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- Now Playing21minInterstellar Expansion WITHOUT Faster Than Light Travel
- 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
- Now Playing17minWhat Happens If You Jump Into A Black Hole?
- Now Playing11minNo Single Cradle of Humankind
- Now Playing14minOur Understanding of Floods is ALL Wrong
- Now Playing10minWhy Do We Use Cringey Words for Loved Ones?
- Now Playing22minCan AI Help Us Talk to Whales?
It's Okay to Be Smart
- Now Playing2minEvolution Is Dumb - 12 Days of Evolution #6
- Now Playing7minWhat is Farthest Away?
- Now Playing7minSonic the Hedgehog Is Why You Have Thumbs!
- Now Playing4minMy Date With A Giant Pacific Octopus!
- Now Playing6min100,000,000 Years From Now
- Now Playing5minDo Animals Mourn Their Dead?
- Now Playing5minHow Many Species Are There?
- Now Playing9minThe Sixth Extinction
- Now Playing6minShould You Be Worried About Zika?
- Now Playing5minCould Planet Minecraft Actually Exist?
- Now Playing6minWhy Are There As Many Males As Females?
- Now Playing4minDogs and Humans: A 30,000-Year Friendship (ft. MinuteEarth)
- Now Playing5minIs Inheritance Really All In Our Genes?
- Now Playing7minIs Height All in Our Genes?
- Now Playing5minWhy Music Moves Us
- Now Playing5minMuch A-Do About Hair
- Now Playing7minEngines of Destruction: How Hurricanes Work
- Now Playing4minOrchid Mantis: Looks That Kill
- Now Playing7minWhy Do You Love Your Family?
- Now Playing5minSolving the Puzzle of Plate Tectonics
Origin of Everything
- Now Playing6minWhy Do We Have Middle Names?
- Now Playing7minWhy Are There So Few Women in Computer Science?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do We Wash Our Hands After Going to the Bathroom?
- Now Playing10min6 Weird Facts About the History of Birth Control
- Now Playing10minWhy Do We Have Hobbies?
- Now Playing8minWhere Does the #Hashtag Symbol Come From?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do Kids Have Their Own Bedrooms?
- Now Playing11minModern Warfare and Alien Invasions
- Now Playing9minCan Tattoos Be Taboo?
- Now Playing7minWhy are 18 Year Olds Considered Adults?
- Now Playing10minWhy Does the Government Need to Know My Race?
- Now Playing11minWhy Does the Government Pay for Art?
- Now Playing10minHow Did Martin Luther King Jr. Get a Holiday?
- Now Playing9minDoes the Rorschach Inkblot Test Work?
- Now Playing9minCan Tattoos Be Taboo?
- Now Playing11minWhy Are We Obsessed with Cults?
- Now Playing10minWould You Have Joined the American Revolution?
- Now Playing6minWhy it Was Illegal to be Ugly?
- Now Playing9minWhat If There Were No Taxes?
- Now Playing5minWhat Was Jesus' Real Name?
Two Cents
- Now Playing6minTop 5 Biggest Financial Scams
- Now Playing7minWhy It's More Expensive To Be Poor
- Now Playing7minWhat's The Real Cost of Dying?
- Now Playing6minHow to Ask for a Raise
- Now Playing7minShould I Invest In Cannabis Stocks?
- Now Playing7minHow Retailers Stalk You Online
- Now Playing5minInsta-Everything
- Now Playing5minDo Kids Need to Learn About Money?
- Now Playing7minFighting the Financial Pitfalls of the Supermarket
- Now Playing7minIs Your Side Hustle Hustling You?
- 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 Playing7minMoney, A Global Game of Trust
- Now Playing9minHow Smart Entrepreneurs Think About PRICES!
- Now Playing6minI'm Young & Healthy, Can I Skip Health Insurance?
- Now Playing8min5 Strange Investor Crazes!
- Now Playing5minHow are credit scores calculated?
- Now Playing5minHow Do Your Tax Dollars Get Spent?
- Now Playing7minIs It Even POSSIBLE to Save for Retirement?
Monstrum
- Now Playing12minHave Humans Always Feared Sharks?
- Now Playing11minMapinguari: Fearsome Beast and Protector of the Amazon
- 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 Playing13minUnicorns: Magical Icons or Violent Beasts?
- Now Playing10minTikbálang: The Filipino Nightmare Shapeshifter
- Now Playing9minPost-Dracula Vampires: From Anne Rice to Twilight
- Now Playing12minWhat Hellhounds Reveal about Humans' Oldest Companion
- Now Playing12minAre Cyborgs Really Monsters?
- Now Playing8minBunyip: Australia's Mysterious Amphibian Monster
- Now Playing7minEl Chupacabras, a Modern Mystery
- Now Playing10minWhy the Dragon is Central to Chinese Culture
- Now Playing15minEgyptian Mummies: From Sacred Vessels to Scary Undead
- Now Playing7minWhat Dragons Say About Us
- Now Playing12minBeyond the Supernatural Horror of the Nishi Daak Ghost
- Now Playing31minThe Werewolf's Modern Metamorphosis
- Now Playing7minAre White Walkers Really Nordic Zombies?
- Now Playing14minThe Untold Secrets of Pokémon's Monster Mythology
- Now Playing7minRelease the Kraken!
Eons
- Now Playing5minThat Time Oxygen Almost Killed Everything
- Now Playing8minThe Extinction That Never Happened
- Now Playing7minThe Genes We Lost Along the Way
- Now Playing6minThe Story of Saberteeth
- Now Playing10minHow Ancient Art Captured Australian Megafauna
- Now Playing9minHow Our Deadliest Parasite Turned To The Dark Side
- Now Playing11minWhen Giant Lemurs Ruled Madagascar
- Now Playing12minWhen Sharks Swam the Great Plains
- Now Playing13minDid Raptorex Really Exist?
- Now Playing10minThe Hidden Genes That Make Us Human
- Now Playing9minThe Oddest Couple in the Fossil Record
- Now Playing12minYour Place in the Primate Family Tree
- Now Playing10minHow Chilis Got Spicy (and Why We Love the Burn)
- Now Playing10minWhen Giant Hypercarnivores Prowled Africa
- Now Playing10minHow Blood Evolved (Many Times)
- Now Playing8minWhat Was The Earliest Surgery?
- Now Playing8minHow the Walrus Got Its Tusks
- Now Playing12minWhen Birds Had Teeth
- Now Playing7minThe Trouble With Trilobites
- Now Playing11minDid These Giant Sloths Poop Themselves to Death?
Hot Mess
- Now Playing10minFeeling Guilty About Climate Change feat. Hank Green
- Now Playing10minAre You Scared Enough? feat. David Wallace-Wells
- Now Playing5minWhy Climate Change is Unjust
- Now Playing6minWhat Indigenous Communities Teach Us About Climate Change
- Now Playing10minFeeling Guilty About Climate Change feat. Hank Green
- Now Playing7minWhat's The Best Car For The Climate?
- 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 Playing5minWho Should Pay To Fix Climate Change?
- 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 Playing5minClimate change will push millions out. Where will they go?
- Now Playing6minCan We Get Solar Power To Everyone Who Wants It?
- Now Playing6minWhat If We Burned All The World's Fossil Fuels?
- Now Playing6minWill Big Oil Have To Pay Up Like Big Tobacco?
- Now Playing4minWhy Are Hurricanes Getting Stronger?
- Now Playing5minCan Farms and Forests Coexist?
- Now Playing8minHow One Conservative Texas Town Went 100% Renewable
Space Time
- Now Playing11minIs Gravity An Illusion?
- Now Playing10minIs Quantum Tunneling Faster than Light?
- Now Playing8minIs The Alcubierre Warp Drive Possible?
- Now Playing13minThe Real Star Wars
- Now Playing10minThe One-Electron Universe
- Now Playing13minDid Time Start at the Big Bang?
- Now Playing11minHow Asteroid Mining Will Save Earth
- Now Playing11minWe Are Star Stuff
- Now Playing12minWhat Survives Inside A Black Hole?
- Now Playing11min5 REAL Possibilities for Interstellar Travel
- Now Playing11minWhy Quasars are so Awesome
- Now Playing10minLife on Europa?
- Now Playing14minBlack Hole Harmonics
- Now Playing10minLife on Europa?
- Now Playing9minThe Treasures of Trappist-1
- Now Playing17minWhat Happens If You Jump Into A Black Hole?
- Now Playing11minAre You a Boltzmann Brain?
- Now Playing18minAre Many Worlds & Pilot Wave The Same Theory?
- Now Playing11minThe Geometry of Causality
- Now Playing9minBlack Hole Swarms
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 Playing3minExclusive Zenga (Music Video) by Flamme Kapaya
- Now Playing3minBeat Making Challenge #2: Kora Riddim
- 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 Playing8minA Breakthrough in Higher Dimensional Spheres
- Now Playing13minThe Mathematics of Quantum Computers
- Now Playing14minBuilding an Infinite Bridge
- Now Playing14minSolving the Wolverine Problem with Graph Coloring
- Now Playing14minCan a Chess Piece Explain Markov Chains?
- Now Playing10minWhat Does It Mean to Be a Number? (The Peano Axioms)
- Now Playing15minArrow's Impossibility Theorem
- Now Playing11minThe Geometry of SET
- Now Playing11minTopology vs "a" Topology
- Now Playing10minThe Mathematics of Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange
- Now Playing9minBeyond the Golden Ratio
- Now Playing17minHacking at Quantum Speed with Shor's Algorithm
- Now Playing17minSplitting Rent with Triangles
- Now Playing14minWhy Computers are Bad at Algebra
- Now Playing11minSingularities Explained
- Now Playing10minThe Assassin Puzzle
- Now Playing12minThe Honeycombs of 4-Dimensional Bees ft. Joe Hanson
- Now Playing13minWhat is a Random Walk?
- Now Playing9minThis Video was Not Encrypted with RSA
- Now Playing14minHow Big are All Infinities Combined? (Cantor's Paradox)
Idea Channel
- Now Playing8minIs Developing Artificial Intelligence (AI) Ethical?
- Now Playing5minAre You a Hipster?
- Now Playing3minIs the Web Browser Replacing the Art Gallery?
- Now Playing6minIs Futurama the Best Argument Against Transhumanism?
- Now Playing3minSuper Mario Brothers as Surrealist Art?
- Now Playing6minAre Virtual Video Game Economies Becoming Real?
- Now Playing8minIs Sad Music Actually Sad?
- Now Playing6minIs Doctor Who a Religion?
- Now Playing9minDoes Math Really Exist?
- Now Playing3minAre Holograms Nostalgia or a New Form of Art?
- Now Playing3minAre Holograms Nostalgia or a New Form of Art?
- Now Playing4minThe Bronies Phenomenon
- Now Playing6minAre MP3s & Vinyl Better than Live Music?
- Now Playing7minCan Dungeons & Dragons Make You Confident & Successful?
- Now Playing6minWhat do MP3s and Magic Spells Have in Common?
- Now Playing5minIs Facebook Changing Our Identity?
- Now Playing4minHas the Microsoft Kinect revolutionized art?
- Now Playing4minIs Twitter the Newest Form of Literature?
- Now Playing9minIs Community a Postmodern Masterpiece?
- Now Playing8minIs Piracy Helping Game of Thrones?