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- Now Playing13minWhat's The Universe's Strongest Particle Accelerator?
- Now Playing9minThe Surprising Power of Sex in Evolution
- Now Playing14minCan Black Holes Unify General Relativity & Quantum Mechanics?
- Now Playing11minHas Streaming Made It Harder to Find New Music You Love?
- Now Playing21minInterstellar Expansion WITHOUT Faster Than Light Travel
- Now Playing9minThe Second Time Sponges Took Over The World
- Now Playing12minIs This North American Sea Serpent Real or a Hoax?
- Now Playing13minComputers Can Predict When You're Going to Die... Here's How
- Now Playing10minHow Do You Preserve a Thousands Year Old Musical Style?
- Now Playing14minWhy This Mexican Genre Is Growing As Fast As K-Pop
It's Okay to Be Smart
- Now Playing7minWhy Don't Ants Get Stuck in Traffic
- Now Playing3minEight Incredible Deep Sea Oddities
- Now Playing7minThe Most Important Moment in the History of Life
- Now Playing6minWhy Nature Loves Hexagons (featuring Infinite Series!)
- Now Playing6minThe Surprising Reason We Eat Spicy Food
- Now Playing7minZombie Parasites!
- Now Playing6minThe Raisin Bran Effect
- Now Playing2minIs Evolution Random? - 12 Days of Evolution #2
- Now Playing6minWhat is Luck?
- Now Playing5minAre You Smarter Than A Slime Mold?
- Now Playing3minWhat is Wind?
- Now Playing4minOrchid Mantis: Looks That Kill
- Now Playing6minHow Atom Bombs Can Uncover Forged Art
- Now Playing8minHow Big is the Solar System?
- Now Playing7minWhere Do Teeth Come From?
- 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 Playing3minHow Do Squirrels Find Their Nuts?
Origin of Everything
- Now Playing7minWhen Men Wore High Heels
- Now Playing12minWhy Doesn't the US Have Paid Parental Leave?
- Now Playing10minWhat is Ethnicity?
- Now Playing10minWhy Does the Government Need to Know My Race?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do We Get Grades in School?
- Now Playing7minIs Poisoned Halloween Candy a Myth?
- Now Playing7minHistory of the Word "Gay"
- Now Playing10minHow Did Martin Luther King Jr. Get a Holiday?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do Women Give Birth Lying Down?
- Now Playing10minWhat is Cultural Appropriation?
- Now Playing12minWhy Do Schools Teach Sex Education?
- Now Playing7minHow did Makeup, WWII, & Communism Create U.S. Healthcare?
- Now Playing7minHow Your Rubber Ducky Explains Colonialism
- Now Playing10minIs Breakfast the Most Important Meal?
- Now Playing8minWhy is there a North and South Korea?
- Now Playing7minHow Columbus Invented Cannibals
- Now Playing10minWhy was Pink for Boys and Blue for Girls?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do People Have Pets?
- Now Playing11minWhy Do We Have Private Prisons?
- Now Playing8minWhy Was Crossdressing Illegal?
Two Cents
- Now Playing6minHow Do You Actually Buy A House?
- Now Playing8min5 Ways People Are Dumb About Money
- Now Playing8minAre "Free" Video Games Really Free?
- Now Playing6minWhat is The Cost of Pet Ownership?
- Now Playing6minShould I Buy Bitcoin?
- Now Playing4minWhat is the DOW?
- Now Playing6minThe Ugly Truth About Airline Miles
- Now Playing6minShould You Break Up With Your Big Bank?
- Now Playing6minDoes Wealth Make You Meaner?
- Now Playing6minWhat the Heck Are Mutual Funds?
- Now Playing5minBudgeting Basics
- Now Playing7minIs the Stock Market Just a Big Casino?
- Now Playing5minHow are credit scores calculated?
- Now Playing8min5 Strange Investor Crazes!
- Now Playing5minHow Do Your Tax Dollars Get Spent?
- Now Playing6minDo I Need To Buy A House?
- Now Playing7minIs It Even POSSIBLE to Save for Retirement?
- Now Playing7minLove and Money
- Now Playing6minWomen Financial Superpowers
- Now Playing6minMoving Without Spending a Fortune
Monstrum
- Now Playing11minWhy Has the Majestic Griffin Been Forgotten?
- Now Playing11minThe Macabre Origins of the Grim Reaper
- Now Playing12minHow Gargoyles Became Monsters
- Now Playing18minUnlocking the Mystery of Loch Ness
- Now Playing9minThe Hidden Origins of Nixie, the Scariest Little Mermaid
- Now Playing6minThe Original Headless Horseman
- Now Playing11minIs Siren Head the Ultimate Modern Monster?
- Now Playing17minTrolls: Scandinavia's Malevolent, Magical Outcasts
- Now Playing12minWho Is This Japanese Yōkai That Is Obsessed With Your Butt?
- Now Playing13minMonster Plants and the Humans who Invent Them
- Now Playing10minEl Silbón: The Deadly Whistler of the Grasslands
- Now Playing10minSlender Man: How The Internet Created a Monster
- Now Playing17minThe Origins of the Zombie, from Haiti to the U.S.
- Now Playing10minHow a Children's Book Introduced Us To Our Inner Demons
- Now Playing10minA Giant Monster With a Giant Problem
- Now Playing14minHero, Beast, or Both? The Complex Lore of the Centaur
- Now Playing20minWhy George Romero Changed Zombies Forever
- Now Playing9minKrampus: Origins of the Yuletide Monster
- Now Playing7minWhat Dragons Say About Us
- Now Playing12minBeyond the Supernatural Horror of the Nishi Daak Ghost
Eons
- Now Playing10minHow a Supervolcano Made the Cenozoic's Coolest Fossils
- Now Playing11minWhy Only Earth Has Fire
- Now Playing6minLiving Fossils' Aren't Really a Thing
- Now Playing9minThe Curious Case of the Cave Lion
- Now Playing11minNo Single Cradle of Humankind
- Now Playing13minWhen We Met Other Human Species
- Now Playing10minWhen Camels Roamed North America
- Now Playing10minHow a Supervolcano Ignited an Evolutionary Debate
- Now Playing8minHow the Chalicothere Split In Two
- Now Playing10minHow Worm Holes Ended Wormworld
- Now Playing8minThe Weird, Watery Tale of Spinosaurus
- Now Playing12minThat Time the Mediterranean Sea Disappeared
- Now Playing10minWhy Triassic Animals Were Just the Weirdest
- Now Playing10minWhen Did We Stop Being Naked?
- Now Playing8minThe Traits That Spawned the Age of Mammals
- Now Playing10minWhy Triassic Animals Were Just the Weirdest
- Now Playing9minHow Ancient Microbes Rode Bug Bits Out to Sea
- Now Playing8minThe Mystery of the Eocene's Lethal Lake
- Now Playing13minA Brief History of Geologic Time
- Now Playing7minHow the Smallest Animal Got So Simple
Hot Mess
- 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 Playing5minWho Should Pay To Fix Climate Change?
- Now Playing6minHow To Suck Carbon Dioxide Out of the Sky
- 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 Playing5minWhy Climate Change is Unjust
- Now Playing10minAre You Scared Enough? feat. David Wallace-Wells
- Now Playing10minFeeling Guilty About Climate Change feat. Hank Green
- 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?
Space Time
- Now Playing14minIs The Wave Function The Building Block of Reality?
- Now Playing14minThe Big Bang, Cosmology part 1: Crash Course Astronomy #42
- Now Playing12minThe Alchemy of Neutron Star Collisions
- Now Playing11minNo Dark Matter = Proof of Dark Matter?
- Now Playing9minCan a Circle Be a Straight Line?
- Now Playing15minDeep Time: Crash Course Astronomy #45
- Now Playing7minHow to Signal Aliens
- Now Playing14minAre Dark Matter And Dark Energy The Same?
- Now Playing9minIs There a Fifth Fundamental Force? + Quantum Eraser Answer
- Now Playing16minWas the Gravitational Wave Background Finally Discovered?!?
- Now Playing10minHow to Capture Ghost Particles
- Now Playing10minTelescopes of Tomorrow
- Now Playing11minHow Cosmic Inflation Flattened the Universe
- Now Playing11minMartian Evolution
- Now Playing11minWhy is the Earth Round and the Milky Way Flat?
- Now Playing14minCould the Higgs Boson Lead Us to Dark Matter?
- Now Playing11minFirst Detection of Life
- Now Playing12minHow Do We Know What Stars Are Made Of?
- Now Playing12minSolving the Impossible in Quantum Field Theory
- Now Playing10minZero-Point Energy Demystified
Beat Making Lab
- 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
- Now Playing3minProf. Angel Sound Prison Beats Interview
- Now Playing3min#FijiChallenge w/ Walshy Fire of Major Lazer
- 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
Infinite Series
- Now Playing8minHow to Divide by "Zero"
- Now Playing10minUnraveling DNA with Rational Tangles
- Now Playing9minHow Many Humans Have the Same Number of Body Hairs?
- Now Playing12minThe Honeycombs of 4-Dimensional Bees ft. Joe Hanson
- Now Playing14minTopology Riddles | Infinite Series
- Now Playing9minHow Many Humans Have the Same Number of Body Hairs?
- Now Playing10minThe Assassin Puzzle
- Now Playing14minInfinite Chess
- Now Playing11minVoting Systems and the Condorcet Paradox
- Now Playing15minDissecting Hypercubes with Pascal's Triangle
- Now Playing9minBeyond the Golden Ratio
- Now Playing11minSingularities Explained
- Now Playing15minArrow's Impossibility Theorem
- Now Playing9minA Hierarchy of Infinities
- Now Playing10minWhat Does It Mean to Be a Number? (The Peano Axioms)
- Now Playing11minThe Geometry of SET
- Now Playing15minArrow's Impossibility Theorem
- Now Playing14minBuilding an Infinite Bridge
- Now Playing13minThe Mathematics of Quantum Computers
- Now Playing8minA Breakthrough in Higher Dimensional Spheres
Idea Channel
- Now Playing4minIs Twitter the Newest Form of Literature?
- Now Playing4minHas the Microsoft Kinect revolutionized art?
- Now Playing5minNicolas Cage, Taoism, and YOLO
- Now Playing9minWill Kickstarter Replace Hollywood?
- Now Playing4minFrom Sherlock Holmes to 50 Shades of Grey
- Now Playing3minIs the Web Browser Replacing the Art Gallery?
- Now Playing8minIs a Tagged Instagram More Than Just a Photo?
- Now Playing5minAre Memes and Internet Culture Creating a Singularity?
- Now Playing5minIs William Gibson A Modern Day Oracle?
- Now Playing6minIs Minecraft the Ultimate Educational Tool?
- Now Playing7minHow are Justin Bieber, Franz Liszt and Jerusalem Connected?
- Now Playing5minAre Olympic Competitors Geniuses?
- Now Playing4minAre LOLCats and Internet Memes Art?
- Now Playing4minRussian Meteorites and Surveillance Culture
- Now Playing5minIs William Gibson A Modern Day Oracle?
- Now Playing4minAre Mashups the End of Music Genres?
- Now Playing6minIs Doctor Who a Religion?
- Now Playing6minShould "Happy Birthday" be Protected by Copyright?
- Now Playing6minThe Retro Awesomeness of Adventure Time
- Now Playing5minThere's No Such Thing as Online?!?