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The Best Episodes of Kurzgesagt - In a Nutshell

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  1. 9.1/10(8 votes)

    #1 - How to Win an Interstellar War

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    Could aliens destroy us from light years away? Another day at Kurzgesagt Labs, where we answer the most important questions with science. Today: how might civilizations wage war across light years? What kind of devastating weapons could they use and what would they look like?

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  2. 8.8/10(10 votes)

    #2 - 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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  3. 8.8/10(12 votes)

    #3 - 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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  4. 8.7/10(14 votes)

    #4 - 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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  5. 8.6/10(40 votes)

    #5 - Three Ways to Destroy the Universe

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    How will the Universe die?

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  6. 8.6/10(35 votes)

    #6 - 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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  8. 8.6/10(17 votes)

    #7 - The Most Dangerous Weapon Is NOT Nuclear

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    A breathtaking scientific revolution is taking place – biotechnology has been progressing at stunning speed, giving us the tools to eventually gain control over biology. On the one hand solving the deadliest diseases while also creating viruses more dangerous than nuclear bombs, able to devastate humanity. What is going on?

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  9. 8.6/10(9 votes)

    #8 - The Internet is Worse Than Ever – Now What?

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    In 2022 nearly half of Americans expected a civil war in the next few years, one in five now believes political violence is justified. And it is not just the US but around the world. People increasingly see themselves as part of opposing teams. There are many different reasons for this, but one gets blamed a lot: social media. Social media divides us, makes us more extreme and less empathetic, it riles us up or sucks us into doom scrolling, making us stressed and depressed. It feels like we need to touch grass and escape to the real world. New research shows that we might have largely misinterpreted why this is the case. It turns out that the social media internet may uniquely undermine the way our brains work but not in the way you think.

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  10. 8.6/10(9 votes)

    #9 - 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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  11. 8.5/10(34 votes)

    #10 - Who Invented the Internet? And Why?

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

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  12. 8.5/10(35 votes)

    #11 - Iraq Explained — ISIS, Syria and War

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    The current crisis in Iraq explained in under 5 minutes.

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  13. 8.5/10(31 votes)

    #12 - Black Holes Explained — From Birth to Death

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    Black holes. Lets talk about them.

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  14. 8.5/10(40 votes)

    #13 - Optimistic Nihilism

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  15. 8.5/10(29 votes)

    #14 - 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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  16. 8.5/10(34 votes)

    #15 - 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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  17. 8.5/10(34 votes)

    #16 - 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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  18. 8.5/10(29 votes)

    #17 - 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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  19. 8.5/10(26 votes)

    #18 - 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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  20. 8.5/10(11 votes)

    #19 - Ancient Life as Old as the Universe

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    Life has existed on one planet for about 4 billion years, for all we know. But it might have started right after the Big Bang, when the universe was much stranger and more fantastic than today. A universe that might have allowed life to develop absolutely anywhere. The cosmos might be full of the seeds of life, sleeping in a dead desert, waiting for a few drops of rain to explosively bloom and grow. Tiny and not so tiny aliens might be everywhere.

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  21. 8.5/10(18 votes)

    #20 - 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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  22. 8.4/10(34 votes)

    #21 - The Fermi Paradox — Where Are All the Aliens?

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    The universe is unbelievably big – trillions of stars and even more planets. So… 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 this gigantic and scary universe?

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  23. 8.4/10(24 votes)

    #22 - 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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  24. 8.4/10(29 votes)

    #23 - What Is Intelligence? Where Does it Begin?

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    Humans are proud of a lot of things, from particle accelerators, to poetry to pokemon. All of them made possible because of something humans value extremely highly: intelligence.

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  25. 8.4/10(31 votes)

    #24 - TRUE Limits Of Humanity – The Final Border We Will Never Cross

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    Is there a border we will never cross? Are there places we will never reach, no matter how hard we try? It turns out, there are. Even with sci-fi technology, we are trapped in a limited pocket of the Universe and the finite stuff within it. How much universe is there for us and how far can we go?

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  26. 8.4/10(24 votes)

    #25 - What Happens if the Moon Crashes into Earth?

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    Today we are answering an age-old very scientific and important question: What if the moon crashes into earth? It’s more interesting and weird than you probably think. Let's start with the basics: Why isn't the Moon on its way to crash into us already?

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Best Episodes Summary

"How to Win an Interstellar War" is the best rated episode of "Kurzgesagt - In a Nutshell". It scored 9.1/10 based on 8 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 10/15/2023. This episode scored 0.3 points higher than the second highest rated, "We Need to Rethink Exercise (Updated Version)".