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Why Are Babies More Prone To Bacteria Growth In Their Stomachs?

Babies have less bacteria in them and have less acidic stomach, which when combined provides less competition for the new bacteria to inhabit and replicate.


What Does Stress Do To Your Body?

Geoff Ralston, the new President of Y Combinator, talks about the effects of stress on your body and mind and why kids might need to relax before taking a test. He also discuss the effects on performance-enhancing drugs on education and how coffee is all you really need.


What Technologies Are You Using At Slack Today?

Slack is focused on ways to make engineers more effective and productive, lowering the technical barrier for DevOps. The idea is that if a team could build a feature, they should also be able to support it.

By embracing the latest cloud technologies like Kubernetes, they are simplifying deployment and maintenance for the whole organization.


What’s The Difference Between A Lifespan And A Healthspan?

Aging is not inevitable. We can do a lot about aging, and the most important thing to do is increase the healthspan. Our lifespan is about 115 years, but we often die before the age of 80 due to suffering from diseases. We have about 35 more years that we could scientifically understand better. It’s all about health, not diseases.


What Does Lin Manuel Miranda Think Of The David Bowie And Freddie Mercury Song, “Under Pressure”?

Lin-Manuel said that the song initially made him "burst into tears" and caused him to consider it much more critically than an ordinary pop song. He concluded that the song's wild introduction, featuring Mercury's "borderline insane" vocal gymnastics, masked David Bowie's powerfully emotional reprise at the conclusion of the song. That reprise appears to continually ascend a musical scale and clarifies that Under Pressure is about caring for people going through very difficult times on the "margins of society".


Who Is Funding The Portal Podcast By Eric Weinstein?

The Portal was offered to be fully supported by a wealthy billionaire, but they decided against it, hoping to struggle with advertising like other podcasters, in hopes to find a healthy and sustainable revenue stream that can be applied to a larger group of creators.


What Does Peter Whisper To Belinda?

He states how she may be keen of his sexual fantasies and that his aim to make any woman he wants his own. Peter states he needs to seduce Laura and leave Belinda’s needs alone for another time.


Who Is Burt Blackarach?

He is a Grammy Award winning composer, producer, DJ, and sound engineer.


How Do You Close A Sale When A Prospect Just Does Not Like You?

You can do all you do, but the other person just won't like you. It happens all the time, and it happens to everyone, that is okay. Focus on the people that do like you, and you have the best chance of closing a deal with.


What Does Garry Miss About Being A Founder?

Garry talks about what he misses about being a founder and engineer now that he is a full-time investor.


What Is The Most Common Mistake For Founders Turned Vc?

Founders who become VCs often imagine themselves in shoes of the founders who pitch them. In reality though, everyone is on their own journey, everyone has their own issues going on, and everyone's experiences are unique. It helps to understand.


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