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- 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?
- Now Playing10minHow a Children's Book Introduced Us To Our Inner Demons
- Now Playing16minWhy the 2024 Solar Eclipse is Such a Big Deal
- Now Playing10minHow Snake Venom Sparked An Evolutionary Arms Race
- Now Playing16minWhat Happens If We Nuke Space?
It's Okay to Be Smart
- Now Playing6minWhy Salt & Pepper?
- Now Playing6minHow Atom Bombs Can Uncover Forged Art
- Now Playing6minWhy Don't Other Animals Wear Glasses?
- Now Playing3minBuilding Curiosity
- Now Playing10minIs There Life on Earth?
- Now Playing8min20 MILLION Year-Old Spider!! Unweaving Spider Silk
- Now Playing7minInside the World of Fire Ants!
- Now Playing16minTrying a Thanksgiving Feast Made from Bugs
- Now Playing5minYour #ScienceWoman Heroes
- Now Playing4minWhose Air do we Share?
- Now Playing5minAre You Smarter Than A Slime Mold?
- Now Playing4minHow The Elements Got Their Names
- Now Playing8minIs Ultron Inevitable?
- Now Playing4minCuttlefish: Tentacles In Disguise
- Now Playing5minHow Science Defines A Year
- Now Playing7minWhy Do You Love Your Family?
- Now Playing5minI Don't Think You're Ready for These Jellies
- Now Playing8minIs There Intelligent Life Beyond Earth?
- Now Playing7minIs Your Brain Too Old For Video Games?
- Now Playing7minWhat Are The Most Important Science Images Ever?
Origin of Everything
- Now Playing9minWhat If There Were No Taxes?
- Now Playing6minWhy it Was Illegal to be Ugly?
- Now Playing10minWould You Have Joined the American Revolution?
- Now Playing11minWhy Are We Obsessed with Cults?
- Now Playing10minDo Standardized Tests Do More Harm Than Good?
- Now Playing10minHow Did Makeup Ads Go From Style to Science?
- Now Playing11minWhy Do We Have Private Prisons?
- Now Playing8minWhere does the Nuclear Family Come From?
- Now Playing10minThe Origin of Race in the USA
- Now Playing9minHow Did Edison Invent Christmas Lights?
- Now Playing5minWhat Was Jesus' Real Name?
- Now Playing10minWhy Do We Have Hobbies?
- Now Playing10min6 Weird Facts About the History of Birth Control
- Now Playing8minWhy Do We Wash Our Hands After Going to the Bathroom?
- Now Playing7minWhy Are There So Few Women in Computer Science?
- Now Playing6minWhy Do We Have Middle Names?
- Now Playing9minCan Tattoos Be Taboo?
- Now Playing9minDoes the Rorschach Inkblot Test Work?
- Now Playing10minHow Did Martin Luther King Jr. Get a Holiday?
- Now Playing10minWhy Does the Government Need to Know My Race?
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 Playing6minHow to Ask for a Raise
- Now Playing7minWhat's The Real Cost of Dying?
- Now Playing7minWhich College Majors Give the Most Bang for Your Buck?
- Now Playing6minIs My Identity Safe From Hackers?
- Now Playing6minFighting the Wedding Industrial Complex
- Now Playing7minMoney, A Global Game of Trust
- Now Playing7minFighting the Financial Pitfalls of the Supermarket
- Now Playing5minDo Kids Need to Learn About Money?
- Now Playing5minInsta-Everything
- Now Playing7minHow Retailers Stalk You Online
- Now Playing7minIs Your Side Hustle Hustling You?
- Now Playing6minI'm Young & Healthy, Can I Skip Health Insurance?
- Now Playing9minHow Smart Entrepreneurs Think About PRICES!
- Now Playing5minHow Do Your Tax Dollars Get Spent?
- Now Playing5minHow are credit scores calculated?
- Now Playing8min5 Strange Investor Crazes!
- Now Playing6minMoving Without Spending a Fortune
Monstrum
- 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 Playing10minJorōgumo: The Deadly Spider Woman from Yokai Lore
- Now Playing11minBasilisk or Cockatrice? The Mysterious King of Serpents
- Now Playing6minThe Origin of Medusa
- Now Playing10minWill-o'-the-Wisp: Monstrous Flame or Scientific Phenomenon?
- Now Playing11minThe Original Urban Legend: Spring-Heeled Jack
- Now Playing6minRethinking Frankenstein's Monster
- Now Playing10minPontianak: The Vampiric Ghost of Southeast Asia
- Now Playing10minThe Enchanting Fairies of Celtic Lore
- Now Playing10minYara-ma-yha-who: Australia's Regurgitating, Blood-Sucking Mo
- Now Playing12minDeath Worms: Fact or Fiction?
- Now Playing13minWhat Happened During Our Scary Slumber Party
- Now Playing8minWerehyena: The Terrifying Shapeshifters of African Lore
- Now Playing15minBaba Yaga: The Ancient Origins of the Famous 'Witch'
- Now Playing13minThe SCP Foundation: Declassified
- Now Playing12minThe Origins of 'Big Bug' Science Fiction
Eons
- Now Playing9minThe Oddest Couple in the Fossil Record
- Now Playing12minYour Place in the Primate Family Tree
- Now Playing10minThe Hidden Genes That Make Us Human
- Now Playing13minDid Raptorex Really Exist?
- Now Playing9minHow Our Deadliest Parasite Turned To The Dark Side
- Now Playing11minWhen Giant Lemurs Ruled Madagascar
- Now Playing12minWhen Sharks Swam the Great Plains
- Now Playing5minThat Time Oxygen Almost Killed Everything
- Now Playing8minThe Extinction That Never Happened
- Now Playing7minThe Genes We Lost Along the Way
- Now Playing6minThe Story of Saberteeth
- Now Playing10minHow Ancient Art Captured Australian Megafauna
- Now Playing10minLife, Sex & Death Among the Dire Wolves
- Now Playing5minThat Time Oxygen Almost Killed Everything
- Now Playing11minFrom the Cambrian Explosion to the Great Dying
- Now Playing13minAn Illustrated History of Dinosaurs
- Now Playing11minDid These Giant Sloths Poop Themselves to Death?
- Now Playing9minOur Ancient Relative That Said 'No Thanks' To Life On Land
- Now Playing12minWhen Birds Had Teeth
- Now Playing7minThe Trouble With Trilobites
Hot Mess
- Now Playing5minWhy Climate Change is Unjust
- Now Playing6minCoral Reefs Are Dying. But They Don't Have To.
- Now Playing4minHow Much Energy Does the Internet Use?
- Now Playing5minWhy We Confuse Weather and Climate
- Now Playing6minWould Your Neighbors Save You From a Flooding Home?
- Now Playing11minClimate Change is Too Big for our Brains feat. Mike Rugnetta
- Now Playing7minWhat's The Best Car For The Climate?
- Now Playing5minWhat Happened to Nuclear Power?
- Now Playing3minCould climate change make you allergic to meat?
- 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 Playing6minCoral Reefs Are Dying. But They Don't Have To.
- Now Playing5minCan Farms and Forests Coexist?
- Now Playing4minWhy Are Hurricanes Getting Stronger?
- Now Playing8minHow One Conservative Texas Town Went 100% Renewable
- Now Playing5minWhat's actually the worst greenhouse gas?
- Now Playing6minWill Big Oil Have To Pay Up Like Big Tobacco?
- Now Playing5minWhat Happened to Nuclear Power?
- Now Playing5minWho Should Pay To Fix Climate Change?
Space Time
- Now Playing15minWhy Is 1/137 One of the Greatest Unsolved Problems
- Now Playing13minHorizon Radiation
- Now Playing11minS2: How the Quantum Eraser Rewrites the Past
- Now Playing13minDid Dark Energy Just Disappear?
- Now Playing9minThe Real Meaning of E=mc²
- Now Playing15minThe Holographic Universe Explained
- Now Playing9minThe Great American Eclipse
- Now Playing9minWhy the Big Bang Definitely Happened
- Now Playing15minIs Interstellar Travel Impossible?
- Now Playing13minQuantum Theory's Most Incredible Prediction
- Now Playing15minDid Life on Earth Come from Space?
- Now Playing8minWhat Happens At The Edge Of The Universe?
- Now Playing12minThe Missing Mass Mystery
- Now Playing11minS2: The Quantum Experiment that Broke Reality
- Now Playing11minWill A New Neutrino Change The Standard Model?
- Now Playing9min5 Ways to Stop a Killer Asteroid
- Now Playing17minHow Does the Earth Really Move Through The Galaxy?
- Now Playing14minWhy String Theory is Right
- Now Playing16minWhat If The Speed of Light is NOT CONSTANT?
- Now Playing16minHow Electron Spin Makes Matter Possible
Beat Making Lab
- Now Playing10minHeartbeats of Fiji
- Now Playing2minMashup: National Anthems
- Now Playing2minField Trip: Prison Beats
- Now Playing3minGet Your Drums Right
- Now Playing3minPanama: Meet the Kids Behind the Beats
- Now Playing2minWhat's In the Backpack?
- Now Playing5minBehind the Beat: Portobelo
- Now Playing3minBeat Making Challenge #1: Accordion Trap
- Now Playing2minWalshy Fire [of Major Lazer] Wants Your Riddims
- Now Playing4minCho Cho Cho (Music Video) filmed in Goma, Congo
- Now Playing3min#FijiChallenge w/ Walshy Fire of Major Lazer
- Now Playing3minProf. Angel Sound Prison Beats Interview
- Now Playing3minFemale Hip Hop Crew Makes Beats in Senegal
- Now Playing3minExclusive Zenga (Music Video) by Flamme Kapaya
- Now Playing3minBeat Making Challenge #2: Kora Riddim
- Now Playing4minDiablos (music video)
- Now Playing3minEpisode 1: Goma, Congo
- Now Playing4minTrapped In Paradise
- Now Playing2minHealth Worker Beat
- Now Playing3minSampling w/ Flip Flops and Ski Beatz
Infinite Series
- Now Playing11minWhat was Fermat's "Marvelous" Proof?
- Now Playing13minWhat is a Random Walk?
- Now Playing14minHow Big are All Infinities Combined? (Cantor's Paradox)
- Now Playing14minKill the Mathematical Hydra
- Now Playing8minTelling Time on a Torus
- Now Playing8minThe Multiplication Multiverse
- Now Playing14minCan We Combine pi & e to Make a Rational Number?
- Now Playing11minWhat was Fermat's "Marvelous" Proof?
- Now Playing12minWhen Pi is Not 3.14
- Now Playing13minThe Mathematics of Quantum Computers
- Now Playing9minThis Video was Not Encrypted with RSA
- Now Playing17minHacking at Quantum Speed with Shor's Algorithm
- Now Playing9minProving Brouwer's Fixed Point Theorem
- Now Playing11minDefining Infinity
- Now Playing8minHow to Divide by "Zero"
- Now Playing10minWhat Does It Mean to Be a Number? (The Peano Axioms)
- Now Playing8minAre Prime Numbers Made Up?
- Now Playing9minCan You Solve the Poison Wine Challenge?
- Now Playing17minSplitting Rent with Triangles
- Now Playing15minDissecting Hypercubes with Pascal's Triangle
Idea Channel
- Now Playing4minThe Bronies Phenomenon
- Now Playing3minAn Interview with Minecraft EDU Creator Joel Levin
- Now Playing9minIs a DOS Attack a Weapon?
- Now Playing6minThe Retro Awesomeness of Adventure Time
- Now Playing5minA Visit to Mr. Monfre's Class
- Now Playing5minThere's No Such Thing as Online?!?
- Now Playing5minIs Homestuck the Ulysses of the Internet?
- Now Playing6minIs Doctor Who a Religion?
- Now Playing6minShould "Happy Birthday" be Protected by Copyright?
- Now Playing5minHow will the Animated GIF affect the Presidential Election?
- Now Playing9minIs the Universe a Computer?
- Now Playing5minAre Olympic Competitors Geniuses?
- Now Playing5minIs CSS and Website Design a Fashion Statement?
- Now Playing5minIs Facebook Changing Our Identity?
- Now Playing6minWhat do MP3s and Magic Spells Have in Common?
- Now Playing6minWhat Do Santa and Wrestling Have In Common?
- Now Playing4minAre Mashups the End of Music Genres?
- Now Playing8minDo Knock-Offs Prove the Value of a Brand?
- Now Playing9minCan Video Games Become the Next Spectator Sport?
- Now Playing8minIs a Tagged Instagram More Than Just a Photo?