Kurzgesagt - In a Nutshell · SEASON 8
How Large Can a Bacteria get? Life & Size 3
Episode 17 · 2020-11-10
- Documentary
- Animation
Episode overview
In and out, in and out. Staying alive is about doing things. This very second, your cells are combusting glucose molecules with oxygen to make energy available, which keeps you alive for another precious moment. To get the oxygen to your cells you are breathing. Breathing is an answer to a very hard problem: How do you get the resources that your cells need to survive, from the outside, to the inside of your cells? Every living thing has to solve this problem and the solution is surprisingly different depending on one of the most important regulators of life: Size.
11 minutes
Season 8 episodes
1. Milk. White Poison or Healthy Drink?2020-01-26
2. How to Make a Kurzgesagt Video in 1200 Hours2020-02-16
3. Why Blue Whales Don't Get Cancer - Peto's Paradox2020-03-01
4. The Coronavirus Explained & What You Should Do2020-03-19
5. Why Are You Alive – Life, Energy & ATP2020-05-10
6. The Past We Can Never Return To – The Anthropocene Reviewed2020-05-24
7. Could Solar Storms Destroy Civilization? Solar Flares & Coronal Mass Ejections2020-06-07
8. Who Is Responsible For Climate Change? – Who Needs To Fix It?2020-06-21
9. What Is Intelligence? Where Does it Begin?2020-07-12
10. What Do Alien Civilizations Look Like? The Kardashev Scale2020-08-02
11. Unlimited Resources From Space – Asteroid Mining2020-08-16
12. The Warrior Kingdoms of the Weaver Ant2020-08-30
13. The Largest Star in the Universe – Size Comparison2020-09-22
14. Is It Too Late To Stop Climate Change? Well, it's Complicated.2020-09-29
15. When Time Became History - The Human Era2020-10-06
16. Geoengineering: A Horrible Idea We Might Have to Do2020-10-27
17. How Large Can a Bacteria get? Life & Size 32020-11-10
18. What If Earth got Kicked Out of the Solar System? Rogue Earth2020-12-01
19. Can You Upload Your Mind & Live Forever?2020-12-10
20. What if We Nuke the Moon?2020-12-15
