Why should you care about the well-being of people half a globe away?
This video was a struggle. I wanted to talk about reasons to make the world better that don't hit the usual cords. Yes, doing good things is the "right" thing to do, but is there more? Could there be a compelling arg...
2018-03-18 13:10:53 +0000 UTC View Post
Exciting news! It is long overdue to bring our Duck into the real world as a plush toy! But Duck needs some friends. So we need your help to recruit two birds worthy of being Duck’s companions.
Link to the poll: http://bit.ly/2Ix7tlM<...
2018-03-16 16:38:26 +0000 UTC View PostHey Patrons, time for an update post! Feedback is very welcome!
First of all – do you guys have any questions? If so ask them in the comments and I’ll try to answer all of them tonight!
1. Release dates. From now on we just make as many videos as we can and release them...
2018-03-02 09:39:34 +0000 UTC View Post
Is String Theory the final solution for all of physic’s questions or an overhyped dead end?
Thanks so much to all of you for making this all possible!
2018-03-01 13:31:42 +0000 UTC View Post
All new video tomorrow! But you can already listen to the music by Epic Mountain today: http://bit.ly/2CsAbob
2018-02-28 14:27:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Homeopathy is immensely popular, but also very controversial. What is behind this treatment method?
2018-02-22 14:14:55 +0000 UTC View PostHey patrons!
For some reason, unfortunately it sometimes happened that you might not have received your reward...
We are so sorry for that!
We appreciate your support so much and the rewards are well deserved!
Some of you have already reached out to us and we are always happy to ...
2018-02-19 12:47:06 +0000 UTC View PostHey patrons!
Just a short note:
We tidied up our dropbox folders over the last few weeks and the music from our videos has a new home.
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/639tca0s0vafvft/A...
2018-02-14 15:49:30 +0000 UTC View Post
Finding alien life on a distant planet would be amazing news - or would it? If we are not the only intelligent life in the universe, this probably means our days are numbered and doom is certain.
Dear Patrons,
Thank you all for your support & patience. We are back at full speed and will ...
2018-02-01 13:01:24 +0000 UTC View PostOur friends from Epic Mountain released their 4th album with all the beautifully composed music they created for our videos throughout 2017:
Spotify
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We are going on christmas break now. There are things in the works but there might not be a video in January as we try to prepare for 12,018 as best as we can. The official video goal for next year is 20. So lets see. As always, thank you so much for supporting us here. Happy holidays and all! ...
2017-12-21 13:38:57 +0000 UTC View Post
What is UBI? How would free money change our lives.
Special thanks to you, our patrons!
2017-12-07 14:13:18 +0000 UTC View Post
How can many stupid things combine to form smart things? How can proteins become living cells? How become lots of ants a colony? What is emergence?
2017-11-16 15:27:16 +0000 UTC View PostYesterday it happened again. A Youtube wide error that affected most creators. Videos did not show up in sub boxes. Most of our subscribers were not notified. Everybody who uploaded yesterday was kind of screwed. Our upload yesterday will have between 500K to 1 million views less because of that. Wh...
2017-11-04 06:17:18 +0000 UTC View Post
What if we could stop aging forever? There are actually a few promising things being worked on by scientists right now.
And thus our aging series is concluded. For this year. We might do some more in 12,018. <3
2017-11-03 13:34:03 +0000 UTC View PostHey Patrons! As you may have seen elsewhere, Kurzgesagt reached 5 million subscribers recently. I wanted to write a few words to you about that but didn’t have a quiet moment until now.
So yeah. 5 million subscribers. It is slowly sinking in. You know… you guys are responsible for Kurzgesagt g...
2017-10-30 13:44:36 +0000 UTC View Post
If you could decide today... how long do you want to live?
A special video, part of a four video collaboration with CGPGrey : )
2017-10-20 13:04:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey Patrons! After some exhausting weeks, we are happy to announce:
The new 12,018 Human Era Calendar is OUT NOW. You can order it for 10 days until the 20th of October!
https://store.dftba.com/products/h...
2017-10-10 12:45:44 +0000 UTC View Post
This video was a lot of fun to research and to do. We might explore the world of microbes in much more detail next year!
Also the 12,018 Calendar will be available next week. There will be a special newsletter for it, you can subscribe to it here: 2017-10-05 12:39:34 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everybody! New video and it is also a collab with Vsauce3. Tried a few new things here : ) Now that we had two more speculative videos in a row, next week we'll go super legit serious science again, with one of our favorite topics: Biology. Until then, thank you for your support : )
Also... th...
2017-09-21 12:33:52 +0000 UTC View Post
After so much serious hard science last time we are having a bit of fun this week.
2017-09-07 12:30:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Dear Patrons,
Our new calendar for the year 12,018 is nearly finished. We are so excited to show you all the pages. It'll be even more epic than last year!
If you want to support the production of the calendar and get your own unique place in it – theres a special pledge ...
2017-09-06 12:52:50 +0000 UTC View PostHey everybody.
So in June I did a post saying that I was pretty unhappy with how things were going and that we needed to work on our process and improve ourselves. Time for an update.
We improved our productivity something between 50% and 100% (depending on metric, department etc). In ...
2017-09-05 13:03:17 +0000 UTC View Post
What? Another video? And it's ten minutes long? YES! Thanks to you. We can't stress enough that Patreon is the most important part in enabling this. We hope you like the video. Next one in.... two weeks! : )
2017-08-24 12:44:41 +0000 UTC View Post
Size is the most under appreciated regulators of living things. Let us demonstrate that by throwing animals from buildings.
Youtube got kind of unreliable to notify people when we upload. So we made a Kurzgesagt Newsletter: http://eepurl...
2017-08-10 12:07:57 +0000 UTC View Post
We tried something new this time. Many people seem to feel existential dread when they watch our videos. So we wanted to talk a bit about the world view that is behind our scripts. The philosophy of Kurzgesagt, so to speak. Hope you like it! Back to real science next video.
This video also starts ...
2017-07-26 12:17:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey Patrons!
Let us start with the pleasant things! Here are three short bonus videos! We made them for the Royal Tyrell Museum in early 2016, they are permanently displayed there in an exhibition about evolution. We finally got permission to share them. Hope it is a small bonus – let us know if...
2017-07-19 16:46:38 +0000 UTC View PostHey everybody, I have good and bad news for you.
The bad news first – We need more time for all sorts of things.
Kurzgesagt is restructuring itself right now. The idea is to be more efficient and identify all the places where we waste time and resources. As fun as it was to pos...
2017-06-16 13:23:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everybody. So the vote was pretty clear and the majority of you wanted a bonus video. As a result I spent my weekend writing a few drafts. But it always ended up being one of two things:
- It became a list video where the different aspects were disconnected. Nothing against Youtubers who...
2017-06-12 14:21:20 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey Patrons – We would like your input: Should we make a bonus video about automation.
So as you might have heard on twitter, we cut about three minutes from the automation video to make it more concise.
But the parts we cut were already illustrated and animated. One of them is the clip I ...
2017-06-09 14:30:23 +0000 UTC View Post