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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 Playing5minYour #ScienceWoman Heroes
- Now Playing6minDoomsday Machines
- Now Playing6minThe Surprising Origin of Thanksgiving Foods
- Now Playing7minHow Do Glaciars Move?
- Now Playing6minThe Most Extreme Life Forms On Earth... And Beyond?
- Now Playing2minThe Sun Is A Magnet!
- Now Playing5min23 Reasons to be Cheerful (Thanks to Science!)
- Now Playing4minA Slice of Pizza Science!
- Now Playing6minThe Most Extreme Life Forms On Earth... And Beyond?
- Now Playing8minAsteroids, Meteors, and Comets... OH MY!!!
- Now Playing4minMy Date With A Giant Pacific Octopus!
- Now Playing5minThe Scale of the Universe
- Now Playing5minGhosts of Evolution
- Now Playing3minThe Equinox Isn't What You Think It Is
- Now Playing3minWhy Do We Go to Space?
- Now Playing8minThe Deadpool Salamander That Can Regrow Limbs
- Now Playing6minAre You Afraid of Holes?
- 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
Origin of Everything
- Now Playing7minHow did Makeup, WWII, & Communism Create U.S. Healthcare?
- Now Playing12minWhy Do Schools Teach Sex Education?
- Now Playing7minHow Your Rubber Ducky Explains Colonialism
- Now Playing10minIs Breakfast the Most Important Meal?
- Now Playing10minWhy was Pink for Boys and Blue for Girls?
- Now Playing7minHow Columbus Invented Cannibals
- Now Playing8minWhy is there a North and South Korea?
- Now Playing11minWhy Do We Have Private Prisons?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do People Have Pets?
- Now Playing8minWhy Was Crossdressing Illegal?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do Women Give Birth Lying Down?
- Now Playing7minWhy Do We Say "Asian American" Not "Oriental"?
- Now Playing8minWhen DId Marriage Become about Love?
- 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"
Two Cents
- Now Playing7minIs It Even POSSIBLE to Save for Retirement?
- Now Playing6minDo I Need To Buy A House?
- Now Playing7minLove and Money
- 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
- Now Playing7minCan You Really Retire in Your 30s?
- Now Playing6minWhat Are The Most Lucrative Trades?
- Now Playing8min5 Strange Investor Crazes!
- Now Playing5minHow are credit scores calculated?
- Now Playing5minHow Do Your Tax Dollars Get Spent?
- Now Playing6minThe Ugly Truth About Airline Miles
- Now Playing6minShould You Break Up With Your Big Bank?
- Now Playing4minWhat is the DOW?
- Now Playing6minDoes Wealth Make You Meaner?
- Now Playing6minWhat the Heck Are Mutual Funds?
- Now Playing5minBudgeting Basics
- Now Playing7minIs the Stock Market Just a Big Casino?
- Now Playing6minHow Do You Actually Buy A House?
Monstrum
- Now Playing6minThe Origin of Medusa
- Now Playing10minWill-o'-the-Wisp: Monstrous Flame or Scientific Phenomenon?
- Now Playing11minBasilisk or Cockatrice? The Mysterious King of Serpents
- Now Playing10minJorōgumo: The Deadly Spider Woman from Yokai Lore
- Now Playing11minThe Original Urban Legend: Spring-Heeled Jack
- Now Playing6minRethinking Frankenstein's Monster
- Now Playing12minWas Púca the Nightmare Bunny That Inspired Donnie Darko?
- Now Playing8minCreepy Clowns: The Horror Behind the Laughter
- Now Playing14minThe Evolution of Creepy Dolls
- Now Playing9minThe Mother of Vengeance: Grendel's Mom
- Now Playing8minNuckelavee: Scotland's Skinless Evil Monstrosity
- Now Playing11minThe Fatal Song of the Sirens
- Now Playing10minIs Yuki-onna the Most Terrifying Snow Monster?
- Now Playing17minModern Zombies: The Rebirth of the Undead
- Now Playing13minLeprechaun: From Gold-Loving Cobbler to Cultural Icon
- Now Playing12minThe Origins of 'Big Bug' Science Fiction
- Now Playing11minCan All Monsters Be Traced Back to Tiamat?
- Now Playing10minHow Bloody Mary Turns Fear Into Fun
- Now Playing10minPontianak: The Vampiric Ghost of Southeast Asia
- Now Playing10minThe Enchanting Fairies of Celtic Lore
Eons
- Now Playing10minWhy The Paleo Diet Couldn't Save The Neanderthals
- Now Playing12minWhat's the Oldest Beverage
- Now Playing12minWhat Was the Ancestor of Everything?
- Now Playing11minWhy Megalodon (Definitely) Went Extinct
- Now Playing11minWhen We First Walked
- Now Playing10minLife, Sex & Death Among the Dire Wolves
- Now Playing10minWhen Humans Were Prey
- Now Playing14minThe History of Climate Cycles (and the Woolly Rhino)
- Now Playing9minWhen Fish First Breathed Air
- Now Playing8minWhen Birds Stopped Flying
- Now Playing11minFrom the Cambrian Explosion to the Great Dying
- Now Playing5minWhen Whales Walked
- Now Playing9minThe Second Time Sponges Took Over The World
- Now Playing12minWhen a Billion Years Disappeared
- Now Playing9minThe Rise and Fall of the Bone-Crushing Dogs
- Now Playing6minDimetrodon: Our Most Unlikely Ancestor
- Now Playing12minCan We Get DNA From Fossils?
- Now Playing10minHow 7,000 Years of Epic Floods Changed the World
- Now Playing8minThat Time It Rained for Two Million Years
- Now Playing8minWhat Happened to the World's Greatest Ape?
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 Playing3minCould climate change make you allergic to meat?
- Now Playing5minWhat Happened to Nuclear Power?
- 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 Playing15minThe Holographic Universe Explained
- Now Playing9minThe Great American Eclipse
- Now Playing9minWhy the Big Bang Definitely Happened
- Now Playing15minIs Interstellar Travel Impossible?
- Now Playing13minQuantum Theory's Most Incredible Prediction
- Now Playing15minDid Life on Earth Come from Space?
- Now Playing8minWhat Happens At The Edge Of The Universe?
- Now Playing15minWhy Is 1/137 One of the Greatest Unsolved Problems
- Now Playing13minHorizon Radiation
- Now Playing11minS2: How the Quantum Eraser Rewrites the Past
- Now Playing13minDid Dark Energy Just Disappear?
- Now Playing9minThe Real Meaning of E=mc²
- Now Playing16minHow Electron Spin Makes Matter Possible
- Now Playing9minHow Close To The Sun Can Humanity Get?
- Now Playing11minSuperluminal Time Travel + Time Warp Challenge Answer
- Now Playing19minAre Space and Time Real?
- Now Playing11minCitizen Science
- Now Playing15minHow To Know If It's Aliens
- Now Playing11minHow Asteroid Mining Will Save Earth
- Now Playing17minThorium and the Future of Nuclear Energy
Beat Making Lab
- Now Playing3minProf. Angel Sound Prison Beats Interview
- Now Playing3min#FijiChallenge w/ Walshy Fire of Major Lazer
- Now Playing3minEpisode 1: Goma, Congo
- Now Playing4minDiablos (music video)
- Now Playing3minExclusive Zenga (Music Video) by Flamme Kapaya
- Now Playing3minBeat Making Challenge #2: Kora Riddim
- Now Playing3minFemale Hip Hop Crew Makes Beats in Senegal
- Now Playing2minHealth Worker Beat
- Now Playing4minTrapped In Paradise
- Now Playing4minPortobelo (music video)
- Now Playing3minBehind The Beat: First Beat Making Lab (2011)
- Now Playing3minSampling w/ Flip Flops and Ski Beatz
- Now Playing3minGet Your Drums Right
- Now Playing2minField Trip: Prison Beats
- Now Playing2minMashup: National Anthems
- Now Playing10minHeartbeats of Fiji
- Now Playing3minBeat Making Challenge #1: Accordion Trap
- Now Playing2minWhat's In the Backpack?
- Now Playing5minBehind the Beat: Portobelo
- Now Playing3minPanama: Meet the Kids Behind the Beats
Infinite Series
- Now Playing15minArrow's Impossibility Theorem
- Now Playing9minA Hierarchy of Infinities
- Now Playing10minThe Assassin Puzzle
- 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 Playing10minUnraveling DNA with Rational Tangles
- Now Playing9minHow Many Humans Have the Same Number of Body Hairs?
- Now Playing8minHow to Divide by "Zero"
- Now Playing11minSingularities Explained
- Now Playing9minBeyond the Golden Ratio
- Now Playing15minDissecting Hypercubes with Pascal's Triangle
- Now Playing14minInfinite Chess
- Now Playing11minVoting Systems and the Condorcet Paradox
- Now Playing14minWhy Computers are Bad at Algebra
- Now Playing17minSplitting Rent with Triangles
- Now Playing12minThe Honeycombs of 4-Dimensional Bees ft. Joe Hanson
- Now Playing10minThe Assassin Puzzle
- Now Playing11minSingularities Explained
- Now Playing13minWhat is a Random Walk?
Idea Channel
- Now Playing4minIs Twitter the Newest Form of Literature?
- Now Playing4minHas the Microsoft Kinect revolutionized art?
- 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 Playing8minIs a Tagged Instagram More Than Just a Photo?
- Now Playing5minIs William Gibson A Modern Day Oracle?
- Now Playing6minIs Minecraft the Ultimate Educational Tool?
- Now Playing5minAre Memes and Internet Culture Creating a Singularity?
- Now Playing7minHow are Justin Bieber, Franz Liszt and Jerusalem Connected?
- Now Playing5minAre Olympic Competitors Geniuses?
- Now Playing4minAre LOLCats and Internet Memes Art?
- Now Playing4minRussian Meteorites and Surveillance Culture
- Now Playing4minAre Mashups the End of Music Genres?
- Now Playing5minIs William Gibson A Modern Day Oracle?
- Now Playing6minIs Doctor Who a Religion?
- Now Playing6minShould "Happy Birthday" be Protected by Copyright?
- Now Playing6minThe Retro Awesomeness of Adventure Time
- Now Playing5minIs Homestuck the Ulysses of the Internet?