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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 Playing13minWhy Manticore Is a Dungeons & Dragons Legend
- Now Playing11minHow the Himalayas Changed the World
- Now Playing11minWhere Did the Moon Come From?
It's Okay to Be Smart
- Now Playing2minWhy Do Men Have Nipples? - 12 Days of Evolution #7
- Now Playing6minThomas Jefferson and The Giant Moose
- Now Playing6minWho Shares Your Birthday?
- Now Playing7minHow to be Crushed by the Atmosphere!
- Now Playing7minTheory vs Hypothesis vs Law
- Now Playing6minThe Amazing Science of DUST?
- Now Playing6minThe Invisible Creatures That Keep You Alive!
- Now Playing5minThis Land Is Your Land - Project For Awesome 2016
- Now Playing11minWhy We Are Losing the Night Sky
- Now Playing3minThe Equinox Isn't What You Think It Is
- Now Playing3minWhy Do We Go to Space?
- Now Playing5minGhosts of Evolution
- Now Playing6minAre You Afraid of Holes?
- Now Playing8minThe Deadpool Salamander That Can Regrow Limbs
- Now Playing5minThe Scale of the Universe
- Now Playing4minMy Date With A Giant Pacific Octopus!
- Now Playing4minA Slice of Pizza Science!
- Now Playing6minThe Most Extreme Life Forms On Earth... And Beyond?
- Now Playing5min23 Reasons to be Cheerful (Thanks to Science!)
- Now Playing8minAsteroids, Meteors, and Comets... OH MY!!!
Origin of Everything
- Now Playing7minHow Your Rubber Ducky Explains Colonialism
- Now Playing7minThe True Origin of Killer Clowns
- Now Playing12minWhy Do Schools Teach Sex Education?
- Now Playing9minIs the Rosa Parks Story True?
- Now Playing7minIs Poisoned Halloween Candy a Myth?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do Kids Have Their Own Bedrooms?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do Women Shave Their Legs?
- Now Playing10minHow WWII Created Godzilla & Mecha Robots
- Now Playing11minWhy Do So Many Religions Have Headwear?
- Now Playing10minHow Did Makeup Ads Go From Style to Science?
- Now Playing9minWhy Do We Drink Milk in School?
- Now Playing9minWhat If Islam Conquered Europe?
- Now Playing10minWhy Is There a Minimum Wage?
- Now Playing11minWhat is Racial Passing?
- Now Playing5minWhat Was Jesus' Real Name?
- Now Playing7minIs Poisoned Halloween Candy a Myth?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do Women Give Birth Lying Down?
- Now Playing10minWhat is Cultural Appropriation?
- Now Playing10minHow Did Martin Luther King Jr. Get a Holiday?
- Now Playing7minHistory of the Word "Gay"
Two Cents
- Now Playing6minDoes Wealth Make You Meaner?
- Now Playing6minWhat the Heck Are Mutual Funds?
- Now Playing4minWhat is the DOW?
- Now Playing6minShould You Break Up With Your Big Bank?
- Now Playing6minThe Ugly Truth About Airline Miles
- 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 Playing6minWhat is The Cost of Pet Ownership?
- Now Playing6minShould I Buy Bitcoin?
- Now Playing8minAre "Free" Video Games Really Free?
- Now Playing7minLove and Money
- Now Playing6minDo I Need To Buy A House?
- Now Playing7minIs It Even POSSIBLE to Save for Retirement?
- 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 Playing6minMoving Without Spending a Fortune
- Now Playing6minWomen Financial Superpowers
Monstrum
- Now Playing7minEl Chupacabras, a Modern Mystery
- Now Playing10minWhy the Dragon is Central to Chinese Culture
- Now Playing8minBunyip: Australia's Mysterious Amphibian Monster
- Now Playing7minWhat Dragons Say About Us
- Now Playing31minThe Werewolf's Modern Metamorphosis
- Now Playing12minBeyond the Supernatural Horror of the Nishi Daak Ghost
- Now Playing15minEgyptian Mummies: From Sacred Vessels to Scary Undead
- Now Playing12minTaotie: The Mystery of Chinese Mythology's Famous Glutton
- Now Playing12minDon't Let Them In! The Urban Legends of Black-Eyed Children
- Now Playing7minAre White Walkers Really Nordic Zombies?
- Now Playing14minThe Untold Secrets of Pokémon's Monster Mythology
- Now Playing7minRelease the Kraken!
- Now Playing13minWhy Manticore Is a Dungeons & Dragons Legend
- Now Playing13minUncovering the Enigma: Sasquatch Sightings
- Now Playing7minKasagonagá: The Cute, Kind Monster We All Need Right Now
- Now Playing11minMari Lwyd: The Skeleton Horse's Deep Past with Christmas
- Now Playing13minFire Cat or Fire Cart? The History of Japan's Kasha
- Now Playing12minHave Humans Always Feared Sharks?
- Now Playing11minMapinguari: Fearsome Beast and Protector of the Amazon
- Now Playing26minThe Killer Origins of the Werewolf
Eons
- Now Playing8minWhy Sour May Be The Oldest Taste
- Now Playing8minThe Risky Paleo Diets of Our Ancestors
- Now Playing10minWhen Our Culture Changed Our DNA
- Now Playing10minWhen Giant Amphibians Reigned
- Now Playing8minWhen Giant Millipedes Reigned
- Now Playing6minWhen The Earth Was Purple
- Now Playing12minHow Sloths Went From the Seas to the Trees
- Now Playing10minOur Most Mysterious Extinct Cousins
- Now Playing12minWhy Male Mammoths Lost the Game (w/ TierZoo!)
- Now Playing12minWhen We Took Over the World
- 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 Playing10minWhen We First Made Tools
- Now Playing8minInside the Dinosaur Library
- Now Playing11minWhere Did Water Come From?
- Now Playing12minWhen We First Talked
- Now Playing7minWhen Giant Fungi Ruled
Hot Mess
- Now Playing5minWhy We Confuse Weather and Climate
- Now Playing5minWhy Climate Change is Unjust
- Now Playing4minHow Much Energy Does the Internet Use?
- Now Playing6minCoral Reefs Are Dying. But They Don't Have To.
- Now Playing11minClimate Change is Too Big for our Brains feat. Mike Rugnetta
- Now Playing6minWould Your Neighbors Save You From a Flooding Home?
- Now Playing5minWhat Happened to Nuclear Power?
- Now Playing3minCould climate change make you allergic to meat?
- Now Playing7minWhat's The Best Car For The Climate?
- Now Playing6minCoral Reefs Are Dying. But They Don't Have To.
- Now Playing4minHow Much Energy Does the Internet Use?
- Now Playing12minOur Food System is Rigged feat. Sheril Kirshenbaum
- Now Playing13minThe Rise of Climate Fiction feat. Lindsay Ellis & Amy Brady
- 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
- Now Playing5minWhat Happened to Nuclear Power?
- Now Playing5minCan Farms and Forests Coexist?
- Now Playing4minWhy Are Hurricanes Getting Stronger?
- Now Playing6minWhat If We Burned All The World's Fossil Fuels?
Space Time
- Now Playing10minExtinction by Gamma-Ray Burst
- Now Playing8minShould the First Mars Mission Be All Women?
- Now Playing10minHow Much Information is in the Universe?
- Now Playing10minShould Space be Privatized?
- Now Playing10minWhat Do Stars Sound Like?
- Now Playing11minThe Future of Space Telescopes
- Now Playing13minThe First Quantum Field Theory
- Now Playing13minZeno's Paradox & The Quantum Zeno Effect
- Now Playing17minDid AI Prove Our Proton Model Wrong?
- Now Playing13minComputing a Universe Simulation
- Now Playing15minHow To Simulate The Universe With DFT
- Now Playing7minAre We Alone? Galactic Civilization Challenge
- Now Playing14minSpace DOES NOT Expand Everywhere
- Now Playing15minIs Pluto a Planet?
- Now Playing10minThe Eye of Sauron Reveals a Forming Solar System!
- Now Playing11minThe Fate of the First Stars
- Now Playing14minAre Virtual Particles A New Layer of Reality?
- Now Playing10minTelescopes on the Moon
- Now Playing16minWhat Happens Inside a Proton?
- Now Playing7minCan A Starfox Barrel Roll Work in Space?
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 Playing2minWhat's In the Backpack?
- Now Playing5minBehind the Beat: Portobelo
- 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 Playing3minExclusive Zenga (Music Video) by Flamme Kapaya
- Now Playing3minBeat Making Challenge #2: Kora Riddim
- 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 Playing9minBeyond the Golden Ratio
- Now Playing11minSingularities Explained
- Now Playing11minVoting Systems and the Condorcet Paradox
- Now Playing14minInfinite Chess
- Now Playing15minDissecting Hypercubes with Pascal's Triangle
- 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 Playing9minHow Many Humans Have the Same Number of Body Hairs?
- Now Playing10minThe Assassin Puzzle
- Now Playing8minHow to Divide by "Zero"
- Now Playing9minA Hierarchy of Infinities
- Now Playing15minArrow's Impossibility Theorem
- Now Playing11minTopology vs "a" Topology
- Now Playing9minBeyond the Golden Ratio
- Now Playing10minThe Mathematics of Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange
- Now Playing17minHacking at Quantum Speed with Shor's Algorithm
- Now Playing8minA Breakthrough in Higher Dimensional Spheres
- Now Playing14minBuilding an Infinite Bridge
Idea Channel
- Now Playing5minIs Dubstep the New Musical Avant-Garde?
- Now Playing4minIs Instagram Revolutionizing Photography?
- Now Playing5minNicolas Cage, Taoism, and YOLO
- Now Playing8minWhy Do We Love Zombies?
- Now Playing5minWill Space Travel Save Us All?
- Now Playing8minIs Buying Call of Duty a Moral Choice?
- Now Playing5minIs Dubstep the New Musical Avant-Garde?
- Now Playing5minDo We Want the World to End?
- Now Playing5minIs Homestuck the Ulysses of the Internet?
- Now Playing5minAre Memes and Internet Culture Creating a Singularity?
- Now Playing6minAre Virtual Video Game Economies Becoming Real?
- Now Playing4minFrom Sherlock Holmes to 50 Shades of Grey
- 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?