shell
- Now Playing11minWhen A Marsupial Became An Apex Predator
- Now Playing6minDimetrodon: Our Most Unlikely Ancestor
- Now Playing10minHow To Survive the Little Ice Age
- Now Playing10minSomething Has Been Making This Mark For 500 Million Years
- Now Playing9minHow Humans Became (Mostly) Right-Handed
- Now Playing8minThe Rise and Fall of the Tallest Mammal to Walk the Earth
- Now Playing6minHow Did Dinosaurs Get So Huge?
- Now Playing12minHow Humans Lost Their Fur
- Now Playing9minAre We All Actually Archaea?
- Now Playing9minWhen Apes Conquered Europe
- Now Playing12minAnimals Are Older Than We Thought
- Now Playing10minThat Time the American West Blew Up
- Now Playing10minHow Dogs (Eventually) Became Our Best Friends
Hot Mess
- Now Playing5minWhy We Confuse Weather and Climate
- Now Playing4minCould Space Mirrors Cool The Globe?
- Now Playing3minCould climate change make you allergic to meat?
- Now Playing6minWould Your Neighbors Save You From a Flooding Home?
- Now Playing6minCan We Get Solar Power To Everyone Who Wants It?
- Now Playing10minThe Link Between Extreme Weather and Climate Change
- Now Playing5minCan Farms and Forests Coexist?
- Now Playing5minWhat Can You Actually Do About Climate Change?
- Now Playing5minWhy Don't We Hear About the Ozone Hole Anymore?
- Now Playing4minCould Space Mirrors Cool The Globe?
- 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 Playing5minClimate change will push millions out. Where will they go?
- Now Playing6minWhat if Carbon Emissions Stopped Tomorrow?
- Now Playing5minBeef Is Bad For The Climate. Can We Make It Better?
- Now Playing11minClimate Change is Too Big for our Brains feat. Mike Rugnetta
- Now Playing6minWhat Indigenous Communities Teach Us About Climate Change
- Now Playing5minWhat the Cutest Animal Can Teach Us About Saving Ourselves
Space Time
- Now Playing15minWhy Magnetic Monopoles SHOULD Exist
- Now Playing12minDo Events Inside Black Holes Happen?
- Now Playing11minThe Misunderstood Nature of Entropy
- Now Playing2minHow to Weigh a Fart
- Now Playing11minThe Geometry of Causality
- Now Playing13minDid Dark Energy Just Disappear?
- Now Playing8minEscape The Kugelblitz Challenge
- Now Playing15minPerpetual Motion From Negative Mass?
- Now Playing5minS3 Ep18: Gravity in Your Brain ft. Neil deGrasse Tyson!
- Now Playing17minCould LIGO Find Massive Alien Spaceships?
- Now Playing12minThe Black Hole Entropy Enigma
- Now Playing11minWhy Quantum Information is Never Destroyed
- Now Playing9minUsing Stars to See Gravitational Waves
- Now Playing9minBlack Hole Swarms
- Now Playing13minThe Secrets of Feynman Diagrams
- Now Playing10minThe One-Electron Universe
- Now Playing18minWhat If The Universe Is Math?
- Now Playing6minSuicide Space Robots
- Now Playing11minBlack Holes from the Dawn of Time
- Now Playing15minWhere Is The Center of The Universe?
Beat Making Lab
- Now Playing3minPanama: Meet the Kids Behind the Beats
- Now Playing3minBeat Making Challenge #1: Accordion Trap
- Now Playing2minWhat's In the Backpack?
- Now Playing5minBehind the Beat: Portobelo
- Now Playing2minMashup: National Anthems
- Now Playing10minHeartbeats of Fiji
- Now Playing3minGet Your Drums Right
- Now Playing2minField Trip: Prison Beats
- Now Playing4minCho Cho Cho (Music Video) filmed in Goma, Congo
- Now Playing2minWalshy Fire [of Major Lazer] Wants Your Riddims
- 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 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)
Infinite Series
- Now Playing13minNetwork Mathematics and Rival Factions | Infinite Series
- Now Playing11minTopology vs "a" Topology
- Now Playing10minThe Mathematics of Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange
- Now Playing9minCan You Solve the Poison Wine Challenge?
- Now Playing11minVoting Systems and the Condorcet Paradox
- Now Playing12minProving Pick's Theorem
- Now Playing10minUnraveling DNA with Rational Tangles
- Now Playing14minTopology Riddles | Infinite Series
- Now Playing9minAssociahedra: The Shapes of Multiplication
- Now Playing14minMaking Probability Mathematical
- Now Playing9minProving Brouwer's Fixed Point Theorem
- Now Playing8minAre Prime Numbers Made Up?
- Now Playing12minHow Infinity Explains the Finite
- Now Playing8minThe Multiplication Multiverse
- Now Playing11minCan We Hear Shapes?
- Now Playing14minCan We Combine pi & e to Make a Rational Number?
- Now Playing10minInstant Insanity Puzzle
- Now Playing14minSolving the Wolverine Problem with Graph Coloring
- Now Playing8minA Breakthrough in Higher Dimensional Spheres
- Now Playing11minCan We Hear Shapes?
Idea Channel
- Now Playing5minNicolas Cage, Taoism, and YOLO
- Now Playing8minWhy Do We Love Zombies?
- Now Playing4minIs Instagram Revolutionizing Photography?
- Now Playing5minIs Dubstep the New Musical Avant-Garde?
- Now Playing5minDo We Want the World to End?
- Now Playing5minIs Dubstep the New Musical Avant-Garde?
- Now Playing5minIs Homestuck the Ulysses of the Internet?
- Now Playing5minWill Space Travel Save Us All?
- Now Playing8minIs Buying Call of Duty a Moral Choice?
- Now Playing5minAre Memes and Internet Culture Creating a Singularity?
- Now Playing6minAre Virtual Video Game Economies Becoming Real?
- Now Playing4minFrom Sherlock Holmes to 50 Shades of Grey
- Now Playing6minWhat do MP3s and Magic Spells Have in Common?
- Now Playing5minIs Facebook Changing Our Identity?
- Now Playing4minHas the Microsoft Kinect revolutionized art?
- Now Playing7minCan Dungeons & Dragons Make You Confident & Successful?
- Now Playing6minAre MP3s & Vinyl Better than Live Music?
- Now Playing4minThe Bronies Phenomenon
- Now Playing3minWhat Makes a Pop Star Authentic?
- Now Playing8minIs Piracy Helping Game of Thrones?