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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 Playing5minWhen Is It Winter On Other Planets?
- Now Playing6minHow Habits are Formed
- Now Playing4minWhat Is Fire?
- Now Playing12min7 Scientific Urban Legends Debunked!
- Now Playing5minI Don't Think You're Ready for These Jellies
- Now Playing7minEinstein Was Right: Gravitational Waves Edition
- Now Playing3minHow Do Squirrels Find Their Nuts?
- Now Playing10minIs There Life on Earth
- Now Playing6minDoomsday Machines
- Now Playing5min5 Weird Involuntary Behaviors Explained!
- Now Playing6minYour Climate Conscience - feat. Al Gore
- Now Playing4minHow The Elements Got Their Names
- Now Playing4minOrchid Mantis: Looks That Kill
- Now Playing3minWhat is Wind?
- Now Playing5minAre You Smarter Than A Slime Mold?
- Now Playing6minHow Atom Bombs Can Uncover Forged Art
- Now Playing7minWhere Do Teeth Come From?
- Now Playing8minHow Big is the Solar System?
- Now Playing6minWhat is Luck?
- Now Playing2minIs Evolution Random? - 12 Days of Evolution #2
Origin of Everything
- Now Playing9minWhat If Islam Conquered Europe?
- Now Playing11minWhat is Racial Passing?
- Now Playing10minWhy Is There a Minimum Wage?
- Now Playing5minWhat Was Jesus' Real Name?
- Now Playing7minIs Poisoned Halloween Candy a Myth?
- Now Playing9minWhy Do We Drink Milk in School?
- Now Playing10minHow Did Makeup Ads Go From Style to Science?
- Now Playing10minHow WWII Created Godzilla & Mecha Robots
- Now Playing11minWhy Do So Many Religions Have Headwear?
- Now Playing7minIs Poisoned Halloween Candy a Myth?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do Kids Have Their Own Bedrooms?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do Women Shave Their Legs?
- Now Playing7minHow Your Rubber Ducky Explains Colonialism
- Now Playing12minWhy Do Schools Teach Sex Education?
- Now Playing7minThe True Origin of Killer Clowns
- Now Playing9minIs the Rosa Parks Story True?
- Now Playing12minWhy Do Schools Teach Sex Education?
- Now Playing7minHow did Makeup, WWII, & Communism Create U.S. Healthcare?
- Now Playing8minWhy is there a North and South Korea?
- Now Playing7minHow Columbus Invented Cannibals
Two Cents
- Now Playing6minTop 5 Biggest Financial Scams
- Now Playing7minWhy It's More Expensive To Be Poor
- Now Playing6minHow to Ask for a Raise
- Now Playing7minWhat's The Real Cost of Dying?
- Now Playing7minShould I Invest In Cannabis Stocks?
- Now Playing7minFighting the Financial Pitfalls of the Supermarket
- Now Playing7minHow Retailers Stalk You Online
- Now Playing5minInsta-Everything
- Now Playing5minDo Kids Need to Learn About Money?
- Now Playing7minIs Your Side Hustle Hustling You?
- Now Playing7minWhich College Majors Give the Most Bang for Your Buck?
- Now Playing6minFighting the Wedding Industrial Complex
- Now Playing6minIs My Identity Safe From Hackers?
- Now Playing7minMoney, A Global Game of Trust
- Now Playing6minI'm Young & Healthy, Can I Skip Health Insurance?
- Now Playing9minHow Smart Entrepreneurs Think About PRICES!
- 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?
Monstrum
- Now Playing11minBasilisk or Cockatrice? The Mysterious King of Serpents
- Now Playing10minJorōgumo: The Deadly Spider Woman from Yokai Lore
- Now Playing6minThe Origin of Medusa
- Now Playing10minWill-o'-the-Wisp: Monstrous Flame or Scientific Phenomenon?
- Now Playing11minThe Original Urban Legend: Spring-Heeled Jack
- Now Playing6minRethinking Frankenstein's Monster
- Now Playing12minWas Púca the Nightmare Bunny That Inspired Donnie Darko?
- Now Playing8minCreepy Clowns: The Horror Behind the Laughter
- Now Playing11minThe Fatal Song of the Sirens
- Now Playing14minThe Evolution of Creepy Dolls
- Now Playing8minNuckelavee: Scotland's Skinless Evil Monstrosity
- Now Playing13minLeprechaun: From Gold-Loving Cobbler to Cultural Icon
- Now Playing12minThe Origins of 'Big Bug' Science Fiction
- Now Playing10minIs Yuki-onna the Most Terrifying Snow Monster?
- Now Playing17minModern Zombies: The Rebirth of the Undead
- Now Playing10minHow Bloody Mary Turns Fear Into Fun
- Now Playing11minCan All Monsters Be Traced Back to Tiamat?
- Now Playing10minPontianak: The Vampiric Ghost of Southeast Asia
- Now Playing10minThe Enchanting Fairies of Celtic Lore
- Now Playing12minIs This North American Sea Serpent Real or a Hoax?
Eons
- Now Playing8minHow Plate Tectonics Gave Us Seahorses
- Now Playing7minWhen Giant Deer Roamed Eurasia
- Now Playing6minThe Time Terror Birds Invaded
- Now Playing8minWhen Dinosaur Look-Alikes Ruled the Earth
- Now Playing9minThe Invisible Barrier Keeping Two Worlds Apart
- Now Playing11minHow a Mass Extinction Changed Our Brains
- Now Playing9minWhen Rodents Had Horns
- Now Playing10minThe Facts About Dinosaurs & Feathers
- Now Playing13minHow Evolution Works (And How We Figured It Out)
- Now Playing9minThe Fungi That Turned Ants Into Zombies
- Now Playing13minAn Illustrated History of Dinosaurs
- Now Playing8minThe Ghostly Origins of the Big Cats
- Now Playing8minWhat Happened to the World's Greatest Ape?
- Now Playing8minThat Time It Rained for Two Million Years
- Now Playing10minWhen Fish Wore Armor
- Now Playing12minCan We Get DNA From Fossils?
- Now Playing10minHow 7,000 Years of Epic Floods Changed the World
- Now Playing9minThe Rise and Fall of the Bone-Crushing Dogs
- Now Playing12minWhen a Billion Years Disappeared
- Now Playing6minDimetrodon: Our Most Unlikely Ancestor
Hot Mess
- Now Playing6minWhat Indigenous Communities Teach Us About Climate Change
- Now Playing6minWhat if Carbon Emissions Stopped Tomorrow?
- Now Playing5minClimate change will push millions out. Where will they go?
- Now Playing5minBeef Is Bad For The Climate. Can We Make It Better?
- Now Playing11minClimate Change is Too Big for our Brains feat. Mike Rugnetta
- Now Playing6minWhat if Carbon Emissions Stopped Tomorrow?
- Now Playing4minWhy Are Hurricanes Getting Stronger?
- Now Playing5minWhat the Cutest Animal Can Teach Us About Saving Ourselves
- Now Playing5minWe've Ignored Climate Change For More Than a Century
- Now Playing5minHow A Sticker Kept 3 Billion Tons of CO2 Out of The Air
- Now Playing5minWhat Can You Actually Do About Climate Change?
- Now Playing5minWhat's actually the worst greenhouse gas?
- Now Playing5minBeef Is Bad For The Climate. Can We Make It Better?
- Now Playing5minWhat the Cutest Animal Can Teach Us About Saving Ourselves
- Now Playing5minWe've Ignored Climate Change For More Than a Century
- Now Playing6minCan We Get Solar Power To Everyone Who Wants It?
- Now Playing5minCan Farms and Forests Coexist?
- Now Playing5minWhat Can You Actually Do About Climate Change?
- Now Playing10minThe Link Between Extreme Weather and Climate Change
- Now Playing5minWhy Don't We Hear About the Ozone Hole Anymore?
Space Time
- Now Playing6minCould You Fart Your Way to the Moon?
- Now Playing11minThe Physics of Life (ft. It's Okay to be Smart & PBS Eons!)
- Now Playing13minHow To Build The Universe in a Computer
- Now Playing12minSolving the Impossible in Quantum Field Theory
- Now Playing10minNoether's Theorem and The Symmetries of Reality
- Now Playing13minDid Dark Energy Just Disappear?
- Now Playing21minWhat New Science Would We Discover with a Moon Telescope?
- Now Playing9minThe True Nature of Matter and Mass
- Now Playing15minHow We Know The Universe is Ancient
- Now Playing6minSuicide Space Robots
- Now Playing9minWill Mars or Venus Kill You First?
- Now Playing18minWhat If Gravity is Not Quantum?
- Now Playing11minBreaking The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle
- Now Playing11minWe Are Star Stuff
- Now Playing13minPilot Wave Theory and Quantum Realism
- Now Playing12minQuantum Invariance & The Origin of The Standard Model
- Now Playing11minSuperluminal Time Travel + Time Warp Challenge Answer
- Now Playing13minSound Waves from the Beginning of Time
- Now Playing9minGeneral Relativity & Curved Spacetime Explained!
- Now Playing11minStar Clusters: Crash Course Astronomy #35
Beat Making Lab
- Now Playing2minWalshy Fire [of Major Lazer] Wants Your Riddims
- Now Playing4minCho Cho Cho (Music Video) filmed in Goma, Congo
- Now Playing10minHeartbeats of Fiji
- Now Playing2minMashup: National Anthems
- Now Playing2minField Trip: Prison Beats
- Now Playing3minGet Your Drums Right
- Now Playing3minPanama: Meet the Kids Behind the Beats
- Now Playing5minBehind the Beat: Portobelo
- Now Playing2minWhat's In the Backpack?
- Now Playing3minBeat Making Challenge #1: Accordion Trap
- Now Playing4minTrapped In Paradise
- Now Playing2minHealth Worker Beat
- Now Playing3minSampling w/ Flip Flops and Ski Beatz
- Now Playing3minBehind The Beat: First Beat Making Lab (2011)
- Now Playing4minPortobelo (music video)
- Now Playing3min#FijiChallenge w/ Walshy Fire of Major Lazer
- Now Playing3minProf. Angel Sound Prison Beats Interview
- Now Playing3minFemale Hip Hop Crew Makes Beats in Senegal
- Now Playing3minExclusive Zenga (Music Video) by Flamme Kapaya
- Now Playing3minBeat Making Challenge #2: Kora Riddim
Infinite Series
- Now Playing14minWhy Computers are Bad at Algebra
- Now Playing17minSplitting Rent with Triangles
- Now Playing12minThe Honeycombs of 4-Dimensional Bees ft. Joe Hanson
- Now Playing10minThe Assassin Puzzle
- Now Playing11minSingularities Explained
- Now Playing14minHow Big are All Infinities Combined? (Cantor's Paradox)
- Now Playing9minThis Video was Not Encrypted with RSA
- Now Playing13minWhat is a Random Walk?
- Now Playing16minHow to Break Cryptography
- Now Playing14minCan a Chess Piece Explain Markov Chains?
- Now Playing14minSolving the Wolverine Problem with Graph Coloring
- Now Playing13minThe Mathematics of Quantum Computers
- Now Playing14minBuilding an Infinite Bridge
- Now Playing8minA Breakthrough in Higher Dimensional Spheres
- Now Playing11minThe Geometry of SET
- Now Playing15minArrow's Impossibility Theorem
- Now Playing10minWhat Does It Mean to Be a Number? (The Peano Axioms)
- Now Playing11minTopology vs "a" Topology
- Now Playing17minHacking at Quantum Speed with Shor's Algorithm
- Now Playing10minThe Mathematics of Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange
Idea Channel
- Now Playing5minAre Olympic Competitors Geniuses?
- Now Playing5minIs CSS and Website Design a Fashion Statement?
- Now Playing5minHow will the Animated GIF affect the Presidential Election?
- Now Playing9minIs the Universe a Computer?
- Now Playing9minCan Video Games Become the Next Spectator Sport?
- Now Playing4minAre Mashups the End of Music Genres?
- Now Playing8minDo Knock-Offs Prove the Value of a Brand?
- Now Playing6minWhat do MP3s and Magic Spells Have in Common?
- Now Playing5minIs Facebook Changing Our Identity?
- Now Playing6minWhat Do Santa and Wrestling Have In Common?
- 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?
- Now Playing6minShould "Happy Birthday" be Protected by Copyright?
- Now Playing6minThe Retro Awesomeness of Adventure Time
- Now Playing5minIs Homestuck the Ulysses of the Internet?
- Now Playing5minA Visit to Mr. Monfre's Class
- Now Playing5minThere's No Such Thing as Online?!?
- Now Playing4minAre LOLCats and Internet Memes Art?