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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 Playing9minWhat Color Is A Banana?
- Now Playing7minWhy Are We The Only Humans Left?
- Now Playing5minShould You Eat Everyday?
- Now Playing3minWhat is Wind?
- Now Playing2minWhy Are There Still Monkeys? - 12 Days of Evolution #10
- Now Playing6minWhat Do Raindrops Really Look Like?
- Now Playing6minAre You Afraid of Holes?
- Now Playing6minPay Attention!
- Now Playing6min1 MILLION Species Could Go Extinct... Here's Why.
- Now Playing6minHow the Toilet Changed History
- Now Playing6minThe Raisin Bran Effect
- Now Playing5minHow Many Heartbeats Do We Get?
- Now Playing2minCarbon and Oxygen and You: Explained
- Now Playing2minAre Humans Still Evolving? 12 Days of Evolution #11
- Now Playing5minThe Scale of the Universe
- Now Playing6minDNA Doesn't Look Like What You Think!
- Now Playing6minWho Shares Your Birthday?
- Now Playing11minThe Dinosaur On Your Thanksgiving Table
- Now Playing6min97% of Climate Scientists Really Do Agree
- Now Playing10minThe Impossible Hugeness of Deep Time
Origin of Everything
- Now Playing7minWhy Do We Say "Asian American" Not "Oriental"?
- Now Playing8minWhen DId Marriage Become about Love?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do Women Give Birth Lying Down?
- Now Playing8minWhy Was Crossdressing Illegal?
- Now Playing11minWhy Do We Have Private Prisons?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do People Have Pets?
- Now Playing10minWhy was Pink for Boys and Blue for Girls?
- Now Playing8minWhy is there a North and South Korea?
- Now Playing7minHow Columbus Invented Cannibals
- Now Playing10minIs Breakfast the Most Important Meal?
- Now Playing7minHow Your Rubber Ducky Explains Colonialism
- Now Playing7minHow did Makeup, WWII, & Communism Create U.S. Healthcare?
- Now Playing12minWhy Do Schools Teach Sex Education?
- Now Playing10minWhat is Cultural Appropriation?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do Women Give Birth Lying Down?
- Now Playing10minHow Did Martin Luther King Jr. Get a Holiday?
- Now Playing7minHistory of the Word "Gay"
- Now Playing7minIs Poisoned Halloween Candy a Myth?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do We Get Grades in School?
- Now Playing10minWhat is Ethnicity?
Two Cents
- Now Playing6minMoving Without Spending a Fortune
- Now Playing6minWomen Financial Superpowers
- Now Playing5minHow Cars Can Keep You Poor
- Now Playing7minCan You Really Retire in Your 30s?
- Now Playing6minWhat Are The Most Lucrative Trades?
- Now Playing6minHacking Your Brain to Get Out Of Debt
- Now Playing6minDo I Need To Buy A House?
- Now Playing7minIs It Even POSSIBLE to Save for Retirement?
- Now Playing7minLove and Money
- Now Playing5minHow Do Your Tax Dollars Get Spent?
- Now Playing5minHow are credit scores calculated?
- Now Playing8min5 Strange Investor Crazes!
- Now Playing5minBudgeting Basics
- Now Playing7minIs the Stock Market Just a Big Casino?
- Now Playing4minWhat is the DOW?
- Now Playing6minShould You Break Up With Your Big Bank?
- Now Playing6minThe Ugly Truth About Airline Miles
- Now Playing6minDoes Wealth Make You Meaner?
- Now Playing6minWhat the Heck Are Mutual Funds?
- Now Playing8minAre "Free" Video Games Really Free?
Monstrum
- Now Playing10minYara-ma-yha-who: Australia's Regurgitating, Blood-Sucking Mo
- Now Playing12minIs This North American Sea Serpent Real or a Hoax?
- Now Playing13minWhat Happened During Our Scary Slumber Party
- Now Playing12minDeath Worms: Fact or Fiction?
- Now Playing8minWerehyena: The Terrifying Shapeshifters of African Lore
- Now Playing15minBaba Yaga: The Ancient Origins of the Famous 'Witch'
- Now Playing13minThe SCP Foundation: Declassified
- Now Playing10minPontianak: The Vampiric Ghost of Southeast Asia
- Now Playing10minThe Enchanting Fairies of Celtic Lore
- Now Playing10minHow Bloody Mary Turns Fear Into Fun
- Now Playing11minCan All Monsters Be Traced Back to Tiamat?
- Now Playing12minThe Origins of 'Big Bug' Science Fiction
- Now Playing13minLeprechaun: From Gold-Loving Cobbler to Cultural Icon
- Now Playing17minModern Zombies: The Rebirth of the Undead
- Now Playing10minIs Yuki-onna the Most Terrifying Snow Monster?
- Now Playing11minThe Fatal Song of the Sirens
- Now Playing8minNuckelavee: Scotland's Skinless Evil Monstrosity
- Now Playing14minThe Evolution of Creepy Dolls
- Now Playing8minCreepy Clowns: The Horror Behind the Laughter
- Now Playing12minWas PĂșca the Nightmare Bunny That Inspired Donnie Darko?
Eons
- Now Playing6minThe Time Terror Birds Invaded
- Now Playing10minHow Blood Evolved (Many Times)
- Now Playing12minWhen Bats Took Flight
- Now Playing8minThat Time It Rained for Two Million Years
- Now Playing10minHow To Survive the Little Ice Age
- Now Playing11minWhen A Marsupial Became An Apex Predator
- Now Playing6minDimetrodon: Our Most Unlikely Ancestor
- Now Playing8minThe Case of the Dinosaur Egg Thief
- Now Playing9minHow the Squid Lost Its Shell
- Now Playing8minHow Two Microbes Changed History
- Now Playing8minThe Rise and Fall of the Tallest Mammal to Walk the Earth
- Now Playing9minHow Humans Became (Mostly) Right-Handed
- Now Playing10minSomething Has Been Making This Mark For 500 Million Years
- Now Playing9minAre We All Actually Archaea?
- Now Playing9minWhen Apes Conquered Europe
- Now Playing12minHow Humans Lost Their Fur
- Now Playing6minHow Did Dinosaurs Get So Huge?
- Now Playing12minThe Humans That Lived Before Us
- Now Playing10minThat Time the American West Blew Up
- Now Playing12minAnimals Are Older Than We Thought
Hot Mess
- Now Playing6minCoral Reefs Are Dying. But They Don't Have To.
- Now Playing12minOur Food System is Rigged feat. Sheril Kirshenbaum
- Now Playing13minThe Rise of Climate Fiction feat. Lindsay Ellis & Amy Brady
- Now Playing4minHow Much Energy Does the Internet Use?
- Now Playing5minWhat Happened to Nuclear Power?
- Now Playing8minHow One Conservative Texas Town Went 100% Renewable
- Now Playing6minWill Big Oil Have To Pay Up Like Big Tobacco?
- Now Playing5minWhat's actually the worst greenhouse gas?
- Now Playing5minCan Farms and Forests Coexist?
- Now Playing4minWhy Are Hurricanes Getting Stronger?
- Now Playing5minWhy We Confuse Weather and Climate
- 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 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 Playing6minWhat If We Burned All The World's Fossil Fuels?
Space Time
- Now Playing13minZeno's Paradox & The Quantum Zeno Effect
- Now Playing13minThe First Quantum Field Theory
- Now Playing11minThe Future of Space Telescopes
- Now Playing10minWhat Do Stars Sound Like?
- Now Playing14minSpace DOES NOT Expand Everywhere
- Now Playing13minComputing a Universe Simulation
- Now Playing17minDid AI Prove Our Proton Model Wrong?
- Now Playing15minHow To Simulate The Universe With DFT
- Now Playing7minAre We Alone? Galactic Civilization Challenge
- Now Playing10minExtinction by Gamma-Ray Burst
- Now Playing10minShould Space be Privatized?
- Now Playing10minHow Much Information is in the Universe?
- Now Playing8minShould the First Mars Mission Be All Women?
- Now Playing10minTime Crystals!
- Now Playing12minThe Many Worlds of the Quantum Multiverse
- Now Playing10minHave Gravitational Waves Been Discovered?!?
- Now Playing10minStrange Stars
- Now Playing13minWhite Holes
- Now Playing13minDo Black Holes Create New Universes?
- Now Playing9minWhen Time Breaks Down
Beat Making Lab
- Now Playing3minSampling w/ Flip Flops and Ski Beatz
- Now Playing4minPortobelo (music video)
- Now Playing3minBehind The Beat: First Beat Making Lab (2011)
- Now Playing4minTrapped In Paradise
- Now Playing2minHealth Worker Beat
- 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 Playing3minEpisode 1: Goma, Congo
- Now Playing4minDiablos (music video)
- Now Playing3min#FijiChallenge w/ Walshy Fire of Major Lazer
- Now Playing3minProf. Angel Sound Prison Beats Interview
- Now Playing4minCho Cho Cho (Music Video) filmed in Goma, Congo
- Now Playing2minWalshy Fire [of Major Lazer] Wants Your Riddims
- Now Playing3minPanama: Meet the Kids Behind the Beats
- Now Playing3minBeat Making Challenge #1: Accordion Trap
- Now Playing2minWhat's In the Backpack?
- Now Playing5minBehind the Beat: Portobelo
- Now Playing2minMashup: National Anthems
- Now Playing10minHeartbeats of Fiji
Infinite Series
- Now Playing8minHow to Divide by "Zero"
- Now Playing10minThe Assassin Puzzle
- Now Playing9minHow Many Humans Have the Same Number of Body Hairs?
- 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 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 Playing15minArrow's Impossibility Theorem
- Now Playing9minA Hierarchy of Infinities
- Now Playing15minArrow's Impossibility Theorem
- Now Playing11minThe Geometry of SET
- Now Playing10minWhat Does It Mean to Be a Number? (The Peano Axioms)
- Now Playing14minSolving the Wolverine Problem with Graph Coloring
- Now Playing14minCan a Chess Piece Explain Markov Chains?
- Now Playing8minA Breakthrough in Higher Dimensional Spheres
Idea Channel
- Now Playing9minIs the Universe a Computer?
- Now Playing5minHow will the Animated GIF affect the Presidential Election?
- Now Playing5minIs CSS and Website Design a Fashion Statement?
- Now Playing5minAre Olympic Competitors Geniuses?
- Now Playing6minWhat Do Santa and Wrestling Have In Common?
- Now Playing6minWhat do MP3s and Magic Spells Have in Common?
- Now Playing5minIs Facebook Changing Our Identity?
- Now Playing9minCan Video Games Become the Next Spectator Sport?
- Now Playing8minDo Knock-Offs Prove the Value of a Brand?
- Now Playing4minAre Mashups the End of Music Genres?
- Now Playing9minIs a DOS Attack a Weapon?
- Now Playing3minAn Interview with Minecraft EDU Creator Joel Levin
- Now Playing4minThe Bronies Phenomenon
- Now Playing5minIs Homestuck the Ulysses of the Internet?
- Now Playing5minThere's No Such Thing as Online?!?
- Now Playing5minA Visit to Mr. Monfre's Class
- Now Playing6minThe Retro Awesomeness of Adventure Time
- Now Playing6minShould "Happy Birthday" be Protected by Copyright?
- Now Playing6minIs Doctor Who a Religion?
- Now Playing5minIs William Gibson A Modern Day Oracle?