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Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell

Videos explaining things with optimistic nihilism. A small team who want to make science look beautiful. Because it is beautiful.

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Season 1 · 0 episodes
    Season 2013 · 6 episodes
    1. S2013 E01 · How Evolution Works
    2. S2013 E02 · The Solar System -- Our Home in Space
    3. S2013 E03 · Fracking Explained: Opportunity or Danger
    4. S2013 E04 · The Gulf Stream Explained
    5. S2013 E05 · How the Stock Exchange Works (For Dummies)
    6. S2013 E06 · The History and Future of Everything -- Time
    Season 2014 · 15 episodes
    1. S2014 E01 · Three Ways to Destroy the Universe
    2. S2014 E02 · The Beginning of Everything -- The Big Bang
    3. S2014 E03 · Who Invented the Internet? And Why?
    4. S2014 E04 · How Big Is the Moon? (MM#1)
    5. S2014 E05 · The Moons of Mars Explained -- Phobos & Deimos MM#2
    6. S2014 E06 · How to Catch a Dwarf Planet — Triton (MM#3)
    7. S2014 E07 · Are You Alone? (In the Universe)
    8. S2014 E08 · Iraq Explained -- ISIS, Syria and War
    9. S2014 E09 · The Immune System Explained I — Bacteria Infection
    10. S2014 E10 · Everything You Need to Know About Planet Earth
    11. S2014 E11 · Atoms As Big As Mountains — Neutron Stars Explained
    12. S2014 E12 · Is War Over? — A Paradox Explained
    13. S2014 E13 · The Ebola Virus Explained — How Your Body Fights for Survival
    14. S2014 E14 · What is Life? Is Death Real?
    15. S2014 E15 · The Ultimate Conspiracy Debunker
    Season 2015 · 16 episodes
    1. S2015 E01 · How Small is an Atom? Spoiler: Very Small.
    2. S2015 E02 · Measles Explained — Vaccinate or Not?
    3. S2015 E03 · Banking Explained – Money and Credit
    4. S2015 E04 · Nuclear Energy Explained: How Does It Work? (1/3)
    5. S2015 E05 · 3 Reasons Why Nuclear Energy Is Terrible! (2/3)
    6. S2015 E06 · 3 Reasons Why Nuclear Energy Is Awesome! (3/3)
    7. S2015 E07 · The Fermi Paradox — Where Are All the Aliens?
    8. S2015 E08 · The Fermi Paradox II — Solutions and Ideas
    9. S2015 E09 · The Death of Bees Explained – Parasites, Poison and Humans
    10. S2015 E10 · What If There Was a Black Hole in Your Pocket?
    11. S2015 E11 · What is Dark Matter and Dark Energy?
    12. S2015 E12 · What is Light?
    13. S2015 E13 · How Facebook is Stealing Billions of Views
    14. S2015 E14 · Quantum Computers Explained – Limits of Human Technology
    15. S2015 E15 · Black Holes Explained – From Birth to Death
    16. S2015 E16 · What is Something?
    Season 2016 · 16 episodes
    1. S2016 E01 · The Last Star in the Universe – Red Dwarfs Explained
    2. S2016 E02 · Why the War on Drugs is a Huge Failure
    3. S2016 E03 · The Antibiotic Apocalypse Explained
    4. S2016 E04 · Space Elevator – Science Fiction or the Future of Mankind?
    5. S2016 E05 · Safe and Sorry – Terrorism & Mass Surveillance
    6. S2016 E06 · How Far Can We Go - Limits of Humanity
    7. S2016 E07 · What Are You?
    8. S2016 E08 · What Happened Before History? Human Origins
    9. S2016 E09 · Death from Space — Gamma-Ray Bursts Explained
    10. S2016 E10 · Genetic Engineering Will Change Everything Forever – CRISPR
    11. S2016 E11 · Genetic Engineering and Diseases — Gene Drive & Malaria
    12. S2016 E12 · The Most Efficient Way to Destroy the Universe – False Vacuum
    13. S2016 E13 · Fusion Energy Explained – Future or Failure
    14. S2016 E14 · The Most Gruesome Parasites — Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs)
    15. S2016 E15 · A New History for Humanity – The Human Era
    16. S2016 E16 · Overpopulation – The Human Explosion Explained
    Season 2017 · 17 episodes
    1. S2017 E01 · Why Earth Is A Prison and How To Escape It
    2. S2017 E02 · Do Robots Deserve Rights? What if machines become conscious?
    3. S2017 E03 · Are GMOs Good or Bad? Genetic Engineering & Our Food
    4. S2017 E04 · Is the European Union Worth It Or Should We End It?
    5. S2017 E05 · The Last Light Before Eternal Darkness – White Dwarfs & Black Dwarfs
    6. S2017 E06 · The Rise of the Machines – Why Automation is Different this Time
    7. S2017 E07 · Optimistic Nihilism
    8. S2017 E08 · What Happens If We Throw an Elephant From a Skyscraper? (The Size of Life #1)
    9. S2017 E09 · Why Black Holes Could Delete The Universe – The Information Paradox
    10. S2017 E10 · What Happens If We Bring the Sun to Earth?
    11. S2017 E11 · Is Reality Real? The Simulation Argument
    12. S2017 E12 · How Bacteria Rule Over Your Body – The Microbiome
    13. S2017 E13 · Why Age? Should We End Aging Forever?
    14. S2017 E14 · How to Cure Aging – During Your Lifetime?
    15. S2017 E15 · Emergence – How Stupid Things Become Smart Together
    16. S2017 E16 · Universal Basic Income Explained — Free Money for Everybody?
    17. S2017 E17 · How to Make an Elephant Explode (The Size of Life #2)
    Season 2018 · 17 episodes
    1. S2018 E01 · Why Alien Life Would Be Our Doom — The Great Filter
    2. S2018 E02 · Homeopathy Explained – Gentle Healing or Reckless Fraud?
    3. S2018 E03 · String Theory Explained – What is The True Nature of Reality?
    4. S2018 E04 · A Selfish Argument for Making the World a Better Place – Egoistic Altruism
    5. S2018 E05 · Time: The History & Future of Everything – Remastered
    6. S2018 E06 · The Black Hole Bomb and Black Hole Civilizations
    7. S2018 E07 · The Deadliest Being on Planet Earth – The Bacteriophage
    8. S2018 E08 · 3 Arguments Why Marijuana Should Stay Illegal Reviewed
    9. S2018 E09 · Plastic Pollution: How Humans are Turning the World into Plastic
    10. S2018 E10 · What If You Detonated a Nuclear Bomb in the Marianas Trench? (Science, Not Fantasy)
    11. S2018 E11 · Wormholes Explained – Breaking Spacetime
    12. S2018 E12 · How We Could Build a Moon Base TODAY – Space Colonization 1
    13. S2018 E13 · Why Meat is the Best Worst Thing in the World
    14. S2018 E14 · Why Beautiful Things Make us Happy – Beauty Explained
    15. S2018 E15 · End of Space – Creating a Prison for Humanity
    16. S2018 E16 · How to Build a Dyson Sphere - The Ultimate Megastructure
    17. S2018 E17 · Aliens under the Ice – Life on Rogue Planets
    Season 2019 · 21 episodes
    1. S2019 E01 · Is Organic Really Better? Healthy Food or Trendy Scam?
    2. S2019 E02 · Building a Marsbase is a Horrible Idea: Let's do it!
    3. S2019 E03 · Loneliness
    4. S2019 E04 · The Origin of Consciousness – How Unaware Things Became Aware
    5. S2019 E05 · What If We Detonated All Nuclear Bombs at Once?
    6. S2019 E06 · The Most Dangerous Stuff in the Universe - Strange Stars Explained
    7. S2019 E07 · The Side Effects of Vaccines - How High is the Risk?
    8. S2019 E08 · Is the EU Democratic? Does Your Vote Matter?
    9. S2019 E09 · Is Meat Bad for You? Is Meat Unhealthy?
    10. S2019 E10 · Could Your Phone Hurt You? Electromagnetic Pollution
    11. S2019 E11 · Tiny Bombs in your Blood - The Complement System
    12. S2019 E12 · The World War of the Ants – The Army Ant
    13. S2019 E13 · The Egg - A Short Story
    14. S2019 E14 · What's Hiding at the Most Solitary Place on Earth? The Deep Sea
    15. S2019 E15 · The Billion Ant Mega Colony and the Biggest War on Earth
    16. S2019 E16 · What if We Nuke a City?
    17. S2019 E17 · Neutron Stars – The Most Extreme Things that are not Black Holes
    18. S2019 E18 · 1,000km Cable to the Stars - The Skyhook
    19. S2019 E19 · An Antidote to Dissatisfaction
    20. S2019 E20 · Overpopulation & Africa
    21. S2019 E21 · How to Move the Sun: Stellar Engines
    Season 2020 · 20 episodes
    1. S2020 E01 · Milk. White Poison or Healthy Drink?
    2. S2020 E02 · How to Make a Kurzgesagt Video in 1200 Hours
    3. S2020 E03 · Why Blue Whales Don't Get Cancer - Peto's Paradox
    4. S2020 E04 · The Coronavirus Explained & What You Should Do
    5. S2020 E05 · Why Are You Alive – Life, Energy & ATP
    6. S2020 E06 · The Past We Can Never Return To – The Anthropocene Reviewed
    7. S2020 E07 · Could Solar Storms Destroy Civilization? Solar Flares & Coronal Mass Ejections
    8. S2020 E08 · Who Is Responsible For Climate Change? – Who Needs To Fix It?
    9. S2020 E09 · What Is Intelligence? Where Does it Begin?
    10. S2020 E10 · What Do Alien Civilizations Look Like? The Kardashev Scale
    11. S2020 E11 · Unlimited Resources From Space – Asteroid Mining
    12. S2020 E12 · The Warrior Kingdoms of the Weaver Ant
    13. S2020 E13 · The Largest Star in the Universe – Size Comparison
    14. S2020 E14 · Is It Too Late To Stop Climate Change? Well, it's Complicated.
    15. S2020 E15 · When Time Became History - The Human Era
    16. S2020 E16 · Geoengineering: A Horrible Idea We Might Have to Do
    17. S2020 E17 · How Large Can a Bacteria get? Life & Size 3
    18. S2020 E18 · What If Earth got Kicked Out of the Solar System? Rogue Earth
    19. S2020 E19 · Can You Upload Your Mind & Live Forever?
    20. S2020 E20 · What if We Nuke the Moon?
    Season 2021 · 17 episodes
    1. S2021 E01 · Worst Nuclear Accidents in History
    2. S2021 E02 · What if the World turned to Gold? - The Gold Apocalypse
    3. S2021 E03 · Do we Need Nuclear Energy to Stop Climate Change?
    4. S2021 E04 · What If You Fall into a Black Hole?
    5. S2021 E05 · TRUE Limits Of Humanity – The Final Border We Will Never Cross
    6. S2021 E06 · What Are You Doing With Your Life? The Tail End
    7. S2021 E07 · The Day the Dinosaurs Died – Minute by Minute
    8. S2021 E08 · How To Terraform Venus (Quickly)
    9. S2021 E09 · The Largest Black Hole in the Universe - Size Comparison
    10. S2021 E10 · How The Immune System ACTUALLY Works – IMMUNE
    11. S2021 E11 · This Virus Shouldn't Exist (But it Does)
    12. S2021 E12 · Can YOU Fix Climate Change?
    13. S2021 E13 · What Dinosaurs ACTUALLY Looked Like?
    14. S2021 E14 · You Are Immune Against Every Disease
    15. S2021 E15 · Is Meat Really that Bad?
    16. S2021 E16 · ...And We'll Do it Again
    17. S2021 E17 · Why We Should NOT Look For Aliens - The Dark Forest
    Season 2022 · 17 episodes
    1. S2022 E01 · What Happens if the Moon Crashes into Earth?
    2. S2022 E02 · Are There Lost Alien Civilizations in Our Past?
    3. S2022 E03 · We WILL Fix Climate Change!
    4. S2022 E04 · The Most Horrible Parasite: Brain Eating Amoeba
    5. S2022 E05 · You Are Not Where You Think You Are
    6. S2022 E06 · Why Change Is so Hard - and How to Fix It
    7. S2022 E07 · The Last Human – A Glimpse Into The Far Future
    8. S2022 E08 · The Deadliest Virus on Earth
    9. S2022 E09 · Is Civilization on the Brink of Collapse?
    10. S2022 E10 · Why You Are Lonely and How to Make Friends
    11. S2022 E11 · Let's Travel to The Most Extreme Place in The Universe
    12. S2022 E12 · What Happens if a Supervolcano Blows Up?
    13. S2022 E13 · Why Don't We Shoot Nuclear Waste Into Space?
    14. S2022 E14 · The Most Extreme Explosion in the Universe
    15. S2022 E15 · The Horror of the Slaver Ant
    16. S2022 E16 · How To Terraform Mars - WITH LASERS
    17. S2022 E17 · Black Hole Star – The Star That Shouldn't Exist
    Season 2023 · 22 episodes
    1. S2023 E01 · The Most Complex Language in the World
    2. S2023 E02 · Your Immune System is More Dangerous than You Think
    3. S2023 E03 · The Business Behind Kurzgesagt
    4. S2023 E04 · Why Aliens Might Already Be On Their Way To Us
    5. S2023 E06 · The Black Hole That Kills Galaxies
    6. S2023 E07 · The Reason Why Cancer is so Hard to Beat
    7. S2023 E08 · The Most Dangerous Weapon Is Not Nuclear
    8. S2023 E09 · The (Second) Deadliest Virus
    9. S2023 E10 · What Happens If You Destroy A Black Hole?
    10. S2023 E11 · How A Nuclear War Will Start - Minute by Minute
    11. S2023 E12 · We Did The Math - You Are Dead!
    12. S2023 E13 · Why Korea is Dying Out
    13. S2023 E14 · Ancient Life as Old as the Universe
    14. S2023 E15 · 4.5 Billion Years in 1 Hour
    15. S2023 E16 · How to Win an Interstellar War
    16. S2023 E17 · The Last Thing That Will Ever Happen
    17. S2023 E18 · The Internet is Worse Than Ever – Now What?
    18. S2023 E19 · How To Destroy The Universe
    19. S2023 E20 · Your Tattoo is INSIDE Your Immune System. Literally
    20. S2023 E21 · From The SMALLEST To The LARGEST - The Ultimate Size Comparison
    21. S2023 E22 · How Do Dead Things Become Alive?
    22. S2023 E23 · The Moment Kurzgesagt Changed Forever
    Season 2024 · 25 episodes
    1. S2024 E01 · Did The Future Already Happen? - The Paradox of Time
    2. S2024 E02 · What Happens AFTER Nuclear War?
    3. S2024 E03 · The Paradox of an Infinite Universe
    4. S2024 E04 · How The Dinosaurs Actually Died
    5. S2024 E05 · There Are Thousands of Alien Empires in The Milky Way
    6. S2024 E06 · Smoking is Awesome
    7. S2024 E07 · This Black Hole Could be Bigger Than The Universe
    8. S2024 E08 · Do You Have a Free Will?
    9. S2024 E09 · This Disease is Deadlier Than The Plague
    10. S2024 E10 · We Need to Rethink Exercise – The Workout Paradox
    11. S2024 E11 · A.I. ‐ Humanity's Final Invention?
    12. S2024 E12 · Fever Feels Horrible, but is Actually Awesome!
    13. S2024 E13 · We Traveled Back in Time. Now Physicists Are Angry.
    14. S2024 E14 · We Need to Rethink Exercise (Updated Version)
    15. S2024 E15 · Why Scientists Are Puzzled By This Virus
    16. S2024 E16 · This Video Might Save 58 Lives Next Week
    17. S2024 E17 · There Is Something Hiding Inside Earth
    18. S2024 E18 · We Made an Uplifting Video
    19. S2024 E19 · We Fell For The Oldest Lie On The Internet
    20. S2024 E20 · The Most Insane Weapon You Never Heard About
    21. S2024 E21 · We Have To Talk About Weed
    22. S2024 E22 · Vaping Is Too Good To Be True
    23. S2024 E23 · Black Hole's Evil Twin - Gravastars Explained
    24. S2024 E24 · Syria, Israel, Ukraine - A New Decade of War
    25. S2024 E25 · How This Prawn Can Kill You - Allergies Explained
    Season 2025 · 24 episodes
    1. S2025 E01 · This Is What Aliens Might Actually Look Like
    2. S2025 E02 · This Is NOT An Anti Meat Video
    3. S2025 E03 · How Your Brain Fakes Your Reality
    4. S2025 E04 · SOUTH KOREA IS OVER
    5. S2025 E05 · Your Time Machine Broke - At The Worst Time In History
    6. S2025 E06 · We Finally Answered The MOST Important Question
    7. S2025 E07 · Why Does Fentanyl Feel So Good?
    8. S2025 E08 · How Nuclear Flies Protect You from Flesh-Eating Parasites
    9. S2025 E09 · When Your Body Attacks Itself – Autoimmune
    10. S2025 E10 · Let's Kill You a Billion Times to Make You Immortal
    11. S2025 E11 · Alcohol is AMAZING
    12. S2025 E12 · The Drug To Master Reality
    13. S2025 E13 · The Dumbest Animal Alive
    14. S2025 E14 · Can Humanity Stop A Planet-Killing Asteroid?
    15. S2025 E15 · Pregnancy is Insane
    16. S2025 E16 · We Found a Loophole to Survive the End of the Universe
    17. S2025 E17 · AI Slop Is Killing Our Channel
    18. S2025 E18 · You Need To Quit Weed.
    19. S2025 E19 · You're More Stressed Than Ever - Let's Change That
    20. S2025 E20 · Let's Talk About Fat
    21. S2025 E21 · Trees Are So Weird
    22. S2025 E22 · Astronomy Is In Crisis...And It's Incredibly Exciting
    23. S2025 E23 · All Of Human History In One Hour
    24. S2025 E24 · Tattoo Removal Is Insane
    Season 2026 · 10 episodes
    1. S2026 E01 · Why Are There No Holes Around Trees?
    2. S2026 E02 · This Is the Scariest Place in The Universe
    3. S2026 E03 · The Most Insane Megaproject You Never Heard About
    4. S2026 E05 · GERMANY IS OVER
    5. S2026 E06 · The Uncomfortable Truth About Ozempic (Updated Version)
    6. S2026 E07 · Why Earth Sucks Compared to the Planet Hestia
    7. S2026 E08 · Looking Inside Your Brain to See How Memories Work
    8. S2026 E09 · What's It Like to Be Killed by Nature's Most Brutal Predator
    9. S2026 E10 · Why Humanity Will Never Leave The Solar System
    10. S2026 E11 · This Woman Cured Her Cancer with an Insane Method

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