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Origin Of EverythingEvery aspect of our daily reality, whether its the words we use, the pop culture we love, the technology that get us through the day, or even the identities we give ourselves, emerge from thousands of intersecting histories. And on this show, we're going to explore them ALL!
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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 Playing7minWhich Life Form REALLY Dominates Earth?
- Now Playing4minCuttlefish: Tentacles In Disguise
- Now Playing3minWhere Does the Smell of Rain Come From?
- Now Playing3minBuilding Curiosity
- Now Playing6minThe Delicious Science of CHEESE!
- Now Playing3minYour Mom is LITERALLY Part Of You!
- Now Playing10minExoplanets: Are There Other Earths?
- Now Playing4minWe're Mainly Microbe: Meet Your Microbiome
- Now Playing8minIs Space A Thing?
- Now Playing5minBeavers: The Smartest Things in Fur Pants
- Now Playing5minWhy Do We Itch?
- Now Playing5minHow Many Heartbeats Do We Get?
- Now Playing3minDoes Evolution Have a Point? 12 Days of Evolution #12
- Now Playing9minSo You Want to go to Mars?
- Now Playing6minThe Surprising Origin of Thanksgiving Foods
- Now Playing8minThe Deadliest Flu Season in History?
- Now Playing6minHow The Pyramids Were Built (Pyramid Science Part 2)
- Now Playing6minThe Oldest Living Things In The World
- Now Playing6minWhy Are Cicadas So Good At Math?
- Now Playing8minNobel Prizes: Past, Present... and Future?
Origin of Everything
- Now Playing9minIs the Rosa Parks Story True?
- Now Playing7minThe True Origin of Killer Clowns
- Now Playing12minWhy Do Schools Teach Sex Education?
- Now Playing7minHow Your Rubber Ducky Explains Colonialism
- Now Playing8minWhy Do Kids Have Their Own Bedrooms?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do Women Shave Their Legs?
- Now Playing7minIs Poisoned Halloween Candy a Myth?
- Now Playing11minWhy Do So Many Religions Have Headwear?
- Now Playing10minHow WWII Created Godzilla & Mecha Robots
- Now Playing10minHow Did Makeup Ads Go From Style to Science?
- Now Playing9minWhy Do We Drink Milk in School?
- Now Playing7minIs Poisoned Halloween Candy a Myth?
- Now Playing5minWhat Was Jesus' Real Name?
- Now Playing10minWhy Is There a Minimum Wage?
- Now Playing11minWhat is Racial Passing?
- Now Playing9minWhat If Islam Conquered Europe?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do Women Give Birth Lying Down?
- Now Playing10minWhat is Cultural Appropriation?
- Now Playing10minHow Did Martin Luther King Jr. Get a Holiday?
- Now Playing7minIs Poisoned Halloween Candy a Myth?
Two Cents
- 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 Playing5minBudgeting Basics
- Now Playing7minIs the Stock Market Just a Big Casino?
- Now Playing6minHow Do You Actually Buy A House?
- Now Playing8min5 Ways People Are Dumb About Money
- Now Playing8minAre "Free" Video Games Really Free?
- Now Playing6minWhat is The Cost of Pet Ownership?
- Now Playing6minShould I Buy Bitcoin?
- Now Playing6minDo I Need To Buy A House?
- Now Playing7minIs It Even POSSIBLE to Save for Retirement?
- Now Playing7minLove and Money
- 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?
Monstrum
- Now Playing12minWho Is This Japanese Yōkai That Is Obsessed With Your Butt?
- Now Playing13minMonster Plants and the Humans who Invent Them
- Now Playing10minHow a Children's Book Introduced Us To Our Inner Demons
- Now Playing10minEl Silbón: The Deadly Whistler of the Grasslands
- Now Playing10minSlender Man: How The Internet Created a Monster
- Now Playing17minThe Origins of the Zombie, from Haiti to the U.S.
- Now Playing10minA Giant Monster With a Giant Problem
- Now Playing14minHero, Beast, or Both? The Complex Lore of the Centaur
- Now Playing9minKrampus: Origins of the Yuletide Monster
- Now Playing20minWhy George Romero Changed Zombies Forever
- Now Playing11minThe Macabre Origins of the Grim Reaper
- Now Playing12minHow Gargoyles Became Monsters
- Now Playing11minWhy Has the Majestic Griffin Been Forgotten?
- Now Playing9minThe Hidden Origins of Nixie, the Scariest Little Mermaid
- Now Playing18minUnlocking the Mystery of Loch Ness
- Now Playing6minThe Original Headless Horseman
- Now Playing11minIs Siren Head the Ultimate Modern Monster?
- Now Playing17minTrolls: Scandinavia's Malevolent, Magical Outcasts
- Now Playing11minMapinguari: Fearsome Beast and Protector of the Amazon
- Now Playing12minHave Humans Always Feared Sharks?
Eons
- Now Playing13minWhy Is It So Hard to Tell the Sex of a Dinosaur?
- Now Playing11minWhen the Earth Suddenly Stopped Warming
- Now Playing6minWhat Colors Were Dinosaurs?
- Now Playing10minWhen We First Made Tools
- Now Playing11minWhere Did Water Come From?
- Now Playing8minInside the Dinosaur Library
- Now Playing7minWhen Giant Fungi Ruled
- Now Playing12minWhen We First Talked
- Now Playing12minWhen Giant Scorpions Swarmed the Seas
- Now Playing12minWhen We Took Over the World
- Now Playing12minWhy Male Mammoths Lost the Game (w/ TierZoo!)
- Now Playing10minWhen Hobbits Were Real
- Now Playing7minThe Trouble With Trilobites
- Now Playing10minNautiloids Thrived For 500 Million Years Until They Appeared
- Now Playing9minThe Raptor That Made Us Rethink Dinosaurs
- Now Playing5minWhen Did the First Flower Bloom?
- Now Playing6minWhen The Earth Was Purple
- Now Playing12minHow Sloths Went From the Seas to the Trees
- Now Playing10minOur Most Mysterious Extinct Cousins
- Now Playing10minWhen Our Culture Changed Our DNA
Hot Mess
- Now Playing6minWould Your Neighbors Save You From a Flooding Home?
- Now Playing4minCould Space Mirrors Cool The Globe?
- Now Playing3minCould climate change make you allergic to meat?
- Now Playing5minWhy We Confuse Weather and Climate
- Now Playing4minCould Space Mirrors Cool The Globe?
- Now Playing10minThe Link Between Extreme Weather and Climate Change
- Now Playing5minWhat Can You Actually Do About Climate Change?
- Now Playing5minCan Farms and Forests Coexist?
- Now Playing5minWhy Don't We Hear About the Ozone Hole Anymore?
- Now Playing6minCan We Get Solar Power To Everyone Who Wants It?
- Now Playing7minHow To Make Clothes Less Terrible for the Planet
- Now Playing9minHow to Talk About Climate Change
- Now Playing8minHow One Conservative Texas Town Went 100% Renewable
- Now Playing5minHow A Sticker Kept 3 Billion Tons of CO2 Out of The Air
- Now Playing11minClimate Change is Too Big for our Brains feat. Mike Rugnetta
- Now Playing5minClimate change will push millions out. Where will they go?
- Now Playing6minWhat if Carbon Emissions Stopped Tomorrow?
- Now Playing5minBeef Is Bad For The Climate. Can We Make It Better?
- Now Playing6minWhat Indigenous Communities Teach Us About Climate Change
- Now Playing5minWe've Ignored Climate Change For More Than a Century
Space Time
- Now Playing11minThe Unruh Effect
- Now Playing13minWhy Did Attosecond Physics Win the Nobel Prize?
- Now Playing14minHow Many States Of Matter Are There?
- Now Playing13minSound Waves from the Beginning of Time
- Now Playing14minHow We Know The Earth Is Ancient
- Now Playing15minThe Real Possibility of Mapping Alien Planets!
- Now Playing15minCan The Crisis in Cosmology Be Solved With Cosmic Voids?
- Now Playing12minNeutron Stars Collide in New LIGO Signal?
- Now Playing17minWhat's Your Brain's Role in Creating Space & Time?
- Now Playing11minExtraterrestrial Superstorms
- Now Playing13minCan Space Be Infinitely Divided?
- Now Playing16minHow Are Quasiparticles Different From Particles?
- Now Playing12minThe Nature of Nothing
- Now Playing13minThe Secrets of Feynman Diagrams
- Now Playing11minSupervoids vs Colliding Universes!
- Now Playing8minEscape The Kugelblitz Challenge
- Now Playing9minWhat's the Most Realistic Artificial Gravity in Sci-Fi?
- Now Playing12minUnderstanding the Uncertainty Principle
- Now Playing6minThe Race to a Habitable Exoplanet - Time Warp Challenge
- Now Playing6minHow Do You Measure the Size of the Universe?
Beat Making Lab
- Now Playing2minWalshy Fire [of Major Lazer] Wants Your Riddims
- Now Playing4minCho Cho Cho (Music Video) filmed in Goma, Congo
- Now Playing2minMashup: National Anthems
- Now Playing10minHeartbeats of Fiji
- Now Playing3minGet Your Drums Right
- Now Playing2minField Trip: Prison Beats
- 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 Playing4minTrapped In Paradise
- Now Playing2minHealth Worker Beat
- Now Playing3minSampling w/ Flip Flops and Ski Beatz
- Now Playing4minPortobelo (music video)
- Now Playing3minBehind The Beat: First Beat Making Lab (2011)
- Now Playing3min#FijiChallenge w/ Walshy Fire of Major Lazer
- Now Playing3minProf. Angel Sound Prison Beats Interview
- Now Playing3minExclusive Zenga (Music Video) by Flamme Kapaya
- Now Playing3minBeat Making Challenge #2: Kora Riddim
- Now Playing3minFemale Hip Hop Crew Makes Beats in Senegal
Infinite Series
- Now Playing11minWhat are Numbers Made of?
- Now Playing14minWhy Computers are Bad at Algebra
- Now Playing14minInfinite Chess
- Now Playing11minCan We Hear Shapes?
- Now Playing14minSolving the Wolverine Problem with Graph Coloring
- Now Playing8minA Breakthrough in Higher Dimensional Spheres
- Now Playing10minInstant Insanity Puzzle
- 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 Playing8minAre Prime Numbers Made Up?
- Now Playing9minProving Brouwer's Fixed Point Theorem
- Now Playing14minMaking Probability Mathematical
- Now Playing9minAssociahedra: The Shapes of Multiplication
- Now Playing14minTopology Riddles | Infinite Series
- Now Playing12minProving Pick's Theorem
- Now Playing11minVoting Systems and the Condorcet Paradox
- Now Playing10minUnraveling DNA with Rational Tangles
- Now Playing9minCan You Solve the Poison Wine Challenge?
Idea Channel
- Now Playing5minAre Memes and Internet Culture Creating a Singularity?
- Now Playing4minFrom Sherlock Holmes to 50 Shades of Grey
- Now Playing6minAre Virtual Video Game Economies Becoming Real?
- Now Playing4minIs Instagram Revolutionizing Photography?
- Now Playing5minIs Dubstep the New Musical Avant-Garde?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do We Love Zombies?
- Now Playing5minNicolas Cage, Taoism, and YOLO
- Now Playing8minIs Buying Call of Duty a Moral Choice?
- Now Playing5minWill Space Travel Save Us All?
- Now Playing5minIs Homestuck the Ulysses of the Internet?
- Now Playing5minDo We Want the World to End?
- Now Playing5minIs Dubstep the New Musical Avant-Garde?
- Now Playing3minIs the Web Browser Replacing the Art Gallery?
- Now Playing5minAre You a Hipster?
- Now Playing8minIs Developing Artificial Intelligence (AI) Ethical?
- Now Playing3minSuper Mario Brothers as Surrealist Art?
- Now Playing6minIs Futurama the Best Argument Against Transhumanism?
- Now Playing6minAre Virtual Video Game Economies Becoming Real?
- Now Playing8minIs Sad Music Actually Sad?
- Now Playing3minAre Holograms Nostalgia or a New Form of Art?