Hi Birbs!
We want to check in and see what you are thinking. How do you like the new kind of post from the last few weeks?
We would love to hear your ideas! Is there any content you’d like to see that we don’t yet share?
2022-08-04 14:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi Friends!
We cannot get enough of tiny notebooks - nature inspired us so much that we had to do another Pocket Log Collection! This time themed around treasures you can find exploring different habitats of the world.
We hope you like it ❤️
2022-07-28 15:02:26 +0000 UTC View Post
In the 1970s thousands of Chickenheads rained from the sky in Europe, making foxes and other wildlife confused and very happy. Why? They were filled with a vaccine to fight the deadliest virus known to humanity – since the 1930s a rabies epidemic had been sweeping across wildlife populations in Europe and humans wanted to finally get rid of the virus once and for all.
Rabies is named after Lyssa, the ancient Greek spirit of mad rage, and has been haunting us for at least 4000 y...
2022-07-26 14:03:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi Birbs!
This time we'll show you a bit of the process behind our latest batch of Pocket Log Notebooks. They show a day at a lake and all the adventures duck and friends can have there.
We hope you like it ❤️
2022-07-19 16:08:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi Birbs,
this is a reminder that we will retire the Postcard Perk at the end of this month. It will no longer be available in August.
Everyone pledging for the postcard tier this month will receive their last postcards in August.
After that, no more cards will be sent out.
You are free to keep pledging the same amount (without receiving postcards anymore) or chose any other tier of your liking.
Please comment if you have any questions regarding this.
Love,
Kurzgesagt
We have so many cute birbs waiting to be released - a few couldn't wait and snuck out!
2022-07-07 14:54:58 +0000 UTC View Post
The future of humanity seems insecure. Rapid climate change, political division, our greed and failings make it hard to look at our species with a lot of optimism and so many people think our end is in sight. But humans always thought they lived in the end times. Every generation assumes they’re important enough to witness the apocalypse and then life just goes on.
This is a problem because it leads to short term thinking and prevents us from creating the best world for ourselves ...
A little glimpse into a WIP: what do you think this will be?
2022-06-28 09:28:44 +0000 UTC View Post
If you are like most people, there is a gap between the person you are and the person you wish to be. There are little things you think you should do and big things you ought to achieve. From working out regularly, eating healthy, learning a language, working on your novel, reading more or simply actually doing your hobby instead of browsing reddit.
But it can seem that to achieve your goals, you have to become a different person. Someone who is consistent, puts in more effort, has disc...
2022-06-07 14:04:36 +0000 UTC View Post
Sometimes it feels like change is impossible. But the habit paths that shape your life don't happen by accident. After carefully researching the science behind habits, talking to experts, and trying it ourselves, we created this journal. It contains a step by step tutorial that will help you to change your life in a sustainable way.
Now available on our shop: 2022-06-07 13:38:19 +0000 UTC
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Look around you. Where are you? Where is this place you are occupying? Somewhere in a room, maybe in a city on a continent on a planet orbiting a star in a galaxy among billions. But… where is all of that? While this may feel like a daft question, it turns out that the concept of an absolute position is something humans made up.
In a nutshell, the universe is a big bag of space that has things in it. If someone removed all these things, the stars and planets and black holes and dust, ...
2022-05-17 14:02:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi Friends!
Today we'll show you something a little different. We put a lot of love and care into everything kurzgesagt makes, be it video or product. So here's a quick look at the making of a poster!
We hope you'll enjoy it as much as we do ❤️
2022-05-12 08:59:52 +0000 UTC View Post
The Brain Eating Amoeba A war has been going on for billions of years that breeds well armed monsters who struggle with other monsters for survival. Having no particular interest in us, most of them are relatively harmless, as our immune systems deal with their weapons handily. But there are exceptions. Naegleria fowleri is an amoeba that not only has developed a deadly taste for human brains but is also a match for our defenses and a guest in dramatic headlines. What happens when this ...
2022-05-03 14:02:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Our home is burning. Rapid climate change is destabilizing our world. It seems our emissions will not fall quickly enough to avoid runaway warming and we may soon hit tipping points that will lead to the collapse of ecosystems and our civilization.
While scientists, activists and much of the younger generation urge action, it appears most politicians are not committed to do anything meaningful while the fossil fuel industry still works actively against change. It seems humanity can’t ...
2022-04-05 14:03:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Dear Birbs,
we are so thankful for you ❤️
Because of your support here on Patreon we can focus on what we love most: Making videos.
With that being said, we realized that sending out art cards every month takes a lot more time and work than we anticipated.
Unfortunately, we can’t keep up anymore which means we will have to retire this reward in July this year. After that, no more ca...
We have another little present for you wonderful patrons: a Dinosaur Concentration Game! Be it as a way to learn about ancient animals, as a fun activity, or as a distraction during these wild times - we hope you'll have fun with it.
You can find the Genus of Animal on the Card as well as a number to keep track of everything. If you want to know more about the dinos, you can have a look at 2022-03-11 12:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
When we think about alien civilizations we tend to look into the vastness of space, to far away planets. But there is another incredibly vast dimension that we might be giving too little thought to: time.
Could it be that over the last hundreds of millions of years, other civilizations existed on earth? Indigenous technological species that rose and died out? And that they or their artifacts are buried beneath our feet? What does science have to say about this and what are the implication...
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?
2022-02-08 15:02:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi friends,
we are back from our winter break, but our systems don't seem to want to come back to work, yet 😉
Due to some technical issues we are sending out the rewards a bit later this month.
Much love,
the kurzgesagt team
The Universe is incredibly big and seems full of potential for life, with billions of habitable planets. If an advanced civilization had the technology to travel between the stars, at just 0.1% of the speed of light, It could colonize our galaxy in roughly 100 million years. Which is not that long given the billions of years the milky way has existed – so in principle any spacefaring civilization should be able to spread rapidly over huge sectors of the galaxy. And yet we see nothing, hear ...
2021-12-14 15:02:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Kurzgesagt is lying to you, in every video, even in this one. Because our videos distill very complex subjects into flashy ten minute videos and unfortunately, reality is, well, complicated. The question of how we deal with that, is central to what we do on this channel and something we think about a lot.
2021-12-07 15:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Food is arguably the best thing about being alive. No other bodily pleasure is enjoyed multiple times every day and never gets old. It is an expression of culture, our parents' love and a means of celebration or comfort. That’s why it hits a special nerve when we are told we should change what and how we eat to fight rapid climate change. One of the most delicious foods, meat, gets the worst press. It doesn’t help that the topic is really hard to properly research yourself and debates get...
2021-11-30 15:10:57 +0000 UTC View Post
We say this a lot, and it is as true and important as it was the first time: You make kurzgesagt possible! We wouldn't be here without you and we wouldn't be able to do what we do without your help. So to every one of you: THANK YOU from the bottom of our hearts!
And as a token of appreciation we have a little goodie for you: Digital Stickers! ✨
We made 24 stickers for you in a few sizes to enjoy in the app of your choice, or printed out a...
2021-11-19 13:31:00 +0000 UTC View Post
You are not a person, you are a planet, made of roughly 40 trillion cells. There is so much of you, that if your cells were human-sized, you would be as big as 20 Mount Everests. For your creepy-crawly inhabitants, this makes your body an ecosystem, rich in resources and warmth and space. A perfect place to move into and have a family. While some of these guests are welcome, most are not. Your immune system is the guardian of this planet, the force tasked with protecting yourself agains...
2021-11-02 15:02:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Tuesday, November 2nd is not only a special day because it's the official release day of IMMUNE but also because Philipp Dettmer, our founder and head writer, will do an AMA over at reddit on /r/IAmA (https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/)
We hope you are as excited as we are and will join us at
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.
2021-10-12 14:01:55 +0000 UTC View Post
As the year 12,021 slowly comes to an end, we present to you the 12,022 Human Era Calendar: Eons Edition. You can get the very shiny, high-quality, limited edition now until we sell out and then never again.
As always, we’re adding 10,000 years to the regular calendar to represent the Human Era and include all cultures around the world. But this year we’re expanding the scope beyond humanity to showcase forgotten animals and plants from all across the Phanerozoic Eon – this means ...
2021-10-12 13:03:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Never before in human history have we been richer, more advanced or powerful. And yet we feel overwhelmed in the face of rapid climate change. It seems simple on the surface. Greenhouse gases trap energy from the Sun and transfer it to our atmosphere. This leads to warmer winters, harsher summers. Dry places become drier and wet places wetter. Countless ecosystems will die while the rising oceans swallow coasts and the cities we build on them.
So why don’t we just like…...
2021-09-22 14:00:36 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi friends,
We are so sorry, but due to massive workloads we won't be able to send out the monthly rewards this week.
We are doing our best, to be back on track next week.
Until then: Have a lovely week and stay safe!
