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More plastic than fish; Sexual harassment in Iran; Why we like what we like

More or Less asks if it’s true that soon there will be more plastic than fish in the sea, ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Trending reports on alleged sexual harassment and the Why Factor looks at pleasure.

More Or Less investigates recent reports that there will more plastic in the ocean than fish by 2050. The report comes from The Ellen MacArthur Foundation. But there's something fishy about these figures. And what are the chances that as a parent you share your birthday with two of your children?

ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Trending reports on allegations by a news reader at Press TV in Iran that she suffered sexual harassment for two years from her managers. Her revelations are emboldening Iranian women to share their own experiences, breaking their silence in a country where sexual harassment is traditionally not acknowledged. A mother tells ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Trending how she succeeded in removing a cruel meme mocking her four year old son who suffers from Pfeiffer Syndrome which can affect cranial and facial features. And there’s news of the online debate sparked by Beyonce’s performance invoking the black rights struggle at the Superbowl in the US.

In the Why Factor, Mike Williams asks why we like the things that we like. At the root of our feelings of pleasure is dopamine, a chemical produced by the nerve cells in the brain, which can be triggered by some obvious and not so obvious things.

(Photo of waste plastic strewn on the Bao beach, near Dakar. Credit to: SEYLLOU/AFP/Getty Images

50 minutes

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  • Thu 18 Feb 2016 09:06GMT
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