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It's Okay To Be SmartI'm Joe Hanson, Ph.D and this program is all about science, the amazing universe we live in and how science connects to every part of our life.
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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 Playing7minSonic the Hedgehog Is Why You Have Thumbs!
- Now Playing5minWhy Are The Bees Dying?
- Now Playing5minWhy Is The Universe So Empty? (ft. PHD Comics!)
- Now Playing3minWhy Does Time Go Forward?
- Now Playing6minCan Coral Reefs Survive Climate Change? #OursToLose
- Now Playing2minAre Humans Still Evolving? 12 Days of Evolution #11
- Now Playing8minIs Ultron Inevitable?
- Now Playing2minCan Evolution Create Information? - 12 Days of Evolution #9
- Now Playing4minThe Romantic Lure of Moonlight
- Now Playing5minThis Rainforest Caterpillar Looks Like Donald Trump
- Now Playing6minUnderstanding Climate Science
- Now Playing5minHow Your Body Knows Left From Right
- Now Playing8minIs There Intelligent Life Beyond Earth?
- Now Playing5minHow Science Defines A Year
- Now Playing8minWhere On Earth Do You Weigh The Least?
- Now Playing5minWhy Does The Earth Have Layers?
- Now Playing11minApollo's Most Important Discovery: Inside NASA's Moon Rock V
- Now Playing5min%$?# Allergies!
- Now Playing8minThe Deadliest Flu Season in History?
- Now Playing8minIs Space A Thing?
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 Playing8minWhy Do Women Give Birth Lying Down?
- Now Playing10minWhat is Cultural Appropriation?
- 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 Playing6minI'm Young & Healthy, Can I Skip Health Insurance?
- Now Playing9minHow Smart Entrepreneurs Think About PRICES!
- 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 Playing6minFighting the Wedding Industrial Complex
- Now Playing6minIs My Identity Safe From Hackers?
- Now Playing6minHow to Ask for a Raise
- Now Playing7minWhat's The Real Cost of Dying?
- Now Playing7minShould I Invest In Cannabis Stocks?
- Now Playing7minWhy It's More Expensive To Be Poor
- Now Playing6minTop 5 Biggest Financial Scams
- Now Playing6minDoes Wealth Make You Meaner?
- Now Playing6minWhat the Heck Are Mutual Funds?
- Now Playing4minWhat is the DOW?
- Now Playing6minThe Ugly Truth About Airline Miles
Monstrum
- Now Playing8minBunyip: Australia's Mysterious Amphibian Monster
- Now Playing7minEl Chupacabras, a Modern Mystery
- Now Playing10minWhy the Dragon is Central to Chinese Culture
- 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 Playing14minThe Untold Secrets of Pokémon's Monster Mythology
- Now Playing7minAre White Walkers Really Nordic Zombies?
- Now Playing7minRelease the Kraken!
- Now Playing12minDon't Let Them In! The Urban Legends of Black-Eyed Children
- Now Playing12minTaotie: The Mystery of Chinese Mythology's Famous Glutton
- Now Playing13minFire Cat or Fire Cart? The History of Japan's Kasha
- 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 Playing12minHave Humans Always Feared Sharks?
- Now Playing11minMapinguari: Fearsome Beast and Protector of the Amazon
- Now Playing17minAlien Abduction and UFOs: Why Are Grays So Common?
- Now Playing9minAdze: the Shapeshifting Firefly from West Africa
Eons
- Now Playing9minThe Rise and Fall of the Bone-Crushing Dogs
- Now Playing12minWhen a Billion Years Disappeared
- Now Playing6minDimetrodon: Our Most Unlikely Ancestor
- Now Playing5minWhen Whales Walked
- Now Playing11minFrom the Cambrian Explosion to the Great Dying
- Now Playing8minWhen Birds Stopped Flying
- Now Playing10minWhen Humans Were Prey
- Now Playing10minLife, Sex & Death Among the Dire Wolves
- Now Playing11minWhen We First Walked
- Now Playing9minWhen Fish First Breathed Air
- Now Playing14minThe History of Climate Cycles (and the Woolly Rhino)
- Now Playing11minWhy Megalodon (Definitely) Went Extinct
- Now Playing12minWhat Was the Ancestor of Everything?
- Now Playing10minWhy The Paleo Diet Couldn't Save The Neanderthals
- Now Playing8minHow Plate Tectonics Gave Us Seahorses
- Now Playing7minWhen Giant Deer Roamed Eurasia
- Now Playing6minThe Time Terror Birds Invaded
- Now Playing8minWhen Dinosaur Look-Alikes Ruled the Earth
- Now Playing9minThe Invisible Barrier Keeping Two Worlds Apart
- Now Playing11minHow a Mass Extinction Changed Our Brains
Hot Mess
- Now Playing5minBeef Is Bad For The Climate. Can We Make It Better?
- Now Playing5minWhat the Cutest Animal Can Teach Us About Saving Ourselves
- Now Playing5minWe've Ignored Climate Change For More Than a Century
- Now Playing6minWhat if Carbon Emissions Stopped Tomorrow?
- Now Playing5minWhat the Cutest Animal Can Teach Us About Saving Ourselves
- Now Playing4minWhy Are Hurricanes Getting Stronger?
- Now Playing5minWe've Ignored Climate Change For More Than a Century
- Now Playing5minWhat Can You Actually Do About Climate Change?
- Now Playing5minWhat's actually the worst greenhouse gas?
- Now Playing5minHow A Sticker Kept 3 Billion Tons of CO2 Out of The Air
- Now Playing5minBeef Is Bad For The Climate. Can We Make It Better?
- Now Playing5minClimate change will push millions out. Where will they go?
- Now Playing6minWhat if Carbon Emissions Stopped Tomorrow?
- Now Playing11minClimate Change is Too Big for our Brains feat. Mike Rugnetta
- Now Playing6minWhat Indigenous Communities Teach Us About Climate Change
- Now Playing7minHow To Make Clothes Less Terrible for the Planet
- Now Playing5minHow A Sticker Kept 3 Billion Tons of CO2 Out of The Air
- Now Playing9minHow to Talk About Climate Change
- Now Playing8minHow One Conservative Texas Town Went 100% Renewable
- Now Playing5minWhy We Confuse Weather and Climate
Space Time
- Now Playing9min5 Ways to Stop a Killer Asteroid
- Now Playing14minWas the Milky Way a Quasar?
- Now Playing9minHow Gaia Changed Astronomy Forever
- Now Playing18minWhat If There's A Black Hole Inside The Sun?
- Now Playing13minWhy the Muon g-2 Results Are So Exciting!
- Now Playing10minThe Origin of Our First Interstellar Visitor
- Now Playing13minThe Doomsday Argument
- Now Playing10minThe EM Drive: Fact or Fantasy?
- Now Playing16minWhat If Humanity Is Among The First Spacefaring Civilization
- Now Playing11minS2: Should We Build a Dyson Sphere?
- Now Playing16minIs 'Perpetual Motion' Possible with Superfluids?
- Now Playing12minScience of the James Webb Telescope Explained!
- Now Playing6minSpace Used to Be Orange!!
- Now Playing10minZero-Point Energy Demystified
- Now Playing13minHow To Capture Black Holes
- Now Playing15minDoes Space Emerge From A Holographic Boundary?
- Now Playing14minWhat are the Strings in String Theory?
- Now Playing15minHow Quantum Entanglement Creates Entropy
- Now Playing10minScientists Have Detected the First Stars
- Now Playing11minHow to Build a Blackhole
Beat Making Lab
- 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?
- 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 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
Infinite Series
- Now Playing11minThe Geometry of SET
- Now Playing16minHow to Break Cryptography
- Now Playing14minBuilding an Infinite Bridge
- Now Playing9minAssociahedra: The Shapes of Multiplication
- Now Playing8minTelling Time on a Torus
- Now Playing11minDefining Infinity
- 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 Playing13minNetwork Mathematics and Rival Factions | Infinite Series
- Now Playing10minInstant Insanity Puzzle
- 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 Playing8minAre Prime Numbers Made Up?
- Now Playing9minCan You Solve the Poison Wine Challenge?
- Now Playing10minWhat Does It Mean to Be a Number? (The Peano Axioms)
Idea Channel
- Now Playing7minHow are Justin Bieber, Franz Liszt and Jerusalem Connected?
- Now Playing5minAre Olympic Competitors Geniuses?
- Now Playing5minIs William Gibson A Modern Day Oracle?
- Now Playing6minIs Minecraft the Ultimate Educational Tool?
- Now Playing5minAre Memes and Internet Culture Creating a Singularity?
- Now Playing5minIs William Gibson A Modern Day Oracle?
- Now Playing4minAre Mashups the End of Music Genres?
- Now Playing4minRussian Meteorites and Surveillance Culture
- Now Playing4minAre LOLCats and Internet Memes Art?
- Now Playing4minHas the Microsoft Kinect revolutionized art?
- Now Playing4minIs Twitter the Newest Form of Literature?
- Now Playing8minIs a Tagged Instagram More Than Just a Photo?
- 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 Playing6minWhat Do Santa and Wrestling Have In Common?
- Now Playing6minWhat do MP3s and Magic Spells Have in Common?
- Now Playing5minIs Facebook Changing Our Identity?
- Now Playing9minCan Video Games Become the Next Spectator Sport?