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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 Playing7minWhy Don't Ants Get Stuck in Traffic
- Now Playing3minEight Incredible Deep Sea Oddities
- Now Playing6minWhy Nature Loves Hexagons (featuring Infinite Series!)
- Now Playing7minThe Most Important Moment in the History of Life
- Now Playing6minThe Surprising Reason We Eat Spicy Food
- Now Playing2minIs Evolution Random? - 12 Days of Evolution #2
- Now Playing6minThe Raisin Bran Effect
- Now Playing7minZombie Parasites!
- Now Playing6minWhat is Luck?
- Now Playing3minWhat is Wind?
- Now Playing4minOrchid Mantis: Looks That Kill
- Now Playing5minAre You Smarter Than A Slime Mold?
- Now Playing8minHow Big is the Solar System?
- Now Playing7minWhere Do Teeth Come From?
- Now Playing6minHow Atom Bombs Can Uncover Forged Art
- Now Playing4minHow The Elements Got Their Names
- Now Playing6minYour Climate Conscience - feat. Al Gore
- Now Playing5minI Don't Think You're Ready for These Jellies
- Now Playing12min7 Scientific Urban Legends Debunked!
- Now Playing5min5 Weird Involuntary Behaviors Explained!
Origin of Everything
- Now Playing11minWhy Are We Obsessed with Cults?
- Now Playing10minWould You Have Joined the American Revolution?
- Now Playing6minWhy it Was Illegal to be Ugly?
- Now Playing9minWhat If There Were No Taxes?
- Now Playing5minWhat Was Jesus' Real Name?
- Now Playing9minHow Did Edison Invent Christmas Lights?
- Now Playing10minThe Origin of Race in the USA
- Now Playing8minWhere does the Nuclear Family Come From?
- Now Playing11minWhy Do We Have Private Prisons?
- Now Playing10minHow Did Makeup Ads Go From Style to Science?
- Now Playing10minDo Standardized Tests Do More Harm Than Good?
- Now Playing6minWhy Do We Have Middle Names?
- Now Playing7minWhy Are There So Few Women in Computer Science?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do We Wash Our Hands After Going to the Bathroom?
- Now Playing10min6 Weird Facts About the History of Birth Control
- Now Playing10minWhy Do We Have Hobbies?
- Now Playing8minWhere Does the #Hashtag Symbol Come From?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do Kids Have Their Own Bedrooms?
- Now Playing11minModern Warfare and Alien Invasions
- Now Playing9minCan Tattoos Be Taboo?
Two Cents
- Now Playing8min5 Ways People Are Dumb About Money
- Now Playing6minHow Do You Actually Buy A House?
- Now Playing6minShould I Buy Bitcoin?
- Now Playing6minWhat is The Cost of Pet Ownership?
- Now Playing8minAre "Free" Video Games Really Free?
- Now Playing6minWhat the Heck Are Mutual Funds?
- Now Playing6minDoes Wealth Make You Meaner?
- Now Playing6minShould You Break Up With Your Big Bank?
- Now Playing6minThe Ugly Truth About Airline Miles
- Now Playing4minWhat is the DOW?
- Now Playing7minIs the Stock Market Just a Big Casino?
- Now Playing5minBudgeting Basics
- Now Playing8min5 Strange Investor Crazes!
- Now Playing5minHow are credit scores calculated?
- Now Playing5minHow Do Your Tax Dollars Get Spent?
- Now Playing7minLove and Money
- Now Playing7minIs It Even POSSIBLE to Save for Retirement?
- Now Playing6minDo I Need To Buy A House?
- Now Playing6minWhat Are The Most Lucrative Trades?
- Now Playing7minCan You Really Retire in Your 30s?
Monstrum
- Now Playing11minCan All Monsters Be Traced Back to Tiamat?
- Now Playing10minHow Bloody Mary Turns Fear Into Fun
- Now Playing17minModern Zombies: The Rebirth of the Undead
- Now Playing10minIs Yuki-onna the Most Terrifying Snow Monster?
- Now Playing13minLeprechaun: From Gold-Loving Cobbler to Cultural Icon
- Now Playing12minThe Origins of 'Big Bug' Science Fiction
- Now Playing13minThe SCP Foundation: Declassified
- Now Playing13minWhat Happened During Our Scary Slumber Party
- Now Playing12minDeath Worms: Fact or Fiction?
- Now Playing8minWerehyena: The Terrifying Shapeshifters of African Lore
- Now Playing15minBaba Yaga: The Ancient Origins of the Famous 'Witch'
- Now Playing10minYara-ma-yha-who: Australia's Regurgitating, Blood-Sucking Mo
- Now Playing12minIs This North American Sea Serpent Real or a Hoax?
- Now Playing11minLa Lechuza: The Shape-Shifting Witch-Owl
- Now Playing11minKing Kong pt. 2
- Now Playing10minPontianak: The Vampiric Ghost of Southeast Asia
- Now Playing10minThe Enchanting Fairies of Celtic Lore
- Now Playing11minThe Original Urban Legend: Spring-Heeled Jack
- Now Playing6minRethinking Frankenstein's Monster
- Now Playing6minThe Origin of Medusa
Eons
- Now Playing10minHow Dogs (Eventually) Became Our Best Friends
- Now Playing10minThat Time the American West Blew Up
- Now Playing12minAnimals Are Older Than We Thought
- Now Playing12minThe Humans That Lived Before Us
- Now Playing12minWhen Antarctica Was Green
- Now Playing8minInside the Dinosaur Library
- Now Playing8minDo Thunderbeasts Prove Giant Animals Are Inevitable?
- Now Playing8minThe Hellacious Lives of the "Hell Pigs"
- Now Playing10minThe World Before Plate Tectonics
- Now Playing12minWhere Are All the Medium-Sized Dinosaurs?
- Now Playing12minWhen Birds Had Teeth
- Now Playing10minHow Weasels Got Skinny
- Now Playing5minWhen Whales Walked
- Now Playing10minWhen Humans Were Prey
- Now Playing10minWhen We First Made Tools
- Now Playing10minThe Neanderthals That Taught Us About Humanity
- Now Playing10minThese Creatures Were Darwin's Greatest Enemy
- Now Playing8minHow Did Our Most Famous Ancestor Really Die?
- Now Playing8minThat Time It Rained for Two Million Years
- Now Playing10minHow Blood Evolved (Many Times)
Hot Mess
- Now Playing6minHow To Suck Carbon Dioxide Out of the Sky
- Now Playing5minWho Should Pay To Fix Climate Change?
- Now Playing5minWhy Don't We Hear About the Ozone Hole Anymore?
- Now Playing7minHow To Make Clothes Less Terrible for the Planet
- Now Playing6minCan We Get Solar Power To Everyone Who Wants It?
- Now Playing6minWhat If We Burned All The World's Fossil Fuels?
- Now Playing6minWill Big Oil Have To Pay Up Like Big Tobacco?
- Now Playing5minWho Should Pay To Fix Climate Change?
- Now Playing5minClimate change will push millions out. Where will they go?
- Now Playing6minWhat Indigenous Communities Teach Us About Climate Change
- Now Playing10minFeeling Guilty About Climate Change feat. Hank Green
- Now Playing10minAre You Scared Enough? feat. David Wallace-Wells
- Now Playing5minWhy Climate Change is Unjust
- Now Playing6minWhat If We Burned All The World's Fossil Fuels?
- Now Playing10minFeeling Guilty About Climate Change feat. Hank Green
- Now Playing7minWhat's The Best Car For The Climate?
- Now Playing6minHow To Suck Carbon Dioxide Out of the Sky
- Now Playing6minWould Your Neighbors Save You From a Flooding Home?
- Now Playing11minClimate Change is Too Big for our Brains feat. Mike Rugnetta
- Now Playing7minWhat's The Best Car For The Climate?
Space Time
- Now Playing12minHow to Detect Extra Dimensions
- Now Playing6minWhat Planet Is Super Mario World?
- Now Playing9minUsing Stars to See Gravitational Waves
- Now Playing12minQuantum Entanglement (The Bohr-Einstein Debate)
- Now Playing19minHow Will We (Most Likely) Discover Alien Life?
- Now Playing13minThe Many Worlds of the Quantum Multiverse
- Now Playing11minThe Speed of Light is NOT About Light
- Now Playing11minWhy Quasars are so Awesome
- Now Playing13minDark Flow
- Now Playing10minWhat's Wrong With the Big Bang Theory?
- Now Playing15minCould We Decode Alien Physics?
- Now Playing13minWill You Travel to Space?
- Now Playing9minWill Mars or Venus Kill You First?
- Now Playing13minWill We Ever Find Alien Life?
- Now Playing3minThe Leap Second Explained
- Now Playing15minElectrons DO NOT Spin
- Now Playing13minThe Phantom Singularity
- Now Playing6minHow Do You Measure the Size of the Universe?
- Now Playing6minThe Race to a Habitable Exoplanet - Time Warp Challenge
- Now Playing12minUnderstanding the Uncertainty Principle
Beat Making Lab
- Now Playing4minTrapped In Paradise
- Now Playing2minHealth Worker Beat
- Now Playing3minSampling w/ Flip Flops and Ski Beatz
- Now Playing3minBehind The Beat: First Beat Making Lab (2011)
- Now Playing4minPortobelo (music video)
- 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 Playing3minBeat Making Challenge #2: Kora Riddim
- Now Playing3minExclusive Zenga (Music Video) by Flamme Kapaya
- Now Playing4minDiablos (music video)
- Now Playing3minEpisode 1: Goma, Congo
- Now Playing2minWalshy Fire [of Major Lazer] Wants Your Riddims
- Now Playing4minCho Cho Cho (Music Video) filmed in Goma, Congo
- 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?
Infinite Series
- Now Playing10minThe Assassin Puzzle
- Now Playing12minThe Honeycombs of 4-Dimensional Bees ft. Joe Hanson
- Now Playing11minSingularities Explained
- Now Playing14minWhy Computers are Bad at Algebra
- Now Playing17minSplitting Rent with Triangles
- Now Playing16minHow to Break Cryptography
- Now Playing13minWhat is a Random Walk?
- Now Playing9minThis Video was Not Encrypted with RSA
- Now Playing14minHow Big are All Infinities Combined? (Cantor's Paradox)
- Now Playing15minArrow's Impossibility Theorem
- Now Playing11minThe Geometry of SET
- Now Playing10minWhat Does It Mean to Be a Number? (The Peano Axioms)
- Now Playing14minSolving the Wolverine Problem with Graph Coloring
- Now Playing14minCan a Chess Piece Explain Markov Chains?
- Now Playing8minA Breakthrough in Higher Dimensional Spheres
- Now Playing14minBuilding an Infinite Bridge
- Now Playing13minThe Mathematics of Quantum Computers
- Now Playing17minHacking at Quantum Speed with Shor's Algorithm
- Now Playing9minBeyond the Golden Ratio
- Now Playing10minThe Mathematics of Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange
Idea Channel
- Now Playing7minHow are Justin Bieber, Franz Liszt and Jerusalem Connected?
- Now Playing5minAre Olympic Competitors Geniuses?
- Now Playing5minAre Memes and Internet Culture Creating a Singularity?
- Now Playing5minIs William Gibson A Modern Day Oracle?
- Now Playing6minIs Minecraft the Ultimate Educational Tool?
- Now Playing4minAre Mashups the End of Music Genres?
- Now Playing5minIs William Gibson A Modern Day Oracle?
- Now Playing4minRussian Meteorites and Surveillance Culture
- Now Playing4minAre LOLCats and Internet Memes Art?
- 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 Playing4minFrom Sherlock Holmes to 50 Shades of Grey
- Now Playing3minIs the Web Browser Replacing the Art Gallery?
- Now Playing5minNicolas Cage, Taoism, and YOLO
- Now Playing9minWill Kickstarter Replace Hollywood?
- Now Playing6minWhat Do Santa and Wrestling Have In Common?
- Now Playing5minIs Facebook Changing Our Identity?
- Now Playing6minWhat do MP3s and Magic Spells Have in Common?
- Now Playing8minDo Knock-Offs Prove the Value of a Brand?