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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 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 Playing8minWhere On Earth Do You Weigh The Least?
- Now Playing8minThe Science of BBQ!!!
- Now Playing5minClaude Monet Was Half Honeybee
- Now Playing4minWhat Is Fire?
- Now Playing5minHow Many Smells Can You Smell?
- Now Playing5minHow Much Plastic is in the Ocean?
- Now Playing5minRemembering Carl Sagan
- Now Playing5minWhy Does February Have 28 Days?
- Now Playing4minHow Ingenious Animals Have Engineered Air Conditioning
- Now Playing6minHow Habits are Formed
- Now Playing3minWhere Does the Smell of Rain Come From?
- Now Playing6minWhy Did We Blow On Nintendo Games?
- Now Playing9minWhat If You Never Forgot Anything?
- Now Playing6minWhat's The Hottest Hot and Coldest Cold?
- Now Playing7minMusical Tesla Coils in Slow Motion! Featuring Physics Girl
- Now Playing5minЩΉӨ BЦIƬ ƬΉΣ PYЯΛMIDƧ - Who Built The Pyramids
- Now Playing8minAsteroids, Meteors, and Comets... OH MY!!!
- Now Playing6minAsteroid Mining: Our Ticket To Living Off Earth?
- Now Playing3minYour Mom is LITERALLY Part Of You!
- Now Playing5min23 Reasons to be Cheerful (Thanks to Science!)
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 Playing8minWhy is there a North and South Korea?
- Now Playing7minHow Columbus Invented Cannibals
- 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 Playing10minWhat is Cultural Appropriation?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do Women Give Birth Lying Down?
- Now Playing7minHistory of the Word "Gay"
- Now Playing7minIs Poisoned Halloween Candy a Myth?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do We Get Grades in School?
- Now Playing10minWhy Does the Government Need to Know My Race?
Two Cents
- Now Playing9minHow Smart Entrepreneurs Think About PRICES!
- Now Playing6minI'm Young & Healthy, Can I Skip Health Insurance?
- 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 Playing7minIs Your Side Hustle Hustling You?
- 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 Playing7minWhat's The Real Cost of Dying?
- Now Playing6minHow to Ask for a Raise
- Now Playing7minShould I Invest In Cannabis Stocks?
- Now Playing6minTop 5 Biggest Financial Scams
- Now Playing7minWhy It's More Expensive To Be Poor
- Now Playing6minThe Ugly Truth About Airline Miles
- Now Playing6minShould You Break Up With Your Big Bank?
- Now Playing4minWhat is the DOW?
- Now Playing6minDoes Wealth Make You Meaner?
Monstrum
- 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 Playing12minWho Is This Japanese Yōkai That Is Obsessed With Your Butt?
- Now Playing13minMonster Plants and the Humans who Invent Them
- Now Playing10minHow a Children's Book Introduced Us To Our Inner Demons
- Now Playing10minSlender Man: How The Internet Created a Monster
- Now Playing10minEl Silbón: The Deadly Whistler of the Grasslands
- Now Playing17minThe Origins of the Zombie, from Haiti to the U.S.
- Now Playing6minThe Original Headless Horseman
- Now Playing11minIs Siren Head the Ultimate Modern Monster?
- Now Playing17minTrolls: Scandinavia's Malevolent, Magical Outcasts
- 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 Playing9minPost-Dracula Vampires: From Anne Rice to Twilight
- Now Playing13minUnicorns: Magical Icons or Violent Beasts?
Eons
- Now Playing11minFrom the Cambrian Explosion to the Great Dying
- Now Playing8minWhen Birds Stopped Flying
- Now Playing5minWhen Whales Walked
- Now Playing12minWhen a Billion Years Disappeared
- Now Playing9minThe Rise and Fall of the Bone-Crushing Dogs
- Now Playing6minDimetrodon: Our Most Unlikely Ancestor
- Now Playing10minWhy The Paleo Diet Couldn't Save The Neanderthals
- Now Playing12minWhat Was the Ancestor of Everything?
- Now Playing11minWhy Megalodon (Definitely) Went Extinct
- Now Playing11minWhen We First Walked
- Now Playing10minLife, Sex & Death Among the Dire Wolves
- Now Playing10minWhen Humans Were Prey
- Now Playing14minThe History of Climate Cycles (and the Woolly Rhino)
- Now Playing9minWhen Fish First Breathed Air
- Now Playing8minWhen Dinosaur Look-Alikes Ruled the Earth
- Now Playing6minThe Time Terror Birds Invaded
- Now Playing7minWhen Giant Deer Roamed Eurasia
- Now Playing8minHow Plate Tectonics Gave Us Seahorses
- Now Playing12minCan We Get DNA From Fossils?
- Now Playing10minHow 7,000 Years of Epic Floods Changed the World
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 Playing18minHow the Higgs Mechanism Give Things Mass
- Now Playing15minHave We Solved The Black Hole Information Paradox
- Now Playing9minThe Treasures of Trappist-1
- Now Playing11minCitizen Science
- Now Playing10minStrange Stars
- Now Playing13minCould The Universe Be Inside A Black Hole?
- Now Playing14minThe NEW Crisis in Cosmology
- Now Playing12minWhat is Energy?
- Now Playing10minCan You Trust Your Eyes in Spacetime?
- Now Playing13minAnti-gravity and the True Nature of Dark Energy
- Now Playing16minHow Far Beyond Earth Could Humanity Spread?
- Now Playing12minThe Many Worlds of the Quantum Multiverse
- Now Playing15minHow Many Universes Are There?
- Now Playing17minJWST Discovered The Farthest Star Ever Seen!
- Now Playing8minLIGO's First Detection of Gravitational Waves!
- Now Playing9minWhy the Big Bang Definitely Happened
- Now Playing12minHow Black Holes Kill Galaxies
- Now Playing15minMapping the Multiverse
- Now Playing10minThe Andromeda-Milky Way Collision
- Now Playing12minHow to See Black Holes + Kugelblitz Challenge Answer
Beat Making Lab
- Now Playing2minField Trip: Prison Beats
- Now Playing3minGet Your Drums Right
- Now Playing10minHeartbeats of Fiji
- Now Playing2minMashup: National Anthems
- Now Playing2minWhat's In the Backpack?
- Now Playing5minBehind the Beat: Portobelo
- Now Playing3minBeat Making Challenge #1: Accordion Trap
- 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 Playing4minDiablos (music video)
- Now Playing3minEpisode 1: Goma, Congo
- Now Playing3minFemale Hip Hop Crew Makes Beats in Senegal
- Now Playing3minBeat Making Challenge #2: Kora Riddim
- Now Playing3minExclusive Zenga (Music Video) by Flamme Kapaya
- Now Playing2minHealth Worker Beat
- Now Playing4minTrapped In Paradise
- Now Playing3minBehind The Beat: First Beat Making Lab (2011)
Infinite Series
- Now Playing11minCan We Hear Shapes?
- Now Playing14minWhy Computers are Bad at Algebra
- Now Playing11minWhat are Numbers Made of?
- Now Playing14minInfinite Chess
- Now Playing11minCan We Hear Shapes?
- Now Playing14minCan We Combine pi & e to Make a Rational Number?
- Now Playing8minThe Multiplication Multiverse
- Now Playing12minHow Infinity Explains the Finite
- Now Playing8minA Breakthrough in Higher Dimensional Spheres
- Now Playing14minSolving the Wolverine Problem with Graph Coloring
- Now Playing10minInstant Insanity Puzzle
- Now Playing9minAssociahedra: The Shapes of Multiplication
- Now Playing14minTopology Riddles | Infinite Series
- Now Playing8minAre Prime Numbers Made Up?
- Now Playing9minProving Brouwer's Fixed Point Theorem
- Now Playing14minMaking Probability Mathematical
- Now Playing13minNetwork Mathematics and Rival Factions | Infinite Series
- Now Playing11minTopology vs "a" Topology
- Now Playing12minProving Pick's Theorem
- Now Playing11minVoting Systems and the Condorcet Paradox
Idea Channel
- 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 Playing6minAre MP3s & Vinyl Better than Live Music?
- Now Playing7minCan Dungeons & Dragons Make You Confident & Successful?
- Now Playing6minWhat do MP3s and Magic Spells Have in Common?
- Now Playing4minHas the Microsoft Kinect revolutionized art?
- Now Playing5minIs Facebook Changing Our Identity?
- Now Playing4minThe Bronies Phenomenon
- Now Playing8minIs Sad Music Actually Sad?
- Now Playing6minIs Doctor Who a Religion?
- Now Playing9minDoes Math Really Exist?
- 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?