Kurzgesagt (German for "in a nutshell") is a Munich based design studio with a distinctive perspective on design and animation within the fields of education, science and commerce. Founded in 2012 by Philipp Dettmer & Stephan Rether, the studio engages in information design projects of all kinds. We love science, minimalism, colors and music. But most of all combining them to tell stories.
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| Title | Air Date | Duration | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season 2013 | Episode 1 | How Evolution Works | 2013-07-11 | 6 min |
| Season 2013 | Episode 2 | The Solar System -- Our Home in Space | 2013-08-22 | 6 min |
| Season 2013 | Episode 3 | Fracking Explained: Opportunity or Danger | 2013-09-03 | 6 min |
| Season 2013 | Episode 4 | The Gulf Stream Explained | 2013-10-11 | 6 min |
| Season 2013 | Episode 5 | How the Stock Exchange Works (For Dummies) | 2013-11-23 | 6 min |
| Season 2013 | Episode 6 | The History and Future of Everything -- Time | 2013-12-19 | 6 min |
| Season 2014 | Episode 1 | Three Ways to Destroy the Universe | 2014-02-03 | 6 min |
| Season 2014 | Episode 2 | The Beginning of Everything -- The Big Bang | 2014-03-03 | 6 min |
| Season 2014 | Episode 3 | Who Invented the Internet? And Why? | 2014-04-10 | 6 min |
| Season 2014 | Episode 4 | How Big Is the Moon? (MM#1) | 2014-05-05 | 6 min |
| Season 2014 | Episode 5 | The Moons of Mars Explained -- Phobos & Deimos MM#2 | 2014-05-14 | 6 min |
| Season 2014 | Episode 6 | How to Catch a Dwarf Planet — Triton (MM#3) | 2014-05-26 | 6 min |
| Season 2014 | Episode 7 | Are You Alone? (In the Universe) | 2014-06-02 | 6 min |
| Season 2014 | Episode 8 | Iraq Explained -- ISIS, Syria and War | 2014-06-19 | 6 min |
| Season 2014 | Episode 9 | The Immune System Explained I — Bacteria Infection | 2014-07-01 | 6 min |
| Season 2014 | Episode 10 | Everything You Need to Know About Planet Earth | 2014-08-04 | 6 min |
| Season 2014 | Episode 11 | Atoms As Big As Mountains — Neutron Stars Explained | 2014-09-03 | 6 min |
| Season 2014 | Episode 12 | Is War Over? — A Paradox Explained | 2014-10-09 | 6 min |
| Season 2014 | Episode 13 | The Ebola Virus Explained — How Your Body Fights for Survival | 2014-11-06 | 6 min |
| Season 2014 | Episode 14 | What is Life? Is Death Real? | 2014-12-14 | 6 min |
| Season 2014 | Episode 15 | The Ultimate Conspiracy Debunker | 2014-12-18 | 6 min |
| Season 2015 | Episode 1 | How Small is an Atom? Spoiler: Very Small. | 2015-01-20 | 6 min |
| Season 2015 | Episode 2 | Measles Explained — Vaccinate or Not? | 2015-02-24 | 6 min |
| Season 2015 | Episode 3 | Banking Explained – Money and Credit | 2015-03-12 | 6 min |
| Season 2015 | Episode 4 | Nuclear Energy Explained: How Does It Work? (1/3) | 2015-03-26 | 6 min |
| Season 2015 | Episode 5 | 3 Reasons Why Nuclear Energy Is Terrible! (2/3) | 2015-04-01 | 6 min |
| Season 2015 | Episode 6 | 3 Reasons Why Nuclear Energy Is Awesome! (3/3) | 2015-04-01 | 6 min |
| Season 2015 | Episode 7 | The Fermi Paradox — Where Are All the Aliens? | 2015-05-06 | 6 min |
| Season 2015 | Episode 8 | The Fermi Paradox II — Solutions and Ideas | 2015-06-04 | 6 min |
| Season 2015 | Episode 9 | The Death of Bees Explained – Parasites, Poison and Humans | 2015-07-09 | 6 min |
| Season 2015 | Episode 10 | What If There Was a Black Hole in Your Pocket? | 2015-07-16 | 6 min |
| Season 2015 | Episode 11 | What is Dark Matter and Dark Energy? | 2015-08-06 | 6 min |
| Season 2015 | Episode 12 | What is Light? | 2015-10-15 | 6 min |
| Season 2015 | Episode 13 | How Facebook is Stealing Billions of Views | 2015-11-10 | 6 min |
| Season 2015 | Episode 14 | Quantum Computers Explained – Limits of Human Technology | 2015-12-08 | 6 min |
| Season 2015 | Episode 15 | Black Holes Explained – From Birth to Death | 2015-12-15 | 6 min |
| Season 2015 | Episode 16 | What is Something? | 2015-12-23 | 6 min |
| Season 2016 | Episode 1 | The Last Star in the Universe – Red Dwarfs Explained | 2016-01-31 | 6 min |
| Season 2016 | Episode 2 | Why the War on Drugs is a Huge Failure | 2016-03-01 | 6 min |
| Season 2016 | Episode 3 | The Antibiotic Apocalypse Explained | 2016-03-16 | 6 min |
| Season 2016 | Episode 4 | Space Elevator – Science Fiction or the Future of Mankind? | 2016-04-08 | 6 min |
| Season 2016 | Episode 5 | Safe and Sorry – Terrorism & Mass Surveillance | 2016-04-14 | 6 min |
| Season 2016 | Episode 6 | How Far Can We Go - Limits of Humanity | 2016-05-12 | 6 min |
| Season 2016 | Episode 7 | What Are You? | 2016-05-31 | 6 min |
| Season 2016 | Episode 8 | What Happened Before History? Human Origins | 2016-06-23 | 6 min |
| Season 2016 | Episode 9 | Death from Space — Gamma-Ray Bursts Explained | 2016-07-31 | 6 min |
| Season 2016 | Episode 10 | Genetic Engineering Will Change Everything Forever – CRISPR | 2016-08-10 | 6 min |
| Season 2016 | Episode 11 | Genetic Engineering and Diseases — Gene Drive & Malaria | 2016-09-21 | 6 min |
| Season 2016 | Episode 12 | The Most Efficient Way to Destroy the Universe – False Vacuum | 2016-10-21 | 6 min |
| Season 2016 | Episode 13 | Fusion Energy Explained – Future or Failure | 2016-11-10 | 6 min |
| Season 2016 | Episode 14 | The Most Gruesome Parasites — Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) | 2016-11-30 | 6 min |
| Season 2016 | Episode 15 | A New History for Humanity – The Human Era | 2016-12-07 | 6 min |
| Season 2016 | Episode 16 | Overpopulation – The Human Explosion Explained | 2016-12-22 | 6 min |
| Season 2017 | Episode 1 | Why Earth Is A Prison and How To Escape It | 2017-02-01 | 6 min |
| Season 2017 | Episode 2 | Do Robots Deserve Rights? What if machines become conscious? | 2017-02-23 | 6 min |
| Season 2017 | Episode 3 | Are GMOs Good or Bad? Genetic Engineering & Our Food | 2017-03-30 | 6 min |
| Season 2017 | Episode 4 | Is the European Union Worth It Or Should We End It? | 2017-04-13 | 6 min |
| Season 2017 | Episode 5 | The Last Light Before Eternal Darkness – White Dwarfs & Black Dwarfs | 2017-05-04 | 6 min |
| Season 2017 | Episode 6 | The Rise of the Machines – Why Automation is Different this Time | 2017-06-08 | 6 min |
| Season 2017 | Episode 7 | Optimistic Nihilism | 2017-07-26 | 6 min |
| Season 2017 | Episode 8 | What Happens If We Throw an Elephant From a Skyscraper? (The Size of Life #1) | 2017-08-10 | 6 min |
| Season 2017 | Episode 9 | Why Black Holes Could Delete The Universe – The Information Paradox | 2017-08-24 | 6 min |
| Season 2017 | Episode 10 | What Happens If We Bring the Sun to Earth? | 2017-09-07 | 6 min |
| Season 2017 | Episode 11 | Is Reality Real? The Simulation Argument | 2017-09-21 | 6 min |
| Season 2017 | Episode 12 | How Bacteria Rule Over Your Body – The Microbiome | 2017-10-05 | 6 min |
| Season 2017 | Episode 13 | Why Age? Should We End Aging Forever? | 2017-10-20 | 6 min |
| Season 2017 | Episode 14 | How to Cure Aging – During Your Lifetime? | 2017-11-03 | 6 min |
| Season 2017 | Episode 15 | Emergence – How Stupid Things Become Smart Together | 2017-11-16 | 6 min |
| Season 2017 | Episode 16 | Universal Basic Income Explained — Free Money for Everybody? | 2017-12-07 | 6 min |
| Season 2017 | Episode 17 | How to Make an Elephant Explode (The Size of Life #2) | 2017-12-21 | 6 min |
| Season 2018 | Episode 1 | Why Alien Life Would Be Our Doom — The Great Filter | 2018-02-01 | 6 min |
| Season 2018 | Episode 2 | Homeopathy Explained – Gentle Healing or Reckless Fraud? | 2018-02-22 | 6 min |
| Season 2018 | Episode 3 | String Theory Explained – What is The True Nature of Reality? | 2018-03-01 | 6 min |
| Season 2018 | Episode 4 | A Selfish Argument for Making the World a Better Place – Egoistic Altruism | 2018-03-18 | 6 min |
| Season 2018 | Episode 5 | Time: The History & Future of Everything – Remastered | 2018-04-08 | 6 min |
| Season 2018 | Episode 6 | The Black Hole Bomb and Black Hole Civilizations | 2018-04-22 | 6 min |
| Season 2018 | Episode 7 | The Deadliest Being on Planet Earth – The Bacteriophage | 2018-05-13 | 6 min |
| Season 2018 | Episode 8 | 3 Arguments Why Marijuana Should Stay Illegal Reviewed | 2018-06-10 | 6 min |
| Season 2018 | Episode 9 | Plastic Pollution: How Humans are Turning the World into Plastic | 2018-07-01 | 6 min |
| Season 2018 | Episode 10 | What If You Detonated a Nuclear Bomb in the Marianas Trench? (Science, Not Fantasy) | 2018-07-22 | 6 min |
| Season 2018 | Episode 11 | Wormholes Explained – Breaking Spacetime | 2018-08-12 | 6 min |
| Season 2018 | Episode 12 | How We Could Build a Moon Base TODAY – Space Colonization 1 | 2018-09-16 | 6 min |
| Season 2018 | Episode 13 | Why Meat is the Best Worst Thing in the World | 2018-09-30 | 6 min |
| Season 2018 | Episode 14 | Why Beautiful Things Make us Happy – Beauty Explained | 2018-10-23 | 6 min |
| Season 2018 | Episode 15 | End of Space – Creating a Prison for Humanity | 2018-11-25 | 6 min |
| Season 2018 | Episode 16 | How to Build a Dyson Sphere - The Ultimate Megastructure | 2018-12-20 | 6 min |
| Season 2018 | Episode 17 | Aliens under the Ice – Life on Rogue Planets | 2018-12-27 | 6 min |
| Season 2019 | Episode 1 | Is Organic Really Better? Healthy Food or Trendy Scam? | 2019-01-13 | 6 min |
| Season 2019 | Episode 2 | Building a Marsbase is a Horrible Idea: Let's do it! | 2019-02-03 | 6 min |
| Season 2019 | Episode 3 | Loneliness | 2019-02-17 | 6 min |
| Season 2019 | Episode 4 | The Origin of Consciousness – How Unaware Things Became Aware | 2019-03-17 | 6 min |
| Season 2019 | Episode 5 | What If We Detonated All Nuclear Bombs at Once? | 2019-03-31 | 6 min |
| Season 2019 | Episode 6 | The Most Dangerous Stuff in the Universe - Strange Stars Explained | 2019-04-14 | 6 min |
| Season 2019 | Episode 7 | The Side Effects of Vaccines - How High is the Risk? | 2019-05-12 | 6 min |
| Season 2019 | Episode 8 | Is the EU Democratic? Does Your Vote Matter? | 2019-05-19 | 6 min |
| Season 2019 | Episode 9 | Is Meat Bad for You? Is Meat Unhealthy? | 2019-06-09 | 6 min |
| Season 2019 | Episode 10 | Could Your Phone Hurt You? Electromagnetic Pollution | 2019-07-07 | 6 min |
| Season 2019 | Episode 11 | Tiny Bombs in your Blood - The Complement System | 2019-07-28 | 6 min |
| Season 2019 | Episode 12 | The World War of the Ants – The Army Ant | 2019-08-11 | 6 min |
| Season 2019 | Episode 13 | The Egg - A Short Story | 2019-09-01 | 6 min |
| Season 2019 | Episode 14 | What's Hiding at the Most Solitary Place on Earth? The Deep Sea | 2019-09-15 | 6 min |
| Season 2019 | Episode 15 | The Billion Ant Mega Colony and the Biggest War on Earth | 2019-09-29 | 6 min |
| Season 2019 | Episode 16 | What if We Nuke a City? | 2019-10-13 | 6 min |
| Season 2019 | Episode 17 | Neutron Stars – The Most Extreme Things that are not Black Holes | 2019-11-10 | 6 min |
| Season 2019 | Episode 18 | 1,000km Cable to the Stars - The Skyhook | 2019-11-17 | 6 min |
| Season 2019 | Episode 19 | An Antidote to Dissatisfaction | 2019-12-08 | 6 min |
| Season 2019 | Episode 20 | Overpopulation & Africa | 2019-12-15 | 6 min |
| Season 2019 | Episode 21 | How to Move the Sun: Stellar Engines | 2019-12-22 | 6 min |
| Season 2020 | Episode 1 | Milk. White Poison or Healthy Drink? | 2020-01-26 | 6 min |
| Season 2020 | Episode 2 | How to Make a Kurzgesagt Video in 1200 Hours | 2020-02-16 | 6 min |
| Season 2020 | Episode 3 | Why Blue Whales Don't Get Cancer - Peto's Paradox | 2020-03-01 | 6 min |
| Season 2020 | Episode 4 | The Coronavirus Explained & What You Should Do | 2020-03-19 | 6 min |
| Season 2020 | Episode 5 | Why Are You Alive – Life, Energy & ATP | 2020-05-10 | 6 min |
| Season 2020 | Episode 6 | The Past We Can Never Return To – The Anthropocene Reviewed | 2020-05-24 | 6 min |
| Season 2020 | Episode 7 | Could Solar Storms Destroy Civilization? Solar Flares & Coronal Mass Ejections | 2020-06-07 | 6 min |
| Season 2020 | Episode 8 | Who Is Responsible For Climate Change? – Who Needs To Fix It? | 2020-06-21 | 6 min |
| Season 2020 | Episode 9 | What Is Intelligence? Where Does it Begin? | 2020-07-12 | 6 min |
| Season 2020 | Episode 10 | What Do Alien Civilizations Look Like? The Kardashev Scale | 2020-08-02 | 6 min |
| Season 2020 | Episode 11 | Unlimited Resources From Space – Asteroid Mining | 2020-08-16 | 6 min |
| Season 2020 | Episode 12 | The Warrior Kingdoms of the Weaver Ant | 2020-08-30 | 6 min |
| Season 2020 | Episode 13 | The Largest Star in the Universe – Size Comparison | 2020-09-22 | 6 min |
| Season 2020 | Episode 14 | Is It Too Late To Stop Climate Change? Well, it's Complicated. | 2020-09-29 | 6 min |
| Season 2020 | Episode 15 | When Time Became History - The Human Era | 2020-10-06 | 6 min |
| Season 2020 | Episode 16 | Geoengineering: A Horrible Idea We Might Have to Do | 2020-10-27 | 6 min |
| Season 2020 | Episode 17 | How Large Can a Bacteria get? Life & Size 3 | 2020-11-10 | 6 min |
| Season 2020 | Episode 18 | What If Earth got Kicked Out of the Solar System? Rogue Earth | 2020-12-01 | 6 min |
| Season 2020 | Episode 19 | Can You Upload Your Mind & Live Forever? | 2020-12-10 | 6 min |
| Season 2020 | Episode 20 | What if We Nuke the Moon? | 2020-12-15 | 6 min |
| Season 2021 | Episode 1 | Worst Nuclear Accidents in History | 2021-02-02 | 6 min |
| Season 2021 | Episode 2 | What if the World turned to Gold? - The Gold Apocalypse | 2021-03-09 | 6 min |
| Season 2021 | Episode 3 | Do we Need Nuclear Energy to Stop Climate Change? | 2021-04-13 | 6 min |
| Season 2021 | Episode 4 | What If You Fall into a Black Hole? | 2021-04-27 | 12 min |
| Season 2021 | Episode 5 | TRUE Limits Of Humanity – The Final Border We Will Never Cross | 2021-05-11 | 12 min |
| Season 2021 | Episode 6 | What Are You Doing With Your Life? The Tail End | 2021-05-25 | 10 min |
| Season 2021 | Episode 7 | The Day the Dinosaurs Died – Minute by Minute | 2021-06-15 | 6 min |
| Season 2021 | Episode 8 | How To Terraform Venus (Quickly) | 2021-07-06 | 6 min |
| Season 2021 | Episode 9 | The Largest Black Hole in the Universe - Size Comparison | 2021-08-03 | 6 min |
| Season 2021 | Episode 10 | How The Immune System ACTUALLY Works – IMMUNE | 2021-08-10 | 6 min |
| Season 2021 | Episode 11 | This Virus Shouldn't Exist (But it Does) | 2021-08-31 | 6 min |
| Season 2021 | Episode 12 | Can YOU Fix Climate Change? | 2021-09-22 | 6 min |
| Season 2021 | Episode 13 | What Dinosaurs ACTUALLY Looked Like? | 2021-10-12 | 6 min |
| Season 2021 | Episode 14 | You Are Immune Against Every Disease | 2021-11-02 | 6 min |
| Season 2021 | Episode 15 | Is Meat Really that Bad? | 2021-11-30 | 6 min |
| Season 2021 | Episode 16 | ...And We'll Do it Again | 2021-12-07 | 6 min |
| Season 2021 | Episode 17 | Why We Should NOT Look For Aliens - The Dark Forest | 2021-12-14 | 6 min |
| Season 2022 | Episode 1 | What Happens if the Moon Crashes into Earth? | 2022-02-08 | 6 min |
| Season 2022 | Episode 2 | Are There Lost Alien Civilizations in Our Past? | 2022-03-01 | 6 min |
| Season 2022 | Episode 3 | We WILL Fix Climate Change! | 2022-04-05 | 6 min |
| Season 2022 | Episode 4 | The Most Horrible Parasite: Brain Eating Amoeba | 2022-05-03 | 6 min |
| Season 2022 | Episode 5 | You Are Not Where You Think You Are | 2022-05-17 | 10 min |
| Season 2022 | Episode 6 | Why Change Is so Hard - and How to Fix It | 2022-06-07 | 6 min |
| Season 2022 | Episode 7 | The Last Human – A Glimpse Into The Far Future | 2022-06-28 | 6 min |
| Season 2022 | Episode 8 | The Deadliest Virus on Earth | 2022-07-26 | 6 min |
| Season 2022 | Episode 9 | Is Civilization on the Brink of Collapse? | 2022-08-16 | 6 min |
| Season 2022 | Episode 10 | Why You Are Lonely and How to Make Friends | 2022-09-06 | 6 min |
| Season 2022 | Episode 11 | Let's Travel to The Most Extreme Place in The Universe | 2022-10-04 | 6 min |
| Season 2022 | Episode 12 | What Happens if a Supervolcano Blows Up? | 2022-10-18 | 6 min |
| Season 2022 | Episode 13 | Why Don't We Shoot Nuclear Waste Into Space? | 2022-11-08 | 11 min |
| Season 2022 | Episode 14 | The Most Extreme Explosion in the Universe | 2022-11-23 | 6 min |
| Season 2022 | Episode 15 | The Horror of the Slaver Ant | 2022-12-06 | 6 min |
| Season 2022 | Episode 16 | How To Terraform Mars - WITH LASERS | 2022-12-11 | 6 min |
| Season 2022 | Episode 17 | Black Hole Star – The Star That Shouldn't Exist | 2022-12-15 | 6 min |
| Season 2023 | Episode 1 | The Most Complex Language in the World | 2023-02-14 | 6 min |
| Season 2023 | Episode 2 | Your Immune System is More Dangerous than You Think | 2023-02-28 | 6 min |
| Season 2023 | Episode 3 | The Business Behind Kurzgesagt | 2023-03-28 | 6 min |
| Season 2023 | Episode 4 | Why Aliens Might Already Be On Their Way To Us | 2023-04-11 | 6 min |
| Season 2023 | Episode 6 | The Black Hole That Kills Galaxies | 2023-06-11 | 6 min |
| Season 2023 | Episode 7 | The Reason Why Cancer is so Hard to Beat | 2023-06-18 | 6 min |
| Season 2023 | Episode 8 | The Most Dangerous Weapon Is Not Nuclear | 2023-07-02 | 6 min |
| Season 2023 | Episode 9 | The (Second) Deadliest Virus | 2023-08-08 | 6 min |
| Season 2023 | Episode 10 | What Happens If You Destroy A Black Hole? | 2023-08-16 | 6 min |
| Season 2023 | Episode 11 | How A Nuclear War Will Start - Minute by Minute | 2023-08-22 | 6 min |
| Season 2023 | Episode 12 | We Did The Math - You Are Dead! | 2023-09-12 | 6 min |
| Season 2023 | Episode 13 | Why Korea is Dying Out | 2023-10-04 | 6 min |
| Season 2023 | Episode 14 | Ancient Life as Old as the Universe | 2023-10-10 | 6 min |
| Season 2023 | Episode 15 | 4.5 Billion Years in 1 Hour | 2023-11-10 | 6 min |
| Season 2023 | Episode 16 | How to Win an Interstellar War | 2023-11-15 | 6 min |
| Season 2023 | Episode 17 | The Last Thing That Will Ever Happen | 2023-11-21 | 6 min |
| Season 2023 | Episode 18 | The Internet is Worse Than Ever – Now What? | 2023-11-29 | 6 min |
| Season 2023 | Episode 19 | 3 Ways to Destroy the Universe | 2023-12-08 | 6 min |
| Season 2023 | Episode 20 | Your Tattoo is INSIDE Your Immune System. Literally | 2023-12-12 | 6 min |
| Season 2023 | Episode 21 | From The SMALLEST To The LARGEST - The Ultimate Size Comparison | 2023-12-17 | 6 min |
| Season 2024 | Episode 1 | Did The Future Already Happen? - The Paradox of Time | 2024-01-30 | 6 min |
| Season 2024 | Episode 2 | ...To Survive a Nuclear War | 2024-02-20 | 6 min |
| Season 2024 | Episode 3 | The Paradox of an Infinite Universe | 2024-02-27 | 6 min |
| Season 2024 | Episode 4 | How The Dinosaurs Actually Died | 2024-03-26 | 6 min |
| Season 2024 | Episode 5 | There Are Thousands of Alien Empires in The Milky Way | 2024-04-16 | 6 min |
| Season 2024 | Episode 6 | Smoking is Awesome | 2024-05-07 | 6 min |
| Season 2024 | Episode 7 | This Black Hole Could be Bigger Than The Universe | 2024-05-21 | 6 min |
| Season 2024 | Episode 8 | Are You an NPC? | 2024-06-11 | 6 min |
| Season 2024 | Episode 9 | This Disease is Deadlier Than The Plague | 2024-06-25 | 6 min |
| Season 2024 | Episode 10 | We Need to Rethink Exercise – The Workout Paradox | 2024-07-16 | 6 min |
| Season 2024 | Episode 11 | A.I. ‐ Humanity's Final Invention? | 2024-08-06 | 6 min |
| Season 2024 | Episode 12 | Fever Feels Horrible, but is Actually Awesome! | 2024-08-13 | 6 min |
| Season 2024 | Episode 13 | Let's do REAL Time Travel (with Physics) | 2024-08-27 | 6 min |
| Season 2024 | Episode 14 | We Need to Rethink Exercise (Updated Version) | 2024-09-12 | 6 min |
| Season 2024 | Episode 15 | Why Scientists Are Puzzled By These Viruses | 2024-09-17 | 6 min |
| Season 2024 | Episode 16 | ...Will Save Your Life Next Week | 2024-09-24 | 6 min |