Kurzgesagt - In a Nutshell: 2019
Season 7 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Kurzgesagt - In a Nutshell Season 6.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 7 Progress Shield
Is Organic Really Better? Healthy Food or Trendy Scam?
Jan 13, 2019 · 9 min
Organic food is a huge trend: it promises a healthier and better life. But can Organic food really live up to the expectations or is it just baloney?
Building a Mars Base Is a Horrible Idea: Let’s Do It!
Feb 3, 2019 · 10 min
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.
Loneliness
Feb 17, 2019 · 13 min
Everybody feels lonely sometimes. But only few of us are aware how important this feeling was for our ancestors - and that our modern world can turn it into something that really h
The Origin of Consciousness — How Unaware Things Became Aware
Mar 17, 2019 · 10 min
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 unaw
What If We Detonated All Nuclear Bombs at Once?
Mar 31, 2019 · 8 min
What happens if make a huge pile from all 15,000 nuclear bombs and pull the trigger? And what happens if we make an even bigger pile?
The Most Dangerous Stuff in the Universe — Strange Stars Explained
Apr 14, 2019 · 9 min
Inside neutron stars we can find the weirdest and most dangerous substance in the universe: Strange matter. What is strange matter, how dangerous is it and what can it tell us abou
The Side Effects of Vaccines — How High Is the Risk?
May 12, 2019 · 11 min
Vaccines are one of our best tools to prevent dangerous diseases, but they come with side effects. So would it be safer not to vaccinate?
Is the EU Democratic? Does Your Vote Matter?
May 19, 2019 · 8 min
Being a citizen of the European Union means that many aspects of our lives are regulated by a weird entity. It feels like a huge bureaucracy is making decisions over our heads. How
Is Meat Bad for You? Is Meat Unhealthy?
Jun 9, 2019 · 10 min
Over the last few years eating meat has increasingly been associated with health risks, like heart disease, cancer and an early death. How unhealthy is meat really?
Could Your Phone Hurt You? Electromagnetic Pollution
Jul 7, 2019 · 8 min
Electricity is all around us, all the time. It makes our lives easier, safer, more fun and most of us never think about it. But is there such a thing as too much electricity? Elect
Tiny Bombs in Your Blood — The Complement System
Jul 28, 2019 · 9 min
One of the key players of our immune system is the complement system. An army of millions and trillions of tiny bombs, which work together in a complex and elegant dance to stop in
The World War of the Ants — The Army Ant
Aug 11, 2019 · 9 min
Every day billions of soldiers fight a merciless war on thousands of fronts, that has been going on for over one hundred million years: the world war of the ants.
The Egg — A Short Story
Sep 1, 2019 · 8 min
The Egg, a story by Andy Weir, animated by Kurzgesagt. This video was more than 2 years in the making and is a little bit different than the others on this channel. We hope you lik
What’s Hiding at the Most Solitary Place on Earth? The Deep Sea
Sep 15, 2019 · 12 min
Sometimes the world feels boring. All the remote islands are visited, the arctic conquered, the dense jungles discovered. Except, there is still a place to explore: A wet deadly de
The Billion Ant Mega Colony and the Biggest War on Earth
Sep 29, 2019 · 10 min
In nearly every corner of the Earth, ants wage war against each other. Their weapons are what nature gave them. Some have strong armour, deadly stingers or sharp mandibles. And the
What If We Nuke a City?
Oct 13, 2019 · 9 min
As you may have noticed, we like to blow stuff up on this channel. So when the International Red Cross approached us to collaborate on a video about nuclear weapons, we were more t
Neutron Stars — The Most Extreme Things That Are Not Black Holes
Nov 10, 2019 · 9 min
Neutron stars are one of the most extreme and violent things in the universe. Giant atomic nuclei, only a few kilometers in diameter but as massive as stars. And they owe their exi
1,000 km Cable to the Stars — The Skyhook
Nov 17, 2019 · 8 min
Getting to space is incredibly hard, expensive and needs a lot of resources. A more efficient way to get there is a Skyhook (or Spacetether), an ever rotating cable with a counter
An Antidote to Dissatisfaction
Dec 8, 2019 · 10 min
Everybody is familiar with the feeling that things are not as they should be. That you are not successful enough, your relationships not satisfying enough. That you don’t have the
Overpopulation & Africa
Dec 15, 2019 · 8 min
For most of our history, the human population grew slowly. Until new discoveries brought us more food and made us live longer. In just a hundred years the human population quadrupl
How to Move the Sun: Stellar Engines
Dec 22, 2019 · 9 min
Nothing in the Universe is static. In the milky way, billions of stars orbit the galactic center. Some, like our sun, are pretty consistent, keeping a distance of around 30,000 lig