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It's Okay To Be SmartI'm Joe Hanson, Ph.D and this program is all about science, the amazing universe we live in and how science connects to every part of our life.
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- 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?
- Now Playing12minHow The Elephant Got Its Trunk
- Now Playing11minHow Did the Theremin Influence Electronic Music?
- Now Playing12minWhat's the Oldest Beverage
- Now Playing13minThe Ancient Terror of the Chinese Hopping Corpse, Jiangshi
- Now Playing17minWhy Do We Hate Certain Sounds
- Now Playing20minIs Gravity RANDOM Not Quantum?
It's Okay to Be Smart
- Now Playing6minWhat Do Raindrops Really Look Like?
- Now Playing9minWhat Would Trees Look Like On Other Planets?
- Now Playing8minTuatara All the Way Down
- Now Playing4minThis is a SUPER BLOOD MOON! Lunar Eclipses Explained
- Now Playing11minHow Some Words Get Forgetted
- Now Playing4minWhat Color Is The Moon?
- Now Playing6minHow To Hit A Fastball (According To Science!!!)
- Now Playing7minWhy Don't Woodpeckers Get Concussions?
- Now Playing5minWhat If There Were No Sharks?
- Now Playing6minWhich Came First - Flowers or Bees?
- Now Playing5minSpit: Everything You Never Wanted To Know
- Now Playing6minWhy Are Some People Left-Handed?
- Now Playing7minMusical Tesla Coils in Slow Motion! Featuring Physics Girl
- Now Playing2minWhat Is Evolution, Anyway? - 12 Days of Evolution #1
- Now Playing7minCould Bigfoot REALLY Exist?
- Now Playing8minWhen Science Fiction Becomes Science Fact
- Now Playing5minHow Many Trees Are There?
- Now Playing6minWhy Don't Other Animals Wear Glasses?
- Now Playing6minThe Oldest Living Things In The World
- Now Playing13minDoes Someone Else Have Your Face?
Origin of Everything
- Now Playing11minWhy Do So Many Religions Have Headwear?
- Now Playing10minHow WWII Created Godzilla & Mecha Robots
- Now Playing9minIs the Rosa Parks Story True?
- Now Playing7minThe True Origin of Killer Clowns
- Now Playing12minWhy Do Schools Teach Sex Education?
- Now Playing7minHow Your Rubber Ducky Explains Colonialism
- Now Playing8minWhy Do Women Shave Their Legs?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do Kids Have Their Own Bedrooms?
- Now Playing7minIs Poisoned Halloween Candy a Myth?
- Now Playing7minIs Poisoned Halloween Candy a Myth?
- Now Playing5minWhat Was Jesus' Real Name?
- Now Playing10minWhy Is There a Minimum Wage?
- Now Playing11minWhat is Racial Passing?
- Now Playing9minWhat If Islam Conquered Europe?
- Now Playing10minHow Did Makeup Ads Go From Style to Science?
- Now Playing9minWhy Do We Drink Milk in School?
- Now Playing10minWhat is Ethnicity?
- Now Playing10minWhy Does the Government Need to Know My Race?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do We Get Grades in School?
- Now Playing7minWhen Men Wore High Heels
Two Cents
- Now Playing5minHow Do Your Tax Dollars Get Spent?
- Now Playing5minHow are credit scores calculated?
- Now Playing8min5 Strange Investor Crazes!
- Now Playing6minHacking Your Brain to Get Out Of Debt
- Now Playing6minWhat Are The Most Lucrative Trades?
- Now Playing7minCan You Really Retire in Your 30s?
- Now Playing6minWomen Financial Superpowers
- Now Playing6minMoving Without Spending a Fortune
- Now Playing5minHow Cars Can Keep You Poor
- Now Playing7minLove and Money
- Now Playing6minDo I Need To Buy A House?
- Now Playing7minIs It Even POSSIBLE to Save for Retirement?
- Now Playing6minWhat is The Cost of Pet Ownership?
- Now Playing6minShould I Buy Bitcoin?
- Now Playing8minAre "Free" Video Games Really Free?
- Now Playing8min5 Ways People Are Dumb About Money
- Now Playing6minHow Do You Actually Buy A House?
- Now Playing7minIs the Stock Market Just a Big Casino?
- Now Playing5minBudgeting Basics
- Now Playing6minWhat the Heck Are Mutual Funds?
Monstrum
- Now Playing10minHow Bloody Mary Turns Fear Into Fun
- Now Playing11minMari Lwyd: The Skeleton Horse's Deep Past with Christmas
- Now Playing7minRelease the Kraken!
- Now Playing13minLeprechaun: From Gold-Loving Cobbler to Cultural Icon
- Now Playing10minA Giant Monster With a Giant Problem
- Now Playing7minEl Chupacabras, a Modern Mystery
- Now Playing17minThe Origins of the Zombie, from Haiti to the U.S.
- Now Playing13minMonster Plants and the Humans who Invent Them
- Now Playing10minJorÅgumo: The Deadly Spider Woman from Yokai Lore
- Now Playing12minIs This North American Sea Serpent Real or a Hoax?
- Now Playing11minThe Original Urban Legend: Spring-Heeled Jack
- Now Playing7minWhat Dragons Say About Us
- Now Playing17minAlien Abduction and UFOs: Why Are Grays So Common?
- Now Playing12minTaotie: The Mystery of Chinese Mythology's Famous Glutton
- Now Playing15minEgyptian Mummies: From Sacred Vessels to Scary Undead
- Now Playing6minThe Origin of Medusa
- Now Playing14minHero, Beast, or Both? The Complex Lore of the Centaur
- Now Playing9minThe Hidden Origins of Nixie, the Scariest Little Mermaid
- Now Playing10minPontianak: The Vampiric Ghost of Southeast Asia
- Now Playing10minIs Yuki-onna the Most Terrifying Snow Monster?
Eons
- Now Playing9minWhen Plants Doubled Their DNA
- Now Playing10minHow Whale Evolution Kind Of Sucked
- Now Playing12minWhen We Tamed Fire
- Now Playing10minWhen Fish Wore Armor
- Now Playing8minThe Extinction That Never Happened
- Now Playing9minWhen Fish First Breathed Air
- Now Playing10minWhy The Giraffe Got Its Neck
- Now Playing10minWhen Giant Amphibians Reigned
- Now Playing11minWhat Happened to the World's Greatest Ape?
- Now Playing9minHow the Turtle Got Its Shell
- Now Playing9minWhat a Dinosaur Looks Like Under a Microscope
- Now Playing11minWhen the Synapsids Struck Back
- Now Playing10minYou're Living On An Ant Planet
- Now Playing9minThe Island of the Last Surviving Mammoths
- Now Playing10minThe Missing Link That Wasn't
- Now Playing8minWe Were Wrong About The Dodo
- Now Playing8minWhen the Sahara Was Green
- Now Playing8minPrimates vs Snakes (An Evolutionary Arms Race)
- Now Playing12minHow Sloths Went From the Seas to the Trees
- Now Playing6minWhen The Earth Was Purple
Hot Mess
- Now Playing7minHow To Make Clothes Less Terrible for the Planet
- Now Playing9minHow to Talk About Climate Change
- Now Playing8minHow One Conservative Texas Town Went 100% Renewable
- Now Playing5minHow A Sticker Kept 3 Billion Tons of CO2 Out of The Air
- Now Playing6minWould Your Neighbors Save You From a Flooding Home?
- Now Playing4minCould Space Mirrors Cool The Globe?
- Now Playing3minCould climate change make you allergic to meat?
- Now Playing5minWhy We Confuse Weather and Climate
- Now Playing4minCould Space Mirrors Cool The Globe?
- Now Playing5minWhy Don't We Hear About the Ozone Hole Anymore?
- Now Playing10minThe Link Between Extreme Weather and Climate Change
- Now Playing5minCan Farms and Forests Coexist?
- Now Playing5minWhat Can You Actually Do About Climate Change?
- Now Playing6minCan We Get Solar Power To Everyone Who Wants It?
- Now Playing5minWe've Ignored Climate Change For More Than a Century
- Now Playing5minWhat the Cutest Animal Can Teach Us About Saving Ourselves
- Now Playing5minBeef Is Bad For The Climate. Can We Make It Better?
- Now Playing5minWhat's actually the worst greenhouse gas?
- Now Playing5minWhat Can You Actually Do About Climate Change?
- Now Playing5minHow A Sticker Kept 3 Billion Tons of CO2 Out of The Air
Space Time
- Now Playing10minThe Oh My God Particle
- Now Playing12minThe Missing Mass Mystery
- Now Playing12minReversing Entropy with Maxwell's Demon
- Now Playing12minWill Constructor Theory REWRITE Physics?
- Now Playing7minHow to Signal Aliens
- Now Playing16minCould We Terraform Mars?
- Now Playing9minWhen Time Breaks Down
- Now Playing15minHow Does The Nucleus Hold Together?
- Now Playing16minWhat Makes The Strong Force Strong?
- Now Playing10minQuantum Vortices and Superconductivity + Challenge Answers
- Now Playing10minWhat Physics Teachers Get Wrong About Tides!
- Now Playing10minThe Oh My God Particle
- Now Playing14minWhat Caused the Big Bang?
- Now Playing16minThe New Science of Moon Formation
- Now Playing11minWhy Haven't We Found Alien Life?
- Now Playing17minWhat If Black Holes Are Dark Energy?
- Now Playing16minWhy String Theory is Wrong
- Now Playing9minIs There a Fifth Fundamental Force? + Quantum Eraser Answer
- Now Playing13minThe Cosmic Dark Ages
- Now Playing9minWill Starshot's Insterstellar Journey Succeed?
Beat Making Lab
- Now Playing5minBehind the Beat: Portobelo
- Now Playing2minWhat's In the Backpack?
- 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
- Now Playing10minHeartbeats of Fiji
- Now Playing2minMashup: National Anthems
- Now Playing4minCho Cho Cho (Music Video) filmed in Goma, Congo
- Now Playing2minWalshy Fire [of Major Lazer] Wants Your Riddims
- 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 Playing3minBehind The Beat: First Beat Making Lab (2011)
- Now Playing4minPortobelo (music video)
- Now Playing3minSampling w/ Flip Flops and Ski Beatz
Infinite Series
- Now Playing11minWhat was Fermat's "Marvelous" Proof?
- Now Playing12minWhen Pi is Not 3.14
- Now Playing13minThe Mathematics of Quantum Computers
- Now Playing9minThis Video was Not Encrypted with RSA
- Now Playing17minHacking at Quantum Speed with Shor's Algorithm
- Now Playing8minHow to Divide by "Zero"
- Now Playing11minDefining Infinity
- Now Playing9minProving Brouwer's Fixed Point Theorem
- Now Playing10minWhat Does It Mean to Be a Number? (The Peano Axioms)
- Now Playing8minAre Prime Numbers Made Up?
- Now Playing9minCan You Solve the Poison Wine Challenge?
- Now Playing11minWhat was Fermat's "Marvelous" Proof?
- Now Playing13minWhat is a Random Walk?
- Now Playing14minHow Big are All Infinities Combined? (Cantor's Paradox)
- Now Playing14minKill the Mathematical Hydra
- Now Playing8minTelling Time on a Torus
- Now Playing8minThe Multiplication Multiverse
- Now Playing14minCan We Combine pi & e to Make a Rational Number?
- Now Playing11minThe Geometry of SET
- Now Playing14minBuilding an Infinite Bridge
Idea Channel
- 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 Playing9minWill Kickstarter Replace Hollywood?
- Now Playing5minNicolas Cage, Taoism, and YOLO
- Now Playing3minIs the Web Browser Replacing the Art Gallery?
- Now Playing4minFrom Sherlock Holmes to 50 Shades of Grey
- Now Playing5minAre Olympic Competitors Geniuses?
- Now Playing7minHow are Justin Bieber, Franz Liszt and Jerusalem Connected?
- Now Playing6minIs Minecraft the Ultimate Educational Tool?
- Now Playing5minIs William Gibson A Modern Day Oracle?
- Now Playing5minAre Memes and Internet Culture Creating a Singularity?
- Now Playing4minAre Mashups the End of Music Genres?
- Now Playing5minIs William Gibson A Modern Day Oracle?
- Now Playing4minAre LOLCats and Internet Memes Art?
- Now Playing4minRussian Meteorites and Surveillance Culture
- Now Playing6minThe Retro Awesomeness of Adventure Time
- Now Playing5minIs Homestuck the Ulysses of the Internet?
- Now Playing5minA Visit to Mr. Monfre's Class
- Now Playing5minThere's No Such Thing as Online?!?