Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell - Episode Guide

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What Are You?

Episode: 2016-05-31 | Airdate: May 31, 2016 (6 min)

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Loneliness

Episode: 2019-02-17 | Airdate: Feb 17, 2019 (6 min)

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You Are Not Where You Think You Are

Episode: 2022-05-17 | Airdate: May 17, 2022 (10 min)

You Are Not Where You Think You Are

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 that? While this may feel like a daft question, it turns out that the concept of an absolute position is something humans made up.

In a nutshell, the universe is a big bag of space that has things in it. If someone removed all these things, the stars and planets and black holes and dust, there would just be empty space left. In empty space, the concept of having a position loses all meaning. Empty space is uniform, the same everywhere.

Why Don't We Shoot Nuclear Waste Into Space?

Episode: 2022-11-08 | Airdate: Nov 8, 2022 (11 min)

Why Don't We Shoot Nuclear Waste Into Space?

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 reasonable: Shooting nuclear waste into space. It is one of those concepts that seems like an easy fix for one of the main problems with nuclear energy. But it turns out this idea is not just bad but horribly bad and it gets worse the longer you think about it.

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