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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 Playing6minThe Surprising Origin of Thanksgiving Foods
- Now Playing9minSo You Want to go to Mars?
- Now Playing5minHow Many Heartbeats Do We Get?
- Now Playing3minDoes Evolution Have a Point? 12 Days of Evolution #12
- Now Playing4minWe're Mainly Microbe: Meet Your Microbiome
- Now Playing8minIs Space A Thing?
- Now Playing5minBeavers: The Smartest Things in Fur Pants
- Now Playing5minWhy Do We Itch?
- Now Playing10minExoplanets: Are There Other Earths?
- Now Playing6minThe Delicious Science of CHEESE!
- Now Playing3minYour Mom is LITERALLY Part Of You!
- Now Playing3minBuilding Curiosity
- Now Playing3minWhere Does the Smell of Rain Come From?
- Now Playing7minWhich Life Form REALLY Dominates Earth?
- Now Playing4minCuttlefish: Tentacles In Disguise
- Now Playing5minSolving the Puzzle of Plate Tectonics
- Now Playing6minRelationship Advice from the Animal Kingdom
- Now Playing5minWhy Do We Itch?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do We Have to Sleep
- Now Playing4minThe Surprising Places We Waste Energy
Origin of Everything
- Now Playing10minWhat is Ethnicity?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do We Get Grades in School?
- Now Playing9minWhy Do We Drink Milk in School?
- Now Playing7minWhy Does Santa Wear Red?
- Now Playing12minSix Historically True Facts about Money
- Now Playing11minWhat is Racial Passing?
- Now Playing6minWhy Do We Have Middle Names?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do People Have Pets?
- Now Playing12minWhy Do We Have Housing Projects?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do We Eat Artificial Flavors?
- Now Playing9minThe Origin of Gender
- Now Playing9minWhy Do All Malls Look the Same?
- Now Playing8minWhere does the Nuclear Family Come From?
- Now Playing11minWhy Do So Many Religions Have Headwear?
- Now Playing10minWhy Do We Have Hobbies?
- Now Playing7minWhy Do We Eat Popcorn at The Movies?
- Now Playing10minThe 2nd Amendment Explained
- Now Playing9minThe Origin of Gender
- Now Playing8minWhy Did Europeans Enslave Africans?
- Now Playing7minThe True Origin of Killer Clowns
Two Cents
- Now Playing5minBudgeting Basics
- Now Playing7minIs the Stock Market Just a Big Casino?
- Now Playing6minThe Ugly Truth About Airline Miles
- Now Playing6minShould You Break Up With Your Big Bank?
- Now Playing4minWhat is the DOW?
- Now Playing6minDoes Wealth Make You Meaner?
- Now Playing6minWhat the Heck Are Mutual Funds?
- Now Playing8minAre "Free" Video Games Really Free?
- Now Playing6minShould I Buy Bitcoin?
- Now Playing6minWhat is The Cost of Pet Ownership?
- Now Playing6minHow Do You Actually Buy A House?
- Now Playing8min5 Ways People Are Dumb About Money
- Now Playing5minHow Cars Can Keep You Poor
- Now Playing6minWomen Financial Superpowers
- Now Playing6minMoving Without Spending a Fortune
- Now Playing6minHacking Your Brain to Get Out Of Debt
- Now Playing7minCan You Really Retire in Your 30s?
- Now Playing6minWhat Are The Most Lucrative Trades?
- Now Playing7minIs It Even POSSIBLE to Save for Retirement?
- Now Playing6minDo I Need To Buy A House?
Monstrum
- Now Playing7minWhat Dragons Say About Us
- Now Playing12minBeyond the Supernatural Horror of the Nishi Daak Ghost
- Now Playing31minThe Werewolf's Modern Metamorphosis
- Now Playing15minEgyptian Mummies: From Sacred Vessels to Scary Undead
- Now Playing7minEl Chupacabras, a Modern Mystery
- Now Playing10minWhy the Dragon is Central to Chinese Culture
- Now Playing8minBunyip: Australia's Mysterious Amphibian Monster
- Now Playing13minUncovering the Enigma: Sasquatch Sightings
- Now Playing7minKasagonagá: The Cute, Kind Monster We All Need Right Now
- Now Playing11minMari Lwyd: The Skeleton Horse's Deep Past with Christmas
- Now Playing13minFire Cat or Fire Cart? The History of Japan's Kasha
- Now Playing12minTaotie: The Mystery of Chinese Mythology's Famous Glutton
- Now Playing12minDon't Let Them In! The Urban Legends of Black-Eyed Children
- Now Playing7minAre White Walkers Really Nordic Zombies?
- Now Playing14minThe Untold Secrets of Pokémon's Monster Mythology
- Now Playing7minRelease the Kraken!
- Now Playing11minMapinguari: Fearsome Beast and Protector of the Amazon
- Now Playing12minHave Humans Always Feared Sharks?
- Now Playing10minTikbálang: The Filipino Nightmare Shapeshifter
- Now Playing13minUnicorns: Magical Icons or Violent Beasts?
Eons
- Now Playing8minWhen Dinosaur Look-Alikes Ruled the Earth
- Now Playing6minThe Time Terror Birds Invaded
- Now Playing7minWhen Giant Deer Roamed Eurasia
- Now Playing8minHow Plate Tectonics Gave Us Seahorses
- Now Playing12minCan We Get DNA From Fossils?
- Now Playing10minHow 7,000 Years of Epic Floods Changed the World
- Now Playing8minWhat Happened to the World's Greatest Ape?
- Now Playing8minThat Time It Rained for Two Million Years
- Now Playing8minThe Ghostly Origins of the Big Cats
- Now Playing10minWhen Fish Wore Armor
- Now Playing9minThe Fungi That Turned Ants Into Zombies
- Now Playing13minHow Evolution Works (And How We Figured It Out)
- Now Playing13minAn Illustrated History of Dinosaurs
- Now Playing11minHow a Mass Extinction Changed Our Brains
- Now Playing9minThe Invisible Barrier Keeping Two Worlds Apart
- Now Playing10minThe Facts About Dinosaurs & Feathers
- Now Playing9minWhen Rodents Had Horns
- Now Playing11minFrom the Cambrian Explosion to the Great Dying
- Now Playing8minWhen Birds Stopped Flying
- Now Playing5minWhen Whales Walked
Hot Mess
- Now Playing7minHow To Make Clothes Less Terrible for the Planet
- Now Playing8minHow One Conservative Texas Town Went 100% Renewable
- Now Playing9minHow to Talk About Climate Change
- Now Playing5minHow A Sticker Kept 3 Billion Tons of CO2 Out of The Air
- Now Playing6minWould Your Neighbors Save You From a Flooding Home?
- Now Playing5minWhy We Confuse Weather and Climate
- Now Playing4minCould Space Mirrors Cool The Globe?
- Now Playing3minCould climate change make you allergic to meat?
- Now Playing4minCould Space Mirrors Cool The Globe?
- Now Playing6minCan We Get Solar Power To Everyone Who Wants It?
- Now Playing5minWhy Don't We Hear About the Ozone Hole Anymore?
- Now Playing10minThe Link Between Extreme Weather and Climate Change
- Now Playing5minWhat Can You Actually Do About Climate Change?
- Now Playing5minCan Farms and Forests Coexist?
- Now Playing5minWhat the Cutest Animal Can Teach Us About Saving Ourselves
- Now Playing5minBeef Is Bad For The Climate. Can We Make It Better?
- Now Playing5minWe've Ignored Climate Change For More Than a Century
- Now Playing5minWe've Ignored Climate Change For More Than a Century
- Now Playing5minWhat the Cutest Animal Can Teach Us About Saving Ourselves
- Now Playing4minWhy Are Hurricanes Getting Stronger?
Space Time
- Now Playing12minFeynman's Infinite Quantum Paths
- Now Playing14minSolving the Three Body Problem
- Now Playing15minHow to Find ALIEN Dyson Spheres
- Now Playing11minThe Future of Space Telescopes
- Now Playing10minThe Andromeda-Milky Way Collision
- Now Playing16minThe Equation That Explains (Nearly) Everything!
- Now Playing8minThe Higgs Mechanism Explained
- Now Playing10minThe End of the Habitable Zone
- Now Playing9minHow Close To The Sun Can Humanity Get?
- Now Playing10minThe Death of the Sun
- Now Playing10minTelescopes of Tomorrow
- Now Playing17minDoes Antimatter Create Anti-Gravity?
- Now Playing9minThe Star at the End of Time
- Now Playing10minCan You Trust Your Eyes in Spacetime?
- Now Playing13minCould We Move Planet Earth Across the Universe?
- Now Playing16minWhat If The Speed of Light is Not Constant?
- Now Playing10minThe Origin of Our First Interstellar Visitor
- Now Playing20minWhat if Humans Are Not Earth's First Civilization?
- Now Playing8minAbsolute Cold
- Now Playing13minThe First Quantum Field Theory
Beat Making Lab
- 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 Playing3minBeat Making Challenge #2: Kora Riddim
- Now Playing3minExclusive Zenga (Music Video) by Flamme Kapaya
- Now Playing3minFemale Hip Hop Crew Makes Beats in Senegal
- 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 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 Playing5minBehind the Beat: Portobelo
- Now Playing2minWhat's In the Backpack?
- Now Playing3minPanama: Meet the Kids Behind the Beats
Infinite Series
- Now Playing11minDefining Infinity
- Now Playing8minTelling Time on a Torus
- Now Playing12minProving Pick's Theorem
- Now Playing14minMaking Probability Mathematical
- Now Playing11minWhat are Numbers Made of?
- Now Playing13minNetwork Mathematics and Rival Factions | Infinite Series
- Now Playing10minInstant Insanity Puzzle
- Now Playing15minDissecting Hypercubes with Pascal's Triangle
- Now Playing17minSplitting Rent with Triangles
- Now Playing16minHow to Break Cryptography
- Now Playing9minAssociahedra: The Shapes of Multiplication
- Now Playing14minBuilding an Infinite Bridge
- Now Playing11minThe Geometry of SET
- Now Playing14minCan We Combine pi & e to Make a Rational Number?
- Now Playing8minThe Multiplication Multiverse
- Now Playing8minTelling Time on a Torus
- Now Playing14minKill the Mathematical Hydra
- Now Playing14minHow Big are All Infinities Combined? (Cantor's Paradox)
- Now Playing13minWhat is a Random Walk?
- Now Playing11minWhat was Fermat's "Marvelous" Proof?
Idea Channel
- Now Playing5minNicolas Cage, Taoism, and YOLO
- Now Playing8minWhy Do We Love Zombies?
- Now Playing4minIs Instagram Revolutionizing Photography?
- Now Playing5minIs Dubstep the New Musical Avant-Garde?
- Now Playing5minIs Dubstep the New Musical Avant-Garde?
- Now Playing5minDo We Want the World to End?
- Now Playing5minIs Homestuck the Ulysses of the Internet?
- Now Playing5minWill Space Travel Save Us All?
- Now Playing8minIs Buying Call of Duty a Moral Choice?
- Now Playing5minAre Memes and Internet Culture Creating a Singularity?
- Now Playing6minAre Virtual Video Game Economies Becoming Real?
- Now Playing4minFrom Sherlock Holmes to 50 Shades of Grey
- Now Playing5minIs Facebook Changing Our Identity?
- Now Playing4minHas the Microsoft Kinect revolutionized art?
- Now Playing6minWhat do MP3s and Magic Spells Have in Common?
- Now Playing7minCan Dungeons & Dragons Make You Confident & Successful?
- Now Playing6minAre MP3s & Vinyl Better than Live Music?
- Now Playing4minThe Bronies Phenomenon
- Now Playing3minWhat Makes a Pop Star Authentic?
- Now Playing9minIs Community a Postmodern Masterpiece?