video explainers
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Smart Video Reveals How Antibiotics May Have Created A Dangerous Apocalyptic Scenario
Video: Kurzgesagt details the “antibiotic apocalypse” in their latest video and it’s a doozy. Basically, our willy nilly use of antibiotics to treat illness and our irresponsible antibiotic use in animals have created bacteria that have become superbugs. These superbugs are now immune to those antibiotics, which could lead to a pandemic. Luckily, it’s not…
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What Happens If You Fall Into A Black Hole?
Video: Two theories, from the always knowledgable Kurz Gesagt: you die a quick death or you die a very quick death. No one knows for sure but you probably don’t want to be the first person to find out. If you do, you’ll notice that time moves slower inside the black hole. But once you’re…
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Where Does Gold Come From And Can We Just Make Our Own?
Where does gold come from? The answer: space, basically. Supernovae, specifically. Alchemy, sort of. So gold doesn’t actually originate from the core of Earth but actually from a star explosion that showers the universe with debris and well, gold. That means there’s not that much of it actually on Earth (all the gold mined in…
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What Exactly Is Dark Matter?
We don’t know what dark matter is but we do know it exists. We know what it’s not though and Kurz Gesagt does its thing with another animated video explainer trying to break down what dark matter and dark energy is. Which is basically, we know something is out there, it interacts with gravity and…