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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 Playing14minOur Understanding of Floods is ALL Wrong
- Now Playing22minCan AI Help Us Talk to Whales?
- Now Playing16minWhy Is The World Rushing Back To The Moon?
- 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?
It's Okay to Be Smart
- Now Playing5minYour #ScienceWoman Heroes
- Now Playing16minTrying a Thanksgiving Feast Made from Bugs
- Now Playing4minCuttlefish: Tentacles In Disguise
- Now Playing8minIs Ultron Inevitable?
- Now Playing4minWhose Air do we Share?
- Now Playing5minAre You Smarter Than A Slime Mold?
- Now Playing4minHow The Elements Got Their Names
- Now Playing7minWhy Do You Love Your Family?
- Now Playing5minHow Science Defines A Year
- Now Playing6minWhy Salt & Pepper?
- Now Playing6minHow Atom Bombs Can Uncover Forged Art
- Now Playing10minIs There Life on Earth?
- Now Playing3minBuilding Curiosity
- Now Playing6minWhy Don't Other Animals Wear Glasses?
- Now Playing7minInside the World of Fire Ants!
- Now Playing8min20 MILLION Year-Old Spider!! Unweaving Spider Silk
- Now Playing7minEngines of Destruction: How Hurricanes Work
- Now Playing7minThe Strange Science of the Placebo Effect
- Now Playing6minInside an ICE CAVE! - Nature's Most Beautiful Blue
- Now Playing5minThe Cosmic Origins of Earth's Water
Origin of Everything
- 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 Playing7minHow did Makeup, WWII, & Communism Create U.S. Healthcare?
- Now Playing12minWhy Do Schools Teach Sex Education?
- Now Playing7minWhy Do We Say "Asian American" Not "Oriental"?
- Now Playing8minWhen DId Marriage Become about Love?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do Women Give Birth Lying Down?
- Now Playing8minWhy Was Crossdressing Illegal?
- Now Playing11minWhy Do We Have Private Prisons?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do People Have Pets?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do We Get Grades in School?
- Now Playing10minWhat is Ethnicity?
- Now Playing10minWhy Does the Government Need to Know My Race?
- Now Playing12minWhy Doesn't the US Have Paid Parental Leave?
- Now Playing7minWhen Men Wore High Heels
- Now Playing8minWhy Do Women Give Birth Lying Down?
- Now Playing10minWhat is Cultural Appropriation?
Two Cents
- Now Playing9minHow Smart Entrepreneurs Think About PRICES!
- Now Playing6minI'm Young & Healthy, Can I Skip Health Insurance?
- Now Playing7minHow Retailers Stalk You Online
- Now Playing5minInsta-Everything
- Now Playing5minDo Kids Need to Learn About Money?
- Now Playing7minFighting the Financial Pitfalls of the Supermarket
- Now Playing7minIs Your Side Hustle Hustling You?
- Now Playing6minFighting the Wedding Industrial Complex
- Now Playing6minIs My Identity Safe From Hackers?
- Now Playing7minWhich College Majors Give the Most Bang for Your Buck?
- Now Playing7minMoney, A Global Game of Trust
- Now Playing7minWhat's The Real Cost of Dying?
- Now Playing6minHow to Ask for a Raise
- Now Playing7minShould I Invest In Cannabis Stocks?
- Now Playing6minTop 5 Biggest Financial Scams
- Now Playing7minWhy It's More Expensive To Be Poor
- Now Playing6minShould You Break Up With Your Big Bank?
- Now Playing6minThe Ugly Truth About Airline Miles
- Now Playing4minWhat is the DOW?
- Now Playing6minDoes Wealth Make You Meaner?
Monstrum
- 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 Playing11minCan All Monsters Be Traced Back to Tiamat?
- Now Playing10minHow Bloody Mary Turns Fear Into Fun
- Now Playing10minPontianak: The Vampiric Ghost of Southeast Asia
- Now Playing10minThe Enchanting Fairies of Celtic Lore
- Now Playing13minWhat Happened During Our Scary Slumber Party
- Now Playing12minDeath Worms: Fact or Fiction?
- Now Playing8minWerehyena: The Terrifying Shapeshifters of African Lore
- Now Playing15minBaba Yaga: The Ancient Origins of the Famous 'Witch'
- Now Playing13minThe SCP Foundation: Declassified
- Now Playing10minYara-ma-yha-who: Australia's Regurgitating, Blood-Sucking Mo
- Now Playing6minThe Origin of Medusa
- Now Playing10minWill-o'-the-Wisp: Monstrous Flame or Scientific Phenomenon?
- Now Playing10minJorōgumo: The Deadly Spider Woman from Yokai Lore
- Now Playing11minBasilisk or Cockatrice? The Mysterious King of Serpents
- Now Playing11minThe Original Urban Legend: Spring-Heeled Jack
- Now Playing6minRethinking Frankenstein's Monster
Eons
- Now Playing11minHow the Starfish Got Its Arms
- Now Playing11minThe Story of the Dino Stampede
- Now Playing9minThe Rise and Fall of the Bone-Crushing Dogs
- Now Playing7minWhy Do Things Keep Evolving Into Crabs?
- Now Playing10minHow Pollination Got Going Twice
- Now Playing8minThe Ancient Human Species With A Missing Body
- Now Playing10minThat Time The Ocean Lost (Almost) All Its Oxygen
- Now Playing10minHow a Supervolcano Made the Cenozoic's Coolest Fossils
- Now Playing10minThe Facts About Dinosaurs & Feathers
- Now Playing10minWhen Ichthyosaurs Led a Revolution in the Seas
- Now Playing6minHistory's Most Powerful Plants
- Now Playing10minThe Last Time the Globe Warmed
- Now Playing9minThe Whole Saga of the Supercontinents
- Now Playing6minThe Most Useful Fossils In The World
- Now Playing8minThe Mystery of the Eocene's Lethal Lake
- Now Playing11minWhen Penguins Went From The Sky To The Sea
- Now Playing8minHow Ankylosaurs Got Their Clubs
- Now Playing9minThe Sudden Rise of the First Colossal Animal
- Now Playing8minWhere Did Viruses Come From?
- Now Playing4minThe Tully Monster & Other Problematic Creatures
Hot Mess
- Now Playing6minWhat If We Burned All The World's Fossil Fuels?
- Now Playing6minCan We Get Solar Power To Everyone Who Wants It?
- Now Playing6minWill Big Oil Have To Pay Up Like Big Tobacco?
- Now Playing5minClimate change will push millions out. Where will they go?
- Now Playing5minWho Should Pay To Fix Climate Change?
- Now Playing5minWho Should Pay To Fix Climate Change?
- Now Playing6minHow To Suck Carbon Dioxide Out of the Sky
- Now Playing7minHow To Make Clothes Less Terrible for the Planet
- Now Playing5minWhy Don't We Hear About the Ozone Hole Anymore?
- Now Playing6minWhat If We Burned All The World's Fossil Fuels?
- Now Playing7minWhat's The Best Car For The Climate?
- Now Playing10minFeeling Guilty About Climate Change feat. Hank Green
- Now Playing6minHow To Suck Carbon Dioxide Out of the Sky
- Now Playing6minWhat Indigenous Communities Teach Us About Climate Change
- Now Playing10minFeeling Guilty About Climate Change feat. Hank Green
- Now Playing5minWhy Climate Change is Unjust
- Now Playing10minAre You Scared Enough? feat. David Wallace-Wells
- Now Playing5minWhy We Confuse Weather and Climate
- Now Playing5minWhy Climate Change is Unjust
- Now Playing4minHow Much Energy Does the Internet Use?
Space Time
- Now Playing15minIs Interstellar Travel Impossible?
- Now Playing15minThe Holographic Universe Explained
- Now Playing9minThe Great American Eclipse
- Now Playing9minWhy the Big Bang Definitely Happened
- Now Playing15minDid Life on Earth Come from Space?
- Now Playing8minWhat Happens At The Edge Of The Universe?
- Now Playing13minQuantum Theory's Most Incredible Prediction
- Now Playing13minHorizon Radiation
- Now Playing11minS2: How the Quantum Eraser Rewrites the Past
- Now Playing15minWhy Is 1/137 One of the Greatest Unsolved Problems
- Now Playing9minThe Real Meaning of E=mc²
- Now Playing13minDid Dark Energy Just Disappear?
- Now Playing11minCitizen Science
- Now Playing19minAre Space and Time Real?
- Now Playing11minSuperluminal Time Travel + Time Warp Challenge Answer
- Now Playing16minHow Electron Spin Makes Matter Possible
- Now Playing9minHow Close To The Sun Can Humanity Get?
- Now Playing16minWhy Is The World Rushing Back To The Moon?
- Now Playing10minThe Origin of Matter and Time
- Now Playing15minHow To Know If It's Aliens
Beat Making Lab
- Now Playing3minPanama: Meet the Kids Behind the Beats
- Now Playing5minBehind the Beat: Portobelo
- Now Playing2minWhat's In the Backpack?
- 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 Playing4minCho Cho Cho (Music Video) filmed in Goma, Congo
- Now Playing2minWalshy Fire [of Major Lazer] Wants Your Riddims
- Now Playing3minFemale Hip Hop Crew Makes Beats in Senegal
- Now Playing3minBeat Making Challenge #2: Kora Riddim
- Now Playing3minExclusive Zenga (Music Video) by Flamme Kapaya
- Now Playing4minDiablos (music video)
- Now Playing3minEpisode 1: Goma, Congo
- Now Playing3min#FijiChallenge w/ Walshy Fire of Major Lazer
- Now Playing3minProf. Angel Sound Prison Beats Interview
- Now Playing3minSampling w/ Flip Flops and Ski Beatz
- Now Playing3minBehind The Beat: First Beat Making Lab (2011)
- Now Playing4minPortobelo (music video)
Infinite Series
- Now Playing11minCan We Hear Shapes?
- Now Playing14minInfinite Chess
- Now Playing14minWhy Computers are Bad at Algebra
- Now Playing11minWhat are Numbers Made of?
- Now Playing8minThe Multiplication Multiverse
- Now Playing12minHow Infinity Explains the Finite
- Now Playing11minCan We Hear Shapes?
- Now Playing14minCan We Combine pi & e to Make a Rational Number?
- Now Playing10minInstant Insanity Puzzle
- Now Playing8minA Breakthrough in Higher Dimensional Spheres
- Now Playing14minSolving the Wolverine Problem with Graph Coloring
- Now Playing14minTopology Riddles | Infinite Series
- Now Playing9minAssociahedra: The Shapes of Multiplication
- Now Playing14minMaking Probability Mathematical
- Now Playing9minProving Brouwer's Fixed Point Theorem
- Now Playing8minAre Prime Numbers Made Up?
- Now Playing13minNetwork Mathematics and Rival Factions | Infinite Series
- Now Playing11minTopology vs "a" Topology
- Now Playing10minThe Mathematics of Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange
- Now Playing9minCan You Solve the Poison Wine Challenge?
Idea Channel
- 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 Playing8minIs Sad Music Actually Sad?
- Now Playing6minAre Virtual Video Game Economies Becoming Real?
- Now Playing6minIs Futurama the Best Argument Against Transhumanism?
- Now Playing3minSuper Mario Brothers as Surrealist Art?
- Now Playing8minIs Developing Artificial Intelligence (AI) Ethical?
- Now Playing5minAre You a Hipster?
- Now Playing3minIs the Web Browser Replacing the Art Gallery?
- Now Playing3minWhat Makes a Pop Star Authentic?
- Now Playing9minIs Community a Postmodern Masterpiece?
- Now Playing8minIs Piracy Helping Game of Thrones?
- Now Playing4minIs Twitter the Newest Form of Literature?
- Now Playing6minWhat do MP3s and Magic Spells Have in Common?
- Now Playing4minHas the Microsoft Kinect revolutionized art?
- Now Playing5minIs Facebook Changing Our Identity?
- Now Playing7minCan Dungeons & Dragons Make You Confident & Successful?
- Now Playing6minAre MP3s & Vinyl Better than Live Music?