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1 online resource (streaming video file) (27 min. 49 sec.) ; 167591033 bytes |
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Anja Taylor catches up with the CSIRO research team spearheading the Marine Debris Survey, a world-first study of the plastics around our coastline.PLASTIC OCEANSOceans are silently choking on our plastic waste. Plastic and synthetic materials are the most common types of debris in our oceans and are having horrific impacts on marine wildlife and systems. As an island continent 'girt by sea' marine debris is of particular importance for Australia. Creatures get entangled in plastics and drown, and ingested concentrated toxins from plastics pose a threat to the health of the food chain. Plastics also transport and introduce species into new environments. Anja Taylor catches up with the CSIRO research team spearheading the Marine Debris Survey, a world-first study of the plastics around our coastline.BAREFOOT RUNNINGA growing number of runners are abandoning their supportive, cushioned sneakers and choosing to run with bare feet. Punters say running without shoes is more natural and can reduce running injuries. But, what does the science say? Ruben Meerman is hooked up to monitoring equipment to measure the impacts of hoofing it barefoot and in runners.SUSPECT LINE-UPTo identify a suspect, police typically ask eyewitnesses to pick him/her out of a line-up of similar-looking people. But, this method is often inaccurate. DNA testing has shown that witnesses often fail to detect the culprit or, worse, wrongly accuse the innocent. According to the Innocence Project, a legal advocacy group, about 75% of false convictions in the USA that are later overturned are based on faulty eyewitness testimony. So what can be done about this? Jonica Newby enters a life of crime to demonstrate new research that has shown a more accurate way to point the finger - and it indicates that sometimes, a quick decision is a good one |
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Broadcast 2012-09-06 at 20:00:00 |
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Classification: G |
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Criminals -- Identification.
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Foot -- Physiology.
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Plastic marine debris -- Environmental aspects.
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Running races -- Physiological aspects.
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Seafood poisoning.
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Australia.
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Streaming video
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Phillips, Graham, host
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Meerman, Ruben, reporter
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Newby, Jonica, reporter
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Taylor, Anja, reporter
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Bonanno, Daniel, contributor
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Brewer, Neil, contributor
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Hamill, Joseph, contributor
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Hardesty, Britta Denise, contributor
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Hutton, Ian, contributor
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Lavers, Jennifer, contributor
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Murley, George, contributor
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