Insider Brief:

The Quantum Kid celebrates its first anniversary as host Kai Weber turns 10, with the YouTube channel surpassing 115,000 subscribers and earning shortlist recognition in the Webby Awards and Publisher Podcast Awards.

Over the past year, Kai has interviewed leading figures including Nobel laureates Steven Chu and John Martinis, quantum pioneers Peter Shor, David DiVincenzo and Scott Aaronson, and astrophysicist Avi Loeb.

The anniversary episode features filmmaker Mark Levinson (Particle Fever, The Universe in a Grain of Sand) and Roger Highfield of the Science Museum Group, exploring how art, museums and storytelling can make quantum science accessible to broader audiences.

He giggles. He makes faces. And he loves to ask big questions – about time, quarks, the Universe, and everything.