Cannabis is finally being decriminalized in more and more places around the world. And for very good reasons! Compared to other legal drugs such as alcohol, cannabis is pretty mild and most users enjoy... continue reading

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"Repeat after us: ... The. Sun. Is. Not. Yellow. !!!!!! ..."

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"... An undead city under siege, soldiers and police ruthlessly shooting down waves of zombies that flood from infected streets, trying to escape and infect more cities. This is what happens when your... continue reading

posted by ant 1 year 6 months ago • 43 views • 10:25

"... A more detailed article on how we research our videos: https://medium.com/@Kurzgesagt/how-research-and-factchecking-work-at-kurzgesagt-f5b239188255 In 2023, Kurzgesagt has existed for 10 years... continue reading

posted by ant 1 year 8 months 3 weeks ago • 47 views • 9:58

"... Sources & further reading: https://sites.google.com/view/sources-slaver-ants/?pli=1 Everything changed when the slaver nation attacked. What used to be a thriving colony is now a captured country.... continue reading

posted by ant 2 years 2 weeks ago • 52 views • 10:44

From YouTube, "Here in the Kurzgesagt labs, we test very important ideas to see what happens when you blow things up or play with black holes. Many of you suggested that we look into an idea that sounds... continue reading

posted by w1ndex 2 years 1 month 1 week ago • 89 views • 10:55

From YouTube, "The Earth is a gigantic ball of semi-molten rock, with a heart of iron as hot as the surface of the Sun. Titanic amounts of heat left over from its birth and the radioactive decay of trillions... continue reading

posted by w1ndex 2 years 2 months ago • 354 views • 11:59

Look around you. Where are you? Where is this place you are occupying? Somewhere in a room, maybe in a city on a continent on a planet orbiting a star in a galaxy among billions. But… where is all of... continue reading

posted by eric3579 2 years 7 months 1 week ago • 225 views • 9:55

From YouTube, "Our home is burning. Rapid climate change is destabilizing our world. It seems our emissions will not fall quickly enough to avoid runaway warming and we may soon hit tipping points that... continue reading

posted by w1ndex 2 years 8 months 2 weeks ago • 145 views • 16:11

From Youtube, "Kurzgesagt is lying to you, in every video, even in this one. Because our videos distill very complex subjects into flashy ten-minute videos and unfortunately, the reality is, well, complicated.... continue reading

posted by w1ndex 3 years 1 week ago • 163 views • 10:28

From Youtube, "You are not a person, you are a planet, made of roughly 40 trillion cells. There is so much of you, that if your cells were human-sized, you would be as big as 20 Mount Everests. For your... continue reading

posted by w1ndex 3 years 1 month 2 weeks ago • 313 views • 11:46

It turns out that there are giant viruses that blur the line between life and death – and other viruses hunting them.

posted by Mordhaus 3 years 3 months 2 weeks ago • 79 views • 11:10

The human immune system is the most complex biological system we know, after the human brain, and yet, most of us never learn how it works. Or what it is. Your immune System consists of hundreds of tiny... continue reading

posted by eric3579 3 years 4 months 1 week ago • 726 views • 10:48

From Youtube, "...66 million years ago, maybe on a Tuesday afternoon, life was the same as it had been the day before or a thousand years before or pretty much a million years before. Things were good... continue reading

posted by w1ndex 3 years 6 months 1 week ago • 305 views • 12:02

From Youtube, "Black holes are the most powerful and extreme things in the universe and they are wildly weird and complicated. What would happen if you fell inside one and what are they really?"

posted by w1ndex 3 years 7 months 3 weeks ago • 235 views • 12:15

From Youtube, "Let us explore the scientific mystery of what would happen to you if Earth suddenly turned into gold! The “Midaspocalypse”, based on the ancient tale of King Midas who was cursed so... continue reading

posted by w1ndex 3 years 9 months 2 weeks ago • 80 views • 9:17

From Youtube, "The night sky seems peaceful and orderly. But in reality, stars are careening through the galaxy at speeds of hundreds of thousands of kilometers per hour. Not bound by static formations... continue reading

posted by w1ndex 4 years 2 weeks ago • 326 views • 9:46

From Youtube, "In and out, in and out. Staying alive is about doing things. This very second, your cells are combusting glucose molecules with oxygen to make energy available, which keeps you alive for... continue reading

posted by w1ndex 4 years 1 month 1 week ago • 324 views • 11:05

From Youtube, "By the end of the 21st century, humanity is becoming desperate. Decades of heatwaves and droughts have led to unusually poor harvests, while the warming oceans yield fewer fish each year.... continue reading

posted by w1ndex 4 years 1 month 3 weeks ago • 512 views • 9:10