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Hello this week, if it's in the sea, is there plastic in the fish that we're eating too.

Also, can electrical devices affect your fertility and how does the

Earth's tilt give us our seasons. This week we're taking on the science questions

that you have been sending in. I'm Chris Smith and this is the Naked Scientists. The Naked

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Right, let's introduce the panel of people who are here to

solve your scientific quandaries and conundrums this week,

or should that be conundra?

Danny Green is from Anglia Ruskin and she's also an ecologist.

The oceans have really been in the spotlight this year, haven't they, with all the plastics and things?

Yeah, well I mean it's great because I've been working on plastics the last seven years and thanks to the Attenborough effect

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