Kurzgesagt—In a Nutshell

 

I probably spent longer looking for the definition of kurzgesagt than I needed to, given that it’s the German phrase for “in a nutshell” and the YouTube channel is called, well, Kurzgesagt—In a Nutshell.

This account is run by a team of animators and is full of intellectually provocative videos that average around 10 minutes a pop.

Subject matter is reasonably broad, but boils down to what its creators refer to as “optimistic nihilism”—lots of space themes, some end-of-the-world disaster scenarios, stuff like that.