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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 Playing7minHow Do Glaciars Move?
- Now Playing6minThe Most Extreme Life Forms On Earth... And Beyond?
- Now Playing2minThe Sun Is A Magnet!
- Now Playing5minYour #ScienceWoman Heroes
- Now Playing6minDoomsday Machines
- Now Playing6minThe Surprising Origin of Thanksgiving Foods
- Now Playing4minMy Date With A Giant Pacific Octopus!
- Now Playing5minThe Scale of the Universe
- Now Playing5min23 Reasons to be Cheerful (Thanks to Science!)
- Now Playing6minThe Most Extreme Life Forms On Earth... And Beyond?
- Now Playing4minA Slice of Pizza Science!
- Now Playing8minAsteroids, Meteors, and Comets... OH MY!!!
- Now Playing11minWhy We Are Losing the Night Sky
- Now Playing5minThis Land Is Your Land - Project For Awesome 2016
- Now Playing6minThe Invisible Creatures That Keep You Alive!
- Now Playing5minGhosts of Evolution
- Now Playing3minWhy Do We Go to Space?
- Now Playing3minThe Equinox Isn't What You Think It Is
- Now Playing8minThe Deadpool Salamander That Can Regrow Limbs
- Now Playing6minAre You Afraid of Holes?
Origin of Everything
- Now Playing12minWhy Do Schools Teach Sex Education?
- Now Playing7minHow did Makeup, WWII, & Communism Create U.S. Healthcare?
- Now Playing10minIs Breakfast the Most Important Meal?
- Now Playing7minHow Your Rubber Ducky Explains Colonialism
- Now Playing7minHow Columbus Invented Cannibals
- Now Playing8minWhy is there a North and South Korea?
- Now Playing10minWhy was Pink for Boys and Blue for Girls?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do People Have Pets?
- Now Playing11minWhy Do We Have Private Prisons?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do Women Give Birth Lying Down?
- Now Playing8minWhy Was Crossdressing Illegal?
- Now Playing8minWhen DId Marriage Become about Love?
- Now Playing7minWhy Do We Say "Asian American" Not "Oriental"?
- Now Playing7minWhen Men Wore High Heels
- Now Playing12minWhy Doesn't the US Have Paid Parental Leave?
- Now Playing10minWhy Does the Government Need to Know My Race?
- Now Playing10minWhat is Ethnicity?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do We Get Grades in School?
- Now Playing7minIs Poisoned Halloween Candy a Myth?
- Now Playing7minHistory of the Word "Gay"
Two Cents
- 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 Playing7minIs the Stock Market Just a Big Casino?
- Now Playing5minBudgeting Basics
- Now Playing8min5 Ways People Are Dumb About Money
- Now Playing6minHow Do You Actually Buy A House?
- Now Playing6minShould I Buy Bitcoin?
- Now Playing6minWhat is The Cost of Pet Ownership?
- Now Playing8minAre "Free" Video Games Really Free?
- Now Playing7minLove and Money
- Now Playing7minIs It Even POSSIBLE to Save for Retirement?
- Now Playing6minDo I Need To Buy A House?
- 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
Monstrum
- Now Playing11minKing Kong pt. 2
- Now Playing11minLa Lechuza: The Shape-Shifting Witch-Owl
- Now Playing10minYara-ma-yha-who: Australia's Regurgitating, Blood-Sucking Mo
- Now Playing12minIs This North American Sea Serpent Real or a Hoax?
- Now Playing15minBaba Yaga: The Ancient Origins of the Famous 'Witch'
- Now Playing8minWerehyena: The Terrifying Shapeshifters of African Lore
- Now Playing12minDeath Worms: Fact or Fiction?
- Now Playing13minWhat Happened During Our Scary Slumber Party
- Now Playing13minThe SCP Foundation: Declassified
- Now Playing10minThe Enchanting Fairies of Celtic Lore
- Now Playing10minPontianak: The Vampiric Ghost of Southeast Asia
- 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
Eons
- Now Playing9minWhen a Giant Pterosaur Ruled the European Islands
- Now Playing8minWhen the Rainforests Collapsed
- Now Playing10minHow Horses Took Over North America (Twice)
- Now Playing9minIt's Becoming Very Clear That Birds Are Not Normal
- Now Playing10minWhy We Only Have Ten Toes (It's a Long Story)
- Now Playing11minHow Earth's First, Unkillable Animals Saved the World
- Now Playing8minHow a Mass Extinction Event Created the Amazon
- Now Playing7minThe Great Snake Debate
- Now Playing9minCould Neanderthals Use Symbolism?
- Now Playing12minHow The Elephant Got Its Trunk
- Now Playing4minThe Strange Case of the Buzzsaw Jaws
- Now Playing13minHow Plate Tectonics Transformed Los Angeles
- Now Playing11minWas This Dinosaur a Cannibal?
- Now Playing8minHow a Hot Planet Created the World's Biggest Snake
- Now Playing9minWhen Insects First Flew
- Now Playing8minThe Weird, Watery Tale of Spinosaurus
- Now Playing10minHow Plants Became Carnivores
- Now Playing12minWhen Giant Scorpions Swarmed the Seas
- Now Playing10minThe Mystery of South America's False Horses
- Now Playing6minHow Did Dinosaurs Get So Huge?
Hot Mess
- Now Playing6minCoral Reefs Are Dying. But They Don't Have To.
- Now Playing13minThe Rise of Climate Fiction feat. Lindsay Ellis & Amy Brady
- Now Playing12minOur Food System is Rigged feat. Sheril Kirshenbaum
- Now Playing4minHow Much Energy Does the Internet Use?
- Now Playing5minWhat Happened to Nuclear Power?
- Now Playing8minHow One Conservative Texas Town Went 100% Renewable
- Now Playing5minWhat's actually the worst greenhouse gas?
- Now Playing6minWill Big Oil Have To Pay Up Like Big Tobacco?
- Now Playing4minWhy Are Hurricanes Getting Stronger?
- Now Playing5minCan Farms and Forests Coexist?
- 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 Playing5minWhat Happened to Nuclear Power?
- Now Playing3minCould climate change make you allergic to meat?
- 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 Playing21minCan a Particle Be Neither Matter Nor Force?
- Now Playing15minIs Dark Energy Getting Stronger?
- Now Playing13minNew Results in Quantum Tunneling vs. The Speed of Light
- Now Playing12minWhy We Should Put Rockets On the Moon
- Now Playing13minSupersymmetric Particle Found?
- Now Playing17minHow Much Of The Universe Can Humanity Ever See?
- Now Playing11minBlack Holes from the Dawn of Time
- Now Playing13minHow Black Holes Spin Space Time
- Now Playing11minHow to Build a Blackhole
- Now Playing10minScientists Have Detected the First Stars
- Now Playing15minHow Quantum Entanglement Creates Entropy
- Now Playing14minWhat are the Strings in String Theory?
- Now Playing15minDoes Space Emerge From A Holographic Boundary?
- Now Playing10minZero-Point Energy Demystified
- Now Playing16minDo Black Holes Have to Be Black?
- Now Playing13minHow To Capture Black Holes
- Now Playing12minScience of the James Webb Telescope Explained!
- Now Playing16minIs 'Perpetual Motion' Possible with Superfluids?
- Now Playing6minSpace Used to Be Orange!!
- Now Playing16minWhat If Humanity Is Among The First Spacefaring Civilization
Beat Making Lab
- 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 Playing2minWalshy Fire [of Major Lazer] Wants Your Riddims
- Now Playing4minCho Cho Cho (Music Video) filmed in Goma, Congo
- 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 Playing3minBeat Making Challenge #2: Kora Riddim
- Now Playing3minExclusive Zenga (Music Video) by Flamme Kapaya
- Now Playing4minDiablos (music video)
- Now Playing3minEpisode 1: Goma, Congo
- Now Playing4minTrapped In Paradise
- Now Playing2minHealth Worker Beat
- Now Playing3minSampling w/ Flip Flops and Ski Beatz
Infinite Series
- Now Playing15minArrow's Impossibility Theorem
- Now Playing9minA Hierarchy of Infinities
- Now Playing8minHow to Divide by "Zero"
- Now Playing9minHow Many Humans Have the Same Number of Body Hairs?
- Now Playing10minThe Assassin Puzzle
- Now Playing9minHow Many Humans Have the Same Number of Body Hairs?
- Now Playing10minUnraveling DNA with Rational Tangles
- Now Playing14minTopology Riddles | Infinite Series
- Now Playing12minThe Honeycombs of 4-Dimensional Bees ft. Joe Hanson
- Now Playing11minVoting Systems and the Condorcet Paradox
- Now Playing14minInfinite Chess
- Now Playing15minDissecting Hypercubes with Pascal's Triangle
- Now Playing9minBeyond the Golden Ratio
- Now Playing11minSingularities Explained
- Now Playing12minThe Honeycombs of 4-Dimensional Bees ft. Joe Hanson
- Now Playing10minThe Assassin Puzzle
- Now Playing11minSingularities Explained
- Now Playing14minWhy Computers are Bad at Algebra
- Now Playing17minSplitting Rent with Triangles
- Now Playing16minHow to Break Cryptography
Idea Channel
- Now Playing4minThe Bronies Phenomenon
- Now Playing4minHas the Microsoft Kinect revolutionized art?
- Now Playing5minIs Facebook Changing Our Identity?
- Now Playing6minWhat do MP3s and Magic Spells Have in Common?
- Now Playing6minAre MP3s & Vinyl Better than Live Music?
- Now Playing7minCan Dungeons & Dragons Make You Confident & Successful?
- Now Playing9minIs Community a Postmodern Masterpiece?
- Now Playing8minIs Piracy Helping Game of Thrones?
- Now Playing4minIs Twitter the Newest Form of Literature?
- Now Playing3minWhat Makes a Pop Star Authentic?
- Now Playing8minIs Developing Artificial Intelligence (AI) Ethical?
- Now Playing3minIs the Web Browser Replacing the Art Gallery?
- Now Playing5minAre You a Hipster?
- Now Playing6minAre Virtual Video Game Economies Becoming Real?
- Now Playing6minIs Futurama the Best Argument Against Transhumanism?
- Now Playing3minSuper Mario Brothers as Surrealist Art?
- Now Playing6minIs Doctor Who a Religion?
- Now Playing9minDoes Math Really Exist?
- Now Playing3minAre Holograms Nostalgia or a New Form of Art?
- Now Playing3minAre Holograms Nostalgia or a New Form of Art?