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- Now Playing12minIs This North American Sea Serpent Real or a Hoax?
- Now Playing13minComputers Can Predict When You're Going to Die... Here's How
- Now Playing10minHow Do You Preserve a Thousands Year Old Musical Style?
- Now Playing14minWhy This Mexican Genre Is Growing As Fast As K-Pop
- Now Playing17minWhat Happens If You Jump Into A Black Hole?
- Now Playing11minNo Single Cradle of Humankind
- Now Playing14minOur Understanding of Floods is ALL Wrong
- Now Playing10minWhy Do We Use Cringey Words for Loved Ones?
- Now Playing22minCan AI Help Us Talk to Whales?
- Now Playing16minWhy Is The World Rushing Back To The Moon?
It's Okay to Be Smart
- Now Playing3minBuilding Curiosity
- Now Playing3minWhere Does the Smell of Rain Come From?
- Now Playing4minCuttlefish: Tentacles In Disguise
- Now Playing7minWhich Life Form REALLY Dominates Earth?
- Now Playing6minThe Surprising Origin of Thanksgiving Foods
- Now Playing9minSo You Want to go to Mars?
- Now Playing5minWhy Do We Itch?
- Now Playing5minBeavers: The Smartest Things in Fur Pants
- Now Playing8minIs Space A Thing?
- Now Playing4minWe're Mainly Microbe: Meet Your Microbiome
- Now Playing3minDoes Evolution Have a Point? 12 Days of Evolution #12
- Now Playing5minHow Many Heartbeats Do We Get?
- Now Playing3minYour Mom is LITERALLY Part Of You!
- Now Playing6minThe Delicious Science of CHEESE!
- Now Playing10minExoplanets: Are There Other Earths?
- Now Playing8minNobel Prizes: Past, Present... and Future?
- Now Playing7minInside the World of Fire Ants!
- Now Playing7minCould You Be Immune To Everything?
- Now Playing6minWhy Are Cicadas So Good At Math?
- Now Playing6minThe Oldest Living Things In The World
Origin of Everything
- Now Playing12minWhy Doesn't the US Have Paid Parental Leave?
- Now Playing7minWhen Men Wore High Heels
- Now Playing8minWhy Do We Get Grades in School?
- Now Playing10minWhy Does the Government Need to Know My Race?
- Now Playing10minWhat is Ethnicity?
- Now Playing7minHistory of the Word "Gay"
- Now Playing7minIs Poisoned Halloween Candy a Myth?
- Now Playing10minWhat is Cultural Appropriation?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do Women Give Birth Lying Down?
- Now Playing10minHow Did Martin Luther King Jr. Get a Holiday?
- Now Playing7minHow did Makeup, WWII, & Communism Create U.S. Healthcare?
- Now Playing12minWhy Do Schools Teach Sex Education?
- Now Playing10minWhy was Pink for Boys and Blue for Girls?
- Now Playing7minHow Columbus Invented Cannibals
- Now Playing8minWhy is there a North and South Korea?
- Now Playing10minIs Breakfast the Most Important Meal?
- Now Playing7minHow Your Rubber Ducky Explains Colonialism
- Now Playing11minWhy Do We Have Private Prisons?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do People Have Pets?
- Now Playing7minWhy Do We Say "Asian American" Not "Oriental"?
Two Cents
- Now Playing7minWhy It's More Expensive To Be Poor
- Now Playing6minTop 5 Biggest Financial Scams
- Now Playing7minWhat's The Real Cost of Dying?
- Now Playing6minHow to Ask for a Raise
- Now Playing7minShould I Invest In Cannabis Stocks?
- Now Playing7minIs Your Side Hustle Hustling You?
- Now Playing5minInsta-Everything
- Now Playing7minHow Retailers Stalk You Online
- Now Playing5minDo Kids Need to Learn About Money?
- Now Playing7minFighting the Financial Pitfalls of the Supermarket
- Now Playing7minMoney, A Global Game of Trust
- 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 Playing9minHow Smart Entrepreneurs Think About PRICES!
- Now Playing6minI'm Young & Healthy, Can I Skip Health Insurance?
- Now Playing8min5 Strange Investor Crazes!
- Now Playing5minHow are credit scores calculated?
- Now Playing5minHow Do Your Tax Dollars Get Spent?
- Now Playing7minLove and Money
Monstrum
- Now Playing15minEgyptian Mummies: From Sacred Vessels to Scary Undead
- Now Playing7minWhat Dragons Say About Us
- Now Playing31minThe Werewolf's Modern Metamorphosis
- Now Playing12minBeyond the Supernatural Horror of the Nishi Daak Ghost
- Now Playing8minBunyip: Australia's Mysterious Amphibian Monster
- Now Playing7minEl Chupacabras, a Modern Mystery
- Now Playing10minWhy the Dragon is Central to Chinese Culture
- Now Playing13minFire Cat or Fire Cart? The History of Japan's Kasha
- Now Playing13minUncovering the Enigma: Sasquatch Sightings
- Now Playing7minKasagonagá: The Cute, Kind Monster We All Need Right Now
- Now Playing11minMari Lwyd: The Skeleton Horse's Deep Past with Christmas
- Now Playing7minAre White Walkers Really Nordic Zombies?
- Now Playing14minThe Untold Secrets of Pokémon's Monster Mythology
- Now Playing7minRelease the Kraken!
- Now Playing12minTaotie: The Mystery of Chinese Mythology's Famous Glutton
- Now Playing12minDon't Let Them In! The Urban Legends of Black-Eyed Children
- Now Playing11minMapinguari: Fearsome Beast and Protector of the Amazon
- Now Playing12minHave Humans Always Feared Sharks?
- Now Playing13minUnicorns: Magical Icons or Violent Beasts?
- Now Playing10minTikbálang: The Filipino Nightmare Shapeshifter
Eons
- Now Playing12minA Natural History of Mars
- Now Playing10minFAQs From Our First Year
- Now Playing13minFrom the Fall of Dinos to the Rise of Humans
- Now Playing10minWhat Will Earth Be Like 300 Million Years From Now?
- Now Playing10minA Short Tale About Diplodocus' Long Neck
- Now Playing6minHistory's Most Powerful Plants
- Now Playing5minStegosaurs: Tiny Brains & Thagomizers
- Now Playing8minThe Extreme Hyenas That Didn't Last
- Now Playing7minWhen Giant Fungi Ruled
- Now Playing10minHow 7,000 Years of Epic Floods Changed the World
- Now Playing9minThe Two People We're All Related To
- Now Playing12minCan We Get DNA From Fossils?
- Now Playing10minWhen Ants Domesticated Fungi
- Now Playing6minThe Search for the Earliest Life
- Now Playing9minThe Two People We're All Related To
- Now Playing9minThe Huge Extinctions We Are Just Now Discovering
- Now Playing7minIs This The Oldest Dad In The Fossil Record?
- Now Playing10minGiant Viruses Blur The Line Between Alive and Not
- Now Playing9minDarwin Missed An Example of Evolution Right Under His Nose
- Now Playing6minHow Sex Became A Thing
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 Playing5minWhat Happened to Nuclear Power?
- Now Playing3minCould climate change make you allergic to meat?
- 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 Playing8minKronos: Devourer Of Worlds
- Now Playing10minThe Eye of Sauron Reveals a Forming Solar System!
- Now Playing11minThe Misunderstood Nature of Entropy
- Now Playing13minHow To See Black Holes By Catching Neutrinos
- Now Playing8minLIGO's First Detection of Gravitational Waves!
- Now Playing15minWhat if Singularities DO NOT Exist?
- Now Playing13minWhy We Might Be Alone in the Universe
- Now Playing12minWhat Happens at the Event Horizon?
- Now Playing13minIs Earth's Magnetic Field Reversing?
- Now Playing14minLoop Quantum Gravity Explained
- Now Playing9minThe Star at the End of Time
- Now Playing14minThe Crisis in Cosmology
- Now Playing13minPilot Wave Theory and Quantum Realism
- Now Playing10minStrange Stars
- Now Playing10minWhat Does Dark Energy Really Do?
- Now Playing6minThe Calendar, Australia & White Christmas
- Now Playing10minTelescopes on the Moon
- Now Playing14minCould the Universe End by Tearing Apart Every Atom?
- Now Playing15minDark Forest: Should We Not Contact Aliens?
- Now Playing15minDid Life on Earth Come from Space?
Beat Making Lab
- Now Playing2minWalshy Fire [of Major Lazer] Wants Your Riddims
- Now Playing4minCho Cho Cho (Music Video) filmed in Goma, Congo
- 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 Playing2minWhat's In the Backpack?
- Now Playing5minBehind the Beat: Portobelo
- 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 Playing3min#FijiChallenge w/ Walshy Fire of Major Lazer
- Now Playing3minProf. Angel Sound Prison Beats Interview
- Now Playing3minBeat Making Challenge #2: Kora Riddim
- Now Playing3minExclusive Zenga (Music Video) by Flamme Kapaya
- Now Playing3minFemale Hip Hop Crew Makes Beats in Senegal
Infinite Series
- 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 Playing11minThe Geometry of SET
- Now Playing16minHow to Break Cryptography
- Now Playing14minBuilding an Infinite Bridge
- Now Playing9minAssociahedra: The Shapes of Multiplication
- 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 Playing8minTelling Time on a Torus
- Now Playing8minThe Multiplication Multiverse
- Now Playing14minCan We Combine pi & e to Make a Rational Number?
Idea Channel
- Now Playing4minRussian Meteorites and Surveillance Culture
- Now Playing4minAre LOLCats and Internet Memes Art?
- Now Playing4minAre Mashups the End of Music Genres?
- Now Playing5minIs William Gibson A Modern Day Oracle?
- Now Playing6minIs Minecraft the Ultimate Educational Tool?
- Now Playing5minIs William Gibson A Modern Day Oracle?
- Now Playing5minAre Memes and Internet Culture Creating a Singularity?
- Now Playing5minAre Olympic Competitors Geniuses?
- Now Playing7minHow are Justin Bieber, Franz Liszt and Jerusalem Connected?
- Now Playing3minIs the Web Browser Replacing the Art Gallery?
- Now Playing4minFrom Sherlock Holmes to 50 Shades of Grey
- Now Playing9minWill Kickstarter Replace Hollywood?
- Now Playing5minNicolas Cage, Taoism, and YOLO
- Now Playing8minIs a Tagged Instagram More Than Just a Photo?
- Now Playing4minIs Twitter the Newest Form of Literature?
- Now Playing4minHas the Microsoft Kinect revolutionized art?
- Now Playing5minIs CSS and Website Design a Fashion Statement?
- Now Playing5minAre Olympic Competitors Geniuses?
- Now Playing9minIs the Universe a Computer?
- Now Playing5minHow will the Animated GIF affect the Presidential Election?