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New Video! A Selfish Argument for Making the World a Better Place
Why should you care about the well-being of people half a globe away?This video was a struggle. I wanted to talk about reasons to make the world better that don't hit the usual cords. Yes, doing good things is the "right" thing to do, but is there more? Could there be a compelling argume...
Duck needs your help!
Exciting news! It is long overdue to bring our Duck into the real world as a plush toy! But Duck needs some friends. So we need your help to recruit two birds worthy of being Duck’s companions.Link to the poll: http://bit.ly/2Ix7tlM
A few updates for 12,018! (Feedback welcome)
Hey Patrons, time for an update post! Feedback is very welcome!First of all – do you guys have any questions? If so ask them in the comments and I’ll try to answer all of them tonight!1. Release dates. From now on we just make as many videos as we can and release them once they are finished. It ...
NEW VIDEO: String Theory Explained – What is The True Nature of Reality?
Is String Theory the final solution for all of physic’s questions or an overhyped dead end?Thanks so much to all of you for making this all possible!
Video tomorrow - Soundtrack today
All new video tomorrow! But you can already listen to the music by Epic Mountain today: http://bit.ly/2CsAbob
The Art of Homeopathy - Gentle Healing or Reckless Fraud?
Homeopathy is immensely popular, but also very controversial. What is behind this treatment method?
Missing your reward?
Hey patrons!For some reason, unfortunately it sometimes happened that you might not have received your reward...We are so sorry for that!We appreciate your support so much and the rewards are well deserved!Some of you have already reached out to us and we are always happy to make it up to you.We her...
New Music Dropbox Link
Hey patrons!Just a short note:We tidied up our dropbox folders over the last few weeks and the music from our videos has a new home.https://www.dropbox.com/sh/639tca0s0vafvft/AABJk3LY9CMgNnPNQk4rGtfBa?dl=0We hope you enjoy it and PLEASE keep the links to yourself, this whole operation is still trust...
NEW VIDEO: Why Alien Life Would be our Doom - The Great Filter
Finding alien life on a distant planet would be amazing news - or would it? If we are not the only intelligent life in the universe, this probably means our days are numbered and doom is certain.Dear Patrons,Thank you all for your support & patience. We are back at full speed and will most likely re...
🎵 LISTEN UP 🎵
Our friends from Epic Mountain released their 4th album with all the beautifully composed music they created for our videos throughout 2017:SpotifyiTunesSoundcloudBandcampLet’s show them some love and enjoy the good vibes ✌️
NEW VIDEO: How to Make an Elephant Explode with Science – The Size of Life 2
We are going on christmas break now. There are things in the works but there might not be a video in January as we try to prepare for 12,018 as best as we can. The official video goal for next year is 20. So lets see. As always, thank you so much for supporting us here. Happy holidays and all!Last v...
NEW VIDEO: Universal Basic Income Explained – Free Money for Everybody?
What is UBI? How would free money change our lives.Special thanks to you, our patrons!
NEW VIDEO: Emergence – How Stupid Things Become Smart Together
How can many stupid things combine to form smart things? How can proteins become living cells? How become lots of ants a colony? What is emergence?
Youtube wide error
Yesterday it happened again. A Youtube wide error that affected most creators. Videos did not show up in sub boxes. Most of our subscribers were not notified. Everybody who uploaded yesterday was kind of screwed. Our upload yesterday will have between 500K to 1 million views less because of that. Wh...
How to Cure Aging – During Your Lifetime?
What if we could stop aging forever? There are actually a few promising things being worked on by scientists right now.And thus our aging series is concluded. For this year. We might do some more in 12,018. <3
5 Million Subscribers. Because of you.
Hey Patrons! As you may have seen elsewhere, Kurzgesagt reached 5 million subscribers recently. I wanted to write a few words to you about that but didn’t have a quiet moment until now.So yeah. 5 million subscribers. It is slowly sinking in. You know… you guys are responsible for Kurzgesagt gett...
NEW VIDEO: Why Age? Should We End Aging Forever?
If you could decide today... how long do you want to live?A special video, part of a four video collaboration with CGPGrey : )
The New 12,018 Human Era Calendar is out now!
Hey Patrons! After some exhausting weeks, we are happy to announce:The new 12,018 Human Era Calendar is OUT NOW. You can order it for 10 days until the 20th of October!https://store.dftba.com/products/human-era-calendarThe calendar features 12 calendar pages with detailed illustrations of human cult...
NEW VIDEO: How Bacteria Rule Over Your Body – The Microbiome
This video was a lot of fun to research and to do. We might explore the world of microbes in much more detail next year!Also the 12,018 Calendar will be available next week. There will be a special newsletter for it, you can subscribe to it here: http://eepurl.com/cRUQxz
NEW VIDEO: Is Reality Real? The Simulation Argument
Hey everybody! New video and it is also a collab with Vsauce3. Tried a few new things here : ) Now that we had two more speculative videos in a row, next week we'll go super legit serious science again, with one of our favorite topics: Biology. Until then, thank you for your support : )Also... t...
NEW VIDEO: What Happens If We Bring the Sun to Earth?
After so much serious hard science last time we are having a bit of fun this week.
12,018 Calendar!
Dear Patrons,Our new calendar for the year 12,018 is nearly finished. We are so excited to show you all the pages. It'll be even more epic than last year!If you want to support the production of the calendar and get your own unique place in it – theres a special pledge available till Sunday ev...
Big Update, the state of Kurzgesagt
Hey everybody.So in June I did a post saying that I was pretty unhappy with how things were going and that we needed to work on our process and improve ourselves. Time for an update.We improved our productivity something between 50% and 100% (depending on metric, department etc). In less than three ...
NEW VIDEO: Why Black Holes Could Delete The Universe – The Information Paradox
What? Another video? And it's ten minutes long? YES! Thanks to you. We can't stress enough that Patreon is the most important part in enabling this. We hope you like the video. Next one in.... two weeks! : )
NEW VIDEO: What Happens If We Throw an Elephant From a Skyscraper? Life & Size 1
Size is the most under appreciated regulators of living things. Let us demonstrate that by throwing animals from buildings.Youtube got kind of unreliable to notify people when we upload. So we made a Kurzgesagt Newsletter: http://eepurl.com/cRUQxz – we only send out emails 1-2 a month and it is su...
NEW VIDEO: OPTIMISTIC NIHILISM
We tried something new this time. Many people seem to feel existential dread when they watch our videos. So we wanted to talk a bit about the world view that is behind our scripts. The philosophy of Kurzgesagt, so to speak. Hope you like it! Back to real science next video.This video also starts the...
Bonus Videos & Content Update!
Hey Patrons!Let us start with the pleasant things! Here are three short bonus videos! We made them for the Royal Tyrell Museum in early 2016, they are permanently displayed there in an exhibition about evolution. We finally got permission to share them. Hope it is a small bonus – let us know if yo...
Good and bad news
Hey everybody, I have good and bad news for you.The bad news first – We need more time for all sorts of things.Kurzgesagt is restructuring itself right now. The idea is to be more efficient and identify all the places where we waste time and resources. As fun as it was to post two minutes of bonus...
Deleted Scenes – Automation
Hey everybody. So the vote was pretty clear and the majority of you wanted a bonus video. As a result I spent my weekend writing a few drafts. But it always ended up being one of two things:- It became a list video where the different aspects were disconnected. Nothing against Youtubers who do those...
Should we make an Automation bonus video?
Hey Patrons – We would like your input: Should we make a bonus video about automation.So as you might have heard on twitter, we cut about three minutes from the automation video to make it more concise.But the parts we cut were already illustrated and animated. One of them is the clip I uploaded h...
