Do we Need Nuclear Energy to Stop Climate Change?

The first 1000 people to use this link will get a free trial of Skillshare: https://skl.sh/kurzgesagtinanutshell05211 Sources & further reading: https://sites.google.com/view/sourcesclimatenuclear/ Do we need nuclear energy to stop climate change? More and more voices from science, environmental activists and the press have been saying...

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What if the World turned to Gold? - The Gold Apocalypse

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Mar 2021

How Many People Did Nuclear Energy Kill? Nuclear Death Toll

The first 1000 people to use this link will get a free trial of Skillshare: https://skl.sh/kurzgesagtinanutshell01211 Sources & further reading: https://sites.google.com/view/sources-nuclear-death-toll/ Nuclear energy creates an uneasy feeling of danger for many people: ancient and dangerous minerals are concentrated to awaken seemingly...

Feb 2021

What if We Nuke the Moon?

Get your Moon Poster and Baby Duck Plushie here: https://shop.kurzgesagt.org/ Sources & further reading: https://sites.google.com/view/sources-nukethemoon/ What would happen if we were to detonate a very very powerful nuclear weapon on the moon? Would the explosion knock its orbit towards earth, causing tidal waves and misery? Could the...

Dec 2020

Can You Upload Your Mind & Live Forever? feat. Cyberpunk 2077

Get your copy of Cyberpunk 2077 here: http://cyberpunk.net/buy Sources & further reading: https://sites.google.com/view/sources-mindupload The desire to be free from the limits of the human experience is as old as our first stories. We exist in an endless universe, only bound by the laws of physics and yet, our consciousness is trapped...

Dec 2020

What If Earth got Kicked Out of the Solar System? Rogue Earth

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Dec 2020

How Large Can a Bacteria get? Life & Size 3

The first 1000 people to use this link will get a free trial of Skillshare: https://skl.sh/kurzgesagt9 Get our new beautiful Ocean Explorer Notebook: https://shop.kurzgesagt.org/ Sources & further reading: https://sites.google.com/view/sourceslifeandsize3 In and out, in and out. Staying alive is about doing things. This very second,...

Nov 2020

Geoengineering: A Horrible Idea We Might Have to Do

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Oct 2020

The 12,021 Human Era Calendar

** UPDATE: For a short time calendars are back in stock on the US Shop: https://shop-us.kurzgesagt.org/ ** For the fifth time, we present to you the Human Era Calendar for the year 12,021 – this time it is all about the journey of humanity, beginning tens of thousands of years ago, leading into the revolution of agriculture, to ancient high civilizations...

Oct 2020

When Time Became History - The Human Era

** UPDATE: For a short time calendars are back in stock on the US Shop: https://shop-us.kurzgesagt.org/ ** For the fifth time, we present to you the Human Era Calendar for the year 12,021 – this time it is all about the journey of humanity, beginning tens of thousands of years ago, leading into the revolution of agriculture, to ancient high civilizations...

Oct 2020