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Everybody, our next speaker is Chad Retti from Retti Quantum Computing. Retti Quantum Computing went through YC in the summer of 2014. Um, at that point they had nothing. Uh, they are now one of the leading Quantum Computing companies in the world. And ne…

As we continue into our journey of chemistry, we’re going to gain more and more appreciation for the periodic table of elements. We’re going to realize that it gives us all sorts of insights about how different elements relate to each other. We’re going t…

It was 100 years ago that America became terrified of sharks. In 1916, a great white was blamed for the first spate of shark attacks recorded in US history. That summer, the East Coast sweltered in a relentless heat wave. Along the New Jersey shore, thous…

All of economics is based on this notion of scarcity of resources. What does scarcity mean? Well, in an everyday context, it means that there’s not as much of something, say a resource, as people may need, or there’s not an unlimited amount of something. …

You find yourself walking down the street with your morning coffee in hand, as your brain is flooded with the dozens of issues and problems you need to deal with. Maybe it’s a relationship that’s on the rocks, a pet that needs to go to the vet, but you kn…

When an asteroid slammed into Earth 66 million years ago, only about 20% of all animal species survived. So, whatever happened to these lucky few? Birds come from a long line of survivors. It started millions of years before the asteroid strike with a din…