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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 Playing5minThe Small Problem With Shrinking Ourselves
- Now Playing7minWhy People Don't Believe In Climate Science
- Now Playing14minThis Face Changes the Human Story
- Now Playing4minGoats!
- Now Playing6minRelationship Advice from the Animal Kingdom
- Now Playing8minThe Science of BBQ!!!
- Now Playing3minWhy is the sky any color?
- Now Playing5minThe Small Problem With Shrinking Ourselves
- Now Playing4minThere Was No First Human
- Now Playing17minHow Blind People See With Sound
- Now Playing6minHow An Igloo Keeps You Warm
- Now Playing4minWhat Color Is The Moon?
- Now Playing11minApollo's Most Important Discovery: Inside NASA's Moon Rock V
- Now Playing5minWhy Does The Earth Have Layers?
- Now Playing5min%$?# Allergies!
- Now Playing8minThe Deadliest Flu Season in History?
- Now Playing6minWhat Has New Horizons Taught Us About Pluto?
- Now Playing8minIs Space A Thing?
- Now Playing8minIs There Intelligent Life Beyond Earth?
- Now Playing5minHow Science Defines A Year
Origin of Everything
- Now Playing9minThe Origin of Gender
- Now Playing7minThe True Origin of Killer Clowns
- Now Playing8minWhy Did Europeans Enslave Africans?
- Now Playing9minThe Origin of Gender
- Now Playing8minWhere does the Nuclear Family Come From?
- Now Playing9minWhy Do All Malls Look the Same?
- Now Playing10minThe 2nd Amendment Explained
- Now Playing11minWhy Do So Many Religions Have Headwear?
- Now Playing7minWhy Do We Eat Popcorn at The Movies?
- Now Playing10minWhy Do We Have Hobbies?
- Now Playing11minWhat is Racial Passing?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do People Have Pets?
- Now Playing6minWhy Do We Have Middle Names?
- Now Playing12minSix Historically True Facts about Money
- Now Playing8minWhy Do We Eat Artificial Flavors?
- Now Playing12minWhy Do We Have Housing Projects?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do We Get Grades in School?
- Now Playing9minWhy Do We Drink Milk in School?
- Now Playing10minWhat is Ethnicity?
- Now Playing7minWhy Does Santa Wear Red?
Two Cents
- Now Playing5minBudgeting Basics
- Now Playing7minIs the Stock Market Just a Big Casino?
- Now Playing4minWhat is the DOW?
- Now Playing6minThe Ugly Truth About Airline Miles
- Now Playing6minShould You Break Up With Your Big Bank?
- Now Playing6minWhat the Heck Are Mutual Funds?
- Now Playing6minDoes Wealth Make You Meaner?
- 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?
- Now Playing8min5 Ways People Are Dumb About Money
- Now Playing6minWomen Financial Superpowers
- Now Playing6minMoving Without Spending a Fortune
- Now Playing5minHow Cars Can Keep You Poor
- Now Playing6minHacking Your Brain to Get Out Of Debt
- Now Playing6minWhat Are The Most Lucrative Trades?
- Now Playing7minCan You Really Retire in Your 30s?
- Now Playing6minDo I Need To Buy A House?
- Now Playing7minIs It Even POSSIBLE to Save for Retirement?
Monstrum
- Now Playing7minEl Chupacabras, a Modern Mystery
- Now Playing10minWhy the Dragon is Central to Chinese Culture
- Now Playing8minBunyip: Australia's Mysterious Amphibian Monster
- Now Playing7minWhat Dragons Say About Us
- Now Playing31minThe Werewolf's Modern Metamorphosis
- Now Playing12minBeyond the Supernatural Horror of the Nishi Daak Ghost
- Now Playing15minEgyptian Mummies: From Sacred Vessels to Scary Undead
- Now Playing12minDon't Let Them In! The Urban Legends of Black-Eyed Children
- Now Playing12minTaotie: The Mystery of Chinese Mythology's Famous Glutton
- Now Playing14minThe Untold Secrets of Pokémon's Monster Mythology
- Now Playing7minAre White Walkers Really Nordic Zombies?
- Now Playing7minRelease the Kraken!
- Now Playing7minKasagonagá: The Cute, Kind Monster We All Need Right Now
- Now Playing13minUncovering the Enigma: Sasquatch Sightings
- Now Playing11minMari Lwyd: The Skeleton Horse's Deep Past with Christmas
- Now Playing13minFire Cat or Fire Cart? The History of Japan's Kasha
- Now Playing12minHave Humans Always Feared Sharks?
- Now Playing11minMapinguari: Fearsome Beast and Protector of the Amazon
- Now Playing26minThe Killer Origins of the Werewolf
- Now Playing17minAlien Abduction and UFOs: Why Are Grays So Common?
Eons
- Now Playing10minWhen Humans Were Prey
- Now Playing5minWhen Whales Walked
- Now Playing12minWhen Birds Had Teeth
- Now Playing10minHow Weasels Got Skinny
- Now Playing8minHow Did Our Most Famous Ancestor Really Die?
- Now Playing10minWhen We First Made Tools
- Now Playing10minThe Neanderthals That Taught Us About Humanity
- Now Playing10minThese Creatures Were Darwin's Greatest Enemy
- Now Playing12minThe Humans That Lived Before Us
- Now Playing10minThat Time the American West Blew Up
- Now Playing12minAnimals Are Older Than We Thought
- Now Playing10minHow Dogs (Eventually) Became Our Best Friends
- Now Playing10minThe World Before Plate Tectonics
- Now Playing8minThe Hellacious Lives of the "Hell Pigs"
- Now Playing12minWhere Are All the Medium-Sized Dinosaurs?
- Now Playing12minWhen Antarctica Was Green
- Now Playing8minDo Thunderbeasts Prove Giant Animals Are Inevitable?
- Now Playing8minInside the Dinosaur Library
- Now Playing9minHow Humans Became (Mostly) Right-Handed
- Now Playing8minThe Rise and Fall of the Tallest Mammal to Walk the Earth
Hot Mess
- 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 Playing6minCoral Reefs Are Dying. But They Don't Have To.
- Now Playing5minCan Farms and Forests Coexist?
- Now Playing4minWhy Are Hurricanes Getting Stronger?
- Now Playing5minWhat Happened to Nuclear Power?
- Now Playing8minHow One Conservative Texas Town Went 100% Renewable
- Now Playing6minWill Big Oil Have To Pay Up Like Big Tobacco?
- Now Playing5minWhat's actually the worst greenhouse gas?
- Now Playing6minCoral Reefs Are Dying. But They Don't Have To.
- Now Playing4minHow Much Energy Does the Internet Use?
- Now Playing5minWhy Climate Change is Unjust
- Now Playing5minWhy We Confuse Weather and Climate
- 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 Playing6minWould Your Neighbors Save You From a Flooding Home?
- Now Playing11minClimate Change is Too Big for our Brains feat. Mike Rugnetta
- Now Playing6minHow To Suck Carbon Dioxide Out of the Sky
Space Time
- Now Playing14minHow We Know The Earth Is Ancient
- Now Playing15minThe Real Possibility of Mapping Alien Planets!
- Now Playing15minCan The Crisis in Cosmology Be Solved With Cosmic Voids?
- Now Playing13minWhy Did Attosecond Physics Win the Nobel Prize?
- Now Playing11minThe Unruh Effect
- Now Playing13minSound Waves from the Beginning of Time
- Now Playing14minHow Many States Of Matter Are There?
- Now Playing16minHow Are Quasiparticles Different From Particles?
- Now Playing12minThe Nature of Nothing
- Now Playing11minSupervoids vs Colliding Universes!
- Now Playing13minThe Secrets of Feynman Diagrams
- Now Playing17minWhat's Your Brain's Role in Creating Space & Time?
- Now Playing12minNeutron Stars Collide in New LIGO Signal?
- Now Playing11minExtraterrestrial Superstorms
- Now Playing13minCan Space Be Infinitely Divided?
- Now Playing3minThe Leap Second Explained
- Now Playing6minHow Do You Measure the Size of the Universe?
- Now Playing9minWhat's the Most Realistic Artificial Gravity in Sci-Fi?
- Now Playing12minUnderstanding the Uncertainty Principle
- Now Playing8minEscape The Kugelblitz Challenge
Beat Making Lab
- Now Playing4minCho Cho Cho (Music Video) filmed in Goma, Congo
- Now Playing2minWalshy Fire [of Major Lazer] Wants Your Riddims
- 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 Playing10minHeartbeats of Fiji
- Now Playing2minMashup: National Anthems
- Now Playing2minField Trip: Prison Beats
- Now Playing3minGet Your Drums Right
- Now Playing3minSampling w/ Flip Flops and Ski Beatz
- Now Playing3minBehind The Beat: First Beat Making Lab (2011)
- Now Playing4minPortobelo (music video)
- Now Playing4minTrapped In Paradise
- Now Playing2minHealth Worker Beat
- 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
Infinite Series
- Now Playing12minHow Infinity Explains the Finite
- Now Playing8minThe Multiplication Multiverse
- Now Playing14minCan We Combine pi & e to Make a Rational Number?
- Now Playing11minCan We Hear Shapes?
- Now Playing10minInstant Insanity Puzzle
- Now Playing14minSolving the Wolverine Problem with Graph Coloring
- Now Playing8minA Breakthrough in Higher Dimensional Spheres
- Now Playing11minCan We Hear Shapes?
- Now Playing14minInfinite Chess
- Now Playing11minWhat are Numbers Made of?
- Now Playing14minWhy Computers are Bad at Algebra
- Now Playing11minTopology vs "a" Topology
- Now Playing13minNetwork Mathematics and Rival Factions | Infinite Series
- Now Playing10minThe Mathematics of Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange
- Now Playing9minCan You Solve the Poison Wine Challenge?
- Now Playing10minUnraveling DNA with Rational Tangles
- Now Playing11minVoting Systems and the Condorcet Paradox
- Now Playing12minProving Pick's Theorem
- Now Playing14minTopology Riddles | Infinite Series
- Now Playing9minAssociahedra: The Shapes of Multiplication
Idea Channel
- Now Playing5minIs Homestuck the Ulysses of the Internet?
- Now Playing5minDo We Want the World to End?
- Now Playing5minIs Dubstep the New Musical Avant-Garde?
- Now Playing8minIs Buying Call of Duty a Moral Choice?
- Now Playing5minWill Space Travel Save Us All?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do We Love Zombies?
- Now Playing5minNicolas Cage, Taoism, and YOLO
- Now Playing5minIs Dubstep the New Musical Avant-Garde?
- Now Playing4minIs Instagram Revolutionizing Photography?
- Now Playing4minFrom Sherlock Holmes to 50 Shades of Grey
- Now Playing6minAre Virtual Video Game Economies Becoming Real?
- Now Playing5minAre Memes and Internet Culture Creating a Singularity?
- Now Playing3minWhat Makes a Pop Star Authentic?
- Now Playing4minIs Twitter the Newest Form of Literature?
- Now Playing8minIs Piracy Helping Game of Thrones?
- Now Playing9minIs Community a Postmodern Masterpiece?
- 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?