Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell

  • Premiered: Jul 2013
  • Episodes: 212
  • Followers: 4
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Season 2015
2015x1
How Small Is an Atom? (Spoiler: Very Small)
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Jan 20, 2015
Atoms are very weird. Wrapping your head around exactly how weird, is close to impossible – how can you describe something that is SO removed from humans experience? But then again, they kind of make up everything, so let us try anyways.
2015x2
Measles Explained — Vaccinate or Not?
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Feb 24, 2015
Everybody is talking about Measles – but what does the virus actually do in the body? Is it really so harmful that you need a vaccination? We go deep into the body of an infected person .. show full overview
2015x3
Banking Explained — Money and Credit
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Mar 12, 2015
Banks are a riddle wrapped up in an enigma. We all kind of know that they do stuff with money we don’t understand, while the last crisis left a feeling of deep mistrust and confusion. We .. show full overview
2015x4
Nuclear Energy Explained: How Does It Work? (1/3)
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Mar 26, 2015
Nuclear Energy is a controversial subject. The pro- and anti-nuclear lobbies fight furiously, and it's difficult to decide who is right. So we're trying to clear up the issue - in this .. show full overview
2015x5
3 Reasons Why Nuclear Energy Is Terrible! (2/3)
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Apr 01, 2015
Nuclear energy might be a failed experiment. In over sixty years the technology has not only failed to keep its promise of cheap, clean and safe energy, it also caused major catastrophes .. show full overview
2015x6
3 Reasons Why Nuclear Energy Is Awesome! (3/3)
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Apr 01, 2015
Nuclear energy might have a lot of unused potential. Not only is it one of the best mid term solutions for global warming bit despite what gut feeling tells us, it has saved millions of .. show full overview
2015x7
The Fermi Paradox — Where Are All the Aliens?
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May 06, 2015
The universe is unbelievably big – trillions of stars and even more planets. So… there just has to be life out there, right? But where is it? Why don’t we see any aliens? Where are they? .. show full overview
2015x8
The Fermi Paradox II — Solutions and Ideas
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Jun 04, 2015
Where are all the aliens? The universe is too big and too old, why have we not met aliens yet? Do they live in computers? Were they wiped out by an ancient super intelligence? Or are we .. show full overview
2015x9
The Death of Bees Explained — Parasites, Poison and Humans
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Jul 09, 2015
In 2015 the bees are still dying in masses. Which at first seems not very important until you realize that one third of all food humans consume would disappear with them. Millions could .. show full overview
2015x10
What if There Was a Black Hole in Your Pocket?
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Jul 16, 2015
What would happen to you if a black hole the size of a coin suddenly appeared in your pocket? Lets find out!
2015x11
What Is Dark Matter and Dark Energy?
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Aug 06, 2015
What is dark energy? What is dark matter? Well, if we knew exactly we would have a nobel prize – we know that they exist though. So what do we know about those strange things?
2015x12
What Is Light?
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Oct 15, 2015
We are so used to some things that we stopped wondering about them. Like light. What is light? Some kind of wavy thing, right? Kind of.
2015x13
How Facebook Is Stealing Billions of Views
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Nov 10, 2015
Facebook just announced 8 billion video views per day. This number is made out of lies, cheating and worst of all: theft. All of this is wildly known but the media giant Facebook is .. show full overview
2015x14
Quantum Computers Explained — Limits of Human Technology
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Dec 08, 2015
Where are the limits of human technology? And can we somehow avoid them? This is where quantum computers become very interesting.
2015x15
Black Holes Explained — From Birth to Death
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Dec 15, 2015
Black holes. Lets talk about them.
2015x16 Season finale
What Is Something?
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Dec 23, 2015
What is something? On the most fundamental level thinkable, what are things? Why are things? And why do things behave the way they do?

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