Description |
1 online resource (24 min.) |
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VAST: academic video online |
Summary |
The latest developments in health, medicine, environmental issues, space and technology feature in this exciting and thought-provoking package of science stories. This episode discusses scientists' mission to save from extinction the Spotted Handfish, a spotty little fish with a set of webbed hands who likes to live in Hobart's Derwent Estuary; what the Romans were doing to produce a mysterious peak in lead levels 2,600 years ago that was recently revealed in core samples from deep beneath the Greenland ice; and the vital role Australia should play in the detection of dangerous Near Earth Objects (NEOs) such as asteroids and comets and asks why our government has cut the 3 year 3 million dollar Spaceguard Australia program |
Notes |
Title from resource description page (viewed July 10, 2014) |
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This edition in English |
Subject |
Drill cores -- Greenland
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Near-Earth objects.
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Spotted handfish.
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Drill cores.
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Near-Earth objects.
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Spotted handfish.
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Greenland.
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Genre/Form |
Documentary films.
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Documentary films.
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Documentaires.
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Form |
Streaming video
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Author |
Holland, Andrew.
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Mitchell, Natasha.
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O'Dea, Madeleine.
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Silva, Wilson da.
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