S2019 E1 • Is Organic Really Better? Healthy Food or Trendy Scam?

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?

Première diffusion : 13 janvier 2019

S2019 E2 • 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.

Première diffusion : 3 février 2019

S2019 E3 • Loneliness

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?

Première diffusion : 17 février 2019

S2019 E4 • Can You Trust Kurzgesagt Videos?

Can you trust our videos? How do we research them nowadays? And what about our older videos?

Première diffusion : 3 mars 2019

S2019 E5 • The Origin of Consciousness – How Unaware Things Became Aware

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.

Première diffusion : 17 mars 2019

S2019 E6 • What If We Detonated All Nuclear Bombs at Once?

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?

Première diffusion : 31 mars 2019

S2019 E7 • The Most Dangerous Stuff in the Universe - Strange Stars Explained

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?

Première diffusion : 14 avril 2019

S2019 E8 • The Side Effects of Vaccines - How High is the Risk?

Vaccines are one of our best tools to prevent dangerous diseases, but they come with side effects. So would it be safer not to vaccinate?

Première diffusion : 12 mai 2019

S2019 E9 • Is the EU Democratic? Does Your Vote Matter?

Being a citizen of the European Union means that many aspects of our lives are regulated by a weird entity. It feels like a huge bureaucracy is making decisions over our heads. How democratic is the EU really and does your vote actually affect anything?

Première diffusion : 19 mai 2019

S2019 E10 • Is Meat Bad for You? Is Meat Unhealthy?

Over the last few years eating meat has increasingly been associated with health risks, like heart disease, cancer and an early death. How unhealthy is meat really?

Première diffusion : 9 juin 2019

S2019 E11 • Could Your Phone Hurt You? Electromagnetic Pollution

Electricity is all around us, all the time. It makes our lives easier, safer, more fun and most of us never think about it. But is there such a thing as too much electricity? Electronic devices emit an electromagnetic field, which is suspected to cause cancer. We read countless sources on this topic to summarize the results of the latest research for you.

Première diffusion : 7 juillet 2019

S2019 E12 • Tiny Bombs in your Blood - The Complement System

One of the key players of our immune system is the complement system. An army of millions and trillions of tiny bombs, which work together in a complex and elegant dance to stop intruders in your body.

Première diffusion : 28 juillet 2019

S2019 E13 • The World War of the Ants – The Army Ant

Every day billions of soldiers fight a merciless war on thousands of fronts, that has been going on for over one hundred million years: The world war of the ants.

Première diffusion : 11 août 2019

S2019 E14 • The Egg - A Short Story

The Egg

Première diffusion : 1 septembre 2019

S2019 E15 • What’s Hiding at the Most Solitary Place on Earth? The Deep Sea

Sometimes the world feels boring. All the remote islands are visited, the arctic conquered, the dense jungles discovered. Except, there is still a place to explore: A wet deadly desert where mysterious creatures live in total darkness: The deep sea. Let us dive down.

Première diffusion : 15 septembre 2019

S2019 E16 • The Billion Ant Mega Colony and the Biggest War on Earth

In nearly every corner of the Earth, ants wage war against each other. Their weapons are what nature gave them. Some have strong armour, deadly stingers or sharp mandibles. And then there is this tiny, and not very impressive ant. But it rules the biggest empire any ant has ever built. A colony spanning continents and fighting wars that leave millions of casualties. Let’s take a look at this unlikely warrioress: Linepithema humile, the Argentine ant.

Première diffusion : 29 septembre 2019

S2019 E17 • What if We Nuke a City?

As you may have noticed, we like to blow stuff up on this channel. So when the International Red Cross approached us to collaborate on a video about nuclear weapons, we were more than excited. Until we did the research. It turned out we were a bit oblivious off the real impact of nuclear weapons in the real world, on a real city. And especially, how helpless even the most developed nations on earth would be if an attack occurred today. So hopefully this video demonstrates how extremely non fun a real world nuclear attack would be, without being to gruesome. This collaboration was a blast (no pun intended) and we want to say a huge thank you to the International Red Cross!

Première diffusion : 13 octobre 2019