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The Best Episodes of Kurzgesagt - In a Nutshell

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The Best Episodes of Kurzgesagt - In a Nutshell

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,...

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  1. 9.1/10(38 votes)

    #1 - Loneliness

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    Everybody feels lonely sometimes. But only few of us are aware how important this feeling was for our ancestors - and that our modern world can turn it into something that really hurts us. Why do we feel this way and what can we do about it?

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  2. 8.8/10(29 votes)

    #2 - Is the EU Democratic? Does Your Vote Matter?

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    Being a citizen of the European Union means that many aspects of our lives are regulated by a weird entity. It feels like a huge bureaucracy is making decisions over our heads. How democratic is the EU really and does your vote actually affect anything?

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  3. 8.8/10(30 votes)

    #3 - 1,000 km Cable to the Stars — The Skyhook

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    Getting to space is incredibly hard, expensive and needs a lot of resources. A more efficient way to get there is a Skyhook (or Spacetether), an ever rotating cable with a counter weight, that catapults spaceships from earth orbit into the depths of space.

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  4. 8.8/10(10 votes)

    #4 - We Need to Rethink Exercise (Updated Version)

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    Exercising doesn’t help you lose weight. In fact, it barely changes your daily calorie burn. Welcome to the workout paradox! Let’s dive into the science of how your body actually handles calories and sabotages your best efforts to burn them.

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  5. 8.8/10(12 votes)

    #5 - The Most Insane Weapon You Never Heard About

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    At the height of the Cold War, a terrifying concept emerged: a bomb so powerful it wouldn’t need to be dropped. Known as Project Sundial, this doomsday device would have left a 400-km radius in flames and plunged the world into darkness. It was a bomb that would destroy everything – not a weapon, but an apocalypse. How close did we come to pressing the button?

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  6. 8.7/10(14 votes)

    #6 - Do You Have a Free Will?

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    You may think you have free will and can choose what you do, but this might be an illusion. Your body is made up of particles that blindly follow the laws of physics, with every outcome already predetermined. So, you might not have any free will at all. Is free will an illusion, or does it exist? Which philosophical camp is right?

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  8. 8.6/10(40 votes)

    #7 - Three Ways to Destroy the Universe

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    How will the Universe die?

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  9. 8.6/10(35 votes)

    #8 - What Is Life? Is Death Real?

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    So what is the difference between you and a rock? This seems like an easy, even stupid question. But even the smartest people on Earth have no idea where to draw the line between living and dead things. Which leads to mind-blowing implications. What is life after all? And is death really a thing? Let's look into it together.

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  10. 8.6/10(32 votes)

    #9 - The Side Effects of Vaccines — How High Is the Risk?

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    Vaccines are one of our best tools to prevent dangerous diseases, but they come with side effects. So would it be safer not to vaccinate?

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  11. 8.6/10(28 votes)

    #10 - Overpopulation & Africa

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    For most of our history, the human population grew slowly. Until new discoveries brought us more food and made us live longer. In just a hundred years the human population quadrupled. This led to apocalyptic visions of an overcrowded earth. But the population growth rate actually peaked in the 1960s. Since then, fertility rates have crashed as countries industrialize and develop. World population is now expected to balance out at around 11 billion by the end of the century. But the big picture conceals the details.

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  12. 8.6/10(9 votes)

    #11 - This Video Might Save 58 Lives Next Week

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    58 of you watching this video right now will not be alive next week. And it’s not because of some freak accident or rare disease. It’s because of everyday actions you probably think are harmless. Let’s save your life today by looking at what is most likely to kill you next week – so you can avoid it.

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  13. 8.5/10(34 votes)

    #12 - Who Invented the Internet? And Why?

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    Nuclear war, cat gifs and reddit? Wait, what?

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  14. 8.5/10(35 votes)

    #13 - Iraq Explained — ISIS, Syria and War

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    The current crisis in Iraq explained in under 5 minutes.

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  15. 8.5/10(40 votes)

    #14 - Optimistic Nihilism

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  16. 8.5/10(29 votes)

    #15 - The Deadliest Being on Planet Earth — The Bacteriophage

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    A war has been raging for billions of years, killing trillions every single day, while we don’t even notice. This war involves the single deadliest being on our planet: the bacteriophage.

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  17. 8.5/10(38 votes)

    #16 - The Most Dangerous Stuff in the Universe — Strange Stars Explained

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    Inside neutron stars we can find the weirdest and most dangerous substance in the universe: Strange matter. What is strange matter, how dangerous is it and what can it tell us about the origin of the universe?

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  18. 8.5/10(26 votes)

    #17 - Neutron Stars — The Most Extreme Things That Are Not Black Holes

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    Neutron stars are one of the most extreme and violent things in the universe. Giant atomic nuclei, only a few kilometers in diameter but as massive as stars. And they owe their existence to the death of something majestic.

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  19. 8.5/10(128 votes)

    #18 - An Antidote to Dissatisfaction

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    Everybody is familiar with the feeling that things are not as they should be. That you are not successful enough, your relationships not satisfying enough. That you don’t have the things you crave. In this video we want to talk about one of the strongest predictors of how happy people are, how easily they make friends and how good they are at dealing with hardship. An antidote against dissatisfaction so to speak: Gratitude.

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  20. 8.5/10(35 votes)

    #19 - How to Move the Sun: Stellar Engines

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    Nothing in the Universe is static. In the milky way, billions of stars orbit the galactic center. Some, like our sun, are pretty consistent, keeping a distance of around 30,000 light years from the galactic center, completing an orbit every 230 million years. This dance is not an orderly ballet - more like a skating rink filled with drunk toddlers. This chaos makes the galaxy dangerous. Our solar neighbourhood is constantly changing, with stars moving hundreds of kilometers every second. Only the vast distances between objects protect us from the dangers out there. But we might get unlucky in the future. At some point we could encounter a star going supernova. Or a massive object passing by and showering earth with asteroids. If something like this were to happen we would likely know thousands, if not millions of years in advance. But we still couldn’t do much about it. Unless… we move our whole solar system out of the way.

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  21. 8.5/10(34 votes)

    #20 - The Coronavirus Explained & What You Should Do

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    A huge thanks to the experts who helped us on short notice with the video. Especially “Our World in Data”, the online publication for research and data on the world’s largest problems – and how to make progress solving them. Check out their site. It also includes a constantly updated page on the Corona Pandemic. In December 2019 the Chinese authorities notified the world that a virus was spreading through their communities. In the following months it spread to other countries, with cases doubling within days. This virus is the “Severe acute respiratory syndrome-related coronavirus 2”, that causes the disease called COVID19, and that everyone simply calls Coronavirus. What actually happens when it infects a human and what should we all do?

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  22. 8.5/10(34 votes)

    #21 - What Do Alien Civilizations Look Like? The Kardashev Scale

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    The observable universe is a big place that has been around for more than 13 billion years. Up to two trillion galaxies made up of something like 20,000 billion billion stars surround our home galaxy. In the milky way alone scientists assume there are some 40 billion earth like planets in the habitable zone of their stars. When we look at these numbers it is hard to imagine that there is nobody else out there.

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  23. 8.5/10(29 votes)

    #22 - The Day the Dinosaurs Died – Minute by Minute

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    66 million years ago, maybe on a Tuesday afternoon, life was the same as it had been the day before or a thousand years before or pretty much a million years before. Things were good for our feathered dinosaur buddies. Until a tiny, tiny detail in the sky changed.

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  24. 8.5/10(26 votes)

    #23 - What Dinosaurs ACTUALLY Looked Like?

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    The past is a vast and mysterious land that begins at the big bang and ends in the present, expanding with each passing moment. It is the home of everything that came before, the key to understanding our present. Here we find the most amazing creatures to ever roam our planet, hundreds of millions of species so diverse that our imagination cannot do them justice. Unfortunately the past carefully guards its secrets.

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  25. 8.5/10(18 votes)

    #24 - This Black Hole Could be Bigger Than The Universe

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    Black holes might create infinite universes while destroying time and space. Everything in existence could be black holes, all the way down. We might live inside a black hole that is inside a black hole, that is inside a black hole. But let’s start at the beginning and build a black hole out of air.

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  26. 8.4/10(24 votes)

    #25 - What Happened Before History? Human Origins

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    Humans. We have been around for a while now. When we think about our past we think about ancient civilizations, the pyramids, stuff like that. But this is only a tiny, tiny part of our history.

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Best Episodes Summary

"Loneliness" is the best rated episode of "Kurzgesagt - In a Nutshell". It scored 9.1/10 based on 38 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 2/17/2019. This episode scored 0.3 points higher than the second highest rated, "Is the EU Democratic? Does Your Vote Matter?".