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Why Is the Ocean Salty and Rivers Are Not? #shorts #kurzgesagt
177 views / 0 likes - addedFollow 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
145 views / 0 likes - addedHave 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
57 views / 0 likes - addedDon'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
91 views / 0 likes - addedA 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
61 views / 1 likes - addedThere 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
66 views / 0 likes - addedWe 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
118 views / 0 likes - addedA 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
71 views / 0 likes - addedWalking 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
91 views / 0 likes - addedFollow 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
106 views / 0 likes - addedHow 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
74 views / 0 likes - addedYou 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
78 views / 0 likes - addedGood 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
147 views / 0 likes - addedFollow 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
158 views / 0 likes - addedThere 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
48 views / 0 likes - addedWho 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
36 views / 0 likes - addedWhat 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
1,749 views / 5 likes - addedBlack 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
755 views / 1 likes - addedPluto 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
613 views / 1 likes - addedThe 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
969 views / 1 likes - addedBanks 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
1,013 views / 1 likes - addedWhat 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
1,010 views / 2 likes - addedThe 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
819 views / 0 likes - addedHow 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?
2,521 views / 3 likes - addedGo beyond the nutshell at https://brilliant.org/nutshell/ and dive deeper into these topics and more with a free 30-day trial!This video was sponsored by Brilliant. Thanks a lot for the support!Grab your Limited Edition Wheel of Fear Pin before the pre-or
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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
698 views / 4 likes - addedTo 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?
713 views / 2 likes - addedUse 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
560 views / 0 likes - addedGo 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
905 views / 0 likes - addedThe 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.
846 views / 0 likes - addedUse 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
946 views / 2 likes - addedLearn 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
21 views / 0 likes - addedWhen 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
1,113 views / 2 likes - addedUse 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
1,134 views / 2 likes - addedTo 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. Did you know that we could start building a Lu
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You Are Not Where You Think You Are
214 views / 0 likes - addedStart 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
819 views / 0 likes - addedThe 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
1,396 views / 4 likes - addedIf 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
1,014 views / 1 likes - addedHey 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
815 views / 3 likes - addedGo to https://brilliant.org/nutshell/ to dive deeper into these topics and more with a free 30-day trial + 20% off for the first 200 people! This video was sponsored by Brilliant. Thanks a lot for the support! THE CLOCK IS TICKING! The 72hr pre-order has
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The Solar System -- Our Home In Space
1,583 views / 0 likes - addedAn 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
756 views / 0 likes - addedUse 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?
651 views / 1 likes - addedBe 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
637 views / 0 likes - addedHow 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)
820 views / 1 likes - addedWhy 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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How Tiny Can a Black Hole Be? #shorts
148 views / 0 likes - addedFollow 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
1,811 views / 0 likes - addedThe 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
1,048 views / 1 likes - addedHow 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
1,135 views / 5 likes - addedOffset your carbon footprint on Wren: https://www.wren.co/kurzgesagt. For the first 200 people who sign up, Kurzgesagt will pay for the first month of your subscription!This video was sponsored by Wren, thanks a lot for the support!Sources & further r
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What Is Light?
867 views / 0 likes - addedWe 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
838 views / 1 likes - addedFracking 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)
621 views / 1 likes - addedAre 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?
859 views / 2 likes - addedWhat 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
2,553 views / 6 likes - addedWe 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
752 views / 4 likes - addedTo 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?
1,055 views / 1 likes - addedWhat 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
614 views / 2 likes - addedThe 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
541 views / 2 likes - addedSources: 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
78 views / 0 likes - addedGet 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
585 views / 1 likes - addedGet your 12,020 SPACE Calendar here: https://shop.kurzgesagt.org/WORLDWIDE SHIPPING IS AVAILABLE!This years calendar focuses on the future of humanity and how we will explore space in the next 10,000 years.We want to get you the best shipping fees. So If
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Emergence – How Stupid Things Become Smart Together
691 views / 0 likes - addedHow 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
1,277 views / 6 likes - addedThis 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
487 views / 3 likes - addedTo support Kurzgesagt and learn more about Brilliant, go to https://www.brilliant.org/nutshell and sign up for free. The first 200 people that go to that link will get 20% off the annual Premium subscription.Thanks to our friends from Brilliant for suppor
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The Last Thing To Ever Happen In The Universe
84 views / 0 likes - addedGet 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!)
1,906 views / 1 likes - addedOffset your carbon footprint on Wren: https://www.wren.co/kurzgesagt. For the first 200 people who sign up, Kurzgesagt will pay for the first month of your subscription!This video was sponsored by Wren, thanks a lot for the support!Sources & further readi
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A Selfish Argument for Making the World a Better Place – Egoistic Altruism
675 views / 2 likes - addedWhy should you care about the well-being of people half a globe away? Kurzgesagt Newsletter: http://eepurl.com/cRUQxz 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
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This Black Hole Could be Bigger Than The Universe
256 views / 1 likes - addedGet your Curiosity Guide now on the kurzgesagt shop here: https://shop.kgs.link/Curiosity and unlock your inner curiosity power! Its packed with adventures, cute birbs, and all you need to discover new perspectives on the world.Sources & further reading:h
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