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Public sector consulting is under a new kind of scrutiny. Mayor Pete Buttigieg’s presidential campaign has thrust his former employer, McKinsey, into the spotlight. What’s been brought to the surface has challenged their stated values of “doing the most good”.
Guest: Ian McDougall, Reporter for ProPublica
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The news to know for Monday, December 16th, 2019!
What to know today about a major winter storm impacting millions of Americans, what to expect from a historic vote this week, and the controversy that had a TV channel changing course (twice).
Plus: the world's most powerful women, Google reveals how much of the world it photographed, and the weekend winners at the box office.
Those stories and many more -- in less than 10 minutes!
Award-winning broadcast journalist and former TV news reporter Erica Mandy breaks it all down for you.
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Major Winter Storm: Weather Channel, Accuweather, NBC News, CNN
Historic Vote This Week: AP, Washington Post, Axios
Hallmark’s Flip-Flop: AP, NYT, TODAY, ABC NEWS
World’s Most Powerful Women: Forbes, CNBC
Heisman Trophy Winner: USA Today, Sports Illustrated
Tiger Woods Wins Presidents Cup: ESPN, CBS Sports
Google Maps the World: Cnet, The Verge, Engadget
VW Self Driving Shuttles: Engadget, TechCrunch
Apple, Spotify & Alexa: Cnet, TechCrunch, The Verge
Miss World: TIME, NY Daily News, CNN
Frozen 2 Hits $1B: The Hollywood Reporter, CNBC
Money Monday - Cost of College: CNBC
Accuracy in Media recently celebrated its 50th anniversary. Founded by Reed Irvine to combat liberal media bias, Accuracy in Media has a new leader. Adam Guillette speaks to The Daily Signal about his plans for the organization, the threat of "fake news," and the media's attacks on President Donald Trump.
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Words engraved into metal are intended to last, though you don’t know who in the future is going to be reading them - your grandchildren wearing your wedding ring, the stranger who found your long-lost multitool, yourself at a time of need.
Steven Yardley of Milne & Yardley talks about the disappearing craft of hand engraving. Max Ullmann of the antique jewellery shop A.R. Ullmann Ltd shows the objects engraved in centuries past. Wearing their grandmothers’ rings, Lisa Hack connects to family she doesn’t know, and **Freddy McConnell **to the family he does. When Eeva Sarlin’s ex-boyfriend lost her Leatherman multitool, she thought she’d never see it again - and were it not for an engraving, she wouldn’t have. And Arlie Adlington, who reports this episode, had words engraved into his ring to remind him of his reality when others threaten to ruin it.
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From the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco, Roland Pease talks with Diana Roman of the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington DC about the tragic White Island volcanic eruption in which at least eight tourists died.
Aurora Elmore of National Geographic and Arbindra Khadka of Tribhuvan University in Kathmandu Nepal discuss the state of Himalayan glaciers and climate change.
Robert Hazen of the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington DC tells Roland about the research area called geobiochemistry and Hilairy Hartnett of Arizona State University explains why it may not be easy to find life on extra solar planets.
Buzzing insects that sting and fall into your food can be annoying. But perhaps we should think twice before taking aim with the fly swatter because bug populations around the world are in rapid decline. This worries CrowdScience listener Daria; she wants to know what will happen to our food production without the help from our tiny friends – the pollinators? And what can she do, as a city-dweller, to help the bugs?
The dollar value of agricultural services that insects supply – for free – is estimated to be 350 billion dollars worldwide. For scientists, a major challenge is the lack of long-term studies of insects on a global scale – in fact – entomologists worry that species are dying out faster than we can document their existence. The culprits, they believe, are climate change, invasive species, land-use and pesticides.
CrowdScience speaks to the scientists who want to save the bugs; one project capitalises on the chemical signals that attract certain species of pollinators while others are building ‘bee hotels’ to encourage native bees back into our cities.
(Image: Smoke from the volcanic eruption of Whakaari, also known as White Island. Credit: Reuters)
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