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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 Playing5minMuch A-Do About Hair
- Now Playing7minHow Baby Sea Turtles Find Their Way Home
- Now Playing2minThe Sun Is A Magnet!
- Now Playing6minIs Your Eye Color Real?
- Now Playing5minWhy Your Brain Is In Your Head
- Now Playing7minIncredible Tails Of Amazing Whales!
- Now Playing4minWhy Seasons Make No Sense
- Now Playing5minSunburn, Sweat and the Science of Summer!
- Now Playing5minThe Superb Owl!
- Now Playing4minWe're Mainly Microbe: Meet Your Microbiome
- Now Playing7minWhy Don't Ants Get Stuck in Traffic
- Now Playing6minWhy Do Things Sound Scary?
- Now Playing5minThe Odds of Finding Life and Love
- Now Playing5minSpit: Everything You Never Wanted To Know
- Now Playing5minThe Only Animal That Weeps
- Now Playing6minIs Sugar A Drug?
- Now Playing5minCould Planet Minecraft Actually Exist?
- Now Playing5minDo You Really Have Two Brains?
- Now Playing9minIs This A NEW SPECIES?!
- Now Playing6minThe Cheerios Effect
Origin of Everything
- Now Playing7minIs Poisoned Halloween Candy a Myth?
- Now Playing7minHistory of the Word "Gay"
- Now Playing8minWhy Do Women Give Birth Lying Down?
- Now Playing10minWhat is Cultural Appropriation?
- Now Playing10minHow Did Martin Luther King Jr. Get a Holiday?
- Now Playing7minWhen Men Wore High Heels
- Now Playing12minWhy Doesn't the US Have Paid Parental Leave?
- Now Playing10minWhy Does the Government Need to Know My Race?
- Now Playing10minWhat is Ethnicity?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do We Get Grades in School?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do People Have Pets?
- Now Playing11minWhy Do We Have Private Prisons?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do Women Give Birth Lying Down?
- Now Playing8minWhy Was Crossdressing Illegal?
- 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 Playing10minIs Breakfast the Most Important Meal?
- Now Playing7minHow Your Rubber Ducky Explains Colonialism
Two Cents
- Now Playing7minWhich College Majors Give the Most Bang for Your Buck?
- Now Playing6minFighting the Wedding Industrial Complex
- Now Playing6minIs My Identity Safe From Hackers?
- Now Playing7minMoney, A Global Game of Trust
- Now Playing7minFighting the Financial Pitfalls of the Supermarket
- Now Playing5minInsta-Everything
- Now Playing7minHow Retailers Stalk You Online
- Now Playing5minDo Kids Need to Learn About Money?
- 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 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 Playing8minAre "Free" Video Games Really Free?
- Now Playing6minWhat is The Cost of Pet Ownership?
- Now Playing6minShould I Buy Bitcoin?
- Now Playing6minHow Do You Actually Buy A House?
Monstrum
- 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 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 Playing10minSlender Man: How The Internet Created a Monster
- Now Playing10minEl Silbón: The Deadly Whistler of the Grasslands
- Now Playing10minHow a Children's Book Introduced Us To Our Inner Demons
- Now Playing11minMari Lwyd: The Skeleton Horse's Deep Past with Christmas
- Now Playing13minUncovering the Enigma: Sasquatch Sightings
Eons
- Now Playing8minThe Weird, Watery Tale of Spinosaurus
- Now Playing12minThat Time the Mediterranean Sea Disappeared
- Now Playing10minHow Worm Holes Ended Wormworld
- Now Playing8minThe Traits That Spawned the Age of Mammals
- Now Playing10minWhy Triassic Animals Were Just the Weirdest
- Now Playing10minWhen Did We Stop Being Naked?
- Now Playing9minThe Curious Case of the Cave Lion
- Now Playing11minWhy Only Earth Has Fire
- Now Playing6minLiving Fossils' Aren't Really a Thing
- Now Playing10minHow a Supervolcano Made the Cenozoic's Coolest Fossils
- Now Playing8minHow the Chalicothere Split In Two
- Now Playing10minHow a Supervolcano Ignited an Evolutionary Debate
- Now Playing13minWhen We Met Other Human Species
- Now Playing10minWhen Camels Roamed North America
- Now Playing10minHow Snake Venom Sparked An Evolutionary Arms Race
- Now Playing8minDid An Ancient Pathogen Reshape Our Cells?
- Now Playing9minHow the Andes Mountains Might Have Killed a Bunch of Whales
- Now Playing8minWhere Are All The Squid Fossils?
- Now Playing10minFAQs From Our First Year
- Now Playing7minUntangling the Devil's Corkscrew
Hot Mess
- Now Playing5minWhy We Confuse Weather and Climate
- Now Playing4minHow Much Energy Does the Internet Use?
- Now Playing6minCoral Reefs Are Dying. But They Don't Have To.
- Now Playing5minWhy Climate Change is Unjust
- 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 Playing11minClimate Change is Too Big for our Brains feat. Mike Rugnetta
- Now Playing6minWould Your Neighbors Save You From a Flooding Home?
- Now Playing6minCoral Reefs Are Dying. But They Don't Have To.
- Now Playing12minOur Food System is Rigged feat. Sheril Kirshenbaum
- Now Playing13minThe Rise of Climate Fiction feat. Lindsay Ellis & Amy Brady
- Now Playing4minHow Much Energy Does the Internet Use?
- Now Playing5minWhat Happened to Nuclear Power?
- Now Playing6minWill Big Oil Have To Pay Up Like Big Tobacco?
- Now Playing5minWhat's actually the worst greenhouse gas?
- Now Playing8minHow One Conservative Texas Town Went 100% Renewable
- Now Playing5minCan Farms and Forests Coexist?
- Now Playing4minWhy Are Hurricanes Getting Stronger?
- Now Playing6minWill Big Oil Have To Pay Up Like Big Tobacco?
Space Time
- Now Playing10minCan You Trust Your Eyes in Spacetime?
- Now Playing13minCould We Move Planet Earth Across the Universe?
- Now Playing9minThe Star at the End of Time
- Now Playing16minWhat If The Speed of Light is Not Constant?
- Now Playing10minThe Origin of Our First Interstellar Visitor
- Now Playing15minHow to Find ALIEN Dyson Spheres
- Now Playing14minSolving the Three Body Problem
- Now Playing12minFeynman's Infinite Quantum Paths
- Now Playing11minThe Future of Space Telescopes
- Now Playing16minThe Equation That Explains (Nearly) Everything!
- Now Playing10minThe Andromeda-Milky Way Collision
- Now Playing17minDoes Antimatter Create Anti-Gravity?
- Now Playing10minTelescopes of Tomorrow
- Now Playing10minThe End of the Habitable Zone
- Now Playing8minThe Higgs Mechanism Explained
- Now Playing10minThe Death of the Sun
- Now Playing9minHow Close To The Sun Can Humanity Get?
- Now Playing14minHave They Seen Us?
- Now Playing12minHow to Detect Extra Dimensions
- Now Playing10minThe End of the Habitable Zone
Beat Making Lab
- Now Playing3min#FijiChallenge w/ Walshy Fire of Major Lazer
- Now Playing3minProf. Angel Sound Prison Beats Interview
- 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 Playing4minTrapped In Paradise
- Now Playing2minHealth Worker Beat
- Now Playing3minSampling w/ Flip Flops and Ski Beatz
- Now Playing4minPortobelo (music video)
- Now Playing3minBehind The Beat: First Beat Making Lab (2011)
- Now Playing2minMashup: National Anthems
- Now Playing10minHeartbeats of Fiji
- Now Playing3minGet Your Drums Right
- Now Playing2minField Trip: Prison Beats
- Now Playing3minPanama: Meet the Kids Behind the Beats
- Now Playing3minBeat Making Challenge #1: Accordion Trap
- Now Playing5minBehind the Beat: Portobelo
- Now Playing2minWhat's In the Backpack?
Infinite Series
- Now Playing11minThe Geometry of SET
- Now Playing16minHow to Break Cryptography
- Now Playing14minBuilding an Infinite Bridge
- Now Playing9minAssociahedra: The Shapes of Multiplication
- Now Playing17minSplitting Rent with Triangles
- Now Playing15minDissecting Hypercubes with Pascal's Triangle
- Now Playing14minMaking Probability Mathematical
- Now Playing11minWhat are Numbers Made of?
- Now Playing12minProving Pick's Theorem
- Now Playing10minInstant Insanity Puzzle
- Now Playing13minNetwork Mathematics and Rival Factions | Infinite Series
- Now Playing8minTelling Time on a Torus
- Now Playing11minDefining Infinity
- 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 Playing9minProving Brouwer's Fixed Point Theorem
- Now Playing11minDefining Infinity
- Now Playing8minHow to Divide by "Zero"
Idea Channel
- Now Playing4minThe Bronies Phenomenon
- Now Playing7minCan Dungeons & Dragons Make You Confident & Successful?
- Now Playing6minAre MP3s & Vinyl Better than Live Music?
- Now Playing6minWhat do MP3s and Magic Spells Have in Common?
- Now Playing4minHas the Microsoft Kinect revolutionized art?
- Now Playing5minIs Facebook Changing Our Identity?
- Now Playing4minIs Twitter the Newest Form of Literature?
- Now Playing8minIs Piracy Helping Game of Thrones?
- Now Playing9minIs Community a Postmodern Masterpiece?
- Now Playing3minWhat Makes a Pop Star Authentic?
- Now Playing5minAre You a Hipster?
- Now Playing3minIs the Web Browser Replacing the Art Gallery?
- Now Playing8minIs Developing Artificial Intelligence (AI) Ethical?
- Now Playing3minSuper Mario Brothers as Surrealist Art?
- Now Playing6minIs Futurama the Best Argument Against Transhumanism?
- Now Playing6minAre Virtual Video Game Economies Becoming Real?
- Now Playing8minIs Sad Music Actually Sad?
- Now Playing3minAre Holograms Nostalgia or a New Form of Art?
- Now Playing3minAre Holograms Nostalgia or a New Form of Art?
- Now Playing9minDoes Math Really Exist?