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Why Is the Ocean Salty and Rivers Are Not? #shorts #kurzgesagt

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Follow us for more sciencey content.Sources & further reading: https://sites.google.com/view/kgs-tiktok-sourcesUnderstanding this isn't difficult, you just need to know biology, chemistry, physics, geology and every other science in the existence #inanuts
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How do Lasers Work? #shorts #kurzgesagt

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Have you ever wondered how lasers work? Well, we did! #inanutshell #kurzgesagt #kurzgesagt_inanutshell #youtubelearning #science #physics #lasers #howstuffworks #scienceshorts #lightsaber #sciencefacts #physicsquestions Sources & further reading: https://
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What If Our Sun Disappeared? #kurzgesagt #shorts

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Don't worry, if the Sun disappears, nothing bad happens to us... for the first 8 minutes and 20 seconds. No promises about everything after that.#inanutshell #kurzgesagt #kurzgesagt_inanutshell #learnwithshorts #earthshorts #astrophysics #astronerds #what
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The Next Atomic Bomb Is Made of DNA #kurzgesagt #shorts

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A breathtaking scientific revolution is taking place biotechnology has been progressing at incredible speed, giving us the tools to gain control over biology eventually. On the one hand, solving the deadliest diseases while also creating viruses more dang
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Something in Your Kitchen Emits Antimatter #kurzgesagt #shorts

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There is a mysterious source of antimatter in your kitchen! One can only wonder what that source is...#inanutshell #kurzgesagt #kurzgesagt_inanutshell #learnwithshorts #science #antimatter #antimatterscience #physics #scienceshorts #particlephysics Source
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You Swallowed a Tapeworm - What Now? #kurzgesagt #shorts

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We swallowed a tapeworm so you don't have to. Let's see what happens. #inanutshell #kurzgesagt #kurzgesagt_inanutshell #learnwithshorts #biologyclass #biologyshorts #learnbiology #parasitesymptoms #tapeworm #hygienetips #parasitology #medicalshorts #medic
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How Many Moons Could Earth Handle? #kurzgesagt #shorts

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A beautiful night sky, but it comes with wild tides. Do you accept? And how many moons would you choose? #kurzgesagt #kurzgesagt_inanutshell #kurzgesagt_discover #inanutshell #learnwithyoutube #learning #science #space #milkyway #solarsystem #moon #theory
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Earth as a Cube What Would It Look Like? #shorts #kurzgesagt

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Walking around the Minecraft server might be fun, but sadly, the same couldn't be said about the Minecraft Earth... #inanutshell #kurzgesagt #kurzgesagt_inanutshell #science #physics #spacefacts #space #howstuffworks #solarsystem #science #sciencefacts #s
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The Ultimate Fight: Tardigrade vs. Bird #shorts #kurzgesagt

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Follow us for more sciencey content.Sources & further reading: https://sites.google.com/view/kgs-tiktok-sourcesTardigrades win in the "coolest nickname" category as well, as they are also known as "water bears"! #kurzgesagt #kurzgesagt_inanutshell #inanut
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What If Youre in Space without a Spacesuit? #kurzgesagt #shorts

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How horrible of a scenario do you want to be? Being in Space without a spacesuit: yes. #kurzgesagt #inanutshell #universe #space #learnwithyoutube #spacefacts #science #sciencefacts #weirdfacts #outerspaceSources & further reading: https://sites.google.co
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What Happens if Earth Suddenly Stops Rotating? #kurzgesagt #shorts

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You don't even realize how fast Earth rotates, unless you pause its rotation... #inanutshell #kurzgesagt #kurzgesagt_inanutshell #learnwithyoutube #learnwithshorts #spacefacts #astronerds #astrophysics #astronomy #outerspace #earthfacts #evolution #planet
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Let's Make Earth Twice as Large! #shorts #kurzgesagt

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Good thing Earth is not twice as large, because if an apple would fall on a person's head it would give them serious head injuries instead of ground breaking ideas. #inanutshell #kurzgesagt #kurzgesagt_inanutshell #learnwithyoutube #learnwithshorts #space
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Magnetic Pole Shift - A Doomsday Scenario? #shorts #kurzgesagt

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Follow us for more sciencey content.Sources & further reading: https://sites.google.com/view/kgs-tiktok-sourcesEarth's magnetic field is going to flip. So we're better off knowing what that means for us as well, when it plays the UNO reverse card on us.#i
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How to Cut a Sandwich Perfectly With Science #shorts #kurzgesagt

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There is perfect way to cut a three ingredient sandwich. ANY three ingredient sandwich. And there's also a perfect way to cut a four ingredient sandwich, you just need four dimensions. Thanks, Maths! #inanutshell #kurzgesagt #kurzgesagt_inanutshell #scien
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Cooking a Chicken in a Particle Accelerator #kurzgesagt #shorts

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Who needs an oven when you can just use a particle accelerator?#kurzgesagt #kurzgesagt_inanutshell #kurzgesagt_discover #inanutshell #cookingwithshorts #learnwithshorts #particleaccelerator #largehadroncollider #physicsshort #particlephysics #scienceSourc
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Why did England have a civil war? | History in a Nutshell | Animated History

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What caused a full-blown civil war during Charles I's reign? From religious opposition, the mishandling of money, to a king's unwavering belief he was chosen by God, this episode explores what happens when ruling England goes wrong. SUBSCRIBE TO OUR CHANN
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How to Build a Dyson Sphere - The Ultimate Megastructure

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Building a Marsbase is a Horrible Idea: Let’s do it!

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Black Holes Explained – From Birth To Death

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Black holes. Lets talk about them. Support us on Patreon so we can make more stuff: https://www.patreon.com/Kurzgesagt?ty=h Get the music of the video here: https://soundcloud.com/epicmountain/black-holes https://epicmountainmusic.bandcamp.com/track/black
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How To Terraform Mars - WITH LASERS

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The Most Extreme Explosion in the Universe

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The Moons Of Pluto Explained – MM#3

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Pluto has five moons? Well, yeah! Learn about them in this video. Moon May! One video about cool moon stuff every Mo(o)nday in May. Next(and last): Neptunes Moon Triton. Videos, explaining things. Like evolution, time, space, global energy or our existenc
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Optimistic Nihilism

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The philosophy of Kurzgesagt. Support us on Patreon so we can make more videos (and get cool stuff in return): https://www.patreon.com/Kurzgesagt?ty=h Kurzgesagt merch: http://bit.ly/1P1hQIH Music by Epic Mountain Music: Soundcloud: http://bit.ly/2vZRSnI
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There Are Thousands of Alien Empires in The Milky Way

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Banking Explained – Money And Credit

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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 try to shed a bit of light onto the banking system. Why were banks i
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The Moons Of Mars Explained -- Phobos & Deimos MM#2

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What do you know about the Moons of Mars? Nothing? They are super cool (and strange), promise. Moon May! One video about cool moon stuff every Mo(o)nday in May. Next: Plutos five Moons explained. Videos, explaining things. Like evolution, time, space, glo
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The Black Hole That Kills Galaxies

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What Happens if a Supervolcano Blows Up?

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The Last Star In The Universe – Red Dwarfs Explained

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The last star in the universe will be a red dwarf. Red dwarfs in general might be great places to look for aliens – or planets for humans to find a new home after our solar system has died. Support us on Patreon so we can make more stuff (and get cool wal
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1,000km Cable to the Stars - The Skyhook

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The Beginning Of Everything -- The Big Bang

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How did everything get started? Has the universe a beginning or was it here since forever? Well, evidence suggests that there was indeed a starting point to this universe we are part of right now. But how can this be? How can something come from nothing?
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What Happens If You Destroy A Black Hole?

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The Black Hole Bomb and Black Hole Civilizations

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Whats Hiding at the Most Solitary Place on Earth? The Deep Sea

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End of Space – Creating a Prison for Humanity

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To support Kurzgesagt and learn more about Brilliant, go to https://www.brilliant.org/nutshell and sign up for free. The first 688 people that go to that link will get 20% off the annual Premium subscription. Space travel is the most exciting adventure fo
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Space Elevator – Science Fiction Or The Future Of Mankind?

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Use the URL: http://www.squarespace.com/nutshell for 10% with a new website and support this channel. Also make your life easier. Thanks a lot to Squarespace for supporting the show! So. Space elevators. Are they are thing that we should talk about? Suppo
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The Deadliest Virus on Earth

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Go beyond the nutshell at https://brilliant.org/nutshell by diving deeper into these topics and more with 20% off an annual subscription!Sources & further reading:https://sites.google.com/view/sources-rabies/In the 1970s thousands of Chickenheads rained f
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Iraq Explained -- ISIS, Syria And War

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The current crisis in Iraq explained in under 5 minutes. There is war in Iraq? Again? And the US and Iran are talking about working together? And who is this ISIS Terrorist group that is all over the news? And Religion? Oh dear... When exactly has the wor
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Cell Biology: The Most Complex Language in the World

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How Far Can We Go? Limits Of Humanity.

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Use the URL: http://www.squarespace.com/nutshell for 10% with a new website and support this channel. Also make your life easier. Thanks a lot to Squarespace for supporting the show! Check out Ethan Siegels Astronomy blog, "starts with a bang": http://onf
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The Gulf Stream & Climate Change

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Learn about the role of the sea in global warming. The global conveyer belt is part of the large-scale ocean circulation that is driven by differences in the density of the waters. It plays a key role in keeping the climate at balance and Europe warm. Glo
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How Old Can You Get? #shorts

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When people 'die of old age', they really die from age-related diseases like heart issues, cancer, or respiratory diseases. Sadly, most of them cant be cured today, but lets assume for a minute that they could be in the near future. As soon as an organ fa
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What Happened Before History? Human Origins

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Use the URL: http://www.audible.com/nutshell to get a free audiobook and 30 days free trial and support this channel. Thanks a lot to Audible for supporting us! Humans. We have been around for a while now. When we think about our past we think about ancie
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How We Could Build a Moon Base TODAY – Space Colonization 1

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You Are Not Where You Think You Are

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Start your Shopify free trial today: http://shopify.com/Kurzgesagt Sources & further reading: https://sites.google.com/view/sources-jiggle-of-existence Look around you. Where are you? Where is this place you are occupying? Somewhere in a room, maybe i
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Your Tattoo is INSIDE Your Immune System. Literally

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Did The Future Already Happen? - The Paradox of Time

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How Big Is The Moon Really? MM#1

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The Moon might be much bigger than you think it is. Moon May! One video about cool moon stuff every Mo(o)nday in May. Next: Mars' strange Moons! Videos, explaining things. Like evolution, time, space, global energy or our existence in this strange univers
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How To Catch A Dwarf Planet -- Triton MM#4

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If Neptune didn't catch Triton we might have another Dwarf Planet in our Solar system -- maybe even another Planet or double system. We show how this could have happened. Ok, Moon May is over. Did you like it? Should we do something like this again? With
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Engineering & Curiosity

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Hey everybody. This is not a regular Kurzgesagt video. We made this clip for the National Academy of Engineerings video contest. http://www.nae.edu/e4u/ The goal of the contest was to make a video about how engineering changed our lifes to the better. Thi
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The Paradox of an Infinite Universe

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The Solar System -- Our Home In Space

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An Infographic trip through the wonders of the solar system. The solar system - well known from countless documentaries. 3D animation on black background. This infographic videos tries something different. Animated infographics and a focus on minimalistic
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Death From Space — Gamma-Ray Bursts Explained

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Use the URL: http://www.squarespace.com/nutshell for 10% with a new website and support this channel. Also make your life easier. Thanks a lot to Squarespace for supporting the show! There are cosmic snipers firing at random into the unvierse. What are th
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What Happens If We Bring the Sun to Earth?

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Be one of the first 200 people to sign up with this link and get 20% off your subscription with Brilliant.org! https://brilliant.org/nutshell/ What happens if we bring the sun to earth? No, seriously. Kurzgesagt Newsletter: http://eepurl.com/cRUQxz Suppor
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Could Your Phone Hurt You? Electromagnetic Pollution

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Why Korea is Dying Out

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The History And Future Of Everything -- Time

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How much time do you have left? Time makes sense in small pieces. But when you look at huge stretches of time, it's almost impossible to wrap your head around things. So we teamed up with the awesome blog "Wait but Why" and made this video to help you put
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This Virus Shouldn't Exist (But it Does)

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How The Stock Exchange Works (For Dummies)

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Why are there stocks at all? Everyday in the news we hear about the stock exchange, stocks and money moving around the globe. Still, a lot of people don't have an idea why we have stock markets at all, because the topic is usually very dry. We made a shor
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The Internet is Worse Than Ever Now What?

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Go to https://ground.news/nutshell to get 30% off unlimited access to Ground News - a website and app that gathers the worlds news in one place so you can compare coverage and find common ground. Sources & further reading: https://sites.google.com/view/so
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How Tiny Can a Black Hole Be? #shorts

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Follow us for more sciencey content.Sources & further reading: https://sites.google.com/view/kgs-tiktok-sourcesYou might think a tiny black hole is cute, but it turns out that it's just as deadly as all the other black holes. So please consider this, befo
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Gratitude: An Antidote to Dissatisfaction

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How Evolution Works

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The mechanisms of evolution explained in one video. The theory of evolution explains how the enormous variety of life could come into existence. How it is possible for primitive life forms to spawn the millions of different creatures, that exist today. Un
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Three Ways To Destroy The Universe

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How will the Universe die? Everybody dies. The universe too? Well, probably. What are the current theories about the end of everything? And how creepy exactly are these theories? (Spoiler: very creepy). But there might be hope... Follow us on Twitter: htt
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The Slaver Ant

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What Is Light?

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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. Short bonus video for the people waiting for new stuff. Music by: https://soundcloud.com/epicmountain/light https://epi
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Fracking Explained: Opportunity Or Danger

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Fracking explained in five minutes. Fracking is a controversial topic. On the one side the gas drilling companies, on the other citizen opposed to this drilling method. Politicians are also divided on the matter. We try to take a neutral look on fracking.
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Are You Alone? (In The Universe)

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Are you alone? To answer this question we have to take a look what "you" are first. What are you made of and where you stand in this universe. Are you your body? Your atoms? And how are your parts connected to the big picture? You can get the MUSIC of the
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Black Hole Star The Star That Shouldn't Exist

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How to Cure Aging – During Your Lifetime?

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What if we could stop aging forever? Thanks so much for help with the video to Lifespan.io. Check them out and learn how you can get active here: Lifespan.io facebook.com/LifespanIO https://www.leafscience.org/blog/ Kurzgesagt Newsletter: http://eepurl.co
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The Largest Star in the Universe Size Comparison

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We created our first app Universe in a Nutshell, together with Tim Urban of Wait but Why!Appstore: http://kgs.link/universe-app-iosGoogle Playstore: http://kgs.link/universe-app-androidSources & further reading: https://sites.google.com/view/sourceslarges
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Wormholes Explained – Breaking Spacetime

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To support Kurzgesagt and learn more about Brilliant, go to https://www.brilliant.org/nutshell and sign up for free. The first 688 people that go to that link will get 20% off the annual Premium subscription. Are wormholes real or are they just magic disg
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What If There Was A Black Hole In Your Pocket?

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What would happen to you if a black hole the size of a coin suddenly appeared in your pocket? Lets find out! Check out www.Quarksandcoffee.com for more stuff like this video! Original reddit askscience post: http://bit.ly/1fLEHi6 Kurzgesagt Subreddit: htt
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Why Alien Life Would be our Doom - The Great Filter

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The first 688 people to use this link will get 20% off their annual membership: http://brilliant.org/nutshell Thanks a lot to Brilliant for supporting this channel. Finding alien life on a distant planet would be amazing news - or would it? If we are not
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Tiny Bombs in your Blood - The Complement System

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Sources: https://sites.google.com/view/sources-complement-system One of the key players of our immune system is the complement system. An army of millions and trillions of tiny bombs, which work together in a complex and elegant dance to stop intruders in
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Smoking is Awesome

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Get the exclusive NordVPN deal + 4 months extra here:https://nordvpn.com/kurzgesagt It's risk-free with Nords 30-day money-back guarantee!Learn how to create positive habits with your very own kurzgesagt Habit Journal. Its packed with science and plenty o
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Neutron Stars The Most Extreme Things that are not Black Holes

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Emergence – How Stupid Things Become Smart Together

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How can many stupid things combine to form smart things? How can proteins become living cells? How become lots of ants a colony? What is emergence? This video was made possible by a donation by the Templeton World Charity Foundation. A huge thanks to them
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The SMALLEST to the LARGEST Thing in The Universe The Ultimate Size Comparison

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This video was sponsored by GiveWell. First-time donors will have their donation matched up to $100 at https://www.givewell.org/KurzgesagtSources & further reading: https://sites.google.com/view/sources-middle-of-scale/You are in the middle of everything
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Geoengineering: A Horrible Idea We Might Have to Do

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The Last Thing To Ever Happen In The Universe

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Get 50% off your first month of KiwiCo at https://www.kiwico.com/kurzgesagt with code KURZGESAGT. This video was sponsored by KiwiCo, thanks a lot for the support!Sources & further reading:https://sites.google.com/view/sources-sources-lastthing/The univer
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The Best Way to Boost Your Immune System (With Science!)

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What If Earth got Kicked Out of the Solar System? Rogue Earth

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String Theory Explained – What is The True Nature of Reality?

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How To Terraform Venus (Quickly)

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Why Blue Whales Don't Get Cancer - Peto's Paradox

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Get Merch designed with from https://kgs.link/shop Join the Patreon Bird Army https://kgs.link/patreon More infos and links are just a click away Cancer is a creepy and mysterious thing. While we tried to understand it, to get better at killing it, we dis
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You Are Immune Against Every Disease

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Order IMMUNE here: https://kgs.link/ImmuneBook Its available in English and German and at online retailers it should be available in pretty much all countries too.Sources & further reading: https://sites.google.com/view/sources-immune2/You are not a perso
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Is the EU Democratic? Does Your Vote Matter?

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Sources:https://sites.google.com/view/sourceseu-elections/Playlist with all languages: https://bit.ly/2WFHNK5Thanks to all the YouTubers who supported us!!!Being a citizen of the European Union means that many aspects of our lives are regulated by a weird
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How the Quantum Eraser Rewrites the Past | Space Time | PBS Digital Studios

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Try Audible: http://www.audible.com/spacetime Causality is meant to move in one direction: forward. But the Quantum Eraser experiment seems to reverse causality. How and why can this happen and what are the implications of this experiment on how we unders
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What Dinosaurs ACTUALLY Looked Like?

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The Origin of Consciousness – How Unaware Things Became Aware

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Sources and link to book by Rupert Glasgow: https://sites.google.com/view/sources-consciousness Consciousness is perhaps the biggest riddle in nature. In the first part of this three part video series, we explore the origins of consciousness and take a cl
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Measles Explained — Vaccinate Or Not?

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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 and see what Measles does and how the immune system reacts to it! Vid
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How Large Can a Bacteria get? Life & Size 3

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The first 1000 people to use this link will get a free trial of Skillshare: https://skl.sh/kurzgesagt9Get our new beautiful Ocean Explorer Notebook:https://shop.kurzgesagt.org/Sources & further reading: https://sites.google.com/view/sourceslifeandsize3 In
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Your Body Killed Cancer 5 Minutes Ago

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Can You Upload Your Mind & Live Forever? feat. Cyberpunk 2077

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Get your copy of Cyberpunk 2077 here: http://cyberpunk.net/buySources & further reading: https://sites.google.com/view/sources-mindupload The desire to be free from the limits of the human experience is as old as our first stories. We exist in an endl
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The Last Light Before Eternal Darkness – White Dwarfs & Black Dwarfs

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Everything will end. Even the universe. But in a future so far away that it defies description, there will still be light and therefore a chance for life. It will be around White Dwarfs, the corpses of stars. But even they will fade one day.. Check out Ep
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Why Aliens Might Already Be On Their Way To Us

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The Day the Dinosaurs Died Minute by Minute

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Are You In A Simulation?

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Genetic Engineering Will Change Everything Forever – CRISPR

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Designer babies, the end of diseases, genetically modified humans that never age. Outrageous things that used to be science fiction are suddenly becoming reality. The only thing we know for sure is that things will change irreversibly. Support us on Patre
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The Engineering Inside Noise-Canceling Headphones

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The engineering inside noise-canceling headphones is rather intricate. Let's see how.Check out https://www.pcbway.com/ for all kinds of PCBs, easy ordering, and quick delivery.Take a look at their PCB Assembly, for an inexpensive population of the compone
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What Is Intelligence? Where Does it Begin?

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You can find our beautiful education posters in our shop: https://shop.kurzgesagt.orgThis video was made possible by a grant from the Templeton World Charity Foundation.Sources & further reading:https://sites.google.com/view/sourcesintelligenceHumans are
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When Time Became History - The Human Era

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Get your Human Era Calendar for the year 12,021 here: https://kgs.link/12021For the fifth time, we present to you the Human Era Calendar for the year 12,021 this time it is all about the journey of humanity, beginning tens of thousands of years ago, leadi
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The Earth's Magnetic Shield Cracked, Are We Doomed?

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Earth’s magnetosphere protects us from harmful radiation in space, but scientists have just found a crack in it. Are we doomed? How Radiation Changes Your DNA - https://youtu.be/PQjL4ZDuq2o Sign Up For The Seeker Newsletter Here - http://bit.ly/1UO1PxI Re
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Do we Need Nuclear Energy to Stop Climate Change?

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The first 1000 people to use this link will get a free trial of Skillshare: https://skl.sh/kurzgesagtinanutshell05211Sources & further reading:https://sites.google.com/view/sourcesclimatenuclear/Do we need nuclear energy to stop climate change? More and m
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Why The War on Drugs Is a Huge Failure

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The war against drugs has been a terrible disaster for everybody involved. Why? And can we do something differently?Check out the Stop The Harm campaign: https://stoptheharm.orgOUR CHANNELSGerman Channel: https://kgs.link/youtubeDE Spanish Channel: https:
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What Do Aliens Look Like? The Kardashev Scale

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You can find our beautiful education posters, useful notebooks and cozy sweaters in our shop now: https://shop.kurzgesagt.orgSources & further reading:https://sites.google.com/view/sources-kardashev-scale/The observable universe is a big place that has be
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Is War Over? — A Paradox Explained

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We live in the most peaceful time in human history. Wait, what? Seriously? That can't be right, there are more wars than ever! Well, no and they're killing fewer and fewer people, even though the world population is at an all-time high...and the numbers p
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What Are You Doing With Your Life? The Tail End

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Gain a new perspective on your life with our "Calendar & Timeline of Your Life Posters":https://kgs.link/N3KsfqvpSources & further reading:https://sites.google.com/view/sources-tailend/Wrapping your mind around your life is pretty hard, because you are up
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Homeopathy Explained – Gentle Healing or Reckless Fraud?

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Is It Too Late To Stop Climate Change? Well, it's Complicated.

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This video is part of a series about climate change supported by Breakthrough Energy a coalition founded by Bill Gates, that is working to expand clean-energy investment and support the innovations that will lead the world to net-zero carbon emissions. ht
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Are There Lost Alien Civilizations in Our Past?

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Go to https://NordVPN.com/kurzgesagt for an exclusive deal for our viewers. Its risk free with NordVPNs 30 day money back guarantee.Sources & further reading:https://sites.google.com/view/sources-earthaliens/Ger inspired by Science - Learn about the histo
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Why Earth Is A Prison and How To Escape It

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How To Eradicate One Of Our Deadliest Enemies

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We have the choice to attack one of our oldest enemies with genetic engineering. But should we do it? Support us on Patreon so we can make more videos (and get cool stuff in return): https://www.patreon.com/Kurzgesagt?ty=h Kurzgesagt merch here: http://bi
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The Fermi Paradox — Where Are All The Aliens? (1/2)

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The universe is unbelievably big – trillions of stars and even more planets. Soo… there just has to be life out there, right? But where is it? Why don’t we see any aliens? Where are they? And more importantly, what does this tell us about our own fate in
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Why The Big Bang Definitely Happened | Space Time | PBS Digital Studios

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How physics lets us rewind time to the beginning of the universe. Get your own Space Time t-shirt at http://bit.ly/1QlzoBi Tweet at us! @pbsspacetime Facebook: facebook.com/pbsspacetime Email us! pbsspacetime [at] gmail [dot] com Comment on Reddit: http:/
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What Happens If We Throw an Elephant From a Skyscraper? Life & Size 1

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Size is the most under appreciated regulators of living things. Let us demonstrate that by throwing animals from buildings. Kurzgesagt Newsletter: http://eepurl.com/cRUQxz Support us on Patreon so we can make more videos (and get cool stuff in return): ht
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Are GMOs Good or Bad? Genetic Engineering & Our Food

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Why Black Holes Could Delete The Universe – The Information Paradox

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Black holes are scary things. But they also might reveal the true nature of the universe to us. This video was funded by SNSF under Agora Grant n. 171622 and through the NCCR SwissMAP: The Mathematics of Physics. Kurzgesagt Newsletter: http://eepurl.com/c
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Why Are You Alive Life, Energy & ATP

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The first 1000 people to use this link will get a 2 month free trial of Skillshare: https://skl.sh/kurzgesagt7 Sources & further reading: https://sites.google.com/view/sourceswhyareyoualive At this very second, you are on a narrow ledge between life a
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The Past We Can Never Return To The Anthropocene Reviewed

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You can listen to all episodes of The Anthropocene Reviewed for free here:https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/anthropocene-reviewedIn September of 1940, an 18-year-old mechanic named Marcel Ravidat was walking his dog, Robot, in the countryside of Southw
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What If Humans Devolved?

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Here's what you'd look with evolution reversed! Watch more: Could You Survive 2.5 Million Years Ago? ►► https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uy7BiiOI_No Subscribe: https://bit.ly/SubLifeNoggin | Get your exclusive Life Noggin merch: http://keeponthinking.co Fo
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The Warrior Kingdoms of the Weaver Ant

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Get Curiosity Stream for just $14.99 for the entire YEAR or only $2.99 per month: https://curiositystream.com/kurzgesagtSources & further reading: https://sites.google.com/view/sourcesweaverants Deep in tropical jungles lie floating kingdoms ruled by beau
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