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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 Playing8minWhy Is Blue So Rare In Nature?
- Now Playing6minWhat is Luck?
- Now Playing5minWhy Music Moves Us
- Now Playing3minWhy I PBS
- Now Playing4minHow to See Time Travel!!!
- Now Playing9minIs This A NEW SPECIES?!
- Now Playing4minThe Ruin and Rise of Monterey Bay
- Now Playing6minAttack of the Cosmic Space Junk!
- Now Playing13minDoes Someone Else Have Your Face?
- Now Playing5minHow Many Trees Are There?
- Now Playing6minThe Largest River On Earth Is In The Sky
- Now Playing6minThe Delicious Science of CHEESE!
- Now Playing12minUsing Gene Editing To Repaint Butterfly Wings
- Now Playing3minDoes Evolution Have a Point? 12 Days of Evolution #12
- Now Playing6minCRISPR and the Future of Human Evolution
- Now Playing8minThe Science of Game of Thrones
- Now Playing4minHow Poop Shapes the World
- Now Playing6minWhy It Is What Time It Is (The History of Time)
- Now Playing2minWhat Is Evolution, Anyway? - 12 Days of Evolution #1
- Now Playing4minWhy Seasons Make No Sense
Origin of Everything
- Now Playing8minWhere does the Nuclear Family Come From?
- Now Playing11minWhy Do We Have Private Prisons?
- Now Playing10minHow Did Makeup Ads Go From Style to Science?
- Now Playing10minDo Standardized Tests Do More Harm Than Good?
- Now Playing5minWhat Was Jesus' Real Name?
- Now Playing9minHow Did Edison Invent Christmas Lights?
- Now Playing10minThe Origin of Race in the USA
- Now Playing9minWhat If There Were No Taxes?
- Now Playing11minWhy Are We Obsessed with Cults?
- Now Playing10minWould You Have Joined the American Revolution?
- Now Playing6minWhy it Was Illegal to be Ugly?
- Now Playing11minModern Warfare and Alien Invasions
- Now Playing9minCan Tattoos Be Taboo?
- Now Playing7minWhy are 18 Year Olds Considered Adults?
- Now Playing11minWhy Does the Government Pay for Art?
- Now Playing10minWhy Does the Government Need to Know My Race?
- Now Playing9minDoes the Rorschach Inkblot Test Work?
- Now Playing10minHow Did Martin Luther King Jr. Get a Holiday?
- Now Playing9minCan Tattoos Be Taboo?
- Now Playing8minWhere Does the #Hashtag Symbol Come From?
Two Cents
- Now Playing6minTop 5 Biggest Financial Scams
- Now Playing7minWhy It's More Expensive To Be Poor
- Now Playing7minShould I Invest In Cannabis Stocks?
- Now Playing7minWhat's The Real Cost of Dying?
- Now Playing6minHow to Ask for a Raise
- Now Playing6minFighting the Wedding Industrial Complex
- Now Playing6minIs My Identity Safe From Hackers?
- Now Playing7minWhich College Majors Give the Most Bang for Your Buck?
- Now Playing7minMoney, A Global Game of Trust
- Now Playing7minHow Retailers Stalk You Online
- Now Playing5minInsta-Everything
- Now Playing5minDo Kids Need to Learn About Money?
- Now Playing7minFighting the Financial Pitfalls of the Supermarket
- Now Playing7minIs Your Side Hustle Hustling You?
- Now Playing9minHow Smart Entrepreneurs Think About PRICES!
- Now Playing6minI'm Young & Healthy, Can I Skip Health Insurance?
- Now Playing5minHow Do Your Tax Dollars Get Spent?
- Now Playing8min5 Strange Investor Crazes!
- Now Playing5minHow are credit scores calculated?
- Now Playing5minHow Cars Can Keep You Poor
Monstrum
- 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 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 Playing10minIs Yuki-onna the Most Terrifying Snow Monster?
- Now Playing17minModern Zombies: The Rebirth of the Undead
- Now Playing12minThe Origins of 'Big Bug' Science Fiction
- Now Playing13minLeprechaun: From Gold-Loving Cobbler to Cultural Icon
- Now Playing11minCan All Monsters Be Traced Back to Tiamat?
- Now Playing10minHow Bloody Mary Turns Fear Into Fun
- Now Playing10minThe Enchanting Fairies of Celtic Lore
- Now Playing10minPontianak: The Vampiric Ghost of Southeast Asia
- Now Playing12minDeath Worms: Fact or Fiction?
Eons
- Now Playing11minDid These Giant Sloths Poop Themselves to Death?
- Now Playing13minAn Illustrated History of Dinosaurs
- Now Playing9minOur Ancient Relative That Said 'No Thanks' To Life On Land
- Now Playing10minWhen Giant Hypercarnivores Prowled Africa
- Now Playing10minHow Chilis Got Spicy (and Why We Love the Burn)
- Now Playing10minHow Blood Evolved (Many Times)
- Now Playing8minWhat Was The Earliest Surgery?
- Now Playing8minHow the Walrus Got Its Tusks
- Now Playing12minWhen Birds Had Teeth
- Now Playing7minThe Trouble With Trilobites
- Now Playing10minLife, Sex & Death Among the Dire Wolves
- Now Playing11minFrom the Cambrian Explosion to the Great Dying
- Now Playing5minThat Time Oxygen Almost Killed Everything
- Now Playing9minHow Our Deadliest Parasite Turned To The Dark Side
- Now Playing12minWhen Sharks Swam the Great Plains
- Now Playing11minWhen Giant Lemurs Ruled Madagascar
- Now Playing8minThe Extinction That Never Happened
- Now Playing5minThat Time Oxygen Almost Killed Everything
- Now Playing7minThe Genes We Lost Along the Way
- Now Playing10minHow Ancient Art Captured Australian Megafauna
Hot Mess
- Now Playing6minWhat if Carbon Emissions Stopped Tomorrow?
- Now Playing5minClimate change will push millions out. Where will they go?
- 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 Playing5minBeef Is Bad For The Climate. Can We Make It Better?
- Now Playing5minWhat the Cutest Animal Can Teach Us About Saving Ourselves
- Now Playing5minWe've Ignored Climate Change For More Than a Century
- Now Playing6minWhat if Carbon Emissions Stopped Tomorrow?
- Now Playing4minWhy Are Hurricanes Getting Stronger?
- Now Playing5minWhat the Cutest Animal Can Teach Us About Saving Ourselves
- Now Playing5minWe've Ignored Climate Change For More Than a Century
- Now Playing5minHow A Sticker Kept 3 Billion Tons of CO2 Out of The Air
- Now Playing5minWhat Can You Actually Do About Climate Change?
- Now Playing5minWhat's actually the worst greenhouse gas?
- Now Playing5minWhy We Confuse Weather and Climate
- Now Playing3minCould climate change make you allergic to meat?
- Now Playing4minCould Space Mirrors Cool The Globe?
- Now Playing6minWould Your Neighbors Save You From a Flooding Home?
- Now Playing6minCan We Get Solar Power To Everyone Who Wants It?
Space Time
- Now Playing14minSecrets of the Cosmic Microwave Background
- Now Playing12minFeynman's Infinite Quantum Paths
- Now Playing14minHacking the Nature of Reality
- Now Playing15minWhat If We Live in a Superdeterministic Universe?
- Now Playing12minThe Quantum Internet
- Now Playing11minAre You a Boltzmann Brain?
- Now Playing10minQuantum Vortices and Superconductivity + Challenge Answers
- Now Playing12minThe Black Hole Information Paradox
- Now Playing6minCould You Fart Your Way to the Moon?
- Now Playing12minNeutron Stars Collide in New LIGO Signal?
- Now Playing13minDark Flow
- Now Playing8minThe Higgs Mechanism Explained
- Now Playing12minWhat Survives Inside A Black Hole?
- Now Playing15minThe Holographic Universe Explained
- Now Playing11minThe Unruh Effect
- Now Playing13minWill We Ever Find Alien Life?
- Now Playing14minHow Luminiferous Aether Led to Relativity
- Now Playing15minDoes Axionic Dark Matter Bind Galaxies Together?
- Now Playing18minAre Room Temperature Superconductors Impossible?
- Now Playing16minThe Edge of an Infinite Universe
Beat Making Lab
- Now Playing4minCho Cho Cho (Music Video) filmed in Goma, Congo
- Now Playing2minWalshy Fire [of Major Lazer] Wants Your Riddims
- Now Playing5minBehind the Beat: Portobelo
- Now Playing2minWhat's In the Backpack?
- Now Playing3minBeat Making Challenge #1: Accordion Trap
- Now Playing3minPanama: Meet the Kids Behind the Beats
- Now Playing2minField Trip: Prison Beats
- Now Playing3minGet Your Drums Right
- Now Playing10minHeartbeats of Fiji
- Now Playing2minMashup: National Anthems
- Now Playing3minBehind The Beat: First Beat Making Lab (2011)
- Now Playing4minPortobelo (music video)
- Now Playing3minSampling w/ Flip Flops and Ski Beatz
- Now Playing2minHealth Worker Beat
- Now Playing4minTrapped In Paradise
- Now Playing4minDiablos (music video)
- Now Playing3minEpisode 1: Goma, Congo
- Now Playing3minFemale Hip Hop Crew Makes Beats in Senegal
- Now Playing3minExclusive Zenga (Music Video) by Flamme Kapaya
- Now Playing3minBeat Making Challenge #2: Kora Riddim
Infinite Series
- Now Playing9minCan You Solve the Poison Wine Challenge?
- Now Playing10minThe Mathematics of Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange
- Now Playing12minProving Pick's Theorem
- Now Playing11minVoting Systems and the Condorcet Paradox
- Now Playing10minUnraveling DNA with Rational Tangles
- Now Playing13minNetwork Mathematics and Rival Factions | Infinite Series
- Now Playing11minTopology vs "a" Topology
- Now Playing9minProving Brouwer's Fixed Point Theorem
- Now Playing14minMaking Probability Mathematical
- Now Playing8minAre Prime Numbers Made Up?
- Now Playing14minTopology Riddles | Infinite Series
- Now Playing9minAssociahedra: The Shapes of Multiplication
- Now Playing10minInstant Insanity Puzzle
- Now Playing8minA Breakthrough in Higher Dimensional Spheres
- Now Playing14minSolving the Wolverine Problem with Graph Coloring
- Now Playing8minThe Multiplication Multiverse
- Now Playing12minHow Infinity Explains the Finite
- Now Playing11minCan We Hear Shapes?
- Now Playing14minCan We Combine pi & e to Make a Rational Number?
- Now Playing14minInfinite Chess
Idea Channel
- Now Playing7minHow are Justin Bieber, Franz Liszt and Jerusalem Connected?
- Now Playing5minAre Olympic Competitors Geniuses?
- Now Playing5minAre Memes and Internet Culture Creating a Singularity?
- Now Playing5minIs William Gibson A Modern Day Oracle?
- Now Playing6minIs Minecraft the Ultimate Educational Tool?
- Now Playing5minIs William Gibson A Modern Day Oracle?
- Now Playing4minAre Mashups the End of Music Genres?
- Now Playing4minRussian Meteorites and Surveillance Culture
- Now Playing4minAre LOLCats and Internet Memes Art?
- Now Playing4minHas the Microsoft Kinect revolutionized art?
- Now Playing4minIs Twitter the Newest Form of Literature?
- 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 Playing6minWhat Do Santa and Wrestling Have In Common?
- Now Playing5minIs Facebook Changing Our Identity?
- Now Playing6minWhat do MP3s and Magic Spells Have in Common?
- Now Playing4minAre Mashups the End of Music Genres?