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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 Playing6minThe REAL Physics of Hot Air Balloons!
- Now Playing6minIt's Okay to Fart
- Now Playing7minWhere Did Humans Come From?
- Now Playing4minHow Ingenious Animals Have Engineered Air Conditioning
- Now Playing3minElectric Buzzaloo: How Bees See the Invisible
- Now Playing5minWhy Are You Multicellular?
- Now Playing5minHow Many Species Are There?
- Now Playing4minWhy I'm Scared of Spiders
- Now Playing6minWhy Do Things Sound Scary?
- Now Playing6minHow An Igloo Keeps You Warm
- Now Playing5minThe Far Future of the Universe
- Now Playing3minThe Equinox Isn't What You Think It Is
- Now Playing7minHow Baby Sea Turtles Find Their Way Home
- Now Playing6minWhat Has New Horizons Taught Us About Pluto?
- Now Playing13minDoes Someone Else Have Your Face?
- Now Playing8minScience of Marathon Running
Origin of Everything
- 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 Playing8minWhy Do People Have Pets?
- Now Playing11minWhy Do We Have Private Prisons?
- 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 Playing12minWhy Do Schools Teach Sex Education?
- Now Playing7minHow did Makeup, WWII, & Communism Create U.S. Healthcare?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do Women Give Birth Lying Down?
- Now Playing10minWhat is Cultural Appropriation?
- Now Playing10minHow Did Martin Luther King Jr. Get a Holiday?
- Now Playing7minIs Poisoned Halloween Candy a Myth?
- Now Playing7minHistory of the Word "Gay"
- Now Playing10minWhat is Ethnicity?
- Now Playing10minWhy Does the Government Need to Know My Race?
Two Cents
- Now Playing7minShould I Invest In Cannabis Stocks?
- Now Playing7minWhat's The Real Cost of Dying?
- Now Playing6minHow to Ask for a Raise
- Now Playing6minTop 5 Biggest Financial Scams
- Now Playing7minWhy It's More Expensive To Be Poor
- Now Playing9minHow Smart Entrepreneurs Think About PRICES!
- Now Playing6minI'm Young & Healthy, Can I Skip Health Insurance?
- Now Playing6minIs My Identity Safe From Hackers?
- Now Playing6minFighting the Wedding Industrial Complex
- Now Playing7minWhich College Majors Give the Most Bang for Your Buck?
- Now Playing7minMoney, A Global Game of Trust
- Now Playing5minDo Kids Need to Learn About Money?
- Now Playing7minHow Retailers Stalk You Online
- Now Playing5minInsta-Everything
- Now Playing7minFighting the Financial Pitfalls of the Supermarket
- Now Playing7minIs Your Side Hustle Hustling You?
- Now Playing5minHow Cars Can Keep You Poor
- Now Playing6minMoving Without Spending a Fortune
- Now Playing6minWomen Financial Superpowers
- Now Playing6minHacking Your Brain to Get Out Of Debt
Monstrum
- Now Playing11minThe Original Urban Legend: Spring-Heeled Jack
- Now Playing6minRethinking Frankenstein's Monster
- Now Playing11minBasilisk or Cockatrice? The Mysterious King of Serpents
- Now Playing10minJorōgumo: The Deadly Spider Woman from Yokai Lore
- Now Playing6minThe Origin of Medusa
- Now Playing10minWill-o'-the-Wisp: Monstrous Flame or Scientific Phenomenon?
- Now Playing11minThe Fatal Song of the Sirens
- Now Playing14minThe Evolution of Creepy Dolls
- Now Playing9minThe Mother of Vengeance: Grendel's Mom
- Now Playing8minNuckelavee: Scotland's Skinless Evil Monstrosity
- Now Playing12minWas Púca the Nightmare Bunny That Inspired Donnie Darko?
- Now Playing8minCreepy Clowns: The Horror Behind the Laughter
- Now Playing10minHow Bloody Mary Turns Fear Into Fun
- Now Playing11minCan All Monsters Be Traced Back to Tiamat?
- Now Playing13minLeprechaun: From Gold-Loving Cobbler to Cultural Icon
- Now Playing12minThe Origins of 'Big Bug' Science Fiction
- Now Playing17minModern Zombies: The Rebirth of the Undead
- Now Playing10minIs Yuki-onna the Most Terrifying Snow Monster?
- Now Playing10minYara-ma-yha-who: Australia's Regurgitating, Blood-Sucking Mo
- Now Playing12minIs This North American Sea Serpent Real or a Hoax?
Eons
- Now Playing8minInside the Dinosaur Library
- Now Playing8minDo Thunderbeasts Prove Giant Animals Are Inevitable?
- Now Playing12minWhen Antarctica Was Green
- Now Playing12minWhere Are All the Medium-Sized Dinosaurs?
- Now Playing8minThe Hellacious Lives of the "Hell Pigs"
- Now Playing10minThe World Before Plate Tectonics
- Now Playing10minHow Dogs (Eventually) Became Our Best Friends
- Now Playing12minAnimals Are Older Than We Thought
- Now Playing10minThat Time the American West Blew Up
- Now Playing12minThe Humans That Lived Before Us
- Now Playing10minThe Neanderthals That Taught Us About Humanity
- Now Playing10minThese Creatures Were Darwin's Greatest Enemy
- Now Playing10minWhen We First Made Tools
- Now Playing8minHow Did Our Most Famous Ancestor Really Die?
- Now Playing10minHow Weasels Got Skinny
- Now Playing12minWhen Birds Had Teeth
- Now Playing5minWhen Whales Walked
- Now Playing10minWhen Humans Were Prey
- Now Playing9minHow the Squid Lost Its Shell
- Now Playing8minThe Case of the Dinosaur Egg Thief
Hot Mess
- 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 Playing3minCould climate change make you allergic to meat?
- Now Playing5minWhat Happened to Nuclear Power?
- Now Playing6minWould Your Neighbors Save You From a Flooding Home?
- Now Playing11minClimate Change is Too Big for our Brains feat. Mike Rugnetta
- Now Playing6minCoral Reefs Are Dying. But They Don't Have To.
- Now Playing12minOur Food System is Rigged feat. Sheril Kirshenbaum
- Now Playing13minThe Rise of Climate Fiction feat. Lindsay Ellis & Amy Brady
- 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 Playing5minCan Farms and Forests Coexist?
- Now Playing4minWhy Are Hurricanes Getting Stronger?
- Now Playing6minWill Big Oil Have To Pay Up Like Big Tobacco?
Space Time
- Now Playing14minWhat Caused the Big Bang?
- Now Playing11minWhy Haven't We Found Alien Life?
- Now Playing16minThe New Science of Moon Formation
- Now Playing17minWhat If Black Holes Are Dark Energy?
- Now Playing9minIs There a Fifth Fundamental Force? + Quantum Eraser Answer
- Now Playing16minWhy String Theory is Wrong
- Now Playing13minThe Cosmic Dark Ages
- Now Playing12minThe Missing Mass Mystery
- Now Playing10minThe Oh My God Particle
- Now Playing12minReversing Entropy with Maxwell's Demon
- Now Playing7minHow to Signal Aliens
- Now Playing12minWill Constructor Theory REWRITE Physics?
- Now Playing16minCould We Terraform Mars?
- Now Playing9minWhen Time Breaks Down
- Now Playing16minWhat Makes The Strong Force Strong?
- Now Playing15minHow Does The Nucleus Hold Together?
- Now Playing10minThe Oh My God Particle
- Now Playing10minWhat Physics Teachers Get Wrong About Tides!
- Now Playing10minQuantum Vortices and Superconductivity + Challenge Answers
- Now Playing10minExtinction by Gamma-Ray Burst
Beat Making Lab
- 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
- 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 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 Playing14minBuilding an Infinite Bridge
- Now Playing13minThe Mathematics of Quantum Computers
- Now Playing8minA Breakthrough in Higher Dimensional Spheres
- Now Playing14minCan a Chess Piece Explain Markov Chains?
- Now Playing14minSolving the Wolverine Problem with Graph Coloring
- Now Playing10minWhat Does It Mean to Be a Number? (The Peano Axioms)
- Now Playing11minThe Geometry of SET
- Now Playing15minArrow's Impossibility Theorem
- Now Playing14minHow Big are All Infinities Combined? (Cantor's Paradox)
- Now Playing9minThis Video was Not Encrypted with RSA
- Now Playing13minWhat is a Random Walk?
- Now Playing16minHow to Break Cryptography
- Now Playing17minSplitting Rent with Triangles
- Now Playing14minWhy Computers are Bad at Algebra
- Now Playing11minSingularities Explained
- Now Playing12minThe Honeycombs of 4-Dimensional Bees ft. Joe Hanson
Idea Channel
- Now Playing3minWhat Makes a Pop Star Authentic?
- Now Playing9minIs Community a Postmodern Masterpiece?
- Now Playing8minIs Piracy Helping Game of Thrones?
- Now Playing4minIs Twitter the Newest Form of Literature?
- Now Playing5minIs Facebook Changing Our Identity?
- Now Playing4minHas the Microsoft Kinect revolutionized art?
- 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 Playing4minThe Bronies Phenomenon
- 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?
- Now Playing8minIs Sad Music Actually Sad?
- Now Playing6minAre Virtual Video Game Economies Becoming Real?
- Now Playing6minIs Futurama the Best Argument Against Transhumanism?
- Now Playing3minSuper Mario Brothers as Surrealist Art?
- Now Playing8minIs Developing Artificial Intelligence (AI) Ethical?
- Now Playing3minIs the Web Browser Replacing the Art Gallery?