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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 Playing10minWhat Do DJs Even Do?
- 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
It's Okay to Be Smart
- Now Playing6minWhy Are Cicadas So Good At Math?
- Now Playing7minInside the World of Fire Ants!
- Now Playing7minCould You Be Immune To Everything?
- Now Playing8minNobel Prizes: Past, Present... and Future?
- Now Playing6minHow The Pyramids Were Built (Pyramid Science Part 2)
- Now Playing8minThe Deadliest Flu Season in History?
- Now Playing6minThe Oldest Living Things In The World
- Now Playing6minRelationship Advice from the Animal Kingdom
- Now Playing5minWhy Do We Itch?
- Now Playing5minSolving the Puzzle of Plate Tectonics
- Now Playing5minDe-Extinction: A Mammoth Undertaking
- Now Playing4minThe Surprising Places We Waste Energy
- Now Playing8minWhy Do We Have to Sleep
- Now Playing3minWhere Does the Smell of Rain Come From?
- Now Playing3minBuilding Curiosity
- Now Playing4minCuttlefish: Tentacles In Disguise
- Now Playing7minWhich Life Form REALLY Dominates Earth?
- Now Playing9minSo You Want to go to Mars?
- Now Playing6minThe Surprising Origin of Thanksgiving Foods
- Now Playing10minExoplanets: Are There Other Earths?
Origin of Everything
- Now Playing10minHow Did Makeup Ads Go From Style to Science?
- Now Playing9minWhy Do We Drink Milk in School?
- Now Playing10minWhy Is There a Minimum Wage?
- Now Playing11minWhat is Racial Passing?
- Now Playing9minWhat If Islam Conquered Europe?
- Now Playing7minIs Poisoned Halloween Candy a Myth?
- Now Playing5minWhat Was Jesus' Real Name?
- Now Playing7minHow Your Rubber Ducky Explains Colonialism
- Now Playing9minIs the Rosa Parks Story True?
- Now Playing7minThe True Origin of Killer Clowns
- Now Playing12minWhy Do Schools Teach Sex Education?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do Women Shave Their Legs?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do Kids Have Their Own Bedrooms?
- Now Playing7minIs Poisoned Halloween Candy a Myth?
- Now Playing10minHow WWII Created Godzilla & Mecha Robots
- Now Playing11minWhy Do So Many Religions Have Headwear?
- 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?
Two Cents
- Now Playing8minAre "Free" Video Games Really Free?
- Now Playing6minWhat is The Cost of Pet Ownership?
- Now Playing6minShould I Buy Bitcoin?
- Now Playing6minHow Do You Actually Buy A House?
- Now Playing8min5 Ways People Are Dumb About Money
- 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 Playing5minHow Do Your Tax Dollars Get Spent?
- Now Playing5minHow are credit scores calculated?
- Now Playing8min5 Strange Investor Crazes!
- 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 Playing10minHow a Children's Book Introduced Us To Our Inner Demons
- Now Playing17minThe Origins of the Zombie, from Haiti to the U.S.
- Now Playing10minEl Silbón: The Deadly Whistler of the Grasslands
- Now Playing10minSlender Man: How The Internet Created a Monster
- Now Playing12minWho Is This Japanese Yōkai That Is Obsessed With Your Butt?
- Now Playing13minMonster Plants and the Humans who Invent Them
- Now Playing9minKrampus: Origins of the Yuletide Monster
- Now Playing20minWhy George Romero Changed Zombies Forever
- Now Playing14minHero, Beast, or Both? The Complex Lore of the Centaur
- Now Playing10minA Giant Monster With a Giant Problem
- Now Playing9minThe Hidden Origins of Nixie, the Scariest Little Mermaid
- Now Playing18minUnlocking the Mystery of Loch Ness
- Now Playing11minThe Macabre Origins of the Grim Reaper
- Now Playing12minHow Gargoyles Became Monsters
- Now Playing11minWhy Has the Majestic Griffin Been Forgotten?
- Now Playing17minTrolls: Scandinavia's Malevolent, Magical Outcasts
- Now Playing11minIs Siren Head the Ultimate Modern Monster?
- Now Playing6minThe Original Headless Horseman
- Now Playing12minHave Humans Always Feared Sharks?
- Now Playing11minMapinguari: Fearsome Beast and Protector of the Amazon
Eons
- Now Playing11minThe Story of the Dino Stampede
- Now Playing11minHow the Starfish Got Its Arms
- Now Playing9minThe Rise and Fall of the Bone-Crushing Dogs
- Now Playing7minWhy Do Things Keep Evolving Into Crabs?
- Now Playing10minHow Pollination Got Going Twice
- Now Playing10minThat Time The Ocean Lost (Almost) All Its Oxygen
- Now Playing8minThe Ancient Human Species With A Missing Body
- Now Playing10minThe Facts About Dinosaurs & Feathers
- Now Playing10minWhen Ichthyosaurs Led a Revolution in the Seas
- Now Playing10minHow a Supervolcano Made the Cenozoic's Coolest Fossils
- Now Playing6minHistory's Most Powerful Plants
- Now Playing6minThe Most Useful Fossils In The World
- Now Playing9minThe Whole Saga of the Supercontinents
- Now Playing10minThe Last Time the Globe Warmed
- Now Playing8minThe Mystery of the Eocene's Lethal Lake
- Now Playing11minWhen Penguins Went From The Sky To The Sea
- Now Playing9minThe Sudden Rise of the First Colossal Animal
- Now Playing8minWhere Did Viruses Come From?
- Now Playing8minHow Ankylosaurs Got Their Clubs
- Now Playing13minWere These Monsters Inspired by Fossils?
Hot Mess
- 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 Playing5minWho Should Pay To Fix Climate Change?
- Now Playing6minHow To Suck Carbon Dioxide Out of the Sky
- 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 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 Playing6minWhat Indigenous Communities Teach Us About Climate Change
- Now Playing10minFeeling Guilty About Climate Change feat. Hank Green
- Now Playing5minWhy Climate Change is Unjust
- Now Playing10minAre You Scared Enough? feat. David Wallace-Wells
- Now Playing5minWhy We Confuse Weather and Climate
- Now Playing5minWhy Climate Change is Unjust
- Now Playing4minHow Much Energy Does the Internet Use?
Space Time
- Now Playing11min5 REAL Possibilities for Interstellar Travel
- Now Playing12minWhat Survives Inside A Black Hole?
- Now Playing11minWhy Quasars are so Awesome
- Now Playing13minDid Time Start at the Big Bang?
- Now Playing11minHow Asteroid Mining Will Save Earth
- Now Playing11minWe Are Star Stuff
- Now Playing8minIs The Alcubierre Warp Drive Possible?
- Now Playing13minThe Real Star Wars
- Now Playing10minThe One-Electron Universe
- Now Playing11minIs Gravity An Illusion?
- Now Playing10minIs Quantum Tunneling Faster than Light?
- Now Playing8minDoes Dark Matter BREAK Physics?
- Now Playing9minGeneral Relativity & Curved Spacetime Explained!
- Now Playing12minThe Black Hole Information Paradox
- Now Playing9minBlack Hole Swarms
- Now Playing6minS2: The Future of Gravitational Waves
- Now Playing10minThe Vacuum Catastrophe
- Now Playing17minWhat Happens If You Jump Into A Black Hole?
- Now Playing11minAre You a Boltzmann Brain?
- Now Playing18minAre Many Worlds & Pilot Wave The Same Theory?
Beat Making Lab
- Now Playing3minBehind The Beat: First Beat Making Lab (2011)
- Now Playing4minPortobelo (music video)
- Now Playing3minSampling w/ Flip Flops and Ski Beatz
- Now Playing2minHealth Worker Beat
- Now Playing4minTrapped In Paradise
- Now Playing4minDiablos (music video)
- Now Playing3minEpisode 1: Goma, Congo
- 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 Playing3minProf. Angel Sound Prison Beats Interview
- Now Playing3min#FijiChallenge w/ Walshy Fire of Major Lazer
- Now Playing4minCho Cho Cho (Music Video) filmed in Goma, Congo
- Now Playing2minWalshy Fire [of Major Lazer] Wants Your Riddims
- Now Playing2minWhat's In the Backpack?
- Now Playing5minBehind the Beat: Portobelo
- Now Playing3minBeat Making Challenge #1: Accordion Trap
- Now Playing3minPanama: Meet the Kids Behind the Beats
- Now Playing2minField Trip: Prison Beats
- Now Playing3minGet Your Drums Right
Infinite Series
- 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 Playing10minThe Assassin Puzzle
- Now Playing9minHow Many Humans Have the Same Number of Body Hairs?
- Now Playing8minHow to Divide by "Zero"
- Now Playing11minSingularities Explained
- Now Playing9minBeyond the Golden Ratio
- Now Playing15minDissecting Hypercubes with Pascal's Triangle
- Now Playing11minVoting Systems and the Condorcet Paradox
- Now Playing14minInfinite Chess
- Now Playing15minArrow's Impossibility Theorem
- Now Playing9minA Hierarchy of Infinities
- Now Playing14minBuilding an Infinite Bridge
- Now Playing13minThe Mathematics of Quantum Computers
- Now Playing8minA Breakthrough in Higher Dimensional Spheres
- Now Playing14minSolving the Wolverine Problem with Graph Coloring
- Now Playing14minCan a Chess Piece Explain Markov Chains?
- Now Playing10minWhat Does It Mean to Be a Number? (The Peano Axioms)
Idea Channel
- Now Playing3minIs the Web Browser Replacing the Art Gallery?
- Now Playing5minAre You a Hipster?
- Now Playing8minIs Developing Artificial Intelligence (AI) Ethical?
- Now Playing8minIs Sad Music Actually Sad?
- Now Playing3minAre Holograms Nostalgia or a New Form of Art?
- Now Playing3minAre Holograms Nostalgia or a New Form of Art?
- Now Playing6minIs Doctor Who a Religion?
- Now Playing9minDoes Math Really Exist?
- Now Playing3minSuper Mario Brothers as Surrealist Art?
- Now Playing6minIs Futurama the Best Argument Against Transhumanism?
- Now Playing6minAre Virtual Video Game Economies Becoming Real?
- Now Playing6minAre MP3s & Vinyl Better than Live Music?
- Now Playing7minCan Dungeons & Dragons Make You Confident & Successful?
- Now Playing5minIs Facebook Changing Our Identity?
- Now Playing4minHas the Microsoft Kinect revolutionized art?
- Now Playing6minWhat do MP3s and Magic Spells Have in Common?
- Now Playing4minThe Bronies Phenomenon
- Now Playing3minWhat Makes a Pop Star Authentic?
- Now Playing4minIs Twitter the Newest Form of Literature?
- Now Playing8minIs Piracy Helping Game of Thrones?