Were not his. Heres the hair from the defendant. Heres the hair from the crime scene. Im looking at them under the microscope and they have enough characteristics where i can say with reasonable scientific certainty that these two hairs match. They believed in what they were doing, but they were not scientists. It wasnt science at all. At all. Joseph was at least the 74th american exonerated of a crime in a case involving the Forensic Science of microscopic hair analysis. Its not science to visually examine something and say theyre the same. Thats not science. Thats subjectivity. The u. S. Department of justice is now reviewing thousands of old convictions containing hair analysis testimony. Last april, it released a devastating assessment. In the cases reviewed, fbi testimony about hair evidence was scientifically invalid 95 percent of the time. This is a virus that escaped from the Fbi Crime Lab and it infected the entire criminal Justice System and its going to take a lot of work to
Subjects words playing many characters in onewoman shows. Ive followed several catastrophes over my career, and i find that catastrophe is the place where people become most creative in their language. One of her latest projects a play about the schoolto prison pipeline a trend in which children move from the classroom into the criminal justice system. I met a young man who was in prison outside of of washington, d. C. He is 18 years old. He says, once you become you get committed, which means being sent to jail they give you services. He says they give you they give you a job, you get a tutor, you get mental. Baltimore is home to the performance artist. Its an appropriate setting to research violence and economic despair. I think that that poverty is now considered some kind of a disgrace, some kind of a pathology. Smith has received countless accolades and awards. In Popular Culture shes best known for her tv work on nurse jackie and the west wing, and films like the american preside
Science and a journey to find the truth about mdma. This is techknow. A show about innovations that can change lives. The science of fighting a wildfire. Were going to explore the intersection of hardware and humanity, but were doing it in a unique way. This is a show about science. Oh oh my god by scientists. Tonight, techknow investigates molly. Hey guys, welcome to techknow. Im phil torres. Mdma, molly, x, call it what you want, this drug is offering some intriguing and even surprising potential in both the military institutional perspective and medical scientific. And thats why im joined by techknows excia operative, Lindsay Moran, and Cara Santa Maria who can explain it from a neuroscience perspective. Now, ive seen molly as a club drug but as a therapeutic drug . The military once used this as what they imagined could be a truth serum and now theres evidence that suggests that it could help ptsd sufferers. Yeah and you know, scientists have long been intrigued by the sort of empa
Suicidebombers attack. The Islamic State in iraq and the levant has published an image of the improvised bomb it said brought down a Russian Airliner over egypt killing all 224 people on board. In the latest issue of its english language magazine the group said it smuggled the explosive on the plane which was destined to st. Petersburg after discovering lack security at the Sharm El Sheikh airport. Isil also said tha in the magazine that it has killed one norwegian and one chinese man it has been holding hostage. Thank you for speaking to us. Youre welcome. What are your thoughts. Is this the device lined the plane crash . It certainly looks like a viable device. But there a number of anomalies with it. The image that you were showing, on the righthand side is the brains of the bomb, the firing switches, the power source, in the center of the image was the detonator which suggests the explosive, and the can on the lefthand side i saw in iraq once, which contain 200 to 300 grams of high
Undergone the worlds most extensive face transplant. Russian investigators say it was a result of a terrorist act. The bomb destroyed the metro air bus. Putin has vowed to find those responsible. Aircraft exploded over the sinai desert as it flew from. What do you have for us . Reporter a homemade explosive device thats what the russias Security Services has been told that brought down this metrojet plain. It was comprised of us to a kilogram of some sort of tnt equivalent. This was a strange slightly staged managed tv event. We think it was filmed yesterday, but bragged cast today. The meeting was of putin being briefed and surrounded by the minister and defense minister. They all stand up after the information has been imparted to the president. They have a moment of silence and then they sit down and putin turns to the camera and delivers an address. It is of mourning and defiance, really. He was wearing a black tie. He said our souls are fill of tears, but it wont prevent us from f