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- Now Playing10minA Giant Monster With a Giant Problem
- Now Playing10minWhat Will Earth Be Like 300 Million Years From Now?
- 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
It's Okay to Be Smart
- Now Playing5minI Don't Think You're Ready for These Jellies
- Now Playing8minIs There Intelligent Life Beyond Earth?
- Now Playing4minThis Is Not a Rainbow
- Now Playing6minHow the Toilet Changed History
- Now Playing6minDo Plants Think?
- Now Playing5minThe Superb Owl!
- Now Playing7minIs Your Brain Too Old For Video Games?
- Now Playing7minWhat Are The Most Important Science Images Ever?
- Now Playing6minThe Science of Kissing
- Now Playing5minThe Cosmic Origins of Earth's Water
- Now Playing6minInside an ICE CAVE! - Nature's Most Beautiful Blue
- Now Playing7minThe Strange Science of the Placebo Effect
- Now Playing7minEngines of Destruction: How Hurricanes Work
- Now Playing6minWhy Salt & Pepper?
- Now Playing6minHow Atom Bombs Can Uncover Forged Art
- Now Playing8min20 MILLION Year-Old Spider!! Unweaving Spider Silk
- Now Playing7minInside the World of Fire Ants!
- Now Playing6minWhy Don't Other Animals Wear Glasses?
- Now Playing3minBuilding Curiosity
- Now Playing10minIs There Life on Earth?
Origin of Everything
- Now Playing11minWhy Does the Government Pay for Art?
- Now Playing10minWhy Does the Government Need to Know My Race?
- Now Playing10minHow Did Martin Luther King Jr. Get a Holiday?
- Now Playing9minDoes the Rorschach Inkblot Test Work?
- Now Playing9minCan Tattoos Be Taboo?
- Now Playing11minModern Warfare and Alien Invasions
- Now Playing9minCan Tattoos Be Taboo?
- Now Playing7minWhy are 18 Year Olds Considered Adults?
- Now Playing8minWhere Does the #Hashtag Symbol Come From?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do Kids Have Their Own Bedrooms?
- Now Playing10min6 Weird Facts About the History of Birth Control
- Now Playing10minWhy Do We Have Hobbies?
- Now Playing7minWhy Are There So Few Women in Computer Science?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do We Wash Our Hands After Going to the Bathroom?
- Now Playing6minWhy Do We Have Middle Names?
- Now Playing11minWhy Do We Have Private Prisons?
- Now Playing10minHow Did Makeup Ads Go From Style to Science?
- Now Playing10minDo Standardized Tests Do More Harm Than Good?
- Now Playing8minWhere does the Nuclear Family Come From?
- Now Playing10minThe Origin of Race in the USA
Two Cents
- Now Playing7minIs Your Side Hustle Hustling You?
- Now Playing7minFighting the Financial Pitfalls of the Supermarket
- Now Playing5minDo Kids Need to Learn About Money?
- Now Playing7minHow Retailers Stalk You Online
- Now Playing5minInsta-Everything
- Now Playing7minMoney, A Global Game of Trust
- 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 Playing6minI'm Young & Healthy, Can I Skip Health Insurance?
- Now Playing9minHow Smart Entrepreneurs Think About PRICES!
- Now Playing7minWhy It's More Expensive To Be Poor
- Now Playing6minTop 5 Biggest Financial Scams
- Now Playing6minHow to Ask for a Raise
- Now Playing7minWhat's The Real Cost of Dying?
- Now Playing7minShould I Invest In Cannabis Stocks?
- Now Playing8min5 Ways People Are Dumb About Money
- Now Playing6minHow Do You Actually Buy A House?
- Now Playing6minWhat is The Cost of Pet Ownership?
- Now Playing6minShould I Buy Bitcoin?
Monstrum
- 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
- Now Playing9minPost-Dracula Vampires: From Anne Rice to Twilight
- Now Playing12minAre Cyborgs Really Monsters?
- Now Playing12minWhat Hellhounds Reveal about Humans' Oldest Companion
- Now Playing17minAlien Abduction and UFOs: Why Are Grays So Common?
- Now Playing9minAdze: the Shapeshifting Firefly from West Africa
- Now Playing26minThe Killer Origins of the Werewolf
- Now Playing15minEgyptian Mummies: From Sacred Vessels to Scary Undead
- Now Playing7minWhat Dragons Say About Us
- Now Playing12minBeyond the Supernatural Horror of the Nishi Daak Ghost
- Now Playing31minThe Werewolf's Modern Metamorphosis
- 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
Eons
- Now Playing10minWhy Triassic Animals Were Just the Weirdest
- Now Playing7minHow the Smallest Animal Got So Simple
- Now Playing10minHow South America Made the Marsupials
- Now Playing9minHow Ancient Microbes Rode Bug Bits Out to Sea
- Now Playing13minA Brief History of Geologic Time
- Now Playing8minThe Mystery of the Eocene's Lethal Lake
- Now Playing11minHow Volcanoes Froze the Earth...Twice
- Now Playing6minThe Age of Giant Insects
- Now Playing11minHow Ancient Whales May Have Changed the Deep Ocean
- Now Playing12minThe Island of Huge Hamsters and Giant Owls
- Now Playing7minThe Other Explosion You Should Know About
- Now Playing7minHow the T-Rex Lost Its Arms
- Now Playing6minThe Most Useful Fossils In The World
- Now Playing9minHow the Andes Mountains Might Have Killed a Bunch of Whales
- Now Playing8minDid An Ancient Pathogen Reshape Our Cells?
- Now Playing10minHow Snake Venom Sparked An Evolutionary Arms Race
- Now Playing7minThe Return of Giant Skin-Shell Sea Turtles
- Now Playing10minThe Pandemic That Lasted 15 Million Years
- Now Playing10minWhen Camels Roamed North America
- Now Playing9minOur Bizarre, Possibly Venomous, Relative
Hot Mess
- 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 Playing3minCould climate change make you allergic to meat?
- Now Playing5minWhat Happened to Nuclear Power?
- Now Playing6minWould Your Neighbors Save You From a Flooding Home?
- Now Playing11minClimate Change is Too Big for our Brains feat. Mike Rugnetta
- Now Playing13minThe Rise of Climate Fiction feat. Lindsay Ellis & Amy Brady
- Now Playing12minOur Food System is Rigged feat. Sheril Kirshenbaum
- Now Playing4minHow Much Energy Does the Internet Use?
- Now Playing6minCoral Reefs Are Dying. But They Don't Have To.
- Now Playing4minWhy Are Hurricanes Getting Stronger?
- Now Playing5minCan Farms and Forests Coexist?
- 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 Playing5minWho Should Pay To Fix Climate Change?
Space Time
- Now Playing9minWill Mars or Venus Kill You First?
- Now Playing18minWhat If Gravity is Not Quantum?
- Now Playing11minSuperluminal Time Travel + Time Warp Challenge Answer
- Now Playing13minSound Waves from the Beginning of Time
- Now Playing9minGeneral Relativity & Curved Spacetime Explained!
- Now Playing11minStar Clusters: Crash Course Astronomy #35
- Now Playing10minLife on Europa?
- Now Playing11minBreaking The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle
- Now Playing11minWe Are Star Stuff
- Now Playing12minQuantum Invariance & The Origin of The Standard Model
- Now Playing13minPilot Wave Theory and Quantum Realism
- Now Playing12minSolving the Impossible in Quantum Field Theory
- Now Playing10minNoether's Theorem and The Symmetries of Reality
- Now Playing13minDid Dark Energy Just Disappear?
- Now Playing21minWhat New Science Would We Discover with a Moon Telescope?
- Now Playing9minThe True Nature of Matter and Mass
- Now Playing6minCould You Fart Your Way to the Moon?
- Now Playing11minThe Physics of Life (ft. It's Okay to be Smart & PBS Eons!)
- Now Playing13minHow To Build The Universe in a Computer
- Now Playing6minSuicide Space Robots
Beat Making Lab
- Now Playing2minHealth Worker Beat
- Now Playing4minTrapped In Paradise
- Now Playing4minPortobelo (music video)
- Now Playing3minBehind The Beat: First Beat Making Lab (2011)
- Now Playing3minSampling w/ Flip Flops and Ski Beatz
- Now Playing3minProf. Angel Sound Prison Beats Interview
- Now Playing3min#FijiChallenge w/ Walshy Fire of Major Lazer
- Now Playing3minEpisode 1: Goma, Congo
- Now Playing4minDiablos (music video)
- 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 Playing2minWalshy Fire [of Major Lazer] Wants Your Riddims
- Now Playing4minCho Cho Cho (Music Video) filmed in Goma, Congo
- Now Playing3minGet Your Drums Right
- Now Playing2minField Trip: Prison Beats
- Now Playing2minMashup: National Anthems
- Now Playing10minHeartbeats of Fiji
- Now Playing3minBeat Making Challenge #1: Accordion Trap
- Now Playing2minWhat's In the Backpack?
Infinite Series
- Now Playing10minInstant Insanity Puzzle
- Now Playing14minSolving the Wolverine Problem with Graph Coloring
- Now Playing8minA Breakthrough in Higher Dimensional Spheres
- Now Playing12minHow Infinity Explains the Finite
- Now Playing8minThe Multiplication Multiverse
- Now Playing11minCan We Hear Shapes?
- Now Playing14minCan We Combine pi & e to Make a Rational Number?
- Now Playing14minInfinite Chess
- Now Playing11minWhat are Numbers Made of?
- Now Playing14minWhy Computers are Bad at Algebra
- Now Playing11minCan We Hear Shapes?
- Now Playing9minCan You Solve the Poison Wine Challenge?
- Now Playing10minThe Mathematics of Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange
- Now Playing11minVoting Systems and the Condorcet Paradox
- Now Playing12minProving Pick's Theorem
- Now Playing10minUnraveling DNA with Rational Tangles
- Now Playing13minNetwork Mathematics and Rival Factions | Infinite Series
- Now Playing11minTopology vs "a" Topology
- Now Playing14minMaking Probability Mathematical
- Now Playing9minProving Brouwer's Fixed Point Theorem
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 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 Playing4minThe Bronies Phenomenon
- Now Playing8minIs Sad Music Actually Sad?
- Now Playing9minDoes Math Really Exist?
- Now Playing6minIs Doctor Who a Religion?
- 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?