Kurzgesagt - In a Nutshell
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Seasons & Episodes
Season 16 episodes
Season 216 episodes
- 2.01Three Ways to Destroy the UniverseRate
- 2.02The Beginning of Everything -- The Big BangRate
- 2.03Who Invented the Internet? And Why?Rate
- 2.04Help Us Make More Videos for KurzgesagtRate
- 2.05How Big Is the Moon? MM#1Rate
- 2.06The Moons of Mars Explained -- Phobos & Deimos MM#2Rate
- 2.07How to Catch a Dwarf Planet: Triton MM#3Rate
- 2.08Are You Alone? (In the Universe)Rate
- 2.09Iraq Explained -- ISIS, Syria and WarRate
- 2.10The Immune System Explained I - Bacteria InfectionRate
- 2.11Everything You Need to Know About Planet EarthRate
- 2.12Atoms as Big as Mountains - Neutron Stars ExplainedRate
- 2.13Is War Over? - A Paradox ExplainedRate
- 2.14The Ebola Virus Explained - How Your Body Fights for SurvivalRate
- 2.15What Is Life? Is Death Real?Rate
- 2.16The Ultimate Conspiracy DebunkerRate
Season 318 episodes
- 3.01How Small Is an Atom? Spoiler: Very Small.Rate
- 3.02Measles Explained - Vaccinate or Not?Rate
- 3.03Banking Explained - Money and CreditRate
- 3.04Nuclear Energy Explained: How Does It Work? 1/3Rate
- 3.053 Reasons Why Nuclear Energy Is Terrible! 2/3Rate
- 3.063 Reasons Why Nuclear Energy Is Awesome! 3/3Rate
- 3.07The Fermi Paradox - Where Are All the Aliens? (1/2)Rate
- 3.08The Fermi Paradox II - Solutions and Ideas - Where Are All the Aliens?Rate
- 3.09The Death of Bees Explained - Parasites, Poison and HumansRate
- 3.10What If There Was a Black Hole in Your Pocket?Rate
- 3.11What Is Dark Matter and Dark Energy?Rate
- 3.12The European Refugee Crisis and Syria ExplainedRate
- 3.13What Is Light?Rate
- 3.14AddictionRate
- 3.15How Facebook Is Stealing Billions of ViewsRate
- 3.16Quantum Computers Explained - Limits of Human TechnologyRate
- 3.17Black Holes Explained - From Birth to DeathRate
- 3.18What Is Something?Rate
Season 416 episodes
- 4.01The Last Star in the Universe - Red Dwarfs ExplainedRate
- 4.02Why the War on Drugs Is a Huge FailureRate
- 4.03The Antibiotic Apocalypse ExplainedRate
- 4.04Space Elevator - Science Fiction or The Future of Mankind?Rate
- 4.05Safe and Sorry - Terrorism & Mass SurveillanceRate
- 4.06How Far Can We Go? Limits of Humanity.Rate
- 4.07What Are You?Rate
- 4.08What Happened Before History? Human OriginsRate
- 4.09Death from Space - Gamma-Ray Bursts ExplainedRate
- 4.10Genetic Engineering Will Change Everything Forever - CRISPRRate
- 4.11Genetic Engineering and Diseases - Gene Drive & MalariaRate
- 4.12The Most Efficient Way to Destroy the Universe - False VacuumRate
- 4.13Fusion Power Explained - Future or FailureRate
- 4.14The Most Gruesome Parasites - Neglected Tropical Diseases - NTDsRate
- 4.15A New History for Humanity - The Human EraRate
- 4.16Overpopulation - The Human Explosion ExplainedRate
Season 518 episodes
- 5.01Why Earth Is a Prison and How to Escape ItRate
- 5.02Do Robots Deserve Rights? What If Machines Become Conscious?Rate
- 5.03Are GMOs Good or Bad? Genetic Engineering & Our FoodRate
- 5.04Is the European Union Worth It or Should We End It?Rate
- 5.05The Last Light Before Eternal Darkness - White Dwarfs & Black DwarfsRate
- 5.06The Rise of the Machines - Why Automation Is Different This TimeRate
- 5.07Optimistic NihilismRate
- 5.08What Happens If We Throw an Elephant from a Skyscraper? Life & Size 1Rate
- 5.09Why Black Holes Could Delete the Universe - The Information ParadoxRate
- 5.10What Happens If We Bring the Sun to Earth?Rate
- 5.11Is Reality Real? The Simulation ArgumentRate
- 5.12How Bacteria Rule Over Your Body - The MicrobiomeRate
- 5.13The Year 12,018 Calendar IS OUT NOW - A new calendar for humanityRate
- 5.14Why Age? Should We End Aging Forever?Rate
- 5.15How to Cure Aging - During Your Lifetime?Rate
- 5.16Emergence - How Stupid Things Become Smart TogetherRate
- 5.17Universal Basic Income Explained - Free Money for Everybody? UBIRate
- 5.18How to Make an Elephant Explode with Science - The Size of Life 2Rate
Season 618 episodes
- 6.01Why Alien Life Would be our Doom - The Great FilterRate
- 6.02Homeopathy Explained - Gentle Healing or Reckless Fraud?Rate
- 6.03String Theory Explained - What is The True Nature of Reality?Rate
- 6.04A Selfish Argument for Making the World a Better Place - Egoistic AltruismRate
- 6.05Time: The History & Future of Everything - RemasteredRate
- 6.06The Black Hole Bomb and Black Hole CivilizationsRate
- 6.07The Deadliest Being on Planet Earth - The BacteriophageRate
- 6.083 Reasons Why Marijuana Should Stay IllegalRate
- 6.09Plastic Pollution: How Humans are Turning the World into PlasticRate
- 6.10What If You Detonated a Nuclear Bomb In The Marianas Trench? (Science not Fantasy)Rate
- 6.11Wormholes Explained - Breaking SpacetimeRate
- 6.12How We Could Build a Moon Base TODAY - Space Colonization 1Rate
- 6.13Why Meat is the Best Worst Thing in the WorldRate
- 6.14Why Beautiful Things Make us Happy - Beauty ExplainedRate
- 6.15The 12,019 Calendar IS HERE - A new calendar for humanityRate
- 6.16End of Space - Creating a Prison for HumanityRate
- 6.17How to Build a Dyson Sphere - The Ultimate MegastructureRate
- 6.18Aliens under the Ice - Life on Rogue PlanetsRate
Season 722 episodes
- 7.01Is Organic Really Better? Healthy Food or Trendy Scam?Rate
- 7.02Building a Marsbase is a Horrible Idea: Let's do it!Rate
- 7.03LonelinessRate
- 7.04Can You Trust Kurzgesagt Videos?Rate
- 7.05The Origin of Consciousness - How Unaware Things Became AwareRate
- 7.06What If We Detonated All Nuclear Bombs at Once?Rate
- 7.07The Most Dangerous Stuff in the Universe - Strange Stars ExplainedRate
- 7.08The Side Effects of Vaccines - How High is the Risk?Rate
- 7.09Is the EU Democratic? Does Your Vote Matter?Rate
- 7.10Is Meat Bad for You? Is Meat Unhealthy?Rate
- 7.11Could Your Phone Hurt You? Is Electricity Dangerous?Rate
- 7.17Tiny Bombs in your Blood - The Complement SystemRate
- 7.18The World War of the Ants - The Army AntRate
- 7.19The EggRate
- 7.20What's Hiding at the Most Solitary Place on Earth? The Deep SeaRate
- 7.21The Billion Ant Mega Colony and the Biggest War on EarthRate
- 7.22What if We Nuke a City?Rate
- 7.23Neutron Stars - The Most Extreme Things that are not Black HolesRate
- 7.241,000km Cable to the Stars - The SkyhookRate
- 7.25An Antidote to DissatisfactionRate
- 7.26Overpopulation & AfricaRate
- 7.27How to Escape a Super Nova: Stellar EnginesRate
Season 820 episodes
- 8.01Milk. White Poison or Healthy Drink?Rate
- 8.02How to Make a Kurzgesagt Video in 1200 HoursRate
- 8.03Why Blue Whales Don't Get Cancer - Peto's ParadoxRate
- 8.04The Coronavirus Explained & What You Should DoRate
- 8.05Why Are You Alive - Life, Energy & ATPRate
- 8.06The Past We Can Never Return To - The Anthropocene ReviewedRate
- 8.07Could Solar Storms Destroy Civilization? Solar Flares & Coronal Mass EjectionsRate
- 8.08Who Is Responsible For Climate Change? - Who Needs To Fix It?Rate
- 8.09What Is Intelligence? Where Does it Begin?Rate
- 8.10How to Find Alien Civilizations - The Kardashev ScaleRate
- 8.11Unlimited Resources From Space - Asteroid MiningRate
- 8.12The Warrior Kingdoms of the Weaver AntRate
- 8.13The Largest Star in the Universe - Size ComparisonRate
- 8.14Is It Too Late To Stop Climate Change? Well, it's Complicated.Rate
- 8.15When Time Became History - The Human EraRate
- 8.16Geoengineering: A Horrible Idea We Might Have to DoRate
- 8.17How Large Can a Bacteria get? Life & Size 3Rate
- 8.18What If Earth got Kicked Out of the Solar System? Rogue EarthRate
- 8.19Can You Upload Your Mind & Live Forever? feat. Cyberpunk 2077Rate
- 8.20What if We Nuke the Moon?Rate
Season 917 episodes
- 9.01How Many People Did Nuclear Energy Kill? Nuclear Death TollRate
- 9.02What if the World turned to Gold? - The Gold ApocalypseRate
- 9.03Do we Need Nuclear Energy to Stop Climate Change?Rate
- 9.04The Most Extreme Things in the Universe - Ultimate Guide to Black HolesRate
- 9.05TRUE Limits Of Humanity - The Final Border We Will Never CrossRate
- 9.06What Are You Doing With Your Life? The Tail EndRate
- 9.07The Day the Dinosaurs Died - Minute by MinuteRate
- 9.08How To Terraform Venus (Quickly)Rate
- 9.09The Largest Black Hole in the Universe - Size ComparisonRate
- 9.10How The Immune System ACTUALLY Works - IMMUNERate
- 9.11This Virus Shouldn't Exist (But it Does)Rate
- 9.12Can YOU Fix Climate Change?Rate
- 9.13What Dinosaurs ACTUALLY Looked Like?Rate
- 9.14You Are Immune Against Every DiseaseRate
- 9.15Is Meat Really that Bad?Rate
- 9.16...And We'll Do it AgainRate
- 9.17Why We Should NOT Look for Aliens - The Dark ForestRate
Season 1017 episodes
- 10.01What Happens if the Moon Crashes into Earth?Rate
- 10.02Are There Lost Alien Civilizations in Our Past?Rate
- 10.03We WILL Fix Climate Change!Rate
- 10.04The Most Horrible Parasite: Brain Eating AmoebaRate
- 10.05You Are Not Where You Think You AreRate
- 10.06Change Your Life - One Tiny Step at a TimeRate
- 10.07The Last Human - A Glimpse Into The Far FutureRate
- 10.08The Deadliest Virus on EarthRate
- 10.09Is Civilization on the Brink of Collapse?Rate
- 10.10Why You Are Lonely and How to Make FriendsRate
- 10.11Let's Travel to The Most Extreme Place in The UniverseRate
- 10.12What Happens if a Supervolcano Blows Up?Rate
- 10.13Why Don't We Shoot Nuclear Waste Into Space?Rate
- 10.14The Most Extreme Explosion in the UniverseRate
- 10.15The Horror of the Slaver AntRate
- 10.16How To Terraform Mars - WITH LASERSRate
- 10.17Black Hole Star - The Star That Shouldn't ExistRate
Season 1123 episodes
- 11.01The Most Complex Language in the WorldRate
- 11.02The Best Way to Boost Your Immune System (With Science!)Rate
- 11.03The Business Behind KurzgesagtRate
- 11.04Why Aliens Might Already Be On Their Way To UsRate
- 11.05Your Body Killed Cancer 5 Minutes AgoRate
- 11.06The Black Hole That Kills GalaxiesRate
- 11.07The Reason Why Cancer is so Hard to BeatRate
- 11.08The Next Pandemic Will Be Man MadeRate
- 11.09The (Second) Deadliest VirusRate
- 11.10What Happens If You Destroy A Black Hole?Rate
- 11.11How A Nuclear War Will Start - Minute by MinuteRate
- 11.12We Did The Math - You Are Dead!Rate
- 11.13Why Korea is Dying OutRate
- 11.14Ancient Life as Old as the UniverseRate
- 11.15A Glimpse Into Our FutureRate
- 11.164.5 Billion Years in 1 HourRate
- 11.17How to Win an Interstellar WarRate
- 11.18The Last Thing To Ever Happen In The UniverseRate
- 11.19The Internet is Worse Than Ever - Now What?Rate
- 11.20The Moment Kurzgesagt Changed ForeverRate
- 11.21How To Destroy The UniverseRate
- 11.22Your Tattoo is INSIDE Your Immune System. LiterallyRate
- 11.23The SMALLEST to the LARGEST Thing in The Universe - The Ultimate Size ComparisonRate
Season 1226 episodes
- 12.01Did The Future Already Happen? - The Paradox of TimeRate
- 12.02What Happens After Nuclear War?Rate
- 12.03The Paradox of an Infinite UniverseRate
- 12.04The Real Killer Of The DinosaursRate
- 12.05There Are Thousands of Alien Empires in The Milky WayRate
- 12.06What Makes Kurzgesagt So Special?Rate
- 12.07Smoking is AwesomeRate
- 12.08This Black Hole Could be Bigger Than The UniverseRate
- 12.09Do You Have a Free Will?Rate
- 12.10This Disease is Deadlier Than The PlagueRate
- 12.11We Need to Rethink Exercise - The Workout ParadoxRate
- 12.12A.I. - Humanity's Final Invention?Rate
- 12.13Fever Feels Horrible, but is Actually Awesome!Rate
- 12.14We Traveled Back in Time. Now Physicists Are Angry.Rate
- 12.15Why Scientists Are Puzzled By This VirusRate
- 12.16This Video Might Save 58 Lives Next WeekRate
- 12.17There Is Something Hiding Inside EarthRate
- 12.18Tired of Doomscrolling?Rate
- 12.19We Fell For The Oldest Lie On The InternetRate
- 12.20The Most Insane Weapon You Never Heard AboutRate
- 12.21We Have To Talk About WeedRate
- 12.22Vaping Is Too Good To Be TrueRate
- 12.23Black Hole's Evil Twin - Gravastars ExplainedRate
- 12.24Let's Talk About The Last 10 MonthsRate
- 12.25Is The World Getting More Violent?Rate
- 12.26The Real Reason Why You Have AllergiesRate
Season 1325 episodes
- 13.01What Actual Aliens Might Look LikeRate
- 13.02How to Eat Meat Without the GuiltRate
- 13.03Why Your Brain Blinds You for 2 Hours Every DayRate
- 13.04South Korea Is OverRate
- 13.05Your Time Machine Broke - at the Worst Time in HistoryRate
- 13.06What if it Rains Bananas for a Single Day?Rate
- 13.07Why Does Fentanyl Feel So Good?Rate
- 13.08How Nuclear Flies Protect You from Flesh-Eating ParasitesRate
- 13.09When Your Body Attacks ItselfRate
- 13.10Let's Kill You a Billion Times to Make You ImmortalRate
- 13.11Alcohol is AmazingRate
- 13.12When This Device Lights Up, They're ComingRate
- 13.13The Drug to Master RealityRate
- 13.14The Dumbest Animal AliveRate
- 13.15This Game Took us Two Years to Make!Rate
- 13.16Can Humanity Stop a Planet-Killing Asteroid?Rate
- 13.17Pregnancy is InsaneRate
- 13.18We Found a Loophole to Survive the End of the UniverseRate
- 13.19AI Slop Is Killing Our ChannelRate
- 13.21You Need To Quit Weed.Rate
- 13.22The Fat ProblemRate
- 13.23Trees Are So WeirdRate
- 13.24Astronomy is in Crisis (And it's Incredibly Exciting)Rate
- 13.25All of Human History in One HourRate
- 13.26Tattoo Removal Is InsaneRate
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