The Paycheck Protection Program was created to help small businesses during the coronavirus pandemic. But the program got off to a rocky start, with some businesses having trouble applying for and getting the money.
As more and more of our work and family life has gone all online, a cyber security expert gives us tips on how to avoid being hacked. And poet Kevin Coval looks at the Covid crisis from his unique perspective, and lays some amazing poetry on us.
What are the oversight structures built into the massive relief package recently approved by Congress? Will Yeatman describes the multiple layers of oversight included.
Three L.A. comedians are quarantined in a podcast studio during a global pandemic. There is literally nothing to be done EXCEPT make content. These are "The Corona Diaries" and this is Episode #14. Music is "Midnight" by Bob Le Head.
Epsilon Theory’s Ben Hunt joins for a follow up to our pre-lockdown Covid-19 conversation in early March. In the month since, the markets finally started to take Covid-19 seriously, elected officials stopped calling it just the flu, and big chunks of the world economy shut down.
Now, as markets rally on early evidence the curve may be flattening, the question is: is this premature?
In this episode, Ben & NLW discuss:
How the markets have moved from “denial” to “bargaining”
Why this rally has all the hallmarks of a type of bear market rally we’ve seen over the last month
Why the predictability of corporate bailouts doesn’t make them any less detestable
Why we should be buoyed by an explosion of ground-up, grassroots citizen action
How Frontline Heroes is creating a p2p PPE purchasing network that gets essential gear into the hands of health professionals without causing additional price pressure for state-led negotiations
From federal agencies tapping the cloud to protect vital data in the face of emergencies for COVID-19 response, to the Department of Defense relying on data as a critical differentiator for mission success in the 21st century battlefield, the cloud plays a pivotal role in today’s government evolution. Join us as we discuss all things FedRAMP, including how sales and marketing can support the compliance process, as well as, best practices around selling throughout the roadmap.
Episode seventy-seven of A History of Rock Music in Five Hundred Songs looks at “Brand New Cadillac” by Vince Taylor and the Playboys, and the sad career of rock music’s first acid casualty. Click the full post to read liner notes, links to more information, and a transcript of the episode.
President Jair Bolsonaro still dismisses the disease as “just the sniffles”, so state and local authorities—and the country’s vast slums—have taken matters into their own hands. The physical and mental needs of the world’s locked-down populations are driving a boom in online wellness. And we look back on the life of the French chef who revolutionised English fine dining.
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Why do we kiss? What makes a good kiss or a bad kiss? How many microbes do we exchange? Is it good for us? One of the world’s most accomplished researchers on kissing, social behavior and relationships, Dr . Robin Dunar of Oxford University reluctantly agrees to be interviewed and explains how kissing may have evolved, how discos are research labs and friends are people you can invite yourself to have a beer with. Also: how to deal with the loneliness of isolation, autism and intimacy, why your cheerfulness may impact people you don’t even know and … Alie’s first kiss.