Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell
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| Years active | 2013—Present | ||||||||
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Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell (previously Kurzgesagt) is a Munich-based YouTube channel and design studio. The YouTube channel focuses on producing animated educational content. Founded by Philipp Dettmer in 2013, the channel has now amassed over 4 million subscribers. Their YouTube videos typically cover scientific subjects, such as the Big Bang, but also feature various political and philosophical subjects, such as the Refugee Crisis and Nihilism. Their videos usually contain birds and many references to pop culture, including Doctor Who, Star Wars, Pokémon, and Rick and Morty. Kurzgesagt also creates videos and other design projects for companies, charities, and institutions, such as Audi, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and the Australian Academy of Science. Each video is usually 5–10 minutes long.
History
Started as a passion project, the Kurzgesagt YouTube channel was created on the 9th of July, 2013, with its first video, explaining evolution, being published two days later. The videos were more popular than expected, and the channel went from a project worked on during the free time of a few friends to a design studio with over a dozen employees.[1]
Since April of 2014, Kurzgesagt has had a Patreon page, a crowd-funding site for their development, which has allowed the creators to make videos nearly full-time.[2]
In 2015, Kurzgesagt was commissioned to do a video on the end of disease for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and has worked with the foundation on a number of other commissions since.[3]
The team is currently working on an app for tablets which has the purpose of explaining the immune system, which was expected to be available somewhere in June of 2016 but hasn't been released yet.
Name
The name derives from the German kurz gesagt, which literally means "said in short"[4][5]; it has been translated as 'in brief' or 'in a nutshell'.[6]
In 2015, the name displayed in the title video was changed from "Kurzgesagt" to "In a Nutshell - by Kurzgesagt" in order to better communicate the purpose of the channel to non-German speakers. The name changed again in 2016, and the newest title video shows a zoom out starting from a single oxygen atom, to molecules, to animal cells, to a bird embryo, which leads to the Earth with the current "Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell" name.[7][8][9]
See also
- Vsauce
- C.G.P. Grey
- Veritasium
- MinutePhysics
- Numberphile
- AsapScience
- Crash Course
- It's Okay to be Smart
- National Geographic
References
- ↑ "About". Kurzgesagt. Retrieved 27 July 2017.
- ↑ "So it begins... | Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell on Patreon". Patreon. Retrieved 2017-07-27.
- ↑ "Kurzgesagt". www.facebook.com. Retrieved 2017-07-27.
- ↑ "kurz - Wiktionary". en.wiktionary.org. Retrieved 2017-07-27.
- ↑ "sagen - Wiktionary". en.wiktionary.org. Retrieved 2017-07-27.
- ↑ "In a Nutshell – Kurzgesagt - The Shorty Awards". shortyawards.com. Retrieved 2017-07-27.
- ↑ Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell (2015-07-09), The Death Of Bees Explained – Parasites, Poison and Humans, retrieved 2017-07-27
- ↑ Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell (2015-10-29), Addiction, retrieved 2017-07-27
- ↑ Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell (2016-04-08), Space Elevator – Science Fiction or the Future of Mankind?, retrieved 2017-07-27