Sick in any case especially road traffic noise is a risk to your health and well being on headaches dizziness and tonight is just some illnesses that can be caused by noise. A moment of quiet nothing but. Blissful. Unfortunately place every day lives are usually different like confronted with all sorts of noise 24 hours a day closing out isnt an option sounds become noise when they disturb us often when theyre very loud but its not just a question of volume psychologist cristal says noise cant be described in purely physical terms. Noise isnt an acoustic property its a sensation but it is related to the Acoustic Properties of the sound. The louder the sound the more likely it is to bother me so it also depends on the situation. Its my favorite bands playing a concert i wont mind it being really loud but if i want to sleep my favorite band hopefully wont be playing in my living room an important factor is whether or not you have control. A sound that i can turn on and off is less likely
A new emerging of a possible buyer of tiktok. More challenges for boeing as it continues to deal with the fallout from the pandemic and the 737 max woes it is tuesday august 18 and this is Worldwide Exchange. Good morning. Good afternoon good evening perhaps that song will get you, you know, jumping. Why not . Global markets are setting up their tuesdays stock futures slightly higher right now. They are in the green investor focus on the dow remains on the s p 500 a half a percent from the alltime record high if you are counting at home, any close above 3386. 15 would be a record close stop us if youve heard this one before one area not waiting around is technology the nasdaq pushing to a record high the 37th high of the year and 33rd record close of 2020. Once again leading technology, tesla. Another record high. By the way, also adding another 8 billion to elon musks personal fortune pushing him back on the list tesla shares up 32 in just five days 32 in five days hey, maybe that rec
In other words will life go back to normal anytime soon and what will the quote unquote new normal even be meanwhile american states have been left to their own devices to deal with this virus in the absence of any coherent National Policy or guidance some states were spared a major outbreak and others have waffled between crippling shutdowns on one hand and flamboyant disregard for the threat on the other so is there a key to getting all of us all 8000000000 of us around the world out of this crisis and if so what is it my guest today has spent his life studying Human Progress the power of ideas as change agents professor paul romer won the nobel prize in economics in 2018 and he was the former chief economist of the world bank he was part of a major Rockefeller Foundation report just released titled a National Testing and tracing action plan he joins us today from his home in connecticut paul thank you so much for joining us as i mentioned the Rockefeller Foundation just issued a rep
Week in revenue. Well be leaving this Washington Journal Program to go live now to a hearing on Election Security. You can watch the remanldinder this program on cspan. Org. This hearing comes after we laid to rest a giant in Voting Rights. You must use it because it is not guaranteed. You can lose it. We must vigorously defend our right to vote, our access to the ballot box and the integrity of our election. In less than 90 days americans across the country will participate in an election unlike any other in our history. The covid19 pandemic is forcing state and local Election Officials to rapidly expand vote by mail, early voting and other crowd reducing election policies so no voter has to choose between their democratic rights and their health. As states scramble to administer safe primary elections seemingly administrative decisions related to the number and location of polling sites had substantive impacts on peoples right to vote. Long lines in predominantly black and brown neig
Hi im Steve Clemons and i have a question what will it take to get the United States back online and back to normal lets get to the bottom line. Americans just like everyone else around the world are wondering about the months ahead should we let our kids go back to school face to face what are the risks how many more will lose their jobs or worse their lives will the stock market crash or most folks going to go back to their offices or their businesses of their colleges in other words will life go back to normal anytime soon and what will the quote unquote new normal even be meanwhile american states have been left to their own devices to deal with this virus in the absence of any coherent National Policy or guidance some states were spared a major outbreak and others have waffled between crippling shutdowns on one hand and flamboyant disregard for the threat on the other so is there a key to getting all of us all 8000000000 of us around the world out of this crisis and if so what is