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Published 05/13/24
Automation in the Information Age is different. Follow the show to join us in this audio experience of Kurzgesagt - In a Nutshell. A fan-made show out of admiration for the works of Kurzgesagt - In a Nutshell. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Published 05/13/24
Published 05/13/24
Neutron Stars are some of the strangest things in the Universe. Not quite massive enough to become black holes they are basically atoms as big as mountains with properties so extreme it's mind-blowing. And if you get too close to a neutron star you are in big trouble… Follow the show to join us in this audio experience of Kurzgesagt - In a Nutshell. A fan-made show out of admiration for the works of Kurzgesagt - In a Nutshell. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Published 05/13/24
Facebook just announced 8 billion video views per day. This number is made out of lies, cheating and worst of all: theft. All of this is wildly known but the media giant Facebook is pretending everything is fine, while damaging independent creators in the process. How does this work? Follow the show to join us in this audio experience of Kurzgesagt - In a Nutshell. A fan-made show out of admiration for the works of Kurzgesagt - In a Nutshell. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit...
Published 05/13/24
Follow the show to join us in this audio experience of Kurzgesagt - In a Nutshell. A fan-made show out of admiration for the works of Kurzgesagt - In a Nutshell. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Published 05/13/24
Where are the limits of human technology? And can we somehow avoid them? This is where quantum computers become very interesting. Follow the show to join us in this audio experience of Kurzgesagt - In a Nutshell. A fan-made show out of admiration for the works of Kurzgesagt - In a Nutshell. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Published 05/13/24
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. Sources & Further Reading: https://sites.google.com/view/sourcesmars/ Follow the show to join us in this audio experience of Kurzgesagt - In a Nutshell. A fan-made show out of admiration for the works of Kurzgesagt - In a Nutshell. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Published 05/13/24
The observable universe is a big place that has been around for more than 13 billion years. Up to two trillion galaxies made up of something like 20,000 billion billion stars surround our home galaxy. In the milky way alone scientists assume there are some 40 billion earth like planets in the habitable zone of their stars. When we look at these numbers it is hard to imagine that there is nobody else out there. Sources & further...
Published 05/13/24
We often assume that advanced technology will make it easy for aliens to colonize space. But what if space exploration is always difficult, no matter how advanced you are? Let’s travel back in human history, to the colonization of Oceania over 5000 years ago, to find parallels between ancient explorers and extraterrestrial civilizations. Follow the show to join us in this audio experience of Kurzgesagt - In a Nutshell. A fan-made show out of admiration for the works of Kurzgesagt - In a...
Published 05/13/24
Since the Industrial Revolution, humans have released over 1.5 trillion tonnes of carbon dioxide or CO2 into the earth's atmosphere. In the year 2019 we were still pumping out around 37 billion more. That’s 50% more than the year 2000 and almost three times as much as 50 years ago. And it’s not just CO2. We’re also pumping out growing volumes of other greenhouse gases such as methane and nitrous oxide. Combining all of our greenhouse gases, we’re emitting 51 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide...
Published 05/13/24
Humans are proud of a lot of things, from particle accelerators, to poetry to pokemon. All of them made possible because of something humans value extremely highly: intelligence. Sources & further reading: https://sites.google.com/view/sourcesintelligence Follow the show to join us in this audio experience of Kurzgesagt - In a Nutshell. A fan-made show out of admiration for the works of Kurzgesagt - In a Nutshell. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Published 05/13/24
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? Follow the show to join us in this audio experience of Kurzgesagt - In a Nutshell. A fan-made show out of admiration for the works of Kurzgesagt - In a Nutshell. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Published 05/13/24
A ruthless murder was committed! Someone killed the dinosaurs and we have the murderer! Witnesses say that an Everest-sized asteroid hit Earth, devastated the planet and caused a mass extinction. A simple, fascinating and convincing explanation. Or… is it? Sources & further reading: https://sites.google.com/view/sources-what-actually-killed-t/ Follow the show to join us in this audio experience of Kurzgesagt - In a Nutshell. A fan-made show out of admiration for the works of Kurzgesagt -...
Published 05/13/24
Deep in tropical jungles lie floating kingdoms ruled by beautiful and deadly masters: They are sort of the high elves of the ant kingdoms: Talented architects that create castles and city states. But they are also fierce and expansionist warriors and their kingdoms are ensnared in a never ending war for survival. Oecophylla weaver ants. Sources & further reading: https://sites.google.com/view/sourcesweaverants Follow the show to join us in this audio experience of Kurzgesagt - In a...
Published 05/13/24
What happens if we make a huge pile from all 15,000 nuclear bombs and pull the trigger? And what happens if we make an even bigger pile? Sources & further reading: https://sites.google.com/view/sourcesallthebombs/ Follow the show to join us in this audio experience of Kurzgesagt - In a Nutshell. A fan-made show out of admiration for the works of Kurzgesagt - In a Nutshell. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Published 05/13/24
Should we double down or give up and go our separate ways? Follow the show to join us in this audio experience of Kurzgesagt - In a Nutshell. A fan-made show out of admiration for the works of Kurzgesagt - In a Nutshell. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Published 05/13/24
In 2015 the bees are still dying in masses. Which at first seems not very important until you realize that one third of all food humans consume would disappear with them. Millions could starve. The foes bees face are truly horrifying – some are a direct consequence of human greed. We need to help our small buzzing friends or we will face extremely unpleasant consequences. Follow the show to join us in this audio experience of Kurzgesagt - In a Nutshell. A fan-made show out of admiration for...
Published 05/13/24
At this very second, you are on a narrow ledge between life and death. You probably don’t feel it, but there is an incredible amount of activity going on inside you. And this activity can never stop. Picture yourself as a slinky falling down an escalator moving upwards – the falling part represents the self replicating processes of your cells, the escalator represents the laws of physics, driving you forwards. To be alive is to be in motion but never arriving anywhere. If you reach the top of...
Published 05/13/24
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. Follow the show to join us in this audio experience of Kurzgesagt - In a Nutshell. A fan-made show out of admiration for the works of Kurzgesagt - In a Nutshell. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Published 05/13/24
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? Follow the show to join us in this audio experience of Kurzgesagt - In a Nutshell. A fan-made show out of admiration for the works of Kurzgesagt - In a Nutshell. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Published 05/13/24
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. Follow the show to join us in this audio experience of Kurzgesagt - In a Nutshell. A fan-made show out of admiration for the works of Kurzgesagt - In a Nutshell. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Published 05/12/24
Are GMOs bad for your health? Or is this fear unfounded? Follow the show to join us in this audio experience of Kurzgesagt - In a Nutshell. A fan-made show out of admiration for the works of Kurzgesagt - In a Nutshell. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Published 05/12/24
Black holes are scary things. But they also might reveal the true nature of the universe to us. Follow the show to join us in this audio experience of Kurzgesagt - In a Nutshell. A fan-made show out of admiration for the works of Kurzgesagt - In a Nutshell. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Published 05/12/24
Did you ever wonder what happened if you detonated a nuclear bomb in the Marianas Trench? No? We neither! Let us find out together! Follow the show to join us in this audio experience of Kurzgesagt - In a Nutshell. A fan-made show out of admiration for the works of Kurzgesagt - In a Nutshell. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Published 05/12/24