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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 Playing4minThis Is Not a Rainbow
- Now Playing6minHow the Toilet Changed History
- Now Playing6minDo Plants Think?
- Now Playing5minThe Superb Owl!
- Now Playing7minWhat Are The Most Important Science Images Ever?
- Now Playing7minIs Your Brain Too Old For Video Games?
- Now Playing6minThe Science of Kissing
- Now Playing5minI Don't Think You're Ready for These Jellies
- Now Playing8minIs There Intelligent Life Beyond Earth?
- 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 Playing7minInside the World of Fire Ants!
- Now Playing8min20 MILLION Year-Old Spider!! Unweaving Spider Silk
- Now Playing3minBuilding Curiosity
- Now Playing6minWhy Don't Other Animals Wear Glasses?
- Now Playing10minIs There Life on Earth?
- Now Playing6minWhy Salt & Pepper?
- Now Playing6minHow Atom Bombs Can Uncover Forged Art
Origin of Everything
- Now Playing10minWhat is Cultural Appropriation?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do Women Give Birth Lying Down?
- Now Playing10minHow Did Martin Luther King Jr. Get a Holiday?
- Now Playing7minHistory of the Word "Gay"
- Now Playing7minIs Poisoned Halloween Candy a Myth?
- 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 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 Playing10minWhy was Pink for Boys and Blue for Girls?
- Now Playing8minWhy is there a North and South Korea?
- Now Playing7minHow Columbus Invented Cannibals
- Now Playing10minIs Breakfast the Most Important Meal?
Two Cents
- Now Playing6minDoes Wealth Make You Meaner?
- Now Playing6minWhat the Heck Are Mutual Funds?
- Now Playing4minWhat is the DOW?
- Now Playing6minShould You Break Up With Your Big Bank?
- Now Playing6minThe Ugly Truth About Airline Miles
- Now Playing7minIs the Stock Market Just a Big Casino?
- Now Playing5minBudgeting Basics
- 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?
- Now Playing8minAre "Free" Video Games Really Free?
- Now Playing7minLove and Money
- Now Playing6minDo I Need To Buy A House?
- Now Playing7minIs It Even POSSIBLE to Save for Retirement?
- Now Playing7minCan You Really Retire in Your 30s?
- Now Playing6minWhat Are The Most Lucrative Trades?
- Now Playing6minHacking Your Brain to Get Out Of Debt
- Now Playing6minWomen Financial Superpowers
- Now Playing6minMoving Without Spending a Fortune
Monstrum
- Now Playing17minTrolls: Scandinavia's Malevolent, Magical Outcasts
- Now Playing11minIs Siren Head the Ultimate Modern Monster?
- Now Playing6minThe Original Headless Horseman
- Now Playing9minThe Hidden Origins of Nixie, the Scariest Little Mermaid
- Now Playing18minUnlocking the Mystery of Loch Ness
- Now Playing11minThe Macabre Origins of the Grim Reaper
- Now Playing12minHow Gargoyles Became Monsters
- Now Playing11minWhy Has the Majestic Griffin Been Forgotten?
- Now Playing9minKrampus: Origins of the Yuletide Monster
- Now Playing20minWhy George Romero Changed Zombies Forever
- Now Playing14minHero, Beast, or Both? The Complex Lore of the Centaur
- Now Playing10minA Giant Monster With a Giant Problem
- Now Playing10minHow a Children's Book Introduced Us To Our Inner Demons
- Now Playing17minThe Origins of the Zombie, from Haiti to the U.S.
- Now Playing10minEl Silbón: The Deadly Whistler of the Grasslands
- Now Playing10minSlender Man: How The Internet Created a Monster
- Now Playing13minMonster Plants and the Humans who Invent Them
- Now Playing12minWho Is This Japanese Yōkai That Is Obsessed With Your Butt?
- Now Playing7minRelease the Kraken!
- Now Playing7minAre White Walkers Really Nordic Zombies?
Eons
- Now Playing10minThe Last Time the Globe Warmed
- Now Playing9minThe Whole Saga of the Supercontinents
- Now Playing6minThe Most Useful Fossils In The World
- Now Playing6minHistory's Most Powerful Plants
- Now Playing8minHow Ankylosaurs Got Their Clubs
- Now Playing9minThe Sudden Rise of the First Colossal Animal
- Now Playing8minWhere Did Viruses Come From?
- Now Playing8minThe Mystery of the Eocene's Lethal Lake
- Now Playing11minWhen Penguins Went From The Sky To The Sea
- Now Playing7minWhy Do Things Keep Evolving Into Crabs?
- Now Playing10minHow Pollination Got Going Twice
- Now Playing9minThe Rise and Fall of the Bone-Crushing Dogs
- Now Playing11minHow the Starfish Got Its Arms
- Now Playing11minThe Story of the Dino Stampede
- Now Playing10minHow a Supervolcano Made the Cenozoic's Coolest Fossils
- Now Playing10minWhen Ichthyosaurs Led a Revolution in the Seas
- Now Playing10minThe Facts About Dinosaurs & Feathers
- Now Playing8minThe Ancient Human Species With A Missing Body
- Now Playing10minThat Time The Ocean Lost (Almost) All Its Oxygen
- Now Playing11minThe Hazy Evolution of Cannabis
Hot Mess
- Now Playing11minClimate Change is Too Big for our Brains feat. Mike Rugnetta
- Now Playing6minWould Your Neighbors Save You From a Flooding Home?
- Now Playing3minCould climate change make you allergic to meat?
- Now Playing5minWhat Happened to Nuclear Power?
- 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 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 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 Playing6minHow To Suck Carbon Dioxide Out of the Sky
Space Time
- Now Playing11minWhy Quasars are so Awesome
- Now Playing12minWhat Survives Inside A Black Hole?
- Now Playing11min5 REAL Possibilities for Interstellar Travel
- Now Playing11minWe Are Star Stuff
- Now Playing11minHow Asteroid Mining Will Save Earth
- Now Playing13minDid Time Start at the Big Bang?
- Now Playing10minThe One-Electron Universe
- Now Playing13minThe Real Star Wars
- Now Playing8minIs The Alcubierre Warp Drive Possible?
- Now Playing10minIs Quantum Tunneling Faster than Light?
- Now Playing11minIs Gravity An Illusion?
- Now Playing12minThe Black Hole Information Paradox
- Now Playing9minGeneral Relativity & Curved Spacetime Explained!
- Now Playing8minDoes Dark Matter BREAK Physics?
- Now Playing10minThe Vacuum Catastrophe
- Now Playing6minS2: The Future of Gravitational Waves
- Now Playing9minBlack Hole Swarms
- Now Playing11minThe Geometry of Causality
- Now Playing18minAre Many Worlds & Pilot Wave The Same Theory?
- Now Playing11minAre You a Boltzmann Brain?
Beat Making Lab
- Now Playing3minProf. Angel Sound Prison Beats Interview
- Now Playing3min#FijiChallenge w/ Walshy Fire of Major Lazer
- Now Playing4minDiablos (music video)
- Now Playing3minEpisode 1: Goma, Congo
- 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 Playing2minHealth Worker Beat
- Now Playing4minTrapped In Paradise
- Now Playing3minBehind The Beat: First Beat Making Lab (2011)
- Now Playing4minPortobelo (music video)
- Now Playing3minSampling w/ Flip Flops and Ski Beatz
- Now Playing2minField Trip: Prison Beats
- Now Playing3minGet Your Drums Right
- Now Playing10minHeartbeats of Fiji
- Now Playing2minMashup: National Anthems
- Now Playing2minWhat's In the Backpack?
- Now Playing5minBehind the Beat: Portobelo
- Now Playing3minBeat Making Challenge #1: Accordion Trap
- Now Playing3minPanama: Meet the Kids Behind the Beats
Infinite Series
- Now Playing13minThe Mathematics of Quantum Computers
- Now Playing14minBuilding an Infinite Bridge
- Now Playing8minA Breakthrough in Higher Dimensional Spheres
- Now Playing14minCan a Chess Piece Explain Markov Chains?
- Now Playing14minSolving the Wolverine Problem with Graph Coloring
- Now Playing10minWhat Does It Mean to Be a Number? (The Peano Axioms)
- Now Playing11minThe Geometry of SET
- Now Playing15minArrow's Impossibility Theorem
- Now Playing11minTopology vs "a" Topology
- Now Playing10minThe Mathematics of Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange
- Now Playing9minBeyond the Golden Ratio
- Now Playing17minHacking at Quantum Speed with Shor's Algorithm
- Now Playing17minSplitting Rent with Triangles
- Now Playing14minWhy Computers are Bad at Algebra
- Now Playing11minSingularities Explained
- Now Playing12minThe Honeycombs of 4-Dimensional Bees ft. Joe Hanson
- Now Playing10minThe Assassin Puzzle
- Now Playing14minHow Big are All Infinities Combined? (Cantor's Paradox)
- Now Playing9minThis Video was Not Encrypted with RSA
- Now Playing13minWhat is a Random Walk?
Idea Channel
- Now Playing5minIs Homestuck the Ulysses of the Internet?
- Now Playing5minIs Dubstep the New Musical Avant-Garde?
- Now Playing5minDo We Want the World to End?
- Now Playing8minIs Buying Call of Duty a Moral Choice?
- Now Playing5minWill Space Travel Save Us All?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do We Love Zombies?
- Now Playing5minNicolas Cage, Taoism, and YOLO
- Now Playing4minIs Instagram Revolutionizing Photography?
- Now Playing5minIs Dubstep the New Musical Avant-Garde?
- Now Playing4minFrom Sherlock Holmes to 50 Shades of Grey
- Now Playing6minAre Virtual Video Game Economies Becoming Real?
- Now Playing5minAre Memes and Internet Culture Creating a Singularity?
- 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?