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WORLD PLAYGROUND

A Science podcast
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Dinosaurs ruled Earth for over 150 million years, then vanished in a geological instant. Was it just a massive asteroid, or did Earth's own volcanic fury play a role? Uncover startling new evidence that challenges everything we thought we knew
Ever looked in the mirror and wondered what you're really made of? Prepare to have your mind blown! In this episode, we're diving deep into the incredible universe that is YOU. Forget being just a person – you're actually a walking, talking gal
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Follow the show to join us in this audio experience of Kurzgesagt - In a Nutshell.A fan-made show out of admiration for the works of Kurzgesagt - In a Nutshell.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
A ruthless murder was committed! Someone killed the dinosaurs and we have the murderer! Witnesses say that an Everest-sized asteroid hit Earth, devastated the planet and caused a mass extinction. A simple, fascinating and convincing explanation
Neutron Stars are some of the strangest things in the Universe. Not quite massive enough to become black holes theyare basically atoms as big as mountains with properties so extreme it's mind-blowing. And if you get too close to a neutron star
Consciousness is perhaps the biggest riddle in nature. In the first part of this three part video series, we explore the origins of consciousness and take a closer look on how unaware things became aware.Follow the show to join us in this audi
Humans. We have been around for a while now. When we think about our past we think about ancient civilizations, the pyramids, stuff like that. But this is only a tiny, tiny part of our history.Follow the show to join us in this audio experienc
Follow the show to join us in this audio experience of Kurzgesagt - In a Nutshell.A fan-made show out of admiration for the works of Kurzgesagt - In a Nutshell.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Organic food is a huge trend: it promises a healthier and better life. But can Organic food really live up to the expectations or is it just baloney?Sources & further reading: https://sites.google.com/view/sourcesorganic/Follow the show to jo
Planet Earth is this solid thing you are standing on right now. In your everyday life you don't really waste a thought about how amazing this is. A giant, ancient, hot rock. How did it come into existence and how big is it really? You will be s
Out in the vast coldness of outer space, there are planets that travel alone through darkness without the boundaries of a system. Here’s how this can happen – and why these frozen deserts might secretly harbor alien life.Sources & further read
How does Fusion Energy work and is it a good idea?Follow the show to join us in this audio experience of Kurzgesagt - In a Nutshell.A fan-made show out of admiration for the works of Kurzgesagt - In a Nutshell.Learn more about your ad choice
There are cosmic snipers firing at random into the universe. What are they and what happens if they hit us?Follow the show to join us in this audio experience of Kurzgesagt - In a Nutshell.A fan-made show out of admiration for the works of Ku
The universe is pretty big and very strange. Hundreds of billions of galaxies with sextillions of stars and planets and in the middle of it all there is earth, with you and us.But as enormous as the universe seems looking up, it seems to get e
 Follow the show to join us in this audio experience of Kurzgesagt - In a Nutshell.A fan-made show out of admiration for the works of Kurzgesagt - In a Nutshell.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In a very short amount of time the human population exploded and is still growing very fast. Will this lead to the end of our civilization?Follow the show to join us in this audio experience of Kurzgesagt - In a Nutshell.A fan-made show out o
Neutron stars are one of the most extreme and violent things in the universe. Giant atomic nuclei, only a few kilometers in diameter but as massive as stars. And they owe their existence to the death of something majestic.Sources & further rea
Humans are proud of a lot of things, from particle accelerators, to poetry to pokemon. All of them made possible because of something humans value extremely highly: intelligence.Sources & further reading: https://sites.google.com/view/sourcesi
The observable universe is a big place that has been around for more than 13 billion years. Up to two trillion galaxies made up of something like 20,000 billion billion stars surround our home galaxy. In the milky way alone scientists assume th
How did everything get started?Has the universe a beginning or was it here since forever? Well, evidence suggests that there was indeed a starting point to this universe we are part of right now. But how can this be? How can something come fro
Nothing in the Universe is static. In the milky way, billions of stars orbit the galactic center.Some, like our sun, are pretty consistent, keeping a distance of around 30,000 light years from the galactic center, completing an orbit every 230
Why should you care about the well-being of people half a globe away?Follow the show to join us in this audio experience of Kurzgesagt - In a Nutshell.A fan-made show out of admiration for the works of Kurzgesagt - In a Nutshell.Learn more a
Is there a border we will never cross? Are there places we will never reach, no matter how hard we try? It turns out, there are. Even with sci-fi technology, we are trapped in a limited pocket of the Universe and the finite stuff within it. How
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