Who Is Responsible For Climate Change? – Who Needs To Fix It?

This video is part of a series about climate change supported by Breakthrough Energy – a coalition founded by Bill Gates, that is working to expand clean-energy investment and support the innovations that will lead the world to net-zero carbon emissions. https://www.gatesnotes.com/Climate-and-energy?WT.mc_id=20200625100000_ClimateCtr2020_CTRKurt-YT_&WT.tsrc=CTRKurtYT...

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Could Solar Storms Destroy Civilization? Solar Flares & Coronal Mass Ejections

https://shop.kurzgesagt.org/ We have a bunch of new stuff, from the long requested bacteriophage infographic poster to a new Optimistic Nihilism poster that lets you enjoy some existential dread in style. Or join us in our ant obsession and get the new Ant Explorer Notebook, with beautiful infographics and facts about ants and gold lettering on the...

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The Past We Can Never Return To – The Anthropocene Reviewed

You can listen to all episodes of The Anthropocene Reviewed for free here:https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/anthropocene-reviewed In September of 1940, an 18-year-old mechanic named Marcel Ravidat was walking his dog, Robot, in the countryside of Southwestern France when the dog disappeared down a hole. Robot eventually returned but the next day,...

May 2020

Why Are You Alive – Life, Energy & ATP

The first 1000 people to use this link will get a 2 month free trial of Skillshare: https://skl.sh/kurzgesagt7 Sources & further reading: https://sites.google.com/view/sourceswhyareyoualive At this very second, you are on a narrow ledge between life and death. You probably don’t feel it, but there is an incredible amount of activity going on...

May 2020

The Coronavirus Explained & What You Should Do

Get Merch designed with ❤ from https://kgs.link/shop">https://kgs.link/shop Join the Patreon Bird Army 🐧 https://kgs.link/patreon">https://kgs.link/patreon ▼▼ More infos and links are just a click away ▼▼ A huge thanks to the experts who helped us on short notice with the video. Especially “Our World in Data”, the online publication for...

Mar 2020

Why Blue Whales Don't Get Cancer - Peto's Paradox

Get Merch designed with ❤ from https://kgs.link/shop">https://kgs.link/shop Join the Patreon Bird Army 🐧 https://kgs.link/patreon">https://kgs.link/patreon ▼▼ More infos and links are just a click away ▼▼ Cancer is a creepy and mysterious thing. While we tried to understand it, to get better at killing it, we discovered a biological paradox...

Mar 2020

How to Make a Kurzgesagt Video in 1200 Hours

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Feb 2020

Milk. White Poison or Healthy Drink?

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Jan 2020

How to Escape a Super Nova: Stellar Engines

Sources and further reading:https://sites.google.com/view/sources-stellar-engines">https://sites.google.com/view/sources-stellar-engines Get your Stellar Engine Infographic Poster here:https://shop.kurzgesagt.org">https://shop.kurzgesagt.org Nothing in the Universe is static. In the milky way, billions of stars orbit the galactic center. Some,...

Dec 2019

Overpopulation & Africa

Sources and further reading:https://sites.google.com/view/sourcesoverpopulationandafrica">https://sites.google.com/view/sourcesoverpopulationandafrica 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...

Dec 2019