Earth: Flotsam Found
Season 1Episode 260 minOkt. 10, 2007
Flotsam Found
Retired oceanographer Curt Ebbesmeyer and his colleague tracked thousands of plastic toys that fell off a freighter during a storm to map current patterns. Their work leads them to an unbelievable discovery; a mass of swirling garbage in the North Pacific as large as the state of Texas.
Fired Up
Firefighters put cutting-edge firefighting tools and techniques to the test.
Zone Creep
Gardeners reap global warming benefits by being able to grow species that aren’t native to their neck-of-the-woods.
Chat: Cameron Sinclair
Architect Cameron Sinclair connects smart design with war refugees, disaster victims and poor people of the world.
Lie Detectors
WIRED Senior Editor Adam Roger takes on new fMRI lie detecting technology to see whether or not he’s even thinking of a lie.
Miracle Gro
Chris Hardwick unearths what's inside a product that helps our gardens grow.
Earth: Flotsam Found has aired on Okt. 10, 2007 at 20:00
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