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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 Playing9minCan You Bend Light Like This?
- Now Playing10minCould You Be a Chimera?
- Now Playing4minPutting Hurricane Harvey In Perspective
- Now Playing8min20 MILLION Year-Old Spider!! Unweaving Spider Silk
- Now Playing3minWhy Do We Go to Space?
- Now Playing5minBats: Guardians of the Night
- Now Playing4minSpace Sounds
- Now Playing6minWhat's the Deadliest Animal in the World?
- Now Playing7minWhich Life Form REALLY Dominates Earth?
- Now Playing5minHow Much Plastic is in the Ocean?
- Now Playing6minThe Science of Beer
- Now Playing6minDNA Doesn't Look Like What You Think!
- Now Playing5minThe Only Animal That Weeps
- Now Playing2minWhy Are There Still Monkeys? - 12 Days of Evolution #10
- Now Playing6minHow To Hit A Fastball (According To Science!!!)
- Now Playing7minThe Strange Science of the Placebo Effect
- Now Playing6minWhat Are Rainbows?
- Now Playing6minWhat's REALLY Warming the Earth?
- Now Playing6min97% of Climate Scientists Really Do Agree
- Now Playing7minAre We All Related?
Origin of Everything
- Now Playing10minWhy Does the Government Need to Know My Race?
- Now Playing11minWhy Does the Government Pay for Art?
- Now Playing9minDoes the Rorschach Inkblot Test Work?
- Now Playing10minHow Did Martin Luther King Jr. Get a Holiday?
- Now Playing9minCan Tattoos Be Taboo?
- Now Playing11minModern Warfare and Alien Invasions
- Now Playing9minCan Tattoos Be Taboo?
- Now Playing7minWhy are 18 Year Olds Considered Adults?
- Now Playing8minWhere Does the #Hashtag Symbol Come From?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do Kids Have Their Own Bedrooms?
- Now Playing10min6 Weird Facts About the History of Birth Control
- Now Playing10minWhy Do We Have Hobbies?
- Now Playing7minWhy Are There So Few Women in Computer Science?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do We Wash Our Hands After Going to the Bathroom?
- Now Playing6minWhy Do We Have Middle Names?
- Now Playing11minWhy Do We Have Private Prisons?
- Now Playing10minHow Did Makeup Ads Go From Style to Science?
- Now Playing10minDo Standardized Tests Do More Harm Than Good?
- Now Playing8minWhere does the Nuclear Family Come From?
- Now Playing10minThe Origin of Race in the USA
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 Playing5minInsta-Everything
- Now Playing7minHow Retailers Stalk You Online
- 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 Playing8minWerehyena: The Terrifying Shapeshifters of African Lore
- Now Playing15minBaba Yaga: The Ancient Origins of the Famous 'Witch'
- Now Playing12minDeath Worms: Fact or Fiction?
- Now Playing13minWhat Happened During Our Scary Slumber Party
- Now Playing13minThe SCP Foundation: Declassified
- Now Playing12minIs This North American Sea Serpent Real or a Hoax?
- Now Playing10minYara-ma-yha-who: Australia's Regurgitating, Blood-Sucking Mo
- Now Playing10minPontianak: The Vampiric Ghost of Southeast Asia
- Now Playing10minThe Enchanting Fairies of Celtic Lore
- Now Playing11minCan All Monsters Be Traced Back to Tiamat?
- Now Playing10minHow Bloody Mary Turns Fear Into Fun
- Now Playing10minIs Yuki-onna the Most Terrifying Snow Monster?
- Now Playing17minModern Zombies: The Rebirth of the Undead
- Now Playing12minThe Origins of 'Big Bug' Science Fiction
- Now Playing13minLeprechaun: From Gold-Loving Cobbler to Cultural Icon
- Now Playing8minNuckelavee: Scotland's Skinless Evil Monstrosity
- Now Playing14minThe Evolution of Creepy Dolls
- Now Playing11minThe Fatal Song of the Sirens
- Now Playing8minCreepy Clowns: The Horror Behind the Laughter
- Now Playing12minWas PĂșca the Nightmare Bunny That Inspired Donnie Darko?
Eons
- Now Playing10minHow Snake Venom Sparked An Evolutionary Arms Race
- Now Playing8minDid An Ancient Pathogen Reshape Our Cells?
- Now Playing9minHow the Andes Mountains Might Have Killed a Bunch of Whales
- Now Playing7minUntangling the Devil's Corkscrew
- Now Playing8minThe Biggest Frog that Ever Lived
- Now Playing8minWhere Are All The Squid Fossils?
- Now Playing10minFAQs From Our First Year
- Now Playing9minThe Evolution of the Heart (A Love Story)
- Now Playing9minOur Bizarre, Possibly Venomous, Relative
- Now Playing10minWhen Camels Roamed North America
- Now Playing10minThe Pandemic That Lasted 15 Million Years
- Now Playing7minThe Return of Giant Skin-Shell Sea Turtles
- Now Playing13minA Brief History of Geologic Time
- Now Playing8minThe Mystery of the Eocene's Lethal Lake
- Now Playing9minHow Ancient Microbes Rode Bug Bits Out to Sea
- Now Playing10minHow South America Made the Marsupials
- Now Playing7minHow the Smallest Animal Got So Simple
- Now Playing10minWhy Triassic Animals Were Just the Weirdest
- Now Playing6minThe Most Useful Fossils In The World
- Now Playing7minThe Other Explosion You Should Know About
Hot Mess
- Now Playing6minWhat if Carbon Emissions Stopped Tomorrow?
- 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 Playing5minWe've Ignored Climate Change For More Than a Century
- Now Playing5minWhat the Cutest Animal Can Teach Us About Saving Ourselves
- Now Playing4minWhy Are Hurricanes Getting Stronger?
- Now Playing5minWe've Ignored Climate Change For More Than a Century
- Now Playing5minWhat the Cutest Animal Can Teach Us About Saving Ourselves
- Now Playing5minBeef Is Bad For The Climate. Can We Make It Better?
- Now Playing6minWhat Indigenous Communities Teach Us About Climate Change
- 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 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 Playing7minHow To Make Clothes Less Terrible for the Planet
- Now Playing5minWhy Don't We Hear About the Ozone Hole Anymore?
Space Time
- Now Playing11minS2: Should We Build a Dyson Sphere?
- Now Playing16minWhat If Humanity Is Among The First Spacefaring Civilization
- Now Playing10minThe EM Drive: Fact or Fantasy?
- Now Playing13minWhy the Muon g-2 Results Are So Exciting!
- Now Playing13minThe Doomsday Argument
- Now Playing10minThe Origin of Our First Interstellar Visitor
- Now Playing9minHow Gaia Changed Astronomy Forever
- Now Playing14minWas the Milky Way a Quasar?
- Now Playing18minWhat If There's A Black Hole Inside The Sun?
- Now Playing9min5 Ways to Stop a Killer Asteroid
- Now Playing15minIs Dark Energy Getting Stronger?
- Now Playing13minNew Results in Quantum Tunneling vs. The Speed of Light
- Now Playing11minBlack Holes from the Dawn of Time
- Now Playing17minHow Much Of The Universe Can Humanity Ever See?
- Now Playing13minSupersymmetric Particle Found?
- Now Playing12minWhy We Should Put Rockets On the Moon
- Now Playing11minHow to Build a Blackhole
- Now Playing13minHow Black Holes Spin Space Time
- Now Playing15minHow Quantum Entanglement Creates Entropy
- Now Playing14minWhat are the Strings in String Theory?
Beat Making Lab
- 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
- Now Playing3minExclusive Zenga (Music Video) by Flamme Kapaya
- Now Playing3minBeat Making Challenge #2: Kora Riddim
- 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 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
Infinite Series
- Now Playing13minNetwork Mathematics and Rival Factions | Infinite Series
- Now Playing11minTopology vs "a" Topology
- Now Playing11minVoting Systems and the Condorcet Paradox
- Now Playing12minProving Pick's Theorem
- Now Playing10minUnraveling DNA with Rational Tangles
- Now Playing10minThe Mathematics of Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange
- Now Playing9minCan You Solve the Poison Wine Challenge?
- Now Playing9minAssociahedra: The Shapes of Multiplication
- Now Playing14minTopology Riddles | Infinite Series
- Now Playing8minAre Prime Numbers Made Up?
- Now Playing14minMaking Probability Mathematical
- Now Playing9minProving Brouwer's Fixed Point Theorem
- Now Playing11minCan We Hear Shapes?
- Now Playing14minCan We Combine pi & e to Make a Rational Number?
- Now Playing12minHow Infinity Explains the Finite
- Now Playing8minThe Multiplication Multiverse
- Now Playing14minSolving the Wolverine Problem with Graph Coloring
- Now Playing8minA Breakthrough in Higher Dimensional Spheres
- Now Playing10minInstant Insanity Puzzle
- Now Playing11minCan We Hear Shapes?
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?