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The news to know for Monday, December 9th, 2019!
What to know today about a shooting at a Florida naval base, a new report from the Justice Department, and a volcano eruption in New Zealand.
Plus: remembering an up-and-coming rapper, Disney's $10 billion milestone, and the mishap at the Miss Universe pageant.
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.
Head to www.theNewsWorthy.com to read more about any of the stories mentioned under the section titled 'Episodes' or see sources below...
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Sources:
Shooting at Navy Base: NPR, NBC News, Washington Post, AP, CNN
New Impeachment Report: CNN, NYT, Fox News, The Hill, Politico
New Justice Dept. Report: AP, LA Times, USA Today, The Hill
Largest Hong Kong Protest: Reuters, WSJ
Elon Musk Wins Trial: CNBC, CNN, Business Insider
College Football Rankings: ESPN, CBS Sports, NCAA
Highlighting Well-Lit Roads: Engadget, Digital Trends
SnapChat Cameo: TechCrunch, USA Today
Juice WRLD Dies: LA Times, PEOPLE, TMZ
Caroll Spinney Dies: People, USA Today
Disney’s $10B Milestone: Variety, Hollywood Reporter
Miss Universe 2019: USA Today, PEOPLE, EONLINE
It is no secret that Americans love to shop! Whether in department stores, small boutiques, or online - America is a powerhouse of consumerism. But it was not always this way. Professor Josh McMullen, interim dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Regent University in Virginia Beach, VA explains the rise of consumer culture in America. McMullen delves into the striking similarities between advertising then and now, the influence of transportation and department stores on consumerism, and the importance of consumption in the battle against communism in the mid-1900s.
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Extracts from unpublished papers on the methods used by a Chinese scientist to genetically modify the embryos of two girls reveal a series of potentially dangerous problems with the procedure and ethical shortcomings.
We look at the mechanism behind the formation of our facial features and how this is linked to our evolution, scrutinise the impact of current emissions on global climates and see why lithium, used in batteries and medicines, is now a potentially widespread pollutant.
66 million years ago, a huge asteroid hit the earth, wiping out most of the dinosaurs that roamed the land. It would still be tens of millions of years before the first humans appeared - but what if those dinosaurs hadn’t died out? Would we ever have evolved?
CrowdScience listener Sunil was struck by this thought as he passed a Jurassic fossil site: if dinosaurs were still around, would I be here now? We dive back into the past to see how our distant mammal ancestors managed to live alongside huge, fierce dinosaurs; and why the disappearance of those dinosaurs was great news for mammals. They invaded the spaces left behind, biodiversity flourished, and that led – eventually – to humans evolving. It looks like our existence depends on that big dinosaur extinction.
But we explore a big ‘what if?’: if the asteroid hadn’t hit, could our primate ancestors still have found a niche – somewhere, somehow - to evolve into humans? Or would evolution have taken a radically different path: would dinosaurs have developed human levels of intelligence? Is highly intelligent life inevitable, if you give it long enough to develop? We look to modern day birds - descendants of certain small dinosaurs who survived the asteroid strike - to glean some clues.
(Photo: He Jiankui, Chinese scientist and professor at Southern University of Science and Technology in Shenzhen. Credit:Reuters)
Our Closing The Gap series digs into the disparities in contraceptive health and education. We talk to two professionals who are working to close the gap.
Rust Belt cities tackling their lead problems offer advice for Chicago on funding, public education and getting political buy-in.
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Dahlia Lithwick is joined by Kate Shaw, a professor of law at Cardozo Law School and the co-director of the Floersheimer Center for Constitutional Democracy. They talk about presidential speech, impeachment, and why figuring out what happens next involves taking a close look at what happened in 1868.
Podcast production by Sara Burningham.
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