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May 07, 2024 The Reason Why Cancer is so Hard to Beat
An undead city under siege, soldiers and police ruthlessly shooting down waves of zombies that flood from infected streets, trying to escape and infect more cities. This is what happens when your body fights cancer, more exciting than any movie.
How does this battle for survival unfold?
Sources & further reading: https://sites.google.com/view/sources-cancer-city/
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15 min
May 06, 2024 The Internet is Worse Than Ever – Now What?
Sources & further reading: https://sites.google.com/view/sources-why-we-hate-each-other/ In 2022 nearly half of Americans expected a civil war in the next few years, one in five now believes political violence is justified. And it is not just in the US but around the world. People increasingly see themselves as part of opposing teams. There are many different reasons for this, but one gets blamed a lot: social media. Social media divides us, makes us more extreme and less empathetic, riles us up, or sucks us into doom scrolling, making us stressed and depressed. It feels like we need to touch grass and escape to the real world. New research shows that we might have largely misinterpreted why this is the case. It turns out that the social media internet may uniquely undermine the way our brains work but not in the way you think.
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17 min
May 05, 2024 We Did The Math - You Are Dead!
Absolutely everything you think about yourself and the universe could be an illusion. As far as you know, you are real and exist in a universe that was born 14 billion years ago and that gave rise to galaxies, stars, the Earth, and finally you. Except, maybe not.
Sources & further reading: https://sites.google.com/view/sources-boltzmannbrain
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15 min
May 04, 2024 You Are Immune Against Every Disease
You are not a person, you are a planet, made of roughly 40 trillion cells. There is so much of you, that if your cells were human-sized, you would be as big as 20 Mount Everests. For your creepy-crawly inhabitants, this makes your body an ecosystem, rich in resources and warmth and space. A perfect place to move into and have a family. While some of these guests are welcome, most are not. Your immune system is the guardian of this planet, the force tasked with protecting yourself against the constant danger of invasion.
Sources & further reading: https://sites.google.com/view/sources-immune2/
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17 min
May 04, 2024 Is Meat Really that Bad?
Food is arguably the best thing about being alive. No other bodily pleasure is enjoyed multiple times every day and never gets old. It is an expression of culture, our parents' love and a means of celebration or comfort. That’s why it hits a special nerve when we are told we should change what and how we eat to fight rapid climate change. One of the most delicious foods, meat, gets the worst press. It doesn’t help that the topic is really hard to properly research yourself and debates get emotional quickly. But clearly science can give us an answer!
The reality is, well, it’s complicated. Let’s take a look at three climate arguments against meat that are used a lot and see what happens.
Sources & further reading: https://sites.google.com/view/sources-climate-meat/
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17 min
May 04, 2024 The Horror of the Slaver Ant
Everything changed when the slaver nation attacked. What used to be a thriving colony is now a captured country. Slaves do the work, serving their new masters until they die, only to be replaced by new victims harvested in brutal raids.
But let us go back to the beginning…
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16 min
May 04, 2024 How To Destroy The Universe
Sources & further reading: https://sites.google.com/view/sources-three-ways-to-destroy The universe is going to die one day, and a fight between two titans will decide our cosmic fate. On one side of this galactic battlefield, we have all the matter in the universe; on the other side, empty space is infused with dark energy. Whoever wins will kill the universe in fun ways. But who will that be? We're looking at three possible ways to destroy the universe in our newest episode.
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19 min
May 03, 2024 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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16 min
May 03, 2024 How A Nuclear War Will Start - Minute by Minute
Mr. President! Nuclear missiles will strike our country in 14 minutes. I know it’s your first day in office so I’m going to walk you through it, but you’re the only one who can authorize our nuclear retaliation in response and you’ve only got a few minutes to make a decision!
Sources & further reading: https://sites.google.com/view/sources-mr-president
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13 min
May 03, 2024 Why You Are Lonely and How to Make Friends
Friends make life good. They provide the scaffolding that makes it not just bearable but fun. They give us a sense of meaning and purpose and are a source of security, self esteem and happiness. Almost nothing predicts how happy you will be as how connected you feel and a lack of social connection is associated with a number of diseases and a shorter life.
But maybe you have scrolled through your phone, unsure who to call to go to a movie with, to celebrate with or ask for comfort. You may realize that you don’t have enough friends and feel lonely. And it is not just you. Disconnectedness and loneliness are widespread.
Many people want more close friends but don’t know how to get them.
Sources & further reading: https://sites.google.com/view/sources-friendship/
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17 min

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