3x1 - How Small Is an Atom? (Spoiler: Very Small)

January 20, 2015

Atoms are very weird. Wrapping your head around exactly how weird, is close to impossible – how can you describe something that is SO removed from humans experience? But then again, they kind of make up everything, so let us try anyways.

3x2 - Measles Explained — Vaccinate or Not?

February 24, 2015

Everybody is talking about Measles – but what does the virus actually do in the body? Is it really so harmful that you need a vaccination? We go deep into the body of an infected person and see what Measles does and how the immune system reacts to it!

3x3 - Banking Explained — Money and Credit

March 12, 2015

Banks are a riddle wrapped up in an enigma. We all kind of know that they do stuff with money we don’t understand, while the last crisis left a feeling of deep mistrust and confusion. We try to shed a bit of light onto the banking system. Why were banks invented, why did they cause the last crisis and are there alternatives?

3x5 - 3 Reasons Why Nuclear Energy Is Terrible! (2/3)

April 1, 2015

Nuclear energy might be a failed experiment. In over sixty years the technology has not only failed to keep its promise of cheap, clean and safe energy, it also caused major catastrophes and enabled more nuclear weapons while the nuclear waste problem is still not solved.

3x6 - 3 Reasons Why Nuclear Energy Is Awesome! (3/3)

April 1, 2015

Nuclear energy might have a lot of unused potential. Not only is it one of the best mid term solutions for global warming bit despite what gut feeling tells us, it has saved millions of lives. By investing more into better technologies we might be able to make nuclear energy finally save and clean forever.

3x7 - The Fermi Paradox — Where Are All the Aliens?

May 6, 2015

The universe is unbelievably big – trillions of stars and even more planets. So… there just has to be life out there, right? But where is it? Why don’t we see any aliens? Where are they? And more importantly, what does this tell us about our own fate in this gigantic and scary universe?

3x8 - The Fermi Paradox II — Solutions and Ideas

June 4, 2015

Where are all the aliens? The universe is too big and too old, why have we not met aliens yet? Do they live in computers? Were they wiped out by an ancient super intelligence? Or are we just to primitive to understand their motives? Whatever the answer is, it is incredibly important for our own future.

3x9 - The Death of Bees Explained — Parasites, Poison and Humans

July 9, 2015

In 2015 the bees are still dying in masses. Which at first seems not very important until you realize that one third of all food humans consume would disappear with them. Millions could starve. The foes bees face are truly horrifying – some are a direct consequence of human greed. We need to help our small buzzing friends or we will face extremely unpleasant consequences.

3x10 - What if There Was a Black Hole in Your Pocket?

July 16, 2015

What would happen to you if a black hole the size of a coin suddenly appeared in your pocket? Lets find out!

3x11 - What Is Dark Matter and Dark Energy?

August 6, 2015

What is dark energy? What is dark matter? Well, if we knew exactly we would have a nobel prize – we know that they exist though. So what do we know about those strange things?

3x12 - The European Refugee Crisis and Syria Explained

September 1, 2015

3x13 - Addiction

October 1, 2015

What causes addiction? Easy, right? Drugs cause addiction. But maybe it is not that simple.

3x14 - What Is Light?

October 15, 2015

We are so used to some things that we stopped wondering about them. Like light. What is light? Some kind of wavy thing, right? Kind of.

3x15 - How Facebook Is Stealing Billions of Views

November 10, 2015

Facebook just announced 8 billion video views per day. This number is made out of lies, cheating and worst of all: theft. All of this is wildly known but the media giant Facebook is pretending everything is fine, while damaging independent creators in the process. How does this work?

3x16 - Quantum Computers Explained — Limits of Human Technology

December 8, 2015

Where are the limits of human technology? And can we somehow avoid them? This is where quantum computers become very interesting.

3x17 - Black Holes Explained — From Birth to Death

December 15, 2015

Black holes. Lets talk about them.

3x18 - What Is Something?

December 23, 2015

What is something? On the most fundamental level thinkable, what are things? Why are things? And why do things behave the way they do?