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- 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
- Now Playing10minHow Snake Venom Sparked An Evolutionary Arms Race
- Now Playing16minWhat Happens If We Nuke Space?
It's Okay to Be Smart
- Now Playing6minIt's Okay to Fart
- Now Playing7minThe Real "Doctor Frankenstein"
- Now Playing8minThe Deadpool Salamander That Can Regrow Limbs
- Now Playing4minThe Ruin and Rise of Monterey Bay
- Now Playing6minShould You Be Worried About Zika?
- Now Playing7minWhy Do We Laugh?
- Now Playing7minWhy Are We The Only Humans Left?
- Now Playing6minDefusing the Population Bomb
- Now Playing3minWhat Color is the Universe?
- Now Playing4minWhose Air do we Share?
- Now Playing6minAttack of the Cosmic Space Junk!
- Now Playing5minThe Auroras
- Now Playing5minWhy Are You Multicellular?
- Now Playing7minWhy People Don't Believe In Climate Science
- Now Playing4minThere's Science Hidden In Our National Monuments
- Now Playing6minThe Physics of Space Battles
- Now Playing6minThe Science of Kissing
- Now Playing8minWhen Science Fiction Becomes Science Fact
- Now Playing5minDo Fish Pee?
- Now Playing8minWhy Don't Birds Lay Square Eggs?
Origin of Everything
- Now Playing7minIs Poisoned Halloween Candy a Myth?
- Now Playing5minWhat Was Jesus' Real Name?
- Now Playing11minWhat is Racial Passing?
- Now Playing10minWhy Is There a Minimum Wage?
- Now Playing9minWhat If Islam Conquered Europe?
- Now Playing10minHow Did Makeup Ads Go From Style to Science?
- Now Playing9minWhy Do We Drink Milk in School?
- Now Playing11minWhy Do So Many Religions Have Headwear?
- Now Playing10minHow WWII Created Godzilla & Mecha Robots
- Now Playing9minIs the Rosa Parks Story True?
- Now Playing7minThe True Origin of Killer Clowns
- Now Playing12minWhy Do Schools Teach Sex Education?
- Now Playing7minHow Your Rubber Ducky Explains Colonialism
- Now Playing8minWhy Do Women Shave Their Legs?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do Kids Have Their Own Bedrooms?
- Now Playing7minIs Poisoned Halloween Candy a Myth?
- Now Playing7minHow Your Rubber Ducky Explains Colonialism
- Now Playing10minIs Breakfast the Most Important Meal?
- Now Playing10minWhy was Pink for Boys and Blue for Girls?
- Now Playing7minHow Columbus Invented Cannibals
Two Cents
- Now Playing6minHow Do You Actually Buy A House?
- Now Playing8min5 Ways People Are Dumb About Money
- Now Playing8minAre "Free" Video Games Really Free?
- Now Playing6minWhat is The Cost of Pet Ownership?
- Now Playing6minShould I Buy Bitcoin?
- 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 Playing5minBudgeting Basics
- Now Playing7minIs the Stock Market Just a Big Casino?
- Now Playing5minHow are credit scores calculated?
- Now Playing8min5 Strange Investor Crazes!
- Now Playing5minHow Do Your Tax Dollars Get Spent?
- Now Playing6minDo I Need To Buy A House?
- Now Playing7minIs It Even POSSIBLE to Save for Retirement?
- Now Playing7minLove and Money
- Now Playing6minWomen Financial Superpowers
- Now Playing6minMoving Without Spending a Fortune
Monstrum
- Now Playing6minRethinking Frankenstein's Monster
- Now Playing11minThe Original Urban Legend: Spring-Heeled Jack
- Now Playing10minWill-o'-the-Wisp: Monstrous Flame or Scientific Phenomenon?
- Now Playing6minThe Origin of Medusa
- Now Playing10minJorōgumo: The Deadly Spider Woman from Yokai Lore
- Now Playing11minBasilisk or Cockatrice? The Mysterious King of Serpents
- Now Playing8minNuckelavee: Scotland's Skinless Evil Monstrosity
- Now Playing14minThe Evolution of Creepy Dolls
- Now Playing11minThe Fatal Song of the Sirens
- Now Playing8minCreepy Clowns: The Horror Behind the Laughter
- Now Playing12minWas Púca the Nightmare Bunny That Inspired Donnie Darko?
- Now Playing11minCan All Monsters Be Traced Back to Tiamat?
- Now Playing10minHow Bloody Mary Turns Fear Into Fun
- Now Playing10minIs Yuki-onna the Most Terrifying Snow Monster?
- Now Playing17minModern Zombies: The Rebirth of the Undead
- Now Playing12minThe Origins of 'Big Bug' Science Fiction
- Now Playing13minLeprechaun: From Gold-Loving Cobbler to Cultural Icon
- Now Playing13minWhat Happened During Our Scary Slumber Party
- Now Playing12minDeath Worms: Fact or Fiction?
- Now Playing15minBaba Yaga: The Ancient Origins of the Famous 'Witch'
Eons
- Now Playing10minHow Horses Took Over North America (Twice)
- Now Playing9minIt's Becoming Very Clear That Birds Are Not Normal
- Now Playing10minWhy We Only Have Ten Toes (It's a Long Story)
- Now Playing11minHow Earth's First, Unkillable Animals Saved the World
- Now Playing9minWhen a Giant Pterosaur Ruled the European Islands
- Now Playing8minWhen the Rainforests Collapsed
- Now Playing11minWas This Dinosaur a Cannibal?
- Now Playing8minHow a Hot Planet Created the World's Biggest Snake
- Now Playing10minHow Plants Became Carnivores
- Now Playing12minWhen Giant Scorpions Swarmed the Seas
- Now Playing9minWhen Insects First Flew
- Now Playing8minThe Weird, Watery Tale of Spinosaurus
- Now Playing9minCould Neanderthals Use Symbolism?
- Now Playing8minHow a Mass Extinction Event Created the Amazon
- Now Playing7minThe Great Snake Debate
- Now Playing13minHow Plate Tectonics Transformed Los Angeles
- Now Playing4minThe Strange Case of the Buzzsaw Jaws
- Now Playing8minThese Fossils Were Supposed To Be Impossible
- Now Playing10minWhen Rodents Rafted Across the Ocean
- Now Playing9minWhat a Dinosaur Looks Like Under a Microscope
Hot Mess
- 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 Playing5minWhat Happened to Nuclear Power?
- Now Playing5minCan Farms and Forests Coexist?
- Now Playing4minWhy Are Hurricanes Getting Stronger?
- 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 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 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 Playing6minWhat Indigenous Communities Teach Us About Climate Change
Space Time
- Now Playing10minZero-Point Energy Demystified
- Now Playing13minHow To Capture Black Holes
- Now Playing16minIs 'Perpetual Motion' Possible with Superfluids?
- Now Playing12minScience of the James Webb Telescope Explained!
- Now Playing6minSpace Used to Be Orange!!
- Now Playing15minHow Quantum Entanglement Creates Entropy
- Now Playing14minWhat are the Strings in String Theory?
- Now Playing10minScientists Have Detected the First Stars
- Now Playing15minDoes Space Emerge From A Holographic Boundary?
- Now Playing12minWhy We Should Put Rockets On the Moon
- Now Playing13minSupersymmetric Particle Found?
- Now Playing17minHow Much Of The Universe Can Humanity Ever See?
- Now Playing11minBlack Holes from the Dawn of Time
- Now Playing11minHow to Build a Blackhole
- Now Playing13minHow Black Holes Spin Space Time
- Now Playing15minIs Dark Energy Getting Stronger?
- Now Playing13minNew Results in Quantum Tunneling vs. The Speed of Light
- Now Playing9minHow Gaia Changed Astronomy Forever
- Now Playing14minWas the Milky Way a Quasar?
- Now Playing18minWhat If There's A Black Hole Inside The Sun?
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 Playing5minBehind the Beat: Portobelo
- Now Playing2minWhat's In the Backpack?
- 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 Playing16minHow to Break Cryptography
- Now Playing14minBuilding an Infinite Bridge
- Now Playing9minAssociahedra: The Shapes of Multiplication
- Now Playing11minThe Geometry of SET
- Now Playing11minDefining Infinity
- Now Playing8minTelling Time on a Torus
- 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 Playing17minSplitting Rent with Triangles
- Now Playing15minDissecting Hypercubes with Pascal's Triangle
- Now Playing9minCan You Solve the Poison Wine Challenge?
- Now Playing8minAre Prime Numbers Made Up?
- Now Playing10minWhat Does It Mean to Be a Number? (The Peano Axioms)
- Now Playing9minProving Brouwer's Fixed Point Theorem
- Now Playing11minDefining Infinity
- Now Playing8minHow to Divide by "Zero"
- Now Playing17minHacking at Quantum Speed with Shor's Algorithm
Idea Channel
- Now Playing4minIs Twitter the Newest Form of Literature?
- Now Playing4minHas the Microsoft Kinect revolutionized art?
- Now Playing4minFrom Sherlock Holmes to 50 Shades of Grey
- Now Playing3minIs the Web Browser Replacing the Art Gallery?
- Now Playing5minNicolas Cage, Taoism, and YOLO
- Now Playing9minWill Kickstarter Replace Hollywood?
- Now Playing8minIs a Tagged Instagram More Than Just a Photo?
- Now Playing5minAre Memes and Internet Culture Creating a Singularity?
- Now Playing5minIs William Gibson A Modern Day Oracle?
- Now Playing6minIs Minecraft the Ultimate Educational Tool?
- Now Playing7minHow are Justin Bieber, Franz Liszt and Jerusalem Connected?
- Now Playing5minAre Olympic Competitors Geniuses?
- 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 Playing6minShould "Happy Birthday" be Protected by Copyright?
- Now Playing6minIs Doctor Who a Religion?
- Now Playing5minA Visit to Mr. Monfre's Class
- Now Playing5minThere's No Such Thing as Online?!?