Season
Season 13 Episode
- Season 8 Milk. White Poison or Healthy Drink?
- Season 8 How to Make a Kurzgesagt Video in 1200 Hours
- Season 8 Why Blue Whales Don't Get Cancer - Peto's Paradox
- Season 8 The Coronavirus Explained & What You Should Do
- Season 8 Why Are You Alive – Life, Energy & ATP
- Season 8 The Past We Can Never Return To – The Anthropocene Reviewed
- Season 8 Could Solar Storms Destroy Civilization? Solar Flares & Coronal Mass Ejections
- Season 8 Who Is Responsible For Climate Change? – Who Needs To Fix It?
- Season 8 What Is Intelligence? Where Does it Begin?
- Season 8 What Do Alien Civilizations Look Like? The Kardashev Scale
- Season 8 Unlimited Resources From Space – Asteroid Mining
- Season 8 The Warrior Kingdoms of the Weaver Ant
- Season 8 The Largest Star in the Universe – Size Comparison
- Season 8 Is It Too Late To Stop Climate Change? Well, it's Complicated.
- Season 8 When Time Became History - The Human Era
- Season 8 Geoengineering: A Horrible Idea We Might Have to Do
- Season 8 How Large Can a Bacteria get? Life & Size 3
- Season 8 What If Earth got Kicked Out of the Solar System? Rogue Earth
- Season 8 Can You Upload Your Mind & Live Forever?
- Season 8 What if We Nuke the Moon?
Kurzgesagt - In a Nutshell - Season 8 Episode 3 Why Blue Whales Don't Get Cancer - Peto's Paradox
8.30 10 minutes Cancer is a creepy and mysterious thing. While we tried to understand it, to get better at killing it, we discovered a biological paradox that remains unsolved to this day: large animals seem to be immune to cancer. Which doesn’t make any sense – the bigger a being, the more cancer it should have. To understand why, we first need to take a look at the nature of cancer itself.
