Is Organic Really Better? Healthy Food or Trendy Scam?

Building a Mars Base Is a Horrible Idea: Let’s Do It!

Loneliness

The Origin of Consciousness — How Unaware Things Became Aware

What If We Detonated All Nuclear Bombs at Once?

The Most Dangerous Stuff in the Universe — Strange Stars Explained

The Side Effects of Vaccines — How High Is the Risk?

Is the EU Democratic? Does Your Vote Matter?

Is Meat Bad for You? Is Meat Unhealthy?

Could Your Phone Hurt You? Electromagnetic Pollution

Tiny Bombs in Your Blood — The Complement System

The World War of the Ants — The Army Ant

The Egg — A Short Story

What’s Hiding at the Most Solitary Place on Earth? The Deep Sea

The Billion Ant Mega Colony and the Biggest War on Earth

What If We Nuke a City?

Neutron Stars — The Most Extreme Things That Are Not Black Holes

1,000 km Cable to the Stars — The Skyhook

An Antidote to Dissatisfaction

Overpopulation & Africa

How to Move the Sun: Stellar Engines

2019

Your Time Machine Broke - At The Worst Time In History

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Kurzgesagt - In a Nutshell

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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.