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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 Playing4minWhat Is Fire?
- Now Playing5minWhen Is It Winter On Other Planets?
- Now Playing6minHow Habits are Formed
- Now Playing6minYour Climate Conscience - feat. Al Gore
- Now Playing4minHow The Elements Got Their Names
- Now Playing12min7 Scientific Urban Legends Debunked!
- Now Playing5minI Don't Think You're Ready for These Jellies
- Now Playing10minIs There Life on Earth
- Now Playing3minHow Do Squirrels Find Their Nuts?
- Now Playing7minEinstein Was Right: Gravitational Waves Edition
- Now Playing6minDoomsday Machines
- Now Playing5min5 Weird Involuntary Behaviors Explained!
- Now Playing6minThe Raisin Bran Effect
- Now Playing7minZombie Parasites!
- Now Playing2minIs Evolution Random? - 12 Days of Evolution #2
- Now Playing6minWhat is Luck?
- Now Playing5minAre You Smarter Than A Slime Mold?
- Now Playing4minOrchid Mantis: Looks That Kill
- Now Playing3minWhat is Wind?
- Now Playing6minHow Atom Bombs Can Uncover Forged Art
Origin of Everything
- Now Playing11minWhat is Racial Passing?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do People Have Pets?
- Now Playing6minWhy Do We Have Middle Names?
- Now Playing12minSix Historically True Facts about Money
- Now Playing8minWhy Do We Eat Artificial Flavors?
- Now Playing12minWhy Do We Have Housing Projects?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do We Get Grades in School?
- Now Playing9minWhy Do We Drink Milk in School?
- Now Playing10minWhat is Ethnicity?
- Now Playing7minWhy Does Santa Wear Red?
- Now Playing9minThe Origin of Gender
- Now Playing7minThe True Origin of Killer Clowns
- Now Playing8minWhy Did Europeans Enslave Africans?
- Now Playing9minThe Origin of Gender
- Now Playing8minWhere does the Nuclear Family Come From?
- Now Playing9minWhy Do All Malls Look the Same?
- Now Playing10minThe 2nd Amendment Explained
- Now Playing11minWhy Do So Many Religions Have Headwear?
- Now Playing7minWhy Do We Eat Popcorn at The Movies?
- Now Playing10minWhy Do We Have Hobbies?
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 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 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 Playing9minAdze: the Shapeshifting Firefly from West Africa
- Now Playing17minAlien Abduction and UFOs: Why Are Grays So Common?
Eons
- Now Playing5minWhen Whales Walked
- Now Playing8minWhen Birds Stopped Flying
- Now Playing11minFrom the Cambrian Explosion to the Great Dying
- Now Playing6minDimetrodon: Our Most Unlikely Ancestor
- Now Playing12minWhen a Billion Years Disappeared
- Now Playing9minThe Rise and Fall of the Bone-Crushing Dogs
- Now Playing12minWhat Was the Ancestor of Everything?
- Now Playing10minWhy The Paleo Diet Couldn't Save The Neanderthals
- Now Playing14minThe History of Climate Cycles (and the Woolly Rhino)
- Now Playing9minWhen Fish First Breathed Air
- Now Playing11minWhen We First Walked
- Now Playing10minWhen Humans Were Prey
- Now Playing10minLife, Sex & Death Among the Dire Wolves
- Now Playing11minWhy Megalodon (Definitely) Went Extinct
- Now Playing6minThe Time Terror Birds Invaded
- Now Playing8minWhen Dinosaur Look-Alikes Ruled the Earth
- Now Playing7minWhen Giant Deer Roamed Eurasia
- Now Playing8minHow Plate Tectonics Gave Us Seahorses
- Now Playing10minWhen Fish Wore Armor
- Now Playing8minWhat Happened to the World's Greatest Ape?
Hot Mess
- Now Playing6minWhat If We Burned All The World's Fossil Fuels?
- Now Playing6minHow To Suck Carbon Dioxide Out of the Sky
- Now Playing10minFeeling Guilty About Climate Change feat. Hank Green
- Now Playing7minWhat's The Best Car For The Climate?
- Now Playing6minWhat Indigenous Communities Teach Us About Climate Change
- Now Playing10minAre You Scared Enough? feat. David Wallace-Wells
- Now Playing5minWhy Climate Change is Unjust
- Now Playing10minFeeling Guilty About Climate Change feat. Hank Green
- Now Playing6minWill Big Oil Have To Pay Up Like Big Tobacco?
- Now Playing6minCan We Get Solar Power To Everyone Who Wants It?
- Now Playing6minWhat If We Burned All The World's Fossil Fuels?
- Now Playing5minWho Should Pay To Fix Climate Change?
- Now Playing5minClimate change will push millions out. Where will they go?
- Now Playing5minWhy Don't We Hear About the Ozone Hole Anymore?
- Now Playing7minHow To Make Clothes Less Terrible for the Planet
- Now Playing6minHow To Suck Carbon Dioxide Out of the Sky
- Now Playing5minWho Should Pay To Fix Climate Change?
- 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
Space Time
- Now Playing13minDid Dark Energy Just Disappear?
- Now Playing9minThe Real Meaning of E=mc²
- Now Playing15minWhy Is 1/137 One of the Greatest Unsolved Problems
- Now Playing11minS2: How the Quantum Eraser Rewrites the Past
- Now Playing13minHorizon Radiation
- Now Playing13minQuantum Theory's Most Incredible Prediction
- Now Playing8minWhat Happens At The Edge Of The Universe?
- Now Playing15minDid Life on Earth Come from Space?
- Now Playing9minThe Great American Eclipse
- Now Playing15minThe Holographic Universe Explained
- Now Playing9minWhy the Big Bang Definitely Happened
- Now Playing15minIs Interstellar Travel Impossible?
- Now Playing14minWhy String Theory is Right
- Now Playing17minHow Does the Earth Really Move Through The Galaxy?
- Now Playing16minWhat If Gravity is Not A Fundamental Force?
- Now Playing16minWhat If The Speed of Light is NOT CONSTANT?
- Now Playing12minThe Missing Mass Mystery
- Now Playing11minWill A New Neutrino Change The Standard Model?
- Now Playing9min5 Ways to Stop a Killer Asteroid
- Now Playing11minS2: The Quantum Experiment that Broke Reality
Beat Making Lab
- 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
- Now Playing3minGet Your Drums Right
- Now Playing2minField Trip: Prison Beats
- Now Playing2minMashup: National Anthems
- Now Playing10minHeartbeats of Fiji
- Now Playing4minCho Cho Cho (Music Video) filmed in Goma, Congo
- Now Playing2minWalshy Fire [of Major Lazer] Wants Your Riddims
- 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 Playing3minProf. Angel Sound Prison Beats Interview
- Now Playing3min#FijiChallenge w/ Walshy Fire of Major Lazer
- Now Playing4minPortobelo (music video)
- Now Playing3minBehind The Beat: First Beat Making Lab (2011)
- Now Playing3minSampling w/ Flip Flops and Ski Beatz
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 Playing10minThe Assassin Puzzle
- Now Playing9minHow Many Humans Have the Same Number of Body Hairs?
- 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 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 Playing12minThe Honeycombs of 4-Dimensional Bees ft. Joe Hanson
- Now Playing10minThe Assassin Puzzle
Idea Channel
- Now Playing9minIs Community a Postmodern Masterpiece?
- Now Playing8minIs Piracy Helping Game of Thrones?
- Now Playing4minIs Twitter the Newest Form of Literature?
- Now Playing3minWhat Makes a Pop Star Authentic?
- Now Playing4minThe Bronies Phenomenon
- 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 Playing6minAre Virtual Video Game Economies Becoming Real?
- Now Playing6minIs Futurama the Best Argument Against Transhumanism?
- Now Playing3minSuper Mario Brothers as Surrealist Art?
- 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 Playing8minIs Developing Artificial Intelligence (AI) Ethical?
- Now Playing3minIs the Web Browser Replacing the Art Gallery?