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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 Playing7minWhere Did Humans Come From?
- Now Playing18minThe 12 Days of Evolution - Complete Series!
- Now Playing7minTheory vs Hypothesis vs Law
- Now Playing8minNobel Prizes: Past, Present... and Future?
- Now Playing7minWhere Did Humans Come From?
- Now Playing6minIt's Okay to Fart
- Now Playing6minThe REAL Physics of Hot Air Balloons!
- Now Playing4minHow Ingenious Animals Have Engineered Air Conditioning
- Now Playing3minElectric Buzzaloo: How Bees See the Invisible
- Now Playing4minWhy I'm Scared of Spiders
- Now Playing5minWhy Are You Multicellular?
- Now Playing5minHow Many Species Are There?
- Now Playing6minWhy Do Things Sound Scary?
- Now Playing5minThe Far Future of the Universe
- Now Playing6minHow An Igloo Keeps You Warm
- Now Playing7minHow Baby Sea Turtles Find Their Way Home
- Now Playing3minThe Equinox Isn't What You Think It Is
- Now Playing13minDoes Someone Else Have Your Face?
- Now Playing6minWhat Has New Horizons Taught Us About Pluto?
- Now Playing4minThis Is Not a Rainbow
Origin of Everything
- Now Playing7minWhen Men Wore High Heels
- Now Playing12minWhy Doesn't the US Have Paid Parental Leave?
- Now Playing10minWhat is Ethnicity?
- Now Playing10minWhy Does the Government Need to Know My Race?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do We Get Grades in School?
- Now Playing7minIs Poisoned Halloween Candy a Myth?
- Now Playing7minHistory of the Word "Gay"
- Now Playing10minHow Did Martin Luther King Jr. Get a Holiday?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do Women Give Birth Lying Down?
- Now Playing10minWhat is Cultural Appropriation?
- Now Playing12minWhy Do Schools Teach Sex Education?
- Now Playing7minHow did Makeup, WWII, & Communism Create U.S. Healthcare?
- Now Playing7minHow Your Rubber Ducky Explains Colonialism
- Now Playing10minIs Breakfast the Most Important Meal?
- Now Playing8minWhy is there a North and South Korea?
- Now Playing7minHow Columbus Invented Cannibals
- 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 Was Crossdressing Illegal?
Two Cents
- Now Playing6minTop 5 Biggest Financial Scams
- Now Playing7minWhy It's More Expensive To Be Poor
- Now Playing6minHow to Ask for a Raise
- Now Playing7minWhat's The Real Cost of Dying?
- Now Playing7minShould I Invest In Cannabis Stocks?
- Now Playing7minFighting the Financial Pitfalls of the Supermarket
- Now Playing5minDo Kids Need to Learn About Money?
- Now Playing5minInsta-Everything
- Now Playing7minHow Retailers Stalk You Online
- Now Playing7minIs Your Side Hustle Hustling You?
- Now Playing7minWhich College Majors Give the Most Bang for Your Buck?
- Now Playing6minFighting the Wedding Industrial Complex
- Now Playing6minIs My Identity Safe From Hackers?
- Now Playing7minMoney, A Global Game of Trust
- Now Playing6minI'm Young & Healthy, Can I Skip Health Insurance?
- Now Playing9minHow Smart Entrepreneurs Think About PRICES!
- Now Playing5minHow are credit scores calculated?
- Now Playing8min5 Strange Investor Crazes!
- Now Playing5minHow Do Your Tax Dollars Get Spent?
- Now Playing6minDo I Need To Buy A House?
Monstrum
- Now Playing17minTrolls: Scandinavia's Malevolent, Magical Outcasts
- Now Playing6minThe Original Headless Horseman
- Now Playing11minIs Siren Head the Ultimate Modern Monster?
- Now Playing9minThe Hidden Origins of Nixie, the Scariest Little Mermaid
- Now Playing18minUnlocking the Mystery of Loch Ness
- Now Playing12minHow Gargoyles Became Monsters
- Now Playing11minThe Macabre Origins of the Grim Reaper
- Now Playing11minWhy Has the Majestic Griffin Been Forgotten?
- Now Playing9minKrampus: Origins of the Yuletide Monster
- Now Playing20minWhy George Romero Changed Zombies Forever
- Now Playing10minA Giant Monster With a Giant Problem
- Now Playing14minHero, Beast, or Both? The Complex Lore of the Centaur
- 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 Playing12minWho Is This Japanese Yōkai That Is Obsessed With Your Butt?
- Now Playing13minMonster Plants and the Humans who Invent Them
- Now Playing14minThe Untold Secrets of Pokémon's Monster Mythology
- Now Playing7minAre White Walkers Really Nordic Zombies?
Eons
- Now Playing10minThe World Before Plate Tectonics
- Now Playing8minThe Hellacious Lives of the "Hell Pigs"
- Now Playing12minWhere Are All the Medium-Sized Dinosaurs?
- Now Playing12minWhen Antarctica Was Green
- Now Playing8minDo Thunderbeasts Prove Giant Animals Are Inevitable?
- Now Playing8minInside the Dinosaur Library
- Now Playing12minThe Humans That Lived Before Us
- Now Playing12minAnimals Are Older Than We Thought
- Now Playing10minThat Time the American West Blew Up
- Now Playing10minHow Dogs (Eventually) Became Our Best Friends
- Now Playing8minHow Did Our Most Famous Ancestor Really Die?
- Now Playing10minWhen We First Made Tools
- Now Playing10minThese Creatures Were Darwin's Greatest Enemy
- Now Playing10minThe Neanderthals That Taught Us About Humanity
- Now Playing10minWhen Humans Were Prey
- Now Playing5minWhen Whales Walked
- Now Playing12minWhen Birds Had Teeth
- Now Playing10minHow Weasels Got Skinny
- Now Playing6minDimetrodon: Our Most Unlikely Ancestor
- Now Playing11minWhen A Marsupial Became An Apex Predator
Hot Mess
- Now Playing6minWhat Indigenous Communities Teach Us About Climate Change
- Now Playing5minWhy Climate Change is Unjust
- Now Playing10minAre You Scared Enough? feat. David Wallace-Wells
- Now Playing10minFeeling Guilty About Climate Change feat. Hank Green
- Now Playing6minWhat If We Burned All The World's Fossil Fuels?
- Now Playing6minHow To Suck Carbon Dioxide Out of the Sky
- Now Playing10minFeeling Guilty About Climate Change feat. Hank Green
- Now Playing7minWhat's The Best Car For The Climate?
- Now Playing5minWhy Don't We Hear About the Ozone Hole Anymore?
- Now Playing7minHow To Make Clothes Less Terrible for the Planet
- Now Playing5minWho Should Pay To Fix Climate Change?
- Now Playing6minHow To Suck Carbon Dioxide Out of the Sky
- Now Playing6minWill Big Oil Have To Pay Up Like Big Tobacco?
- Now Playing6minCan We Get Solar Power To Everyone Who Wants It?
- Now Playing6minWhat If We Burned All The World's Fossil Fuels?
- Now Playing5minWho Should Pay To Fix Climate Change?
- Now Playing5minClimate change will push millions out. Where will they go?
- Now Playing5minWhat Happened to Nuclear Power?
- Now Playing8minHow One Conservative Texas Town Went 100% Renewable
- Now Playing6minWill Big Oil Have To Pay Up Like Big Tobacco?
Space Time
- Now Playing10minNoether's Theorem and The Symmetries of Reality
- Now Playing11minExtraterrestrial Superstorms
- Now Playing12minWhat If (Tiny) Black Holes Are Everywhere?
- Now Playing6minSpace Used to Be Orange!!
- Now Playing11minWill A New Neutrino Change The Standard Model?
- Now Playing11minHow Cosmic Inflation Flattened the Universe
- Now Playing12minThe Black Hole Entropy Enigma
- Now Playing13minComputing a Universe Simulation
- Now Playing13minQuantum Gravity and the Hardest Problem in Physics
- Now Playing13minWhere Are The Worlds In Many Worlds?
- Now Playing12minDark Matter: Crash Course Astronomy #41
- Now Playing10minWhat Does Dark Energy Really Do?
- Now Playing15minNeutron Stars: The Most Extreme Objects in the Universe
- Now Playing13minAre Axions Dark Matter?
- Now Playing17minCan We Test Quantum Gravity?
- Now Playing11minWhy Haven't We Found Alien Life?
- Now Playing10minHow Much Information is in the Universe?
- Now Playing12minDoes Quantum Immortality Save Schrödinger's Cat?
- Now Playing14minOur Antimatter, Mirrored, Time-Reversed Universe
- Now Playing11minWhen Quasars When Quasars Collide STJC
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 Playing5minBehind the Beat: Portobelo
- Now Playing2minWhat's In the Backpack?
- 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 Playing3minBeat Making Challenge #2: Kora Riddim
- Now Playing3minExclusive Zenga (Music Video) by Flamme Kapaya
- Now Playing3minFemale Hip Hop Crew Makes Beats in Senegal
Infinite Series
- Now Playing9minBeyond the Golden Ratio
- Now Playing11minSingularities Explained
- Now Playing14minInfinite Chess
- Now Playing11minVoting Systems and the Condorcet Paradox
- Now Playing15minDissecting Hypercubes with Pascal's Triangle
- Now Playing9minHow Many Humans Have the Same Number of Body Hairs?
- Now Playing10minThe Assassin Puzzle
- Now Playing10minUnraveling DNA with Rational Tangles
- Now Playing9minHow Many Humans Have the Same Number of Body Hairs?
- Now Playing12minThe Honeycombs of 4-Dimensional Bees ft. Joe Hanson
- Now Playing14minTopology Riddles | Infinite Series
- Now Playing8minHow to Divide by "Zero"
- Now Playing9minA Hierarchy of Infinities
- Now Playing15minArrow's Impossibility Theorem
- Now Playing11minTopology vs "a" Topology
- Now Playing17minHacking at Quantum Speed with Shor's Algorithm
- Now Playing9minBeyond the Golden Ratio
- Now Playing10minThe Mathematics of Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange
- Now Playing14minCan a Chess Piece Explain Markov Chains?
- Now Playing14minSolving the Wolverine Problem with Graph Coloring
Idea Channel
- Now Playing5minIs Homestuck the Ulysses of the Internet?
- Now Playing5minIs Dubstep the New Musical Avant-Garde?
- Now Playing5minDo We Want the World to End?
- Now Playing8minIs Buying Call of Duty a Moral Choice?
- Now Playing5minWill Space Travel Save Us All?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do We Love Zombies?
- Now Playing5minNicolas Cage, Taoism, and YOLO
- Now Playing4minIs Instagram Revolutionizing Photography?
- Now Playing5minIs Dubstep the New Musical Avant-Garde?
- Now Playing4minFrom Sherlock Holmes to 50 Shades of Grey
- Now Playing6minAre Virtual Video Game Economies Becoming Real?
- Now Playing5minAre Memes and Internet Culture Creating a Singularity?
- Now Playing3minWhat Makes a Pop Star Authentic?
- Now Playing4minIs Twitter the Newest Form of Literature?
- Now Playing9minIs Community a Postmodern Masterpiece?
- Now Playing8minIs Piracy Helping Game of Thrones?
- Now Playing7minCan Dungeons & Dragons Make You Confident & Successful?
- Now Playing6minAre MP3s & Vinyl Better than Live Music?
- Now Playing5minIs Facebook Changing Our Identity?
- Now Playing4minHas the Microsoft Kinect revolutionized art?