Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell

New 10-minute Behind the Scenes on Patreon🎬

Ever wondered how we create a kurzgesagt video from start to finish?
In this episode, we take you behind the scenes of “We Fell For The Oldest Lie On The Internet”. Our Art Director Daniela walks you through our creative workflow, from early sketches to storyboards, and how we filmed real-life footage in our office to give the video a moody, true-detective vibe.

Watch it now on Patreon: kgs.link/bts-bloodvessels

PS: All Behind the Scenes videos and wallpapers are free with the Producer tier or higher.

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Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell

Attention, dear passengers of the epic kurzgesagt Space Tour! 🚀
Prepare for launch: Boarding passes ready, mission pins secured, and your physics-defying wormhole mug packed! Bundle your space travel essentials now and save up to 15% – only in the kurzgesagt shop: shop.kgs.link/collections/space-tour/
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3 days ago | [YT] | 3,148

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🚨 Limited Pin Drop Alert! 🚨

Ducktopia Labs has managed the unthinkable: Strange Matter – the mind-breaking substance that might just rewrite physics – has been safely contained in an enamel pin. It’s mesmerizing in daylight and glows in the dark. ✨ Get it here: shop.kgs.link/Strange-Pin

Due to containment protocol limits, it's only available for 48 hours… and then never again.
Secure your specimen before the window closes!

1 week ago | [YT] | 3,629

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Immune cells like to play hide and seek, and they usually win!

When a virus infects your cells, it will often try to use their internal mechanisms to replicate inside of them. After they notice that they have been infected, they release hundreds of thousands of proteins called interferons, whose task is to interfere with viruses. One of the ways they do that is by telling your cells to become super transparent. Generally, in order for a cell to become "transparent", it creates display windows into its insides, called MHC class I molecules. Cells constantly produce substances to stay alive, and to showcase to your immune cells what is going on inside them, they take random samples of their products and put them into these tiny display windows to give a peek inside. Interferons make a cell super transparent by telling it to make WAY more display windows. If a cell is infected and forced to make virus parts, your immune cells will dock at the MHC molecules and recognize the "hostile fragment" as hostile. They then send small vesicles called lysosomes with toxic proteins into the infected cell. Finally, those toxic proteins will puncture the membrane and cause the cell and the viruses inside it to die.

2 weeks ago | [YT] | 13,117

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What's the easiest way to make friends?

People make friends with other people when they spend casual time together. This is how our ancestors formed their relationships, because humans lived in small, close-knit communities in which options for making friends were limited, so we just formed good relationships with the people who were around us. This is why it is so easy to form new friendships in school and university. In fact, proximity can be more important than similar interests. One study found that in student dormitories, the distance between rooms was the strongest friendship predictor – living closer together meant a higher chance of becoming friends. Another study showed that being physically present in a class a lot, without saying a word, makes others more sympathetic to you. So the most important principle of making friends is to regularly spend time with people in the real world. This alone can make it happen automatically and trumps all other advice.

1 month ago | [YT] | 14,918

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Supervolcano? More like, super trouble!

In all seriousness, the term “Supervolcano” is a media invention and not a scientific term. The main issue with them is that not every eruption from a supervolcano is a supereruption. What makes supervolcanoes special is that they have been waiting to erupt for hundreds of thousands of years. Pressure builds up in colossal magma reservoirs several kilometers deep, until it becomes strong enough to lift the rock above it by several meters. Rocks crack under the pressure, until they finally give way and billions of tons of gas and ash blast out at supersonic speed. It's an insane explosion of magnitude 8 on the Volcano Explosivity Index (VEI), meaning that the measured deposits for that eruption exceed 1,000 cubic kilometers, and it has an impact on every corner of the globe. The most recent supereruption is the Oruanui eruption 26,500 years ago in New Zealand, and it is estimated that one of the few volcanoes capable of supereruptions on Earth could cause a catastrophic eruption every 17,000 years on average.

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Meet the Star Birds crew! 🚀
This team of daring explorers is ready to venture into the unknown. Are you ready to guide them?
Wishlist our upcoming PC game on Steam and join the adventure later this year: kgs.link/starbirds

1 month ago | [YT] | 16,684

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What is nuclear waste?

Nuclear waste is a fuzzy term and comes in categories which vary from country to country.
Generally, there are three broad levels.

90% of it is low level nuclear waste: tools, gloves or trash used at a nuclear facility that could be weakly contaminated, and contain short-lived radioactivity. All of that is generally safe for normal disposal. 7% of it is intermediate level nuclear waste. That mostly includes materials that have been in close proximity to a reactor core long enough to become dangerously radioactive. With proper handling, it is either safely buried or melted down and mixed into glass or concrete and stored deep underground. Lastly, the remaining 3% is high level nuclear waste and mostly consists of very concentrated, spent fuel taken out of a reactor core. It's made of various dangerous and often highly radioactive elements, so it must be handled, stored and disposed of with a lot of care.

2 months ago | [YT] | 12,341

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New 16-minute Behind the Scenes on Patreon🎬

Ever wondered how we bring our characters to life? In our “How A Nuclear War Will Start – Minute by Minute video”, we created one of our most detailed character rigs yet – the General. It’s not only highly detailed but also features an "angriness-slider".
Our latest 16-minute Behind the Scenes video breaks it all down and also shows you how the 3D space was created.

Watch now on Patreon: kgs.link/MrPresidentBTS

PS: With the Producer tier or higher you get free access to all Behind the Scenes videos and wallpaper collections 👀

2 months ago | [YT] | 7,145

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Small gift for you 🎁

After gathering wallpapers and soundtracks from all of our 12,024 videos and adding them to our shop's "12,024 Wallpaper and Music Collection", we've also added a small gift for everyone who'd like to start their year with brand new wallpapers!
It's a selection of 4 wallpapers adjusted for all devices, and they are available for free to everyone on our most recent post on Patreon: kgs.link/4jBK3gD ✨

These wallpapers feature various themes, from the tiniest viruses to the gigantic black holes. We hope these wallpapers will spark your curiosity and remind you how fascinating the world around us really is! Let us know which one is your favorite! 🤗✨

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