The industry defining companies continue to win in fast-casual, music streaming, and transportation.
(00:21) Emily Flippen and Matt Argersinger discuss:
- Chipotle’s status as big burrito, and how things look as the stock hits all-time highs.
- Spotify and Uber’s impressive combo of growth and efficiency.
- Earnings updates from Roblox, Simon Property Group, and Enphase.
(19:11) Valentine’s day is coming up – to help our listeners in matter gift-giving and money in relationships, Deidre Woollard caught up with Scott Rick a marketing professor at The University of Michigan and the author of "Tightwads and Spendthrifts: Navigating the Money Minefield in Real Relationships."
(34:04) Emily and Matt break down two stocks on their radar: Starbucks and Snap.
In 2011, CrowdScience listener Amanda survived the devastating earthquake in Christchurch, New Zealand.
It arrived unannounced - as all earthquakes do - leaving her with no time to prepare a response. So Amanda wants to know whether science will ever be able to give us advance warning of quakes.
To explore her question CrowdScience heads to New Zealand to meet listener Amanda, as well as the brains behind the country’s earthquake forecasting models. We dig in a field for thousand-year-old tectonic clues that could help us understand when the next earthquake might strike. But even if we could get a head start against a quake, would we respond in the right way?
Please note: earthquake response advice varies by location. Please check local guidance and individual building procedures.
Featuring:
Nicola Litchfield, Principal Scientist in Paleoseismology at GNS, Wellington, New Zealand
Matt Gerstenberger, Seismologist and leader of the National Seismic Hazard Model, GNS, Wellington, New Zealand
Andy Howell, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
Lauren Vinnell, Lecturer in Emergency Management at the Joint Centre for Disaster Research at Massey University
Presenter: Caroline Steel
Producer: Emily Bird
Editor: Cathy Edwards
Production: Jonathan Harris, Jana Holesworth
Sound Engineer: Steve Greenwood
(Photo: Earthquake damage in Christchurch. Credit: John Crux Photography)
The special counsel's report on Biden's docs—and a gaffe about Mexico—have placed Joe's age and memory front and center in the campaign. Plus, SCOTUS's potential undermining of part of the 14th Amendment, and Charlie Sykes signs off with the very first guest of the pod. David French and Bill Kristol join Charlie.
A judge rules that an Illinois challenge to former President Donald Trump appearing on the ballot won’t be delayed. Meanwhile, Springfield takes up the so-called “subminimum wage” for tipped workers and Chicago’s elected school board. Reset goes behind those headlines and more in the Weekly News Recap, this week with Simone Alicea, executive producer of City Cast Chicago, Alex Nitkin, reporter with the Illinois Answers Project for the Better Government Association, and Amanda Vinicky, WTTW political correspondent.
On Tuesday, Solana suffered a network outage, just shy of a year since its last shutdown. The blockchain had to quickly get a new version out and notify its validators to upgrade to it and restart their systems before blocks could be produced again, resulting in downtime of roughly five hours. This was previously something that had happened regularly to the blockchain but seemed to have been largely addressed over the past year.
Lucas the CEO of Jito Labs, which builds infrastructure for Solana and staged a highly successful airdrop last year that helped rejuvenate the blockchain, joined Unchained to discuss what caused the outage, whether it’s something that builders on Solana should be concerned about for the future, recent improvements Solana has made to its technology, whether the implementation of Firedancer would have prevented this incident, and the promise of the Solana phone.
Show highlights |
What caused the Solana blockchain’s outage this week
Whether Solana needs to have better quality control
Whether the halt of the network affects the builders in the space
What recent developments in the infrastructure surrounding Solana give Lucas confidence in the network
Whether the Firedancer client that’s now in development would have prevented this week’s outage
The promise of the Solana phone
Whether the network going down presents a setback for the Solana community in terms of recognition and momentum
Whether financial companies will consider using Solana if these issues keep occurring
Unchained Podcast is Produced by Laura Shin Media, LLC. Distributed by CoinDesk. Senior Producer is Michele Musso and Executive Producer is Jared Schwartz.
CoinDesk Indices presents notable data insights from the week, followed by additional analysis from an industry expert.
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This episode was hosted by Jennifer Sanasie. “Markets Daily” is executive produced by Jared Schwartz and produced and edited by Eleanor Pahl, alongside Senior Booking Producer Melissa Montañez. All original music by Doc Blust and Colin Mealey.
On this episode of "The Federalist Radio Hour," Faith Moore, host of the "Storytime for Grownups" podcast, joins Federalist Culture Editor Emily Jashinsky to discuss the importance of reading classic literature and analyze what makes a good story.
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It's Cryptid Time! On the heels of a somewhat... titillating social media video, the guys dive into the story of the world's saddest cryptid. Out in the hemlock forests of northern Pennsylvania, numerous hunters have tried and failed to capture a uniquely upsetting, lachrymose little cryptid with bad skin, weird legs and a penchant for continually weeping. He can be lured by the sound of crying... but if you try to catch him, he'll vanish, leaving only a slurry of bubbles and tears. Join Ben, Matt and Noel as they explore the bizarre story of the Squonk.
