Inside neutron stars we can find the weirdest and most dangerous substance in the universe: Strange matter. What is strange matter, how dangerous is it and what can it tell us about the origin of the universe?
What happens if make a huge pile from all 15,000 nuclear bombs and pull the trigger? And what happens if we make an even bigger pile?
2019-03-31 12:31:38 +0000 UTC View Post
Consciousness is perhaps the biggest riddle in nature. In the first part of this three part video series, we explore the origins of consciousness and take a closer look on how unaware things became aware.
2019-03-17 13:31:28 +0000 UTC View Post
Can you trust our videos? How do we research them nowadays? And what about our older videos?
Do you want to talk with us about this video? We’ll do a sort of Q&A or AMA or whatever in our subreddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/kurzgesagt/comments/awu0gx/qaamadiscussion_can_you_trust_kurzgesagt/
2019-03-03 13:34:28 +0000 UTC View Post
Everybody feels lonely sometimes. But only few of us are aware how important this feeling was for our ancestors - and that our modern world can turn it into something that really hurts us. Why do we feel this way and what can we do about it?
2019-02-17 13:31:48 +0000 UTC View Post
NEW VIDEO: Building a Marsbase is a Horrible Idea: Let’s do it!
Humans love to explore. Strangely enough even horrible places – like Mars. Let’s see how building a Mars base could work and how insanely nerve-wracking exactly it would be.
2019-02-03 13:31:29 +0000 UTC View Post
Organic food is a huge trend: it promises a healthier and better life. But can Organic food really live up to the expectations or is it just baloney?
2019-01-13 13:33:25 +0000 UTC View Post
Out in the vast coldness of outer space, there are planets that travel alone through darkness without the boundaries of a system. Here’s how this can happen – and why these frozen deserts might secretly harbor alien life.
2018-12-27 13:32:08 +0000 UTC View Post
If humans want to expand into space, it will take us incredible amounts of energy. How do we do that? Easy: we will just use the sun’s energy by realizing the most ambitious construction project in history. This is how it works.
2018-12-20 13:38:06 +0000 UTC View Post
We have updated the bird gallery and added many rookies to our website!
Go check out the bird army and have fun trying to find your bird :-)
https://kurzgesagt.org/patreons/
Happy weekend -Felina
2018-12-14 12:54:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Space travel is the most exciting adventure for humanity, but in an irony of history we may stop ourselves from going into space the more we do it. With every rocket launched we are creating a deadly trap for mankind.
2018-11-25 13:31:33 +0000 UTC View PostHey everybody, an update is way overdue.
So after a bunch of months of unpleasant treatments, my current status is officially “complete remission”. The cancer had spread to multiple organs but all of it has melted away. My chance of it staying like that is very high. So pretty much the best case scenario. It took a few months to get my health back but I’m almost where I was before.
Thank all of you for the good wishes, messages and things that got sent my way. Sorry that I did not ...
2018-11-23 14:17:49 +0000 UTC View Post
We talk a bit more about this years calendar in the new video:
It's the most wonderful time of the year: The 12,019 Human Era Calendar is here! Get the new limited edition now or regret it forever. We updated the design of the calendar, so each illustration is now featured on a full page, with much more space to take notes below.
Product Details:
Tomorrow is the big launch of our calendar! In the last two years it sold out pretty quickly, so we wanted to give you the opportunity to order one day earlier. Check it out here if you're interested:
https://standard.tv/collections/in-a-nutshell/products/in-a-nutshell-12-019-human-era-calendar
We are super excited! Thank you all for the ongoing su...
2018-10-29 17:35:40 +0000 UTC View Post
It’s hard to define what makes something beautiful, but we seem to know beauty when we see it. Why is that and how does beauty affect our subconscious?
2018-10-24 12:24:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Meat is a complicated issue. But also a delicious one. Let's talk about it!
2018-09-30 13:07:28 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi Friends,
be sure to check out the newest wallpapers from our latest videos!
Have a great day everyone!
Much Love -Felina
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/3hhfc94o3pv2fpi/AADHUWBq8yHAQ6GpDkbAk6uoa
2018-09-26 13:35:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Did you know that we could start building a Lunar Base today?
Thank you all for the support!
2018-09-16 12:42:41 +0000 UTC View Post
Are wormholes real or are they just magic disguised as physics and maths? And if they are real how do they work and where can we find them?
Hope you like it! : )
2018-08-12 12:30:28 +0000 UTC View PostHey Patrons!
So this Sunday a new video comes out and there is something different about it I want to let you know up front.
So a few months ago when I got my cancer diagnosis (update about that in about a month) we knew we could not release as many videos as planned this year. So we had to cancel sponsorships and other contracts we had already signed. All of our sponsors and clients reacted pretty amazing, either by giving us much more time or by pausing projects until I was better. But...
2018-08-09 09:46:56 +0000 UTC View PostFirst things first: THANK YOU!
Now, you are probably asking youself 'When will I get my fancy rewards?'
Rewards are usually sent out around the 8th of the following month! Meaning you will receive an email from us in the beginning of September.
This is because we need to wait to have the payment processed (because sadly in the past some people took the rewards and then canceled their account). This takes a few days and then we need a few days to produce the rewards an...
2018-08-07 09:28:11 +0000 UTC View Post
We'll break our streak of serious videos with a little silly video correcting a lot of misinformation another youtube channel spread recently with a very viral video. Not the most serious video we ever made but to be honest it was a lot of fun to write and animate it.
I'm happy to report that despite my ongoing treatment we somehow managed to release a video about every three weeks and will be able to do so until September. It was only possible with the help of friends who s...
2018-07-22 12:31:01 +0000 UTC View PostHey Patreons!
We have decided to make our earnings from Patreon private and I want to tell you why!
For one it is kind of misleading. Many people do not know how expensive it is to run an animation studio, paying the salaries of 20 team members, buying software licenses and hardware, an office and so on. We often see debates on the internet where people just assume we are lazy because we are earning so much money and putting out so little content for it. But of course in reality we can...
2018-07-19 13:50:50 +0000 UTC View Post
Modern life would be impossible without plastic – but we have long since lost control over our invention. Why has plastic turned into a problem and what do we know about its dangers?
This video is a collaboration with UN Environment and their Clean Seas campaign, If you want to take action to turn the tide on plastics, go to https://www.cleanseas.org and make your pledge.
We also partnered with askscience on reddit...
2018-07-01 13:08:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey Patrons! New video for you, this time about the cons of Marijuana legalization. We wanted to take a fair look at counter arguments in depth and see how they hold up in review.
Unfortunately the video was immediately demonized by Youtube, which means there will be little to no ad revenue from it – and there is nothing we can do about it.
As you may guess we did take the project very seriously and worked for months and months to make a fair and fact based video, that hopefully also e...
2018-06-10 12:30:27 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey Patrons,
you may have noticed that we are slowly but surely refurbishing our Patreon page.
This community will always be a crucial and important part of Kurzgesagt and it's long overdue to make a perk overhaul.
We for instance opened the calendar perk super early this year – so you're able do be the patron of one of the 12,019 calendar pages, including a cameo of your bird.
We also reorganized our bird killing and voicemail recordings so we are now able to offer t...
2018-05-18 13:24:50 +0000 UTC View Post
A war has been raging for billions of years, killing trillions every single day, while we don’t even notice. This war involves the single deadliest being on our planet: The Bacteriophage.
Another collaboration with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation! Two more to come : )
2018-05-13 12:00:43 +0000 UTC View Post
This was a hard video to make. About a year ago I stumbled about this paper about black hole bombs: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0404096 – I was immediately fascinated and tried to learn more. But I found nothing. No articles, no videos. So I talked to Matt, our "in house" Astrophysicist and discussed how we could make this a video. He ended up talking to a bunch of experts and even the original author of the paper. I...
2018-04-22 12:02:42 +0000 UTC View Post
After almost five years we decided to remake one of our favorite videos. Some of our older content hasn't aged that well so we might redo 3-4 more. We are thinking: "Evolution", "Three ways to destroy the universe", "The Big Bang" and "Are you alone (in the Universe)". What do you think?
2018-04-08 12:26:58 +0000 UTC View PostDear Patrons,
Hi! I'm Philipp and founded Kurzgesagt five years ago. I write most of our scripts and choose our topics.
I want to let you know that there will be a drop in the frequency of videos in the next few months because I have cancer. Starting today I’ll be on leave for 3-5 months to deal with it. Hopefully it will be over after that.
We have a few things in the pipeline so at least for the next few weeks we should upload as much as usual. After that videos will be release...
2018-03-28 11:41:22 +0000 UTC View Post