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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 Playing6minAsteroid Mining: Our Ticket To Living Off Earth?
- Now Playing5minIs Big Data Getting Too Big?
- Now Playing4minThe Cosmic Afterglow
- Now Playing5minIs Big Data Getting Too Big?
- Now Playing5minEvolution: The Book Of Life
- Now Playing5minShould You Eat Everyday?
- Now Playing6minPigeon Story: How the Rock Dove Became the Sky Rat
- Now Playing6minHow Do Bees Make Honey?
- Now Playing6minWhy Are There As Many Males As Females?
- Now Playing6minWhy Do Clouds Stay Up?
- Now Playing9minWhat If You Never Forgot Anything?
- Now Playing5minWhy Does The Earth Have Layers?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do We Have to Sleep
- Now Playing5minThe Auroras
- Now Playing6minWhy Do We Cook?
- Now Playing2minCan Evolution Make an Eye? - 12 Days of Evolution #4
- Now Playing7minHow the Meter Became The Meter
- Now Playing4minA Slice of Pizza Science!
- Now Playing13minWhere Did Life Come From? (feat. PBS Space Time and Eons!)
- Now Playing6minWhat's REALLY Warming the Earth?
Origin of Everything
- Now Playing6minWhy it Was Illegal to be Ugly?
- Now Playing10minWould You Have Joined the American Revolution?
- Now Playing11minWhy Are We Obsessed with Cults?
- Now Playing9minWhat If There Were No Taxes?
- Now Playing10minThe Origin of Race in the USA
- Now Playing9minHow Did Edison Invent Christmas Lights?
- Now Playing5minWhat Was Jesus' Real Name?
- Now Playing11minWhy Do We Have Private Prisons?
- Now Playing10minDo Standardized Tests Do More Harm Than Good?
- Now Playing10minHow Did Makeup Ads Go From Style to Science?
- Now Playing8minWhere does the Nuclear Family Come From?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do We Wash Our Hands After Going to the Bathroom?
- Now Playing7minWhy Are There So Few Women in Computer Science?
- Now Playing6minWhy Do We Have Middle Names?
- Now Playing10min6 Weird Facts About the History of Birth Control
- Now Playing10minWhy Do We Have Hobbies?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do Kids Have Their Own Bedrooms?
- Now Playing8minWhere Does the #Hashtag Symbol Come From?
- Now Playing11minWhy Does the Government Pay for Art?
- Now Playing10minWhy Does the Government Need to Know My Race?
Two Cents
- Now Playing6minDo I Need To Buy A House?
- Now Playing7minIs It Even POSSIBLE to Save for Retirement?
- Now Playing7minLove and Money
- Now Playing6minMoving Without Spending a Fortune
- Now Playing6minWomen Financial Superpowers
- Now Playing5minHow Cars Can Keep You Poor
- Now Playing6minHacking Your Brain to Get Out Of Debt
- Now Playing6minWhat Are The Most Lucrative Trades?
- Now Playing7minCan You Really Retire in Your 30s?
- Now Playing5minHow are credit scores calculated?
- Now Playing8min5 Strange Investor Crazes!
- Now Playing5minHow Do Your Tax Dollars Get Spent?
- 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 Playing6minHow Do You Actually Buy A House?
Monstrum
- Now Playing10minTikbálang: The Filipino Nightmare Shapeshifter
- Now Playing13minUnicorns: Magical Icons or Violent Beasts?
- Now Playing9minPost-Dracula Vampires: From Anne Rice to Twilight
- Now Playing12minWhat Hellhounds Reveal about Humans' Oldest Companion
- Now Playing12minAre Cyborgs Really Monsters?
- Now Playing17minAlien Abduction and UFOs: Why Are Grays So Common?
- Now Playing9minAdze: the Shapeshifting Firefly from West Africa
- Now Playing26minThe Killer Origins of the Werewolf
- Now Playing11minMapinguari: Fearsome Beast and Protector of the Amazon
- Now Playing12minHave Humans Always Feared Sharks?
- Now Playing13minFire Cat or Fire Cart? The History of Japan's Kasha
- 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 Playing7minAre White Walkers Really Nordic Zombies?
- Now Playing14minThe Untold Secrets of Pokémon's Monster Mythology
- Now Playing7minRelease the Kraken!
- Now Playing12minTaotie: The Mystery of Chinese Mythology's Famous Glutton
- Now Playing12minDon't Let Them In! The Urban Legends of Black-Eyed Children
- Now Playing15minEgyptian Mummies: From Sacred Vessels to Scary Undead
Eons
- Now Playing11minWhy Megalodon (Definitely) Went Extinct
- Now Playing9minWhen Fish First Breathed Air
- Now Playing14minThe History of Climate Cycles (and the Woolly Rhino)
- Now Playing10minLife, Sex & Death Among the Dire Wolves
- Now Playing10minWhen Humans Were Prey
- Now Playing11minWhen We First Walked
- Now Playing10minWhy The Paleo Diet Couldn't Save The Neanderthals
- Now Playing12minWhat Was the Ancestor of Everything?
- Now Playing6minDimetrodon: Our Most Unlikely Ancestor
- Now Playing9minThe Rise and Fall of the Bone-Crushing Dogs
- Now Playing12minWhen a Billion Years Disappeared
- Now Playing11minFrom the Cambrian Explosion to the Great Dying
- Now Playing8minWhen Birds Stopped Flying
- Now Playing5minWhen Whales Walked
- Now Playing13minAn Illustrated History of Dinosaurs
- Now Playing13minHow Evolution Works (And How We Figured It Out)
- Now Playing9minThe Fungi That Turned Ants Into Zombies
- Now Playing10minThe Facts About Dinosaurs & Feathers
- Now Playing9minWhen Rodents Had Horns
- Now Playing11minHow a Mass Extinction Changed Our Brains
Hot Mess
- Now Playing5minWhy We Confuse Weather and Climate
- Now Playing6minCoral Reefs Are Dying. But They Don't Have To.
- Now Playing4minHow Much Energy Does the Internet Use?
- Now Playing5minWhy Climate Change is Unjust
- Now Playing7minWhat's The Best Car For The Climate?
- Now Playing5minWhat Happened to Nuclear Power?
- Now Playing3minCould climate change make you allergic to meat?
- Now Playing6minWould Your Neighbors Save You From a Flooding Home?
- Now Playing11minClimate Change is Too Big for our Brains feat. Mike Rugnetta
- Now Playing6minCoral Reefs Are Dying. But They Don't Have To.
- Now Playing12minOur Food System is Rigged feat. Sheril Kirshenbaum
- Now Playing13minThe Rise of Climate Fiction feat. Lindsay Ellis & Amy Brady
- Now Playing4minHow Much Energy Does the Internet Use?
- Now Playing5minWhat Happened to Nuclear Power?
- Now Playing8minHow One Conservative Texas Town Went 100% Renewable
- Now Playing6minWill Big Oil Have To Pay Up Like Big Tobacco?
- Now Playing5minWhat's actually the worst greenhouse gas?
- Now Playing5minCan Farms and Forests Coexist?
- Now Playing4minWhy Are Hurricanes Getting Stronger?
- Now Playing6minWill Big Oil Have To Pay Up Like Big Tobacco?
Space Time
- 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 Playing11minWhy Quantum Information is Never Destroyed
- Now Playing13minThe Many Worlds of the Quantum Multiverse
- Now Playing9minThe Great American Eclipse
- Now Playing12minS2: Planck's Constant and The Origin of Quantum Mechanics
- 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 Playing11minAre You a Boltzmann Brain?
- Now Playing10minQuantum Vortices and Superconductivity + Challenge Answers
- Now Playing12minThe Black Hole Information Paradox
- Now Playing13minDark Flow
- Now Playing12minNeutron Stars Collide in New LIGO Signal?
- Now Playing6minCould You Fart Your Way to the Moon?
Beat Making Lab
- Now Playing4minCho Cho Cho (Music Video) filmed in Goma, Congo
- Now Playing2minWalshy Fire [of Major Lazer] Wants Your Riddims
- Now Playing5minBehind the Beat: Portobelo
- Now Playing2minWhat's In the Backpack?
- Now Playing3minBeat Making Challenge #1: Accordion Trap
- Now Playing3minPanama: Meet the Kids Behind the Beats
- Now Playing2minField Trip: Prison Beats
- Now Playing3minGet Your Drums Right
- Now Playing10minHeartbeats of Fiji
- Now Playing2minMashup: National Anthems
- Now Playing3minBehind The Beat: First Beat Making Lab (2011)
- Now Playing4minPortobelo (music video)
- Now Playing3minSampling w/ Flip Flops and Ski Beatz
- Now Playing2minHealth Worker Beat
- Now Playing4minTrapped In Paradise
- 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
Infinite Series
- Now Playing9minA Hierarchy of Infinities
- Now Playing15minArrow's Impossibility Theorem
- Now Playing15minDissecting Hypercubes with Pascal's Triangle
- Now Playing11minVoting Systems and the Condorcet Paradox
- Now Playing14minInfinite Chess
- Now Playing11minSingularities Explained
- Now Playing9minBeyond the Golden Ratio
- Now Playing8minHow to Divide by "Zero"
- Now Playing14minTopology Riddles | Infinite Series
- Now Playing12minThe Honeycombs of 4-Dimensional Bees ft. Joe Hanson
- Now Playing9minHow Many Humans Have the Same Number of Body Hairs?
- Now Playing10minUnraveling DNA with Rational Tangles
- Now Playing10minThe Assassin Puzzle
- Now Playing9minHow Many Humans Have the Same Number of Body Hairs?
- Now Playing16minHow to Break Cryptography
- Now Playing9minThis Video was Not Encrypted with RSA
- Now Playing13minWhat is a Random Walk?
- Now Playing14minHow Big are All Infinities Combined? (Cantor's Paradox)
- Now Playing11minSingularities Explained
- Now Playing10minThe Assassin Puzzle
Idea Channel
- Now Playing9minIs the Universe a Computer?
- Now Playing5minHow will the Animated GIF affect the Presidential Election?
- Now Playing5minIs CSS and Website Design a Fashion Statement?
- Now Playing5minAre Olympic Competitors Geniuses?
- Now Playing6minWhat Do Santa and Wrestling Have In Common?
- Now Playing5minIs Facebook Changing Our Identity?
- Now Playing6minWhat do MP3s and Magic Spells Have in Common?
- Now Playing4minAre Mashups the End of Music Genres?
- Now Playing8minDo Knock-Offs Prove the Value of a Brand?
- Now Playing9minCan Video Games Become the Next Spectator Sport?
- Now Playing4minThe Bronies Phenomenon
- Now Playing3minAn Interview with Minecraft EDU Creator Joel Levin
- Now Playing9minIs a DOS Attack a Weapon?
- Now Playing5minA Visit to Mr. Monfre's Class
- Now Playing5minThere's No Such Thing as Online?!?
- Now Playing5minIs Homestuck the Ulysses of the Internet?
- Now Playing6minThe Retro Awesomeness of Adventure Time
- Now Playing6minShould "Happy Birthday" be Protected by Copyright?
- Now Playing6minIs Doctor Who a Religion?
- Now Playing4minAre Mashups the End of Music Genres?