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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 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?
- Now Playing16minWhy Is The World Rushing Back To The Moon?
It's Okay to Be Smart
- Now Playing8min6 Chemical Reactions That Changed History
- Now Playing5minWhy Your Brain Is In Your Head
- Now Playing7minDoes My Dog Know What I'm Thinking?
- Now Playing6minDo Plants Think?
- Now Playing6minCRISPR and the Future of Human Evolution
- Now Playing9minWhy Do We Get Dizzy (...and Astronauts Don't?)
- Now Playing9minAmazing Animal Superpowers
- Now Playing8minThe Science of Game of Thrones
- Now Playing9minAmazing Animal Superpowers
- Now Playing5minHow Your Body Knows Left From Right
- Now Playing5minWhen Is It Winter On Other Planets?
- Now Playing6minIs Sugar A Drug?
- Now Playing4minThe Surprising Places We Waste Energy
- Now Playing5minGhosts of Evolution
- Now Playing5minBeavers: The Smartest Things in Fur Pants
- Now Playing6minHow to Figure Out the Day of the Week For Any Date Ever
- Now Playing7minWhat is Farthest Away?
- Now Playing6minHow Do Bees Make Honey?
- Now Playing8minWhy Is Blue So Rare In Nature?
- Now Playing7minWill You Still Eat Raw Fish After Watching This Video?
Origin of Everything
- Now Playing9minHow Did Edison Invent Christmas Lights?
- Now Playing5minWhat Was Jesus' Real Name?
- Now Playing10minThe Origin of Race in the USA
- Now Playing8minWhere does the Nuclear Family Come From?
- Now Playing10minDo Standardized Tests Do More Harm Than Good?
- Now Playing10minHow Did Makeup Ads Go From Style to Science?
- Now Playing11minWhy Do We Have Private Prisons?
- Now Playing11minWhy Are We Obsessed with Cults?
- Now Playing6minWhy it Was Illegal to be Ugly?
- Now Playing10minWould You Have Joined the American Revolution?
- Now Playing9minWhat If There Were No Taxes?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do Kids Have Their Own Bedrooms?
- Now Playing8minWhere Does the #Hashtag Symbol Come From?
- Now Playing7minWhy are 18 Year Olds Considered Adults?
- Now Playing9minCan Tattoos Be Taboo?
- Now Playing11minModern Warfare and Alien Invasions
- Now Playing9minCan Tattoos Be Taboo?
- Now Playing9minDoes the Rorschach Inkblot Test Work?
- Now Playing10minHow Did Martin Luther King Jr. Get a Holiday?
- Now Playing11minWhy Does the Government Pay for Art?
Two Cents
- Now Playing7minMoney, A Global Game of Trust
- Now Playing7minWhich College Majors Give the Most Bang for Your Buck?
- Now Playing6minIs My Identity Safe From Hackers?
- Now Playing6minFighting the Wedding Industrial Complex
- Now Playing7minIs Your Side Hustle Hustling You?
- Now Playing7minFighting the Financial Pitfalls of the Supermarket
- Now Playing5minDo Kids Need to Learn About Money?
- Now Playing7minHow Retailers Stalk You Online
- Now Playing5minInsta-Everything
- Now Playing6minI'm Young & Healthy, Can I Skip Health Insurance?
- Now Playing9minHow Smart Entrepreneurs Think About PRICES!
- Now Playing7minWhy It's More Expensive To Be Poor
- Now Playing6minTop 5 Biggest Financial Scams
- Now Playing7minShould I Invest In Cannabis Stocks?
- Now Playing6minHow to Ask for a Raise
- Now Playing7minWhat's The Real Cost of Dying?
- Now Playing6minWhat is The Cost of Pet Ownership?
- Now Playing6minShould I Buy Bitcoin?
- Now Playing8minAre "Free" Video Games Really Free?
- Now Playing8min5 Ways People Are Dumb About Money
Monstrum
- Now Playing31minThe Werewolf's Modern Metamorphosis
- Now Playing12minBeyond the Supernatural Horror of the Nishi Daak Ghost
- Now Playing7minWhat Dragons Say About Us
- Now Playing15minEgyptian Mummies: From Sacred Vessels to Scary Undead
- Now Playing10minWhy the Dragon is Central to Chinese Culture
- Now Playing7minEl Chupacabras, a Modern Mystery
- Now Playing8minBunyip: Australia's Mysterious Amphibian Monster
- Now Playing11minMari Lwyd: The Skeleton Horse's Deep Past with Christmas
- Now Playing7minKasagonagá: The Cute, Kind Monster We All Need Right Now
- Now Playing13minUncovering the Enigma: Sasquatch Sightings
- Now Playing13minFire Cat or Fire Cart? The History of Japan's Kasha
- Now Playing12minDon't Let Them In! The Urban Legends of Black-Eyed Children
- Now Playing12minTaotie: The Mystery of Chinese Mythology's Famous Glutton
- Now Playing7minRelease the Kraken!
- Now Playing14minThe Untold Secrets of Pokémon's Monster Mythology
- Now Playing7minAre White Walkers Really Nordic Zombies?
- Now Playing11minMapinguari: Fearsome Beast and Protector of the Amazon
- Now Playing12minHave Humans Always Feared Sharks?
- Now Playing12minWhat Hellhounds Reveal about Humans' Oldest Companion
- Now Playing12minAre Cyborgs Really Monsters?
Eons
- Now Playing8minWe Met Neandertals Way Earlier Than We Thought
- Now Playing6minLiving Fossils' Aren't Really a Thing
- Now Playing6minThe Age of Giant Insects
- Now Playing9minThe Whole Saga of the Supercontinents
- Now Playing7minHow Horses Went From Food To Friends
- Now Playing8minHow Two Microbes Changed History
- Now Playing9minWhy Does Caffeine Exist?
- Now Playing10minWhen Dinosaurs Chilled in the Arctic
- Now Playing10minThe Two Viruses That We've Had For Millions of Years
- Now Playing7minHow the T-Rex Lost Its Arms
- Now Playing11minThe Age of Reptiles in Three Acts
- Now Playing12minHow Sloths Went From the Seas to the Trees
- Now Playing10minThese Fossils Were Supposed To Be Impossible
- Now Playing7minThe Sea Monster from the Andes
- Now Playing9minHow the Squid Lost Its Shell
- Now Playing10minThe Reign of the Hell Ants
- Now Playing12minThe Giant Dinosaur That Was Missing a Body
- Now Playing12minThe Humans That Lived Before Us
- Now Playing9minHow the Egg Came First
- Now Playing4minThe Tully Monster & Other Problematic Creatures
Hot Mess
- Now Playing13minThe Rise of Climate Fiction feat. Lindsay Ellis & Amy Brady
- Now Playing12minOur Food System is Rigged feat. Sheril Kirshenbaum
- Now Playing4minHow Much Energy Does the Internet Use?
- Now Playing6minCoral Reefs Are Dying. But They Don't Have To.
- Now Playing4minWhy Are Hurricanes Getting Stronger?
- Now Playing5minCan Farms and Forests Coexist?
- Now Playing5minWhat Happened to Nuclear Power?
- Now Playing8minHow One Conservative Texas Town Went 100% Renewable
- Now Playing5minWhat's actually the worst greenhouse gas?
- Now Playing6minWill Big Oil Have To Pay Up Like Big Tobacco?
- 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 Playing5minWhy We Confuse Weather and Climate
- Now Playing7minWhat's The Best Car For The Climate?
- Now Playing3minCould climate change make you allergic to meat?
- Now Playing5minWhat Happened to Nuclear Power?
- Now Playing6minWould Your Neighbors Save You From a Flooding Home?
- Now Playing11minClimate Change is Too Big for our Brains feat. Mike Rugnetta
- Now Playing6minHow To Suck Carbon Dioxide Out of the Sky
Space Time
- Now Playing3minThe Leap Second Explained
- Now Playing6minThe Race to a Habitable Exoplanet - Time Warp Challenge
- Now Playing8minEscape The Kugelblitz Challenge
- Now Playing9minWhat's the Most Realistic Artificial Gravity in Sci-Fi?
- Now Playing12minUnderstanding the Uncertainty Principle
- Now Playing6minHow Do You Measure the Size of the Universe?
- Now Playing13minThe Phantom Singularity
- Now Playing15minElectrons DO NOT Spin
- Now Playing19minHow Will We (Most Likely) Discover Alien Life?
- Now Playing13minThe Many Worlds of the Quantum Multiverse
- Now Playing11minThe Speed of Light is NOT About Light
- Now Playing9minUsing Stars to See Gravitational Waves
- Now Playing6minWhat Planet Is Super Mario World?
- Now Playing12minQuantum Entanglement (The Bohr-Einstein Debate)
- Now Playing12minHow to Detect Extra Dimensions
- Now Playing13minWill We Ever Find Alien Life?
- Now Playing15minCould We Decode Alien Physics?
- Now Playing13minWill You Travel to Space?
- Now Playing9minWill Mars or Venus Kill You First?
- Now Playing13minDark Flow
Beat Making Lab
- Now Playing2minWalshy Fire [of Major Lazer] Wants Your Riddims
- Now Playing4minCho Cho Cho (Music Video) filmed in Goma, Congo
- Now Playing2minField Trip: Prison Beats
- Now Playing3minGet Your Drums Right
- Now Playing10minHeartbeats of Fiji
- Now Playing2minMashup: National Anthems
- Now Playing2minWhat's In the Backpack?
- Now Playing5minBehind the Beat: Portobelo
- Now Playing3minBeat Making Challenge #1: Accordion Trap
- Now Playing3minPanama: Meet the Kids Behind the Beats
- Now Playing2minHealth Worker Beat
- Now Playing4minTrapped In Paradise
- Now Playing3minBehind The Beat: First Beat Making Lab (2011)
- Now Playing4minPortobelo (music video)
- Now Playing3minSampling w/ Flip Flops and Ski Beatz
- Now Playing3minProf. Angel Sound Prison Beats Interview
- Now Playing3min#FijiChallenge w/ Walshy Fire of Major Lazer
- Now Playing4minDiablos (music video)
- Now Playing3minEpisode 1: Goma, Congo
- Now Playing3minFemale Hip Hop Crew Makes Beats in Senegal
Infinite Series
- 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 Playing9minA Hierarchy of Infinities
- Now Playing15minArrow's Impossibility Theorem
- Now Playing9minBeyond the Golden Ratio
- Now Playing10minThe Mathematics of Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange
- Now Playing17minHacking at Quantum Speed with Shor's Algorithm
- Now Playing11minTopology vs "a" Topology
- Now Playing10minWhat Does It Mean to Be a Number? (The Peano Axioms)
- Now Playing15minArrow's Impossibility Theorem
Idea Channel
- Now Playing7minCan Dungeons & Dragons Make You Confident & Successful?
- Now Playing6minAre MP3s & Vinyl Better than Live Music?
- Now Playing6minWhat do MP3s and Magic Spells Have in Common?
- Now Playing5minIs Facebook Changing Our Identity?
- Now Playing4minHas the Microsoft Kinect revolutionized art?
- Now Playing4minThe Bronies Phenomenon
- Now Playing3minWhat Makes a Pop Star Authentic?
- Now Playing4minIs Twitter the Newest Form of Literature?
- Now Playing9minIs Community a Postmodern Masterpiece?
- Now Playing8minIs Piracy Helping Game of Thrones?
- Now Playing8minIs Developing Artificial Intelligence (AI) Ethical?
- Now Playing5minAre You a Hipster?
- Now Playing3minIs the Web Browser Replacing the Art Gallery?
- Now Playing8minIs Sad Music Actually Sad?
- 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 Playing6minIs Futurama the Best Argument Against Transhumanism?
- Now Playing3minSuper Mario Brothers as Surrealist Art?