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Kurzgesagt – explaining visually

Everyone is exposed to complex topics and AI LLM based chatbots help in the understanding if a conversation is needed. Another way is to observe it visually. A company is doing is very well and explaining complex things visually. They have taken on complex tasks explaining scientific topics and their illustrations and videos can simplify even a complex topic into easier side chunks with amazing illustrations.

Consider the illustration in the picture – it breaks down the complex illustrations into interactions that look like a metro – subway map with each node being a cell and its interaction looking like a link between them.

There are many more videos in Youtube from Kurzgesagt but check out this youtube one:

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