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