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Kurzgesagt - In a Nutshell
First Air Date: 2013-07-11
Seasons: 13
Episodes: 220
Rating: 8.3/10
Overview:
Kurzgesagt (German for "in a nutshell") is a Munich based design studio with a distinctive perspective on design and animation within the fields of education, science and commerce. Founded in 2012 by Philipp Dettmer & Stephan Rether, the studio engages in information design projects of all kinds. We love science, minimalism, colors and music. But most of all combining them to tell stories.
Genres: Documentary
πΊ Seasons
Episode 1: Help Us Make More Videos for Kurzgesagt
Episode 2: The Year 12,018 Calendar IS OUT NOW β A New Calendar for Humanity
Episode 3: The 12,019 Calendar IS HERE β A New Calendar for Humanity
Episode 4: Can You Trust Kurzgesagt Videos?
Episode 5: The 12,020 Human SPACE Era Calendar
Episode 6: The 12,021 Human Era Calendar
Episode 7: Two Chapters From Our New Book β Exclusive Preview!
Episode 8: The Limited Edition Dinosaur Calendar β Now And Then Never Again
Episode 9: HIDDEN WORLDS - Limited Edition Calendar!
Episode 10: Our Very First Merch Drop β Cosmic Pioneers Edition
Episode 11: Why Is the Ocean Salty and Rivers Are Not?
Episode 12: How Tiny Can a Black Hole Be?
Episode 13: The Ultimate Fight: Tardigrade vs. Bird
Episode 14: Magnetic Pole Shift - A Doomsday Scenario?
Episode 15: How to Cut a Sandwich Perfectly β With Science
Episode 16: Earth as a Cube β What Would It Look Like?
Episode 17: How do Lasers Work?
Episode 18: Let's Make Earth Twice as Large!
Episode 19: Are Your Friends More Popular than You?
Episode 20: Earth's Hidden Gem: The Astonishing Diversity of Fauna and Flora
Episode 21: What Happens if Earth Suddenly Stops Rotating?
Episode 22: What If Youβre in Space without a Spacesuit?
Episode 23: How Many Moons Could Earth Handle?
Episode 24: A Glimpse Into Our Future
Episode 25: The Moment Kurzgesagt Changed Forever
Episode 26: Would You Choose Life On Earth Or in Space?
Episode 27: Cooking a Chicken in a Particle Accelerator
Episode 28: You Swallowed a Tapeworm β What Now?
Episode 29: Letβs Shrink Earth to Half Its Size
Episode 30: Map Projections β Why Do We Have Different Maps of the Earth?
Episode 31: What If Our Sun Disappeared?
Episode 32: Can You Escape a Black Hole?
Episode 33: Something in Your Kitchen Emits Antimatter
Episode 34: What Does the Moon Smell Like?
Episode 35: Will Europe Freeze over When the Gulf Stream Stops?
Episode 36: AI Can Literally Lend You a Hand
Episode 37: YOU Own the Moon. And Mars. And Venus.
Episode 38: ONE Gene Determines How Many Fingers You Have
Episode 39: Let's Cook a Galaxy
Episode 40: How You Can Live Forever... Maybe.
Episode 41: Why You Need a Space Elevator And How You Can Build One
Episode 42: Why Is the Night Sky Black?
Episode 43: Your Hidden Superpower
Episode 44: How Old Can You Get?
Episode 45: Something Travels Faster than Light
Episode 46: We Are Making a VIDEO GAME
Episode 47: Our Brains Are Not Special. But Why Are We?
Episode 48: The Deadly Power of a Coin-Sized Black Hole
Episode 49: Can We Stop the Extinction?
Episode 50: Can Our Universe Destroy Itself?
Episode 51: The Sun is NOT Yellow!
Episode 52: Fentanyl Explained
Episode 53: This Happens When You Get a Tattoo
Episode 1: Three Ways to Destroy the Universe
Episode 2: The Beginning of Everything β The Big Bang
Episode 3: Who Invented the Internet? And Why?
Episode 4: How Big Is the Moon? (MM#1)
Episode 5: The Moons of Mars Explained β Phobos & Deimos (MM#2)
Episode 6: How to Catch a Dwarf Planet β Triton (MM#3)
Episode 7: Are You Alone? (In the Universe)
Episode 8: Iraq Explained β ISIS, Syria and War
Episode 9: The Immune System Explained I β Bacteria Infection
Episode 10: Everything You Need to Know About Planet Earth
Episode 11: Atoms as Big as Mountains β Neutron Stars Explained
Episode 12: Is War Over? β A Paradox Explained
Episode 13: The Ebola Virus Explained β How Your Body Fights for Survival
Episode 14: What Is Life? Is Death Real?
Episode 15: The Ultimate Conspiracy Debunker
Episode 1: How Small Is an Atom? (Spoiler: Very Small)
Episode 2: Measles Explained β Vaccinate or Not?
Episode 3: Banking Explained β Money and Credit
Episode 4: Nuclear Energy Explained: How Does It Work? (1/3)
Episode 5: 3 Reasons Why Nuclear Energy Is Terrible! (2/3)
Episode 6: 3 Reasons Why Nuclear Energy Is Awesome! (3/3)
Episode 7: The Fermi Paradox β Where Are All the Aliens?
Episode 8: The Fermi Paradox II β Solutions and Ideas
Episode 9: The Death of Bees Explained β Parasites, Poison and Humans
Episode 10: What if There Was a Black Hole in Your Pocket?
Episode 11: What Is Dark Matter and Dark Energy?
Episode 12: The European Refugee Crisis and Syria Explained
Episode 13: Addiction
Episode 14: What Is Light?
Episode 15: How Facebook Is Stealing Billions of Views
Episode 16: Quantum Computers Explained β Limits of Human Technology
Episode 17: Black Holes Explained β From Birth to Death
Episode 18: What Is Something?
Episode 1: The Last Star in the Universe β Red Dwarfs Explained
Episode 2: Why the War on Drugs Is a Huge Failure
Episode 3: The Antibiotic Apocalypse Explained
Episode 4: Space Elevator β Science Fiction or the Future of Mankind?
Episode 5: Safe and Sorry β Terrorism & Mass Surveillance
Episode 6: How Far Can We Go? Limits of Humanity (old version)
Episode 7: What Are You?
Episode 8: What Happened Before History? Human Origins
Episode 9: Death From Space β Gamma-Ray Bursts Explained
Episode 10: Genetic Engineering Will Change Everything Forever β CRISPR
Episode 11: Genetic Engineering and Diseases β Gene Drive & Malaria
Episode 12: The Most Efficient Way to Destroy the Universe β False Vacuum
Episode 13: Fusion Energy Explained β Future or Failure
Episode 14: The Most Gruesome Parasites β Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs)
Episode 15: A New History for Humanity β The Human Era
Episode 16: Overpopulation β The Human Explosion Explained
Episode 1: Why Earth Is a Prison and How to Escape It
Episode 2: Do Robots Deserve Rights? What If Machines Become Conscious?
Episode 3: Are GMOs Good or Bad? Genetic Engineering & Our Food
Episode 4: Is the European Union Worth It or Should We End It?
Episode 5: The Last Light Before Eternal Darkness β White Dwarfs & Black Dwarfs
Episode 6: The Rise of the Machines β Why Automation Is Different This Time
Episode 7: Optimistic Nihilism
Episode 8: What Happens If We Throw an Elephant From a Skyscraper? (The Size of Life #1)
Episode 9: Why Black Holes Could Delete the Universe β The Information Paradox
Episode 10: What Happens If We Bring the Sun to Earth?
Episode 11: Is Reality Real? The Simulation Argument
Episode 12: How Bacteria Rule Over Your Body β The Microbiome
Episode 13: Why Age? Should We End Aging Forever?
Episode 14: How to Cure Aging β During Your Lifetime?
Episode 15: Emergence β How Stupid Things Become Smart Together
Episode 16: Universal Basic Income Explained β Free Money for Everybody?
Episode 17: How to Make an Elephant Explode (The Size of Life #2)
Episode 1: Why Alien Life Would Be Our Doom β The Great Filter
Episode 2: Homeopathy Explained β Gentle Healing or Reckless Fraud?
Episode 3: String Theory Explained β What Is the True Nature of Reality?
Episode 4: A Selfish Argument for Making the World a Better Place β Egoistic Altruism
Episode 5: Time: The History & Future of Everything β Remastered
Episode 6: The Black Hole Bomb and Black Hole Civilizations
Episode 7: The Deadliest Being on Planet Earth β The Bacteriophage
Episode 8: 3 Arguments Why Marijuana Should Stay Illegal Reviewed
Episode 9: Plastic Pollution: How Humans Are Turning the World Into Plastic
Episode 10: What If You Detonated a Nuclear Bomb in the Marianas Trench? (Science, Not Fantasy)
Episode 11: Wormholes Explained β Breaking Spacetime
Episode 12: How We Could Build a Moon Base TODAY (Space Colonization #1)
Episode 13: Why Meat Is the Best Worst Thing in the World
Episode 14: Why Beautiful Things Make Us Happy β Beauty Explained
Episode 15: End of Space β Creating a Prison for Humanity
Episode 16: How to Build a Dyson Sphere β The Ultimate Megastructure
Episode 17: Aliens Under the Ice β Life on Rogue Planets
Episode 18: Episode 18
Episode 1: Is Organic Really Better? Healthy Food or Trendy Scam?
Episode 2: Building a Mars Base Is a Horrible Idea: Letβs Do It!
Episode 3: Loneliness
Episode 4: The Origin of Consciousness β How Unaware Things Became Aware
Episode 5: What If We Detonated All Nuclear Bombs at Once?
Episode 6: The Most Dangerous Stuff in the Universe β Strange Stars Explained
Episode 7: The Side Effects of Vaccines β How High Is the Risk?
Episode 8: Is the EU Democratic? Does Your Vote Matter?
Episode 9: Is Meat Bad for You? Is Meat Unhealthy?
Episode 10: Could Your Phone Hurt You? Electromagnetic Pollution
Episode 11: Tiny Bombs in Your Blood β The Complement System
Episode 12: The World War of the Ants β The Army Ant
Episode 13: The Egg β A Short Story
Episode 14: Whatβs Hiding at the Most Solitary Place on Earth? The Deep Sea
Episode 15: The Billion Ant Mega Colony and the Biggest War on Earth
Episode 16: What If We Nuke a City?
Episode 17: Neutron Stars β The Most Extreme Things That Are Not Black Holes
Episode 18: 1,000 km Cable to the Stars β The Skyhook
Episode 19: An Antidote to Dissatisfaction
Episode 20: Overpopulation & Africa
Episode 21: How to Move the Sun: Stellar Engines
Episode 1: Milk. White Poison or Healthy Drink?
Episode 2: How to Make a Kurzgesagt Video in 1200 Hours
Episode 3: Why Blue Whales Don't Get Cancer - Peto's Paradox
Episode 4: The Coronavirus Explained & What You Should Do
Episode 5: Why Are You Alive β Life, Energy & ATP
Episode 6: The Past We Can Never Return To β The Anthropocene Reviewed
Episode 7: Could Solar Storms Destroy Civilization? Solar Flares & Coronal Mass Ejections
Episode 8: Who Is Responsible For Climate Change? β Who Needs To Fix It?
Episode 9: What Is Intelligence? Where Does it Begin?
Episode 10: What Do Alien Civilizations Look Like? The Kardashev Scale
Episode 11: Unlimited Resources From Space β Asteroid Mining
Episode 12: The Warrior Kingdoms of the Weaver Ant
Episode 13: The Largest Star in the Universe β Size Comparison
Episode 14: Is It Too Late To Stop Climate Change? Well, it's Complicated.
Episode 15: When Time Became History - The Human Era
Episode 16: Geoengineering: A Horrible Idea We Might Have to Do
Episode 17: How Large Can a Bacteria get? Life & Size 3
Episode 18: What If Earth got Kicked Out of the Solar System? Rogue Earth
Episode 19: Can You Upload Your Mind & Live Forever?
Episode 20: What if We Nuke the Moon?
Episode 1: How Many People Did Nuclear Energy Kill? Nuclear Death Toll
Episode 2: What if the World turned to Gold? - The Gold Apocalypse
Episode 3: Do we Need Nuclear Energy to Stop Climate Change?
Episode 4: The Ultimate Guide to Black Holes
Episode 5: TRUE Limits Of Humanity β The Final Border We Will Never Cross
Episode 6: What Are You Doing With Your Life? The Tail End
Episode 7: The Day the Dinosaurs Died β Minute by Minute
Episode 8: How To Terraform Venus (Quickly)
Episode 9: The Largest Black Hole in the Universe - Size Comparison
Episode 10: How The Immune System ACTUALLY Works β IMMUNE
Episode 11: This Virus Shouldn't Exist (But it Does)
Episode 12: Can YOU Fix Climate Change?
Episode 13: What Dinosaurs ACTUALLY Looked Like?
Episode 14: You Are Immune Against Every Disease
Episode 15: Is Meat Really that Bad?
Episode 16: ...And We'll Do it Again
Episode 17: Why We Should NOT Look For Aliens - The Dark Forest
Episode 1: What Happens if the Moon Crashes into Earth?
Episode 2: Are There Lost Alien Civilizations in Our Past?
Episode 3: We WILL Fix Climate Change!
Episode 4: The Most Horrible Parasite: Brain Eating Amoeba
Episode 5: You Are Not Where You Think You Are
Episode 6: Change Your Life - One Tiny Step at a Time
Episode 7: The Last Human - A Glimpse Into The Far Future
Episode 8: The Deadliest Virus on Earth
Episode 9: Is Civilization on the Brink of Collapse?
Episode 10: Why You Are Lonely and How to Make Friends
Episode 11: Let's Travel to The Most Extreme Place in The Universe
Episode 12: What Happens if a Supervolcano Blows Up?
Episode 13: Why Don't We Shoot Nuclear Waste Into Space?
Episode 14: The Most Extreme Explosion in the Universe
Episode 15: The Horror of the Slaver Ant
Episode 16: How To Terraform Mars - WITH LASERS
Episode 17: Black Hole Star β The Star That Shouldn't Exist
Episode 1: The Most Complex Language in the World
Episode 2: What Actually Happens When You Are Sick
Episode 3: How We Make Money on YouTube with 20M Subs
Episode 4: Why Aliens Might Already Be On Their Way To Us
Episode 5: Your Body Killed Cancer 5 Minutes Ago
Episode 6: The Black Hole That Kills Galaxies
Episode 7: The Reason Why Cancer is so Hard to Beat
Episode 8: The Most Dangerous Weapon Is NOT Nuclear
Episode 9: The (Second) Most Deadliest Virus on Earth
Episode 10: What Happens If You Destroy A Black Hole?
Episode 11: How A Nuclear War Will Start - Minute by Minute
Episode 12: We Did The Math - You Are Dead!
Episode 13: Why Korea is Dying Out
Episode 14: Ancient Life as Old as the Universe
Episode 15: 4.5 Billion Years in 1 Hour
Episode 16: How to Win an Interstellar War
Episode 17: The Last Thing To Ever Happen In The Universe
Episode 18: The Internet is Worse Than Ever β Now What?
Episode 19: How To Destroy The Universe
Episode 20: Your Tattoo is INSIDE Your Immune System. Literally
Episode 21: You Are The Center of The Universe (Literally)
Episode 1: Did The Future Already Happen? - The Paradox of Time
Episode 2: What Happens AFTER Nuclear War?
Episode 3: The Paradox of an Infinite Universe
Episode 4: How The Dinosaurs Actually Died
Episode 5: There Are Thousands of Alien Empires in The Milky Way
Episode 6: Smoking is Awesome
Episode 7: This Black Hole Could be Bigger Than The Universe
Episode 8: Do You Have a Free Will?
Episode 9: This Disease is Deadlier Than The Plague
Episode 10: A.I. β Humanity's Final Invention?
Episode 11: Fever Feels Horrible, but is Actually Awesome!
Episode 12: We Traveled Back in Time. Now Physicists Are Angry.
Episode 13: We Need to Rethink Exercise (Updated Version)
Episode 14: Why Scientists Are Puzzled By This Virus
Episode 15: This Video Might Save 58 Lives Next Week
Episode 16: There Is Something Hiding Inside Earth
Episode 17: Tired of Doomscrolling?
Episode 18: We Fell For The Oldest Lie On The Internet
Episode 19: The Most Insane Weapon You Never Heard About
Episode 20: We Have To Talk About Weed
Episode 21: Vaping Is Too Good To Be True
Episode 22: Black Hole's Evil Twin - Gravastars Explained
Episode 23: Is The World Getting More Violent?
Episode 24: The Real Reason Why You Have Allergies
Episode 1: Alien Whales On Planet Nimbus - What Aliens Might Look Like
Episode 2: This Is NOT An Anti Meat Video
Episode 3: Why Your Brain Blinds You For 2 Hours Every Day
Episode 4: SOUTH KOREA IS OVER
Episode 5: Your Time Machine Broke - At The Worst Time In History
Episode 6: We Finally Answered the MOST Important Question
Episode 7: Why Does Fentanyl Feel So Good?
Episode 8: Why Is The US Dropping Billions Of Mutant Flies From The Sky?
Episode 9: The Betrayal of Autoimmune Diseases
Episode 10: Let's Kill You a Billion Times to Make You Immortal