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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 Playing5minHow Your Body Knows Left From Right
- Now Playing6minUnderstanding Climate Science
- Now Playing5minThis Rainforest Caterpillar Looks Like Donald Trump
- Now Playing5minHow Science Defines A Year
- Now Playing8minIs There Intelligent Life Beyond Earth?
- Now Playing8minWhere On Earth Do You Weigh The Least?
- 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 Playing2minCan Evolution Create Information? - 12 Days of Evolution #9
- Now Playing4minThe Romantic Lure of Moonlight
- Now Playing3minWhy Does Time Go Forward?
- Now Playing8minIs Ultron Inevitable?
- Now Playing2minAre Humans Still Evolving? 12 Days of Evolution #11
- Now Playing6minCan Coral Reefs Survive Climate Change? #OursToLose
- Now Playing4minGoats!
- Now Playing6minRelationship Advice from the Animal Kingdom
- Now Playing5minThe Small Problem With Shrinking Ourselves
- Now Playing4minThere Was No First Human
- Now Playing3minWhy is the sky any color?
Origin of Everything
- Now Playing10minThe 2nd Amendment Explained
- Now Playing7minWhy Do We Eat Popcorn at The Movies?
- Now Playing10minWhy Do We Have Hobbies?
- Now Playing11minWhy Do So Many Religions Have Headwear?
- Now Playing8minWhere does the Nuclear Family Come From?
- Now Playing9minWhy Do All Malls Look the Same?
- Now Playing9minThe Origin of Gender
- Now Playing7minThe True Origin of Killer Clowns
- Now Playing8minWhy Did Europeans Enslave Africans?
- Now Playing9minThe Origin of Gender
- Now Playing7minWhy Does Santa Wear Red?
- Now Playing9minWhy Do We Drink Milk in School?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do We Get Grades in School?
- Now Playing10minWhat is Ethnicity?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do We Eat Artificial Flavors?
- Now Playing12minWhy Do We Have Housing Projects?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do People Have Pets?
- Now Playing6minWhy Do We Have Middle Names?
- Now Playing11minWhat is Racial Passing?
- Now Playing12minSix Historically True Facts about Money
Two Cents
- Now Playing6minDoes Wealth Make You Meaner?
- Now Playing6minWhat the Heck Are Mutual Funds?
- Now Playing6minShould You Break Up With Your Big Bank?
- Now Playing6minThe Ugly Truth About Airline Miles
- Now Playing4minWhat is the DOW?
- 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 Playing6minShould I Buy Bitcoin?
- Now Playing6minWhat is The Cost of Pet Ownership?
- Now Playing8minAre "Free" Video Games Really Free?
- Now Playing7minLove and Money
- Now Playing7minIs It Even POSSIBLE to Save for Retirement?
- Now Playing6minDo I Need To Buy A House?
- 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 Playing5minHow Cars Can Keep You Poor
- Now Playing6minMoving Without Spending a Fortune
Monstrum
- Now Playing11minMapinguari: Fearsome Beast and Protector of the Amazon
- Now Playing12minHave Humans Always Feared Sharks?
- Now Playing9minPost-Dracula Vampires: From Anne Rice to Twilight
- Now Playing13minUnicorns: Magical Icons or Violent Beasts?
- Now Playing10minTikbálang: The Filipino Nightmare Shapeshifter
- Now Playing12minWhat Hellhounds Reveal about Humans' Oldest Companion
- Now Playing12minAre Cyborgs Really Monsters?
- Now Playing26minThe Killer Origins of the Werewolf
- Now Playing17minAlien Abduction and UFOs: Why Are Grays So Common?
- Now Playing9minAdze: the Shapeshifting Firefly from West Africa
- Now Playing7minWhat Dragons Say About Us
- Now Playing31minThe Werewolf's Modern Metamorphosis
- Now Playing12minBeyond the Supernatural Horror of the Nishi Daak Ghost
- 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 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
Eons
- Now Playing9minIt's Becoming Very Clear That Birds Are Not Normal
- Now Playing10minHow Horses Took Over North America (Twice)
- 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 Playing10minHow Plants Became Carnivores
- Now Playing12minWhen Giant Scorpions Swarmed the Seas
- Now Playing8minThe Weird, Watery Tale of Spinosaurus
- Now Playing9minWhen Insects First Flew
- Now Playing8minHow a Hot Planet Created the World's Biggest Snake
- 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 Playing10minWhen Rodents Rafted Across the Ocean
- Now Playing8minThese Fossils Were Supposed To Be Impossible
- Now Playing10minWhen Camels Roamed North America
Hot Mess
- Now Playing5minHow A Sticker Kept 3 Billion Tons of CO2 Out of The Air
- Now Playing8minHow One Conservative Texas Town Went 100% Renewable
- Now Playing9minHow to Talk About Climate Change
- Now Playing7minHow To Make Clothes Less Terrible for the Planet
- Now Playing6minCan We Get Solar Power To Everyone Who Wants It?
- Now Playing5minCan Farms and Forests Coexist?
- Now Playing5minWhat Can You Actually Do About Climate Change?
- Now Playing10minThe Link Between Extreme Weather and Climate Change
- Now Playing5minWhy Don't We Hear About the Ozone Hole Anymore?
- Now Playing4minCould Space Mirrors Cool The Globe?
- Now Playing5minWhy We Confuse Weather and Climate
- Now Playing3minCould climate change make you allergic to meat?
- Now Playing4minCould Space Mirrors Cool The Globe?
- Now Playing6minWould Your Neighbors Save You From a Flooding Home?
- Now Playing6minWhat if Carbon Emissions Stopped Tomorrow?
- Now Playing4minWhy Are Hurricanes Getting Stronger?
- Now Playing5minWhat the Cutest Animal Can Teach Us About Saving Ourselves
- Now Playing5minWe've Ignored Climate Change For More Than a Century
- Now Playing5minHow A Sticker Kept 3 Billion Tons of CO2 Out of The Air
- Now Playing5minWhat Can You Actually Do About Climate Change?
Space Time
- Now Playing8minThe Higgs Mechanism Explained
- Now Playing11minThe Unruh Effect
- Now Playing13minWill We Ever Find Alien Life?
- Now Playing12minWhat Survives Inside A Black Hole?
- Now Playing15minThe Holographic Universe Explained
- Now Playing14minHow Luminiferous Aether Led to Relativity
- Now Playing15minDoes Axionic Dark Matter Bind Galaxies Together?
- Now Playing18minAre Room Temperature Superconductors Impossible?
- Now Playing16minThe Edge of an Infinite Universe
- Now Playing12minDark Energy, Cosmology part 2: Crash Course Astronomy #43
- Now Playing13minThe Many Worlds of the Quantum Multiverse
- Now Playing11minWhy Quantum Information is Never Destroyed
- Now Playing9minThe Great American Eclipse
- Now Playing12minS2: Planck's Constant and The Origin of Quantum Mechanics
- Now Playing14minSecrets of the Cosmic Microwave Background
- Now Playing12minFeynman's Infinite Quantum Paths
- Now Playing15minWhat If We Live in a Superdeterministic Universe?
- Now Playing14minHacking the Nature of Reality
- Now Playing12minThe Quantum Internet
- Now Playing11minAre You a Boltzmann Brain?
Beat Making Lab
- 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 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 Playing2minWalshy Fire [of Major Lazer] Wants Your Riddims
- Now Playing4minCho Cho Cho (Music Video) filmed in Goma, Congo
- Now Playing2minField Trip: Prison Beats
- Now Playing3minGet Your Drums Right
- Now Playing10minHeartbeats of Fiji
- Now Playing2minMashup: National Anthems
- Now Playing5minBehind the Beat: Portobelo
- Now Playing2minWhat's In the Backpack?
Infinite Series
- Now Playing14minCan We Combine pi & e to Make a Rational Number?
- Now Playing11minCan We Hear Shapes?
- Now Playing12minHow Infinity Explains the Finite
- Now Playing8minThe Multiplication Multiverse
- Now Playing14minSolving the Wolverine Problem with Graph Coloring
- Now Playing8minA Breakthrough in Higher Dimensional Spheres
- Now Playing10minInstant Insanity Puzzle
- Now Playing11minCan We Hear Shapes?
- Now Playing11minWhat are Numbers Made of?
- Now Playing14minWhy Computers are Bad at Algebra
- Now Playing14minInfinite Chess
- Now Playing11minTopology vs "a" Topology
- Now Playing13minNetwork Mathematics and Rival Factions | Infinite Series
- Now Playing10minUnraveling DNA with Rational Tangles
- Now Playing11minVoting Systems and the Condorcet Paradox
- Now Playing12minProving Pick's Theorem
- Now Playing10minThe Mathematics of Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange
- Now Playing9minCan You Solve the Poison Wine Challenge?
- Now Playing9minAssociahedra: The Shapes of Multiplication
- Now Playing14minTopology Riddles | Infinite Series
Idea Channel
- Now Playing9minIs a DOS Attack a Weapon?
- Now Playing3minAn Interview with Minecraft EDU Creator Joel Levin
- Now Playing4minThe Bronies Phenomenon
- Now Playing6minShould "Happy Birthday" be Protected by Copyright?
- Now Playing6minIs Doctor Who a Religion?
- Now Playing5minIs Homestuck the Ulysses of the Internet?
- Now Playing5minThere's No Such Thing as Online?!?
- Now Playing5minA Visit to Mr. Monfre's Class
- Now Playing6minThe Retro Awesomeness of Adventure Time
- Now Playing5minIs CSS and Website Design a Fashion Statement?
- Now Playing5minAre Olympic Competitors Geniuses?
- Now Playing9minIs the Universe a Computer?
- Now Playing5minHow will the Animated GIF affect the Presidential Election?
- Now Playing9minCan Video Games Become the Next Spectator Sport?
- Now Playing8minDo Knock-Offs Prove the Value of a Brand?
- Now Playing4minAre Mashups the End of Music Genres?
- 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 Playing3minIs the Web Browser Replacing the Art Gallery?