It’s Duck’s birthday! 🎉✨
He is so happy to have you and all his other friends with him on this special day!
But wait... where is your party hat?
Good thing Duck made free printable party hats for you as a small way of saying thank you from all of us here at kurzgesagt! 💖
Just download, print, and craft them – we'll see you at the party! ✨<...
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What is outside of the universe? We know that the universe had a beginning 14 billion years ago and that it has been expanding ever since. But something that is expanding should also have an edge, right? What would you see if you went there?
2024-02-27 15:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post
We pre-made a batch of pins, especially for you, our Pa...
2024-02-26 15:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post
A nuclear bomb is the most devastating explosion ever created. One bomb can end tens of thousands of lives immediately and hundreds of thousands through the radioactive aftermath. However, the worst part comes afterward: a nuclear winter that might kill billions, potentially leading to the complete collapse of our civilization.
In a nuclear winter, there are no winners – only...
2024-02-20 15:07:21 +0000 UTC View Post
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2024-02-16 15:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post
No matter who you spend Valentine's Day with, we got you! ✨
Surprise a birb in your life with two free printable Valentine's Day-themed postcards:
Gaze at a black hole that's as massive as your love, or show that you will be with them until the end of this world.
And they say romance is dead...
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Is your future already written? Do your past, present, and future all exist right now? Surprisingly, the answer could be yes. Let's take a look at what time is and how it works – in our first video of the year!
2024-01-30 15:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post
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For us at the kurzgesagt treehouse, January is an essential month to regroup, brainstorm new ideas, and set priorities for the year.
In this post, we want to give you an update on the exciting changes that we have planned for you in the upcoming months!
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The year 12,023 of the Human Era is nearing its end – and what a year it has been!
Thank you for being on this journey with us and sharing our passion for the universe and the world we live in.
We hope you have a wonderful end of the year and an amazing 12,024.
Much love from all of us at kurzgesagt ❤
You are in the middle of everything in the Universe. Let us go on a fantastical journey together - to the impossibly small and the incomprehensibly large!
2023-12-17 15:02:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Your tattoos are inside your immune system, literally. With each very tasteful piece of art, you kick start a drama with millions of deaths, grand sacrifices and your immune system stepping in to protect you from yourself. Let us get under your skin with our newest video.
2023-12-12 15:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
The universe is going to die one day, and a fight between two titans will decide our cosmic fate.
On one side of this galactic battlefield, we have all the matter in the universe; on the other side, empty space infused with dark energy. Whoever wins will kill the universe in fun ways.
But who will that be?
We're looking at three possible ways to destroy the u...
2023-12-08 15:02:01 +0000 UTC View Post
In 2022 nearly half of Americans expected a civil war in the next few years, one in five now believes political violence is justified. And it is not just the US but around the world. People increasingly see themselves as part of opposing teams.
There are many different reasons for this, but one gets blamed a lot: social media. Social media divides us, makes us more extreme and less...
2023-11-29 15:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
The universe today is happy and healthy, with exciting things going on – but at some point the night will turn dark. Everything that once was, will peacefully sleep forever.
But what is the last thing that will ever happen? Let's travel to the end of the universe…
2023-11-21 15:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Earth is 4.5 billion years old - which is approximately the same amount of time it took us to create this video.
We’ve scaled the complete timeline of our Earth’s life into our first animated movie! Every second shows about a million years of the planet’s evolution.
Hop on a musical train ride and experience how long a billion years really is. It’s the perfect ba...
2023-11-10 16:16:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Life has existed on one planet for about 4 billion years, for all we know. But it might have started right after the Big Bang, when the universe was much stranger and more fantastic than today. A universe that might have allowed life to develop absolutely anywhere. The cosmos might be full of the seeds of life, sleeping in a dead desert, waiting for a few drops of rain to explosively bloom and ...
2023-10-10 14:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Every two years, one million Japanese disappear, China’s population will halve by the end of the century, the median age in Italy has reached 48. All around the world, birth rates are crashing – Is humanity dying out? What is going on, and how bad is it?
2023-10-05 14:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Attention, cosmic adventurer! The new 12,024 Calendar is available now – but only for our Patrons.
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Absolutely everything you think about yourself and the universe could be an illusion. As far as you know, you are real and exist in a universe that was born 14 billion years ago and that gave rise to galaxies, stars, the Earth, and finally you. Except, maybe not.
2023-09-12 14:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Dear patrons,
we have prepared a fun little gift we would like to share with you: Download this exclusive kurzgesagt freebie, print it at home, get your crafting tools and create your very own papercraft duck.
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Mr. President! Nuclear missiles will strike our country in 14 minutes. I know it’s your first day in office so I’m going to walk you through it, but you’re the only one who can authorize our nuclear retaliation in response and you’ve only got a few minutes to make a decision!
2023-08-22 14:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Black holes can destroy everything – but can they be destroyed? What happens if we push physics to the absolute limits, maybe even break it and the universe in the process? Let’s create a tiny black hole, about the mass of our moon, in the Kurzgesagt Labs and try to rip it apart.
2023-08-16 14:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Just give it a spin, and let it inspire your existential dread of the day.
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Few of the monsters that evolution created have been so successful at hurting us as the variola virus, responsible for smallpox. The carnage it caused was so terrible and merciless that it compelled humankind, for the first time, to act truly globally. It was one of the greatest wins of our species over the ancient powers of nature, all made possible by… cows.
2023-08-08 14:01:02 +0000 UTC View Post
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Today we'll have a look at our Dinosaur Diptych Posters and how they came to be.
We hope you'll have fun with this glimpse into the past ☄️
2023-07-08 14:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
A breathtaking scientific revolution is taking place – biotechnology has been progressing at stunning speed, giving us the tools to eventually gain control over biology. On the one hand solving the deadliest diseases while also creating viruses more dangerous than nuclear bombs, able to devastate humanity.
What is going on?
2023-07-02 13:02:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi Everyone!
Today we'll show you the making of the bacteriophage plushie, and all the fluffy steps it took to bring this tiny killing machine to life! 🦠
Have fun!
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 body fights cancer, more exciting than any movie.
How does this battle for survival unfold?
2023-06-18 13:01:10 +0000 UTC View Post
The universe isn't just a vast empty ocean sprinkled with galaxies – most of the atoms are actually drifting in between, in the intergalactic medium.
If we look closely, we can see who is in charge here: Quasars, the single most powerful objects in existence. As small as a grain of sand compared to the amazon river, they reside in the centers of some galaxies, shining with the power of...