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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 Playing5minSolving the Puzzle of Plate Tectonics
- Now Playing4minOrchid Mantis: Looks That Kill
- Now Playing7minWhy Do You Love Your Family?
- Now Playing7minEngines of Destruction: How Hurricanes Work
- Now Playing5minMuch A-Do About Hair
- Now Playing7minWhy Vaccines Work
- Now Playing8minHow Big is the Solar System?
- Now Playing7minWe Got Ants In Our Plants!
- Now Playing4minHow Many Stars Are There?
- Now Playing10minThe Impossible Hugeness of Deep Time
- Now Playing7minYour Salad Is Trying To Kill You
- Now Playing11minWhy Are So Many People Allergic To Food?
- Now Playing5minHow Many Species Are There?
- Now Playing9minThe Sixth Extinction
- Now Playing5minDo Animals Mourn Their Dead?
- Now Playing6min100,000,000 Years From Now
- Now Playing7minSonic the Hedgehog Is Why You Have Thumbs!
- Now Playing4minMy Date With A Giant Pacific Octopus!
- Now Playing7minWhat is Farthest Away?
- Now Playing2minEvolution Is Dumb - 12 Days of Evolution #6
Origin of Everything
- Now Playing9minThe Origin of Gender
- Now Playing8minWhy Did Europeans Enslave Africans?
- Now Playing7minThe True Origin of Killer Clowns
- Now Playing8minWhere does the Nuclear Family Come From?
- Now Playing9minWhy Do All Malls Look the Same?
- Now Playing9minThe Origin of Gender
- Now Playing7minWhy Do We Eat Popcorn at The Movies?
- Now Playing10minWhy Do We Have Hobbies?
- Now Playing11minWhy Do So Many Religions Have Headwear?
- Now Playing10minThe 2nd Amendment Explained
- Now Playing12minSix Historically True Facts about Money
- Now Playing8minWhy Do People Have Pets?
- Now Playing6minWhy Do We Have Middle Names?
- Now Playing11minWhat is Racial Passing?
- Now Playing12minWhy Do We Have Housing Projects?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do We Eat Artificial Flavors?
- Now Playing10minWhat is Ethnicity?
- Now Playing9minWhy Do We Drink Milk in School?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do We Get Grades in School?
- Now Playing7minWhy Does Santa Wear Red?
Two Cents
- Now Playing7minWhy It's More Expensive To Be Poor
- Now Playing6minTop 5 Biggest Financial Scams
- Now Playing7minShould I Invest In Cannabis Stocks?
- Now Playing7minWhat's The Real Cost of Dying?
- Now Playing6minHow to Ask for a Raise
- Now Playing7minMoney, A Global Game of Trust
- Now Playing6minFighting the Wedding Industrial Complex
- Now Playing6minIs My Identity Safe From Hackers?
- Now Playing7minWhich College Majors Give the Most Bang for Your Buck?
- Now Playing7minIs Your Side Hustle Hustling You?
- Now Playing5minDo Kids Need to Learn About Money?
- Now Playing7minHow Retailers Stalk You Online
- Now Playing5minInsta-Everything
- Now Playing7minFighting the Financial Pitfalls of the Supermarket
- Now Playing9minHow Smart Entrepreneurs Think About PRICES!
- Now Playing6minI'm Young & Healthy, Can I Skip Health Insurance?
- Now Playing5minHow Do Your Tax Dollars Get Spent?
- Now Playing8min5 Strange Investor Crazes!
- Now Playing5minHow are credit scores calculated?
- Now Playing6minHacking Your Brain to Get Out Of Debt
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 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 Playing11minMapinguari: Fearsome Beast and Protector of the Amazon
- Now Playing12minHave Humans Always Feared Sharks?
- 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 Playing7minWhat Dragons Say About Us
Eons
- Now Playing8minThese Fossils Were Supposed To Be Impossible
- Now Playing10minWhen Rodents Rafted Across the Ocean
- Now Playing6minHow Sex Became A Thing
- Now Playing9minWhat a Dinosaur Looks Like Under a Microscope
- Now Playing7minThe Great Snake Debate
- Now Playing12minWhen We Tamed Fire
- Now Playing10minWhen Camels Roamed North America
- Now Playing6minHow Did Dinosaurs Get So Huge?
- Now Playing6minThe Story of Saberteeth
- Now Playing8minHow We Domesticated Cats (Twice)
- Now Playing9minHow Vertebrates Got Teeth... And Lost Them Again
- Now Playing8minHow Dinosaurs Coupled Up
- Now Playing9minThe First and Last North American Primates
- Now Playing9minWhen Insects First Flew
- Now Playing9minThe Fuzzy Origins of the Giant Panda
- Now Playing4minThe Strange Case of the Buzzsaw Jaws
- Now Playing10minThe Last Time the Globe Warmed
- Now Playing12minWhat Was the Ancestor of Everything?
- Now Playing10minHow Horses Took Over North America (Twice)
- Now Playing11minWhen We First Walked
Hot Mess
- 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 Playing6minWhat if Carbon Emissions Stopped Tomorrow?
- Now Playing5minWe've Ignored Climate Change For More Than a Century
- Now Playing4minWhy Are Hurricanes Getting Stronger?
- Now Playing5minWhat the Cutest Animal Can Teach Us About Saving Ourselves
- Now Playing5minWhat's actually the worst greenhouse gas?
- Now Playing5minWhat Can You Actually Do About Climate Change?
- Now Playing5minHow A Sticker Kept 3 Billion Tons of CO2 Out of The Air
- Now Playing5minBeef Is Bad For The Climate. Can We Make It Better?
- Now Playing5minClimate change will push millions out. Where will they go?
- Now Playing6minWhat if Carbon Emissions Stopped Tomorrow?
- Now Playing11minClimate Change is Too Big for our Brains feat. Mike Rugnetta
- Now Playing6minWhat Indigenous Communities Teach Us About Climate Change
- Now Playing7minHow To Make Clothes Less Terrible for the Planet
- Now Playing5minHow A Sticker Kept 3 Billion Tons of CO2 Out of The Air
- Now Playing9minHow to Talk About Climate Change
- Now Playing8minHow One Conservative Texas Town Went 100% Renewable
- Now Playing5minWhy We Confuse Weather and Climate
Space Time
- Now Playing13minWhy Did Attosecond Physics Win the Nobel Prize?
- Now Playing11minThe Unruh Effect
- Now Playing13minSound Waves from the Beginning of Time
- Now Playing14minHow Many States Of Matter Are There?
- Now Playing14minHow We Know The Earth Is Ancient
- Now Playing15minThe Real Possibility of Mapping Alien Planets!
- Now Playing15minCan The Crisis in Cosmology Be Solved With Cosmic Voids?
- Now Playing17minWhat's Your Brain's Role in Creating Space & Time?
- Now Playing12minNeutron Stars Collide in New LIGO Signal?
- Now Playing11minExtraterrestrial Superstorms
- Now Playing13minCan Space Be Infinitely Divided?
- Now Playing16minHow Are Quasiparticles Different From Particles?
- Now Playing12minThe Nature of Nothing
- Now Playing11minSupervoids vs Colliding Universes!
- Now Playing13minThe Secrets of Feynman Diagrams
- Now Playing6minHow Do You Measure the Size of the Universe?
- Now Playing9minWhat's the Most Realistic Artificial Gravity in Sci-Fi?
- Now Playing12minUnderstanding the Uncertainty Principle
- Now Playing8minEscape The Kugelblitz Challenge
- Now Playing6minThe Race to a Habitable Exoplanet - Time Warp Challenge
Beat Making Lab
- Now Playing4minCho Cho Cho (Music Video) filmed in Goma, Congo
- Now Playing2minWalshy Fire [of Major Lazer] Wants Your Riddims
- 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 Playing4minPortobelo (music video)
- Now Playing3minBehind The Beat: First Beat Making Lab (2011)
- Now Playing3minSampling w/ Flip Flops and Ski Beatz
- Now Playing2minHealth Worker Beat
- Now Playing4minTrapped In Paradise
- 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
Infinite Series
- Now Playing11minWhat are Numbers Made of?
- Now Playing14minWhy Computers are Bad at Algebra
- Now Playing14minInfinite Chess
- Now Playing11minCan We Hear Shapes?
- Now Playing8minA Breakthrough in Higher Dimensional Spheres
- Now Playing14minSolving the Wolverine Problem with Graph Coloring
- Now Playing10minInstant Insanity Puzzle
- Now Playing11minCan We Hear Shapes?
- Now Playing14minCan We Combine pi & e to Make a Rational Number?
- Now Playing8minThe Multiplication Multiverse
- Now Playing12minHow Infinity Explains the Finite
- Now Playing8minAre Prime Numbers Made Up?
- Now Playing9minProving Brouwer's Fixed Point Theorem
- Now Playing14minMaking Probability Mathematical
- Now Playing9minAssociahedra: The Shapes of Multiplication
- Now Playing14minTopology Riddles | Infinite Series
- Now Playing12minProving Pick's Theorem
- Now Playing11minVoting Systems and the Condorcet Paradox
- Now Playing10minUnraveling DNA with Rational Tangles
- Now Playing10minThe Mathematics of Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange
Idea Channel
- Now Playing9minWill Kickstarter Replace Hollywood?
- Now Playing5minNicolas Cage, Taoism, and YOLO
- Now Playing3minIs the Web Browser Replacing the Art Gallery?
- Now Playing4minFrom Sherlock Holmes to 50 Shades of Grey
- Now Playing8minIs a Tagged Instagram More Than Just a Photo?
- Now Playing4minIs Twitter the Newest Form of Literature?
- Now Playing4minHas the Microsoft Kinect revolutionized art?
- Now Playing4minAre LOLCats and Internet Memes Art?
- Now Playing4minRussian Meteorites and Surveillance Culture
- Now Playing4minAre Mashups the End of Music Genres?
- Now Playing5minIs William Gibson A Modern Day Oracle?
- Now Playing5minIs William Gibson A Modern Day Oracle?
- Now Playing6minIs Minecraft the Ultimate Educational Tool?
- Now Playing5minAre Memes and Internet Culture Creating a Singularity?
- Now Playing7minHow are Justin Bieber, Franz Liszt and Jerusalem Connected?
- Now Playing5minAre Olympic Competitors Geniuses?
- Now Playing9minIs a DOS Attack a Weapon?
- Now Playing4minThe Bronies Phenomenon
- Now Playing3minAn Interview with Minecraft EDU Creator Joel Levin
- Now Playing6minIs Doctor Who a Religion?