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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 Playing27minNot "Business As Usual"
- Now Playing27minClimate Crossroads
- Now Playing27minWater Whiplash
- Now Playing27minAre We At The Tipping Point?
- Now Playing27minAdapt or Leave?
- Now Playing27minThe Heat is On
- Now Playing11minHow the Himalayas Changed the World
- Now Playing12minHow Black Artists Have Influenced Country Music
- Now Playing10minWhy This Unusual Pattern May Save the Rainforests
- Now Playing17minCan We Test Quantum Gravity?
It's Okay to Be Smart
- Now Playing5minThe Only Animal That Weeps
- Now Playing6minDNA Doesn't Look Like What You Think!
- Now Playing6minThe Science of Beer
- Now Playing6minHow To Hit A Fastball (According To Science!!!)
- Now Playing2minWhy Are There Still Monkeys? - 12 Days of Evolution #10
- Now Playing3minWhy Do We Go to Space?
- Now Playing8min20 MILLION Year-Old Spider!! Unweaving Spider Silk
- Now Playing4minPutting Hurricane Harvey In Perspective
- Now Playing9minCan You Bend Light Like This?
- Now Playing10minCould You Be a Chimera?
- Now Playing5minHow Much Plastic is in the Ocean?
- Now Playing7minWhich Life Form REALLY Dominates Earth?
- Now Playing6minWhat's the Deadliest Animal in the World?
- Now Playing4minSpace Sounds
- Now Playing5minBats: Guardians of the Night
- Now Playing5minDo You Really Have Two Brains?
- Now Playing8minScience of Marathon Running
- Now Playing7minIs Height All in Our Genes?
- Now Playing7minEinstein Was Right: Gravitational Waves Edition
- Now Playing11minThe Dinosaur On Your Thanksgiving Table
Origin of Everything
- Now Playing9minThe Origin of Gender
- Now Playing9minWhy Do All Malls Look the Same?
- Now Playing8minWhere does the Nuclear Family Come From?
- Now Playing10minThe 2nd Amendment Explained
- Now Playing11minWhy Do So Many Religions Have Headwear?
- Now Playing10minWhy Do We Have Hobbies?
- Now Playing7minWhy Do We Eat Popcorn at The Movies?
- Now Playing9minThe Origin of Gender
- Now Playing7minThe True Origin of Killer Clowns
- Now Playing8minWhy Did Europeans Enslave Africans?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do We Get Grades in School?
- Now Playing9minWhy Do We Drink Milk in School?
- Now Playing10minWhat is Ethnicity?
- Now Playing7minWhy Does Santa Wear Red?
- Now Playing11minWhat is Racial Passing?
- Now Playing6minWhy Do We Have Middle Names?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do People Have Pets?
- Now Playing12minSix Historically True Facts about Money
- Now Playing8minWhy Do We Eat Artificial Flavors?
- Now Playing12minWhy Do We Have Housing Projects?
Two Cents
- 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 Playing5minHow Cars Can Keep You Poor
- Now Playing6minWomen Financial Superpowers
- Now Playing6minMoving Without Spending a Fortune
- Now Playing7minLove and Money
- Now Playing7minIs It Even POSSIBLE to Save for Retirement?
- Now Playing6minDo I Need To Buy A House?
- Now Playing5minHow Do Your Tax Dollars Get Spent?
- Now Playing8min5 Strange Investor Crazes!
- Now Playing5minHow are credit scores calculated?
- Now Playing7minIs the Stock Market Just a Big Casino?
- Now Playing5minBudgeting Basics
- Now Playing6minDoes Wealth Make You Meaner?
- Now Playing6minWhat the Heck Are Mutual Funds?
- Now Playing6minShould You Break Up With Your Big Bank?
- Now Playing6minThe Ugly Truth About Airline Miles
- Now Playing4minWhat is the DOW?
- Now Playing6minShould I Buy Bitcoin?
Monstrum
- Now Playing13minWhat Happened During Our Scary Slumber Party
- Now Playing12minDeath Worms: Fact or Fiction?
- Now Playing15minBaba Yaga: The Ancient Origins of the Famous 'Witch'
- Now Playing8minWerehyena: The Terrifying Shapeshifters of African Lore
- Now Playing13minThe SCP Foundation: Declassified
- Now Playing11minLa Lechuza: The Shape-Shifting Witch-Owl
- Now Playing11minKing Kong pt. 2
- Now Playing12minIs This North American Sea Serpent Real or a Hoax?
- Now Playing10minYara-ma-yha-who: Australia's Regurgitating, Blood-Sucking Mo
- Now Playing10minThe Enchanting Fairies of Celtic Lore
- Now Playing10minPontianak: The Vampiric Ghost of Southeast Asia
- 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 Playing9minThe Mother of Vengeance: Grendel's Mom
- Now Playing14minThe Evolution of Creepy Dolls
Eons
- Now Playing7minThe Other Explosion You Should Know About
- Now Playing12minWhen We Took Over the World
- Now Playing10minWhen Pterosaurs Walked
- Now Playing9minWe Helped Make Mosquitoes A Problem
- Now Playing13minA Brief History of Geologic Time
- Now Playing8minHow the Chalicothere Split In Two
- Now Playing7minUntangling the Devil's Corkscrew
- Now Playing13minDid Raptorex Really Exist?
- Now Playing8minBeans & Bees (Not Bats) Gave Us Butterflies
- Now Playing13minThe Dinosaur Who Was Buried at Sea
- Now Playing6minHow Sex Became A Thing
- Now Playing9minHow Pterosaurs Got Their Wings
- Now Playing9minDarwin Missed An Example of Evolution Right Under His Nose
- Now Playing10minGiant Viruses Blur The Line Between Alive and Not
- Now Playing7minIs This The Oldest Dad In The Fossil Record?
- Now Playing8minWhere Did Viruses Come From?
- Now Playing9minHow the Turtle Got Its Shell
- Now Playing9minThe Fossil Record In Your Mouth
- Now Playing11minHow We Identified One of Earth's Earliest Animals
- Now Playing11minThe Mystery Behind the Biggest Bears of All Time
Hot Mess
- Now Playing6minWhat Indigenous Communities Teach Us About Climate Change
- Now Playing10minFeeling Guilty About Climate Change feat. Hank Green
- Now Playing10minAre You Scared Enough? feat. David Wallace-Wells
- Now Playing5minWhy Climate Change is Unjust
- Now Playing6minWhat If We Burned All The World's Fossil Fuels?
- Now Playing7minWhat's The Best Car For The Climate?
- Now Playing10minFeeling Guilty About Climate Change feat. Hank Green
- Now Playing6minHow To Suck Carbon Dioxide Out of the Sky
- Now Playing6minHow To Suck Carbon Dioxide Out of the Sky
- Now Playing5minWho Should Pay To Fix Climate Change?
- Now Playing7minHow To Make Clothes Less Terrible for the Planet
- Now Playing5minWhy Don't We Hear About the Ozone Hole Anymore?
- Now Playing6minWhat If We Burned All The World's Fossil Fuels?
- Now Playing6minCan We Get Solar Power To Everyone Who Wants It?
- Now Playing6minWill Big Oil Have To Pay Up Like Big Tobacco?
- Now Playing5minClimate change will push millions out. Where will they go?
- Now Playing5minWho Should Pay To Fix Climate Change?
- Now Playing5minWhat's actually the worst greenhouse gas?
- Now Playing6minWill Big Oil Have To Pay Up Like Big Tobacco?
- Now Playing8minHow One Conservative Texas Town Went 100% Renewable
Space Time
- Now Playing13minWhat's The Universe's Strongest Particle Accelerator?
- Now Playing10minWhat Does Dark Energy Really Do?
- Now Playing6minThe Calendar, Australia & White Christmas
- Now Playing10minTelescopes on the Moon
- Now Playing14minCould the Universe End by Tearing Apart Every Atom?
- Now Playing15minDid Life on Earth Come from Space?
- Now Playing10minSelf-Replicating Robots and Galactic Domination
- Now Playing15minDark Forest: Should We Not Contact Aliens?
- Now Playing13minAnti-gravity and the True Nature of Dark Energy
- Now Playing14minThe Crisis in Cosmology
- Now Playing14minWhat are the Strings in String Theory?
- Now Playing8minKronos: Devourer Of Worlds
- Now Playing10minThe Eye of Sauron Reveals a Forming Solar System!
- Now Playing15minWhat if Singularities DO NOT Exist?
- Now Playing13minHow To See Black Holes By Catching Neutrinos
- Now Playing11minThe Misunderstood Nature of Entropy
- Now Playing8minLIGO's First Detection of Gravitational Waves!
- Now Playing13minWhy We Might Be Alone in the Universe
- Now Playing12minWhat Happens at the Event Horizon?
- Now Playing14minLoop Quantum Gravity Explained
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 Playing14minSolving the Wolverine Problem with Graph Coloring
- Now Playing8minA Breakthrough in Higher Dimensional Spheres
- Now Playing10minInstant Insanity Puzzle
- Now Playing14minCan We Combine pi & e to Make a Rational Number?
- Now Playing11minCan We Hear Shapes?
- Now Playing12minHow Infinity Explains the Finite
- Now Playing8minThe Multiplication Multiverse
- Now Playing11minWhat are Numbers Made of?
- Now Playing14minWhy Computers are Bad at Algebra
- Now Playing14minInfinite Chess
- Now Playing11minCan We Hear Shapes?
- Now Playing10minUnraveling DNA with Rational Tangles
- Now Playing11minVoting Systems and the Condorcet Paradox
- Now Playing12minProving Pick's Theorem
- Now Playing9minCan You Solve the Poison Wine Challenge?
- Now Playing10minThe Mathematics of Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange
- Now Playing11minTopology vs "a" Topology
- Now Playing13minNetwork Mathematics and Rival Factions | Infinite Series
- Now Playing8minAre Prime Numbers Made Up?
- Now Playing14minMaking Probability Mathematical
Idea Channel
- Now Playing5minAre Olympic Competitors Geniuses?
- Now Playing7minHow are Justin Bieber, Franz Liszt and Jerusalem Connected?
- Now Playing5minAre Memes and Internet Culture Creating a Singularity?
- Now Playing6minIs Minecraft the Ultimate Educational Tool?
- Now Playing5minIs William Gibson A Modern Day Oracle?
- Now Playing4minAre Mashups the End of Music Genres?
- Now Playing5minIs William Gibson A Modern Day Oracle?
- Now Playing4minRussian Meteorites and Surveillance Culture
- Now Playing4minAre LOLCats and Internet Memes Art?
- Now Playing4minHas the Microsoft Kinect revolutionized art?
- Now Playing4minIs Twitter the Newest Form of Literature?
- Now Playing8minIs a Tagged Instagram More Than Just a Photo?
- Now Playing4minFrom Sherlock Holmes to 50 Shades of Grey
- Now Playing3minIs the Web Browser Replacing the Art Gallery?
- Now Playing5minNicolas Cage, Taoism, and YOLO
- Now Playing9minWill Kickstarter Replace Hollywood?
- Now Playing6minWhat Do Santa and Wrestling Have In Common?
- Now Playing5minIs Facebook Changing Our Identity?
- Now Playing6minWhat do MP3s and Magic Spells Have in Common?
- Now Playing8minDo Knock-Offs Prove the Value of a Brand?