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#Kurzgesagt narrator series#

Wormholes Explained – Breaking Spacetime ( link) - Outlines three types of wormholes, against a backdrop of synthwave aesthetics.String Theory Explained – What is The True Nature of Reality? ( link) - Provides a summary of, naturally, string theory and in the process introduces some background on quantum mechanics, particularly Heisenberg's uncertainty principle.Overpopulation & Africa ( link) - Gives, as they admit, a very simple overview of the very, very complicated issue of combating overpopulation in sub-Saharan Africa.The Rise of the Machines – Why Automation is Different this Time ( link) - Describes the increasingly detrimental effects of automation, particularly the kind based on machine learning algorithms, on society and the economy.(Hint: It's not because it'll cause an alien invasion.) Why Alien Life Would be our Doom - The Great Filter ( link) - Uses The Great Filter to argue that discovering alien life would actually be bad news.Is Reality Real? The Simulation Argument ( link) - Dissects the simulated reality hypothesis and its assumptions.

#Kurzgesagt narrator series#

It is part of a series analyzing the role of size in animal biology and the "how about we make this elephant explode" video they joke about above. What Happens If We Throw an Elephant From a Skyscraper? Life & Size 1 ( link) - Looks at the effects of the square-cube law in animals through the lens of flinging them off of buildings, before branching out to studying the forces that shape adaptations in the insect world.It also gives some tips on dealing with loneliness for people who are feeling lonely. Loneliness ( link) - Talks about, well, loneliness, from the perspectives of evolution, sociology, and psychology.Can You Upload Your Mind & Live Forever? ( link) - Delves into the many, many obstacles involved in mind uploading, in each potential step of the process.Quantum Computers Explained – Limits of Human Technology ( link) - Discusses the problems of increasing miniaturization of computer circuitry and the benefits of quantum computing over standard hardware and touches upon potential applications, good (discovering new proteins) and bad (wrecking your encryption).In short, lack of atmosphere makes everything worse. Examines the effects of detonating a 100 megaton nuclear bomb on the Moon and compares them to those of detonating one on Earth.

What if We Nuke the Moon? ( link) - Exactly what it says on the tin.

The Last Light Before Eternal Darkness – White Dwarfs & Black Dwarfs ( link) - Explains how dying stars become white dwarfs and how white dwarfs will themselves become black dwarfs and speculates on how white dwarfs could support human civilization in an encroaching Big Freeze future.

Kurzgesagt covers a variety of topics in both the soft and hard sciences, the latter of which tends to have a rather futurist bent. Kurzgesagt, What if the World turned to Gold? - The Gold Apocalypse “ ”Here in the Kurzgesagt labs we only work on the most important scientific problems like “What if we nuke stuff” or “how about we make this elephant explode” or who could forget “look at this thing. Kurzgesagt means "in short" (or "in a nutshell").Īs of June 2022, their English-language channel has over 18.6 million subscribers and nearly 2 billion views They also run an German version of the channel with public streaming service funk, Dinge Erklärt, which has 1.77 million subscribers and 183 million views, and a Spanish version, En Pocas Palabras, which has 917K subs and 48 million views, on top of six other foreign-language versions. For example, they worked with Our World in Data for the "Overpopulation – The Human Explosion Explained" and "The Coronavirus Explained & What You Should Do" videos, among others, and their piece on the side effects of vaccination was supported by a grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. In addition, they sometimes collaborate with research groups and occasionally get funding from major non-profit organizations. They operate on a quality over quantity model which means they generally only release a new video once a month or so. Kurzgesagt or Kurzgesagt - In a Nutshell is a Munich-based science YouTube channel, known for its quirky and beautiful animations on a wide variety of topics including medicine, physics and philosophy, with cute little animated birdies to be experimented upon. Nothing in the universe is boring if you tell a good story. “ ”We create beautiful videos to share our passion for knowledge.