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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 Playing22minCan AI Help Us Talk to Whales?
- 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
It's Okay to Be Smart
- Now Playing4minCuttlefish: Tentacles In Disguise
- Now Playing4minWhose Air do we Share?
- Now Playing4minHow The Elements Got Their Names
- Now Playing5minAre You Smarter Than A Slime Mold?
- Now Playing8minIs Ultron Inevitable?
- Now Playing5minHow Science Defines A Year
- Now Playing7minWhy Do You Love Your Family?
- Now Playing16minTrying a Thanksgiving Feast Made from Bugs
- Now Playing5minYour #ScienceWoman Heroes
- Now Playing10minIs There Life on Earth?
- Now Playing6minWhy Don't Other Animals Wear Glasses?
- Now Playing3minBuilding Curiosity
- Now Playing8min20 MILLION Year-Old Spider!! Unweaving Spider Silk
- Now Playing7minInside the World of Fire Ants!
- Now Playing6minHow Atom Bombs Can Uncover Forged Art
- Now Playing6minWhy Salt & Pepper?
- Now Playing7minEngines of Destruction: How Hurricanes Work
- Now Playing7minThe Strange Science of the Placebo Effect
- Now Playing6minInside an ICE CAVE! - Nature's Most Beautiful Blue
- Now Playing5minThe Cosmic Origins of Earth's Water
Origin of Everything
- Now Playing8minWhy Do People Have Pets?
- Now Playing11minWhy Do We Have Private Prisons?
- Now Playing8minWhy Was Crossdressing Illegal?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do Women Give Birth Lying Down?
- Now Playing8minWhen DId Marriage Become about Love?
- Now Playing7minWhy Do We Say "Asian American" Not "Oriental"?
- Now Playing12minWhy Do Schools Teach Sex Education?
- Now Playing7minHow did Makeup, WWII, & Communism Create U.S. Healthcare?
- Now Playing7minHow Your Rubber Ducky Explains Colonialism
- Now Playing10minIs Breakfast the Most Important Meal?
- Now Playing8minWhy is there a North and South Korea?
- Now Playing7minHow Columbus Invented Cannibals
- Now Playing10minWhy was Pink for Boys and Blue for Girls?
- Now Playing7minIs Poisoned Halloween Candy a Myth?
- Now Playing7minHistory of the Word "Gay"
- Now Playing10minHow Did Martin Luther King Jr. Get a Holiday?
- Now Playing10minWhat is Cultural Appropriation?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do Women Give Birth Lying Down?
- Now Playing7minWhen Men Wore High Heels
- Now Playing12minWhy Doesn't the US Have Paid Parental Leave?
Two Cents
- 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 Playing7minMoney, A Global Game of Trust
- Now Playing5minDo Kids Need to Learn About Money?
- Now Playing5minInsta-Everything
- Now Playing7minHow Retailers Stalk You Online
- 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 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 Playing8minAre "Free" Video Games Really Free?
- Now Playing6minShould I Buy Bitcoin?
- Now Playing6minWhat is The Cost of Pet Ownership?
- Now Playing6minHow Do You Actually Buy A House?
Monstrum
- Now Playing10minJorōgumo: The Deadly Spider Woman from Yokai Lore
- Now Playing11minBasilisk or Cockatrice? The Mysterious King of Serpents
- Now Playing10minWill-o'-the-Wisp: Monstrous Flame or Scientific Phenomenon?
- Now Playing6minThe Origin of Medusa
- 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 Playing11minThe Fatal Song of the Sirens
- Now Playing8minNuckelavee: Scotland's Skinless Evil Monstrosity
- Now Playing14minThe Evolution of Creepy Dolls
- Now Playing12minThe Origins of 'Big Bug' Science Fiction
- Now Playing13minLeprechaun: From Gold-Loving Cobbler to Cultural Icon
- Now Playing10minIs Yuki-onna the Most Terrifying Snow Monster?
- Now Playing17minModern Zombies: The Rebirth of the Undead
- Now Playing10minHow Bloody Mary Turns Fear Into Fun
- Now Playing11minCan All Monsters Be Traced Back to Tiamat?
- Now Playing10minThe Enchanting Fairies of Celtic Lore
- Now Playing10minPontianak: The Vampiric Ghost of Southeast Asia
- Now Playing10minYara-ma-yha-who: Australia's Regurgitating, Blood-Sucking Mo
Eons
- Now Playing11minFrom the Cambrian Explosion to the Great Dying
- Now Playing8minWhen Birds Stopped Flying
- Now Playing5minWhen Whales Walked
- Now Playing6minDimetrodon: Our Most Unlikely Ancestor
- Now Playing9minThe Rise and Fall of the Bone-Crushing Dogs
- Now Playing12minWhen a Billion Years Disappeared
- Now Playing10minWhy The Paleo Diet Couldn't Save The Neanderthals
- Now Playing12minWhat Was the Ancestor of Everything?
- Now Playing11minWhy Megalodon (Definitely) Went Extinct
- Now Playing9minWhen Fish First Breathed Air
- Now Playing14minThe History of Climate Cycles (and the Woolly Rhino)
- Now Playing10minWhen Humans Were Prey
- Now Playing10minLife, Sex & Death Among the Dire Wolves
- Now Playing11minWhen We First Walked
- Now Playing8minWhen Dinosaur Look-Alikes Ruled the Earth
- Now Playing6minThe Time Terror Birds Invaded
- Now Playing8minHow Plate Tectonics Gave Us Seahorses
- Now Playing7minWhen Giant Deer Roamed Eurasia
- Now Playing10minHow 7,000 Years of Epic Floods Changed the World
- Now Playing12minCan We Get DNA From Fossils?
Hot Mess
- Now Playing6minWhat Indigenous Communities Teach Us About Climate Change
- Now Playing5minBeef Is Bad For The Climate. Can We Make It Better?
- Now Playing6minWhat if Carbon Emissions Stopped Tomorrow?
- Now Playing5minClimate change will push millions out. Where will they go?
- Now Playing11minClimate Change is Too Big for our Brains feat. Mike Rugnetta
- Now Playing6minWhat if Carbon Emissions Stopped Tomorrow?
- 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 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 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 Playing6minCan We Get Solar Power To Everyone Who Wants It?
- Now Playing5minWhy Don't We Hear About the Ozone Hole Anymore?
- Now Playing5minWhat Can You Actually Do About Climate Change?
- Now Playing5minCan Farms and Forests Coexist?
- Now Playing10minThe Link Between Extreme Weather and Climate Change
Space Time
- Now Playing14minWhy Quantum Computing Requires Quantum Cryptography
- Now Playing13minSupersymmetric Particle Found?
- Now Playing11minS2: Juno to Reveal Jupiter's Violent Past
- Now Playing14minHow to Communicate Across the Quantum Multiverse
- Now Playing9minWill Starshot's Insterstellar Journey Succeed?
- Now Playing9minWill Starshot's Insterstellar Journey Succeed?
- Now Playing15minWhat If Alien Life Were Silcon-Based?
- Now Playing7minIs It Irrational to Believe in Aliens?
- Now Playing7minWhat Will Destroy Planet Earth?
- Now Playing14minWhat If Charge is NOT Fundamental?
- Now Playing14minHow Magnetism Shapes The Universe
- Now Playing10minExtinction by Gamma-Ray Burst
- Now Playing15minHow Does The Nucleus Hold Together?
- Now Playing16minWhat Makes The Strong Force Strong?
- Now Playing9minWhen Time Breaks Down
- Now Playing10minQuantum Vortices and Superconductivity + Challenge Answers
- Now Playing10minWhat Physics Teachers Get Wrong About Tides!
- Now Playing10minThe Oh My God Particle
- Now Playing12minReversing Entropy with Maxwell's Demon
- Now Playing10minThe Oh My God Particle
Beat Making Lab
- Now Playing2minWalshy Fire [of Major Lazer] Wants Your Riddims
- Now Playing4minCho Cho Cho (Music Video) filmed in Goma, Congo
- 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 Playing2minWhat's In the Backpack?
- Now Playing5minBehind the Beat: Portobelo
- Now Playing3minPanama: Meet the Kids Behind the Beats
- Now Playing2minHealth Worker Beat
- Now Playing4minTrapped In Paradise
- Now Playing4minPortobelo (music video)
- Now Playing3minBehind The Beat: First Beat Making Lab (2011)
- Now Playing3minSampling w/ Flip Flops and Ski Beatz
- 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
Infinite Series
- Now Playing8minHow to Divide by "Zero"
- Now Playing9minProving Brouwer's Fixed Point Theorem
- Now Playing11minDefining Infinity
- Now Playing17minHacking at Quantum Speed with Shor's Algorithm
- Now Playing9minCan You Solve the Poison Wine Challenge?
- Now Playing8minAre Prime Numbers Made Up?
- Now Playing10minWhat Does It Mean to Be a Number? (The Peano Axioms)
- Now Playing13minThe Mathematics of Quantum Computers
- Now Playing12minWhen Pi is Not 3.14
- Now Playing11minWhat was Fermat's "Marvelous" Proof?
- Now Playing9minThis Video was Not Encrypted with RSA
- Now Playing8minThe Multiplication Multiverse
- Now Playing8minTelling Time on a Torus
- Now Playing14minCan We Combine pi & e to Make a Rational Number?
- Now Playing13minWhat is a Random Walk?
- Now Playing11minWhat was Fermat's "Marvelous" Proof?
- Now Playing14minKill the Mathematical Hydra
- Now Playing14minHow Big are All Infinities Combined? (Cantor's Paradox)
- Now Playing11minThe Geometry of SET
- Now Playing16minHow to Break Cryptography
Idea Channel
- Now Playing6minAre Virtual Video Game Economies Becoming Real?
- Now Playing4minFrom Sherlock Holmes to 50 Shades of Grey
- Now Playing5minAre Memes and Internet Culture Creating a Singularity?
- Now Playing5minWill Space Travel Save Us All?
- Now Playing8minIs Buying Call of Duty a Moral Choice?
- 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 Playing5minIs Dubstep the New Musical Avant-Garde?
- Now Playing4minIs Instagram Revolutionizing Photography?
- Now Playing5minNicolas Cage, Taoism, and YOLO
- Now Playing8minWhy Do We Love Zombies?
- Now Playing6minAre Virtual Video Game Economies Becoming Real?
- Now Playing3minSuper Mario Brothers as Surrealist Art?
- Now Playing6minIs Futurama the Best Argument Against Transhumanism?
- Now Playing3minAre Holograms Nostalgia or a New Form of Art?
- Now Playing3minAre Holograms Nostalgia or a New Form of Art?
- Now Playing6minIs Doctor Who a Religion?
- Now Playing9minDoes Math Really Exist?
- Now Playing8minIs Sad Music Actually Sad?