Kurzgesagt - In a Nutshell (2013)

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Earth as a cube – what would it look like?

How do lasers work?

Let's make earth twice as large!

Are your friends more popular than you?

Earth's hidden gem: the astonishing diversity of fauna and flora

What happens if earth suddenly stops rotating?

What if you’re in space without a spacesuit?

How many moons could earth handle?

A glimpse into our future

The moment kurzgesagt changed forever

Would you choose life on earth or in space?

Cooking a chicken in a particle accelerator

You swallowed a tapeworm – what now?

Let’s shrink earth to half its size

Map projections – why do we have different maps of the earth?

What if our sun disappeared?

Can you escape a black hole?

Something in your kitchen emits antimatter

What does the moon smell like?

Will europe freeze over when the gulf stream stops?

Ai can literally lend you a hand

You own the moon. and mars. and venus.

One gene determines how many fingers you have

Let's cook a galaxy

How you can live forever... maybe.

Why you need a space elevator and how you can build one

Why is the night sky black?

Your hidden superpower

How old can you get?

Something travels faster than light

We are making a video game

Our brains are not special. but why are we?

The deadly power of a coin-sized black hole

Can we stop the extinction?

Can our universe destroy itself?

The sun is not yellow!

Fentanyl explained

This happens when you get a tattoo

How evolution works

The solar system — our home in space

Fracking explained: opportunity or danger

The gulf stream explained

How the stock exchange works (for dummies)

The history and future of everything — time

Three ways to destroy the universe

The beginning of everything — the big bang

Who invented the internet? and why?

How big is the moon? (mm#1)

The moons of mars explained — phobos & deimos (mm#2)

How to catch a dwarf planet — triton (mm#3)

Are you alone? (in the universe)

Iraq explained — isis, syria and war

The immune system explained i — bacteria infection

Everything you need to know about planet earth

Atoms as big as mountains — neutron stars explained

Is war over? — a paradox explained

The ebola virus explained — how your body fights for survival

What is life? is death real?

The ultimate conspiracy debunker

How small is an atom? (spoiler: very small)

Measles explained — vaccinate or not?

Banking explained — money and credit

Nuclear energy explained: how does it work? (1/3)

3 reasons why nuclear energy is terrible! (2/3)

3 reasons why nuclear energy is awesome! (3/3)

The fermi paradox — where are all the aliens?

The fermi paradox ii — solutions and ideas

The death of bees explained — parasites, poison and humans

What if there was a black hole in your pocket?

What is dark matter and dark energy?

The european refugee crisis and syria explained

Addiction

What is light?

How facebook is stealing billions of views

Quantum computers explained — limits of human technology

Black holes explained — from birth to death

What is something?

The last star in the universe — red dwarfs explained

Why the war on drugs is a huge failure

The antibiotic apocalypse explained

Space elevator — science fiction or the future of mankind?

Safe and sorry — terrorism & mass surveillance

How far can we go? limits of humanity (old version)

What are you?

What happened before history? human origins

Death from space — gamma-ray bursts explained

Genetic engineering will change everything forever — crispr

Genetic engineering and diseases — gene drive & malaria

The most efficient way to destroy the universe — false vacuum

Fusion energy explained — future or failure

The most gruesome parasites — neglected tropical diseases (ntds)

A new history for humanity — the human era

Overpopulation — the human explosion explained

Why earth is a prison and how to escape it

Do robots deserve rights? what if machines become conscious?

Are gmos good or bad? genetic engineering & our food

Is the european union worth it or should we end it?

The last light before eternal darkness — white dwarfs & black dwarfs

The rise of the machines — why automation is different this time

Optimistic nihilism

What happens if we throw an elephant from a skyscraper? (the size of life #1)

Why black holes could delete the universe — the information paradox

What happens if we bring the sun to earth?

Is reality real? the simulation argument

How bacteria rule over your body — the microbiome

Why age? should we end aging forever?

How to cure aging — during your lifetime?

Emergence — how stupid things become smart together

Universal basic income explained — free money for everybody?

How to make an elephant explode (the size of life #2)

Why alien life would be our doom — the great filter

Homeopathy explained — gentle healing or reckless fraud?

String theory explained — what is the true nature of reality?

A selfish argument for making the world a better place — egoistic altruism

Time: the history & future of everything — remastered

The black hole bomb and black hole civilizations

The deadliest being on planet earth — the bacteriophage

3 arguments why marijuana should stay illegal reviewed

Plastic pollution: how humans are turning the world into plastic

What if you detonated a nuclear bomb in the marianas trench? (science, not fantasy)

Wormholes explained — breaking spacetime

How we could build a moon base today (space colonization #1)

Why meat is the best worst thing in the world

Why beautiful things make us happy — beauty explained

End of space — creating a prison for humanity

How to build a dyson sphere — the ultimate megastructure

Aliens under the ice — life on rogue planets

Episode 18

Is organic really better? healthy food or trendy scam?

Building a mars base is a horrible idea: let’s do it!

Loneliness

The origin of consciousness — how unaware things became aware

What if we detonated all nuclear bombs at once?

The most dangerous stuff in the universe — strange stars explained

The side effects of vaccines — how high is the risk?

Is the eu democratic? does your vote matter?

Is meat bad for you? is meat unhealthy?

Could your phone hurt you? electromagnetic pollution

Tiny bombs in your blood — the complement system

The world war of the ants — the army ant

The egg — a short story

What’s hiding at the most solitary place on earth? the deep sea

The billion ant mega colony and the biggest war on earth

What if we nuke a city?

Neutron stars — the most extreme things that are not black holes

1,000 km cable to the stars — the skyhook

An antidote to dissatisfaction

Overpopulation & africa

How to move the sun: stellar engines

Milk. white poison or healthy drink?

How to make a kurzgesagt video in 1200 hours

Why blue whales don't get cancer - peto's paradox

The coronavirus explained & what you should do

Why are you alive – life, energy & atp

The past we can never return to – the anthropocene reviewed

Could solar storms destroy civilization? solar flares & coronal mass ejections

Who is responsible for climate change? – who needs to fix it?

What is intelligence? where does it begin?

What do alien civilizations look like? the kardashev scale

Unlimited resources from space – asteroid mining

The warrior kingdoms of the weaver ant

The largest star in the universe – size comparison

Is it too late to stop climate change? well, it's complicated.

When time became history - the human era

Geoengineering: a horrible idea we might have to do

How large can a bacteria get? life & size 3

What if earth got kicked out of the solar system? rogue earth

Can you upload your mind & live forever?

What if we nuke the moon?

How many people did nuclear energy kill? nuclear death toll

What if the world turned to gold? - the gold apocalypse

Do we need nuclear energy to stop climate change?

The ultimate guide to black holes

True limits of humanity – the final border we will never cross

What are you doing with your life? the tail end

The day the dinosaurs died – minute by minute

How to terraform venus (quickly)

The largest black hole in the universe - size comparison

How the immune system actually works – immune

This virus shouldn't exist (but it does)

Can you fix climate change?

What dinosaurs actually looked like?

You are immune against every disease

Is meat really that bad?

...and we'll do it again

Why we should not look for aliens - the dark forest

What happens if the moon crashes into earth?

Are there lost alien civilizations in our past?

We will fix climate change!

The most horrible parasite: brain eating amoeba

You are not where you think you are

Change your life - one tiny step at a time

The last human - a glimpse into the far future

The deadliest virus on earth

Is civilization on the brink of collapse?

Why you are lonely and how to make friends

Let's travel to the most extreme place in the universe

What happens if a supervolcano blows up?

Why don't we shoot nuclear waste into space?

The most extreme explosion in the universe

The horror of the slaver ant

How to terraform mars - with lasers

Black hole star – the star that shouldn't exist

The most complex language in the world

What actually happens when you are sick

How we make money on youtube with 20m subs

Why aliens might already be on their way to us

Your body killed cancer 5 minutes ago

The black hole that kills galaxies

The reason why cancer is so hard to beat

The most dangerous weapon is not nuclear

The (second) most deadliest virus on earth

What happens if you destroy a black hole?

How a nuclear war will start - minute by minute

We did the math - you are dead!

Why korea is dying out

Ancient life as old as the universe

4.5 billion years in 1 hour

How to win an interstellar war

The last thing to ever happen in the universe

The internet is worse than ever – now what?

How to destroy the universe

Your tattoo is inside your immune system. literally

You are the center of the universe (literally)

Did the future already happen? - the paradox of time

What happens after nuclear war?

The paradox of an infinite universe

How the dinosaurs actually died

There are thousands of alien empires in the milky way

Smoking is awesome

This black hole could be bigger than the universe

Do you have a free will?

This disease is deadlier than the plague

A.i. ‐ humanity's final invention?

Fever feels horrible, but is actually awesome!

We traveled back in time. now physicists are angry.

We need to rethink exercise (updated version)

Why scientists are puzzled by this virus

This video might save 58 lives next week

There is something hiding inside earth

Tired of doomscrolling?

We fell for the oldest lie on the internet

The most insane weapon you never heard about

We have to talk about weed

Vaping is too good to be true

Black hole's evil twin - gravastars explained

Is the world getting more violent?

The real reason why you have allergies

Alien whales on planet nimbus - what aliens might look like

This is not an anti meat video

Why your brain blinds you for 2 hours every day

South korea is over

Your time machine broke - at the worst time in history

We finally answered the most important question

Why does fentanyl feel so good?

Why is the us dropping billions of mutant flies from the sky?