It was a video specifically explaining brown dwarfs, kind of like the white dwarf video, but I just can't find it anywhere! Am I just misremembering and it was a part of another video or was there an independent brown dwarf themed video? I've also noticed that almost all of their outros are gone, and (I might be wrong tho) their older videos are shorter than I remember them being (in my head they were all 12-20 min long but now most are only up to 10 min long, maybe it's cuz the outro is cut off, although I still feel like they're lacking a bit in content in contrast to what I remember) And one last thing: in my head they had many more videos than they actually do

Hi. My kid saw the black hole plushy tonight. I live in Canada, it's gonna cost $75 plus duties. Anyone know a discount code? This is a big hit to Santa's wallet..lol

I found this strange that there’s no new video but there was a teaser posted yesterday

Using light to transfer data os so cool, that it can download 1 TB in a second but this technology never came to reality

Does anyone happen to know what diameter these stickers are? They look 10cm but sadly I found no sources for this.

Hey everyone! I've been a fan of these videos/content for a while and trying to find one of the past sponsors mentioned in the show.

Apologies it's a vague question; This upcoming year I have a buddy that is going to have a whole lot of spare time stuck in a chair. I'm looking to gift them a subscription to a learning platform, kinda like `oreilly` for papers to read and mini/short classes to take. I recall that Kurzgesagt had a sponsor in their videos about a year ago, I'm trying to find that resource again. It would be great to find it and sign up through the Kurzgesagt code to give credit back to this awesome content creation.

If this isn't really ringing any bells, if anyone has recommendations along this line of thinking, please send them my way! I know my buddy is science minded and likes to just learn about a wide range of topics

Saw this vid and it really resonated with me. It wasn’t entirely surprising that driving is the number 1 cause of death in the U.S., but I still kept this fact in the back of my mind. I was talking to my brother a couple of weeks ago and he showed me his driving stats and top speed he was driving at. I thought back to the video. Especially since he drives a motorcycle, I knew he was at an even higher risk than average. I didn’t think much of it at the time, but I did tell him he was going to die if he keeps going 100+ every outing. I thought back to the video. I thought about sending it to him on discord and trying to wake him up to help him realize he is at risk in that moment. My brother passed away today going 110 on the highway weaving in between cars. He was 18 years old. It will eat at me for life thinking I could have prevented his premature death.

I cannot believe that that is the price for two posters, a calendar and a journal- was very excited to finally support a channel that has brought me so much but this has since given me pause.

I've had golf clubs arrive from Europe for less- is that the correct price?

https://youtu.be/EP_sN1cKHFc?si=zZewAo-u-4Gbczt1

But letting yall know about AI channels stealing your thumbnails.

#AI #dmca

To give some context to my question. I play universe sandbox and I’m currently interested in making a system in the game where an alien race terraforms a 25.3 solar mass O-type main sequence star that’s 30 percent through it’s main sequence lifetime. It’s going to be a blue straggler formed through the merger of two binary stars because I read that blue stragglers are older due to them forming from smaller stars that have a longer stellar evolution. I’m curious about if it’s theoretically possible to refuel the star and remove used up helium in its core? What kind of atmosphere would the planet need to protect life from the up emissions made through it’s black body temperature? And how massive do the original stars need to be to make such a massive star?

Hi I figured this sub would be the best place to ask. I occasionally watch Kurzgesagt videos but by that I mean maybe one once every 6 months, I'm not even subbed to their channel but today to my surprise I found a bunch of their stuff in my mail. Did they do some sort of giveaway to viewers? If so how did they get my name and address?

The drawing for January is also upside down. Already mailed them to ask for a replacement. Anyone got the same problem?

I'm really disappointed by some of the misinformation in the latest video about vaping. I recently quit smoking & vaping with Allen Carr's Easyway, and that book really changed the way I came to understand nicotine and its addiction.

May improve your attention, concentration, memory, reaction time and endurance. It can reduce anxiety and stress and help you relax and enhance your mood. Nicotine also suppresses hunger, making it easier to maintain or lose weight. And it is simply fun to put a thing in your mouth and get a little kick.

None of this is true. If it were, you would see it advertised on cigarette packs and vapes. You don't see tobacco companies make these claims because they would be sued big time for false advertising.

All of those benefits are just the feeling of relief from satisfying a nicotine craving. The craving that is only there because of the addiction to nicotine. Remove the addiction, and the "benefits" of smoking or vaping go away too. It's like somebody stealing $100 from you with you noticing, and then they give you $10, and you're grateful they've given you $10. You're still down $90.

A non-smoker does not benefit from nicotine in the same way an addict does. Even a smoker who has stopped for >3 weeks will tell you, the first cigarette or vape hit back doesn't give them any "benefit." But that second one back will.

The vape or nicotine does not give any benefit, the relief from the addiction does.

Where the science is pretty solid, is that most people have a bad time when quitting nicotine. [...] And it can make your depression worse. Without nicotine your suppressed appetite comes back and since some people compensate by eating more, they put on weight. All of this makes quitting nicotine extremely hard.

People put on weight when they quit if they use eating as a substitute. It's not because their appetite gets bigger. Regarding depression, IIRC Allen Carr says the truth is that nicotine addiction makes your depression worse, and quitting will make you better able to deal with your emotions.

It'd be great of the writers of this episode did some research on quitting nicotine before putting more videos out about it. It's full of misinformation that keeps people hooked.

I recognize not everything in Allen Carr's book may be backed up by a double blind study, and it may not work for everyone, but millions of people have quit smoking with the help of it - so there's gotta be some truth to it. Big tobacco has spent decades keeping these narratives of "it's hard to quit" and "smoking has benefits too!" in the zeitgeist, and it's sad to see Kurzgesagt perpetuate it. The reality is, easy to quit if you have the right information and understand what the addiction actually is.

The "Smoking is Awesome" video is also pretty guilty of perpetuating those lies, that it's hard to quit and there's so-called benefits, that are in fact really just the relief from the nicotine craving.

After paying a lot from shipping (https://www.reddit.com/r/kurzgesagt/s/i5sSUgrFw9) to taxes (~20 USD) only to arrive like that.

I think that they should do a video explaining white holes and black holes and how those could be wormholes to other universes and using the Kruskal diagram.

If the universe is expanding, what is it expanding into?