8.3/1028 votes#1 - Why Earth Is a Prison and How to Escape It
Season 5 Episode 1 - Aired 2/1/2017
We are trapped on Earth. Controlled by an ancient debt to the universe...
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7.9/1028 votes#2 - Do Robots Deserve Rights? What If Machines Become Conscious?
Season 5 Episode 2 - Aired 2/23/2017
What shall we do once machines become conscious? Do we need to grant them rights?
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8.0/1022 votes#3 - Are GMOs Good or Bad? Genetic Engineering & Our Food
Season 5 Episode 3 - Aired 3/30/2017
Are GMOs bad for your health? Or is this fear unfounded?
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7.0/1021 votes#4 - Is the European Union Worth It or Should We End It?
Season 5 Episode 4 - Aired 4/13/2017
Should we double down or give up and go our separate ways?
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8.1/1027 votes#5 - The Last Light Before Eternal Darkness — White Dwarfs & Black Dwarfs
Season 5 Episode 5 - Aired 5/4/2017
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...
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8.1/1022 votes#6 - The Rise of the Machines — Why Automation Is Different This Time
Season 5 Episode 6 - Aired 6/8/2017
Automation in the Information Age is different.
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8.5/1040 votes#7 - Optimistic Nihilism
Season 5 Episode 7 - Aired 7/26/2017
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7.7/1025 votes#8 - What Happens If We Throw an Elephant From a Skyscraper? (The Size of Life #1)
Season 5 Episode 8 - Aired 8/10/2017
Size is the most under appreciated regulator of living things. Let us demonstrate that by throwing animals from buildings.
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8.3/1029 votes#9 - Why Black Holes Could Delete the Universe — The Information Paradox
Season 5 Episode 9 - Aired 8/24/2017
Black holes are scary things. But they also might reveal the true nature of the universe to us.
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7.7/1025 votes#10 - What Happens If We Bring the Sun to Earth?
Season 5 Episode 10 - Aired 9/7/2017
What happens if we bring the sun to earth? No, seriously.
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7.4/1029 votes#11 - Is Reality Real? The Simulation Argument
Season 5 Episode 11 - Aired 9/21/2017
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8.2/1025 votes#12 - How Bacteria Rule Over Your Body — The Microbiome
Season 5 Episode 12 - Aired 10/5/2017
What happens when microbes talk to your brain?
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6.1/1018 votes#13 - Why Age? Should We End Aging Forever?
Season 5 Episode 13 - Aired 10/20/2017
If you could decide today... how long do you want to live?
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7.7/1025 votes#14 - How to Cure Aging — During Your Lifetime?
Season 5 Episode 14 - Aired 11/3/2017
What if we could stop aging forever?
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8.0/1023 votes#15 - Emergence — How Stupid Things Become Smart Together
Season 5 Episode 15 - Aired 11/16/2017
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?
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8.0/1025 votes#16 - Universal Basic Income Explained — Free Money for Everybody?
Season 5 Episode 16 - Aired 12/7/2017
What is UBI? How would free money change our lives.
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7.5/1024 votes#17 - How to Make an Elephant Explode (The Size of Life #2)
Season 5 Episode 17 - Aired 12/21/2017
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The Best Episodes of Kurzgesagt - In a Nutshell Season 5
Every episode of Kurzgesagt - In a Nutshell Season 5 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Kurzgesagt - In a Nutshell Season 5!
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Season 5 Ratings Summary
"Why Earth Is a Prison and How to Escape It" is the best rated episode of "Kurzgesagt - In a Nutshell" season 5. It scored 8.3/10 based on 28 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 2/1/2017. This episode is rated 0.4 points higher than the second-best, "Do Robots Deserve Rights? What If Machines Become Conscious?".
