The Briefing 11-06-14

Podcast Transcript

1) Political world re-calibrating from changes due to election

 President Obama Left Fighting for His Own Relevance, New York Times (Peter Baker)

Transcript: President Obama’s Nov. 5 news conference on midterm election results, Washington Post

2) Kansas and Missouri same-sex marriage bans struck down, furthering courts’ advocacy 

Federal judge declares the Kansas same-sex marriage ban unconstitutional, Kansas City Star (Mark Morris)

, Reuters (Carey Gillam)

3) Climate change ads present humans as the blight, not stewards, of nature

‘Nature is speaking’: will consumers listen?, The Guardian, (Greg Harman)

Julia Roberts as Mother Nature: ‘I Don’t Really Need People’, Business Week, (Brad Wieners)

Our Humanifesto, Natureisspeaking,org

4) Flavor house boom displays society’s expectation of unlimited choice

The New Science of Taste: 1,000 Banana Flavors, Wall Street Journal (Annie Gasparro and Jesse Newman)