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Hello friends I'm Coy wire this is cnn10
and it's hash your word Wednesday so
remember to keep an ear out to see if
your vocab word helped us write Today's
Show we begin today with the much
anticipated solar eclipse on Monday
millions of Americans will witness one
of the world's most extraordinary events
as the Moon passes between Earth and the
Sun for the lucky ones right in the
heart of the action in the so-called
path of totality you're in for a treat
that lasts up to 4 minutes according to
NASA for those outside of the direct
path a crescent-shaped partial eclipse
will be the main event weather
permitting of course now when you're
watching from wherever you're watching
remember there's no peing at the solar
eclipse without your shades on and I'm
not talking about your usual sunglasses
it's best to use specialized solar
eclipse glass or watch through a
handheld solar viewer Joseph galbo with
the US consumer product safety
commission has more if you are thinking
about watching the solar eclipse but you
don't have eclipse glasses do not try to
use your regular sunglasses don't do it
your sunglasses can't handle it
definitely don't stare at the eclipse
without any sort of protection if you
stare at the eclipse with your naked eye
you're going to injure your eyes pretty
badly if you don't have solar eclipse
glasses create a solar eclipse pinhole
projector it's just a way of watching
the shadow of the eclipse move across
the Sun you just need a few simple
things this is a cereal box we turned it
inside out for legal reasons but if you
do turn it inside out you can decorate
it and that's super fun you need a
marker or a pencil some tape a push pin
or a paper clip some aluminum foil get a
pair of scissors and some printer paper
First Step trace the Box onto a piece of
paper step two cut out your
tracing take the piece of paper and
place it at the bottom of the box you
want to line the bottom of the box with
a white sheet of paper because what
you're actually going to be seeing is
the shadow of the Moon moving across the
front of the sun and the brighter the
reflection of that screen the better
you'll be able to see the shadow next
you want to cut the tabs off the sides
of the Box you're going to cut these
flaps on the Box about a third of the
way this way and this way you want to do
this to both sides it should look like
this next you want to tape the center of
the Box get a sheet of aluminum foil and
fold it and then place it on one side of
the Box fold it over to create a nice
screen and you're going to want to tape
it on every single side with your
paperclip or your push pin you're going
to want to create a hole in the center
of the aluminum foil now your pinhole
projector is ready so you can head
outside make sure the sun is behind you
hold the projector up to your eye and
then look for sunlight to come into the
projector once it has just hold it in
place and you can watch the eclipse
10 second trivia which ice cream flavor
is the most popular among American
consumers vanilla chocolate strawberry
or cookies and
cream can we not say all the above sure
why not well America's favorite ice
cream flavor is chocolate though
according to the international Dairy
Foods
Association cocoa is the main ingredient
that makes chocolate possible and West
Africa is home to 70% of it did you know
but poor climate and crop diseases have
tightened the supply in the region and
caused prices to Skyrocket as a result
some chocolateers are exploring cost
cutting Alternatives in this next
segment we visit a chocolate shop to
learn about the surging prices
firsthand for chocolateers the last
several months have been nonstop get
Halloween Thanksgiving Christmas
Valentine's Day little bit of break
Easter and now things kind of slowed
down a little bit Joselyn debuk is the
owner and Chef of J chocolates she's
tasked with making chocolate confections
of different flavors shapes and colors
but this year since the price of Coco
has gotten significantly more expensive
she's rethinking the kind of treats she
makes and how she makes them like this
marshmallow chocolate bunny it's a
chocolate cookie with a vanilla bean
marshmallow and then it's covered in
milk chocolate so for the you know 30 gr
that you're getting only 18 gram of that
is chocolate which means it's a much
lower ingredient ingredient cost for me
much lower labor for me as well which
means that I can pass along those lower
costs in January of 2023 The Bu was
paying
$13.50 a kilo for chocolate this week
she's paid
$15.71 a kilo so that's a 16% increase
uh the white chocolate like I said has
gone up 35% in less than a year and with
no end in sight for when prices could
normalize the buuk will have to continue
finding creative ways to create
delicious chocolate while keeping her
business
afloat could you imagine a world where
every drop of water is precious well for
some that future is now UNICEF predicts
that half of the world's population
could be facing issues with water
scarcity by next year the lack of clean
drinking water could displace 700
million people by the year 2030 in this
next segment we'll meet a group of
astute and Innovative MIT students who
are engineering ways to make clean
drinking water more accessible around
the world CNN's Bill Weir has
more on a planet of nearly eight billion
people as aquafers are drained
reservoirs evaporate and sea levels rise
Earth's freshwater supply is getting
dirtier saltier and scarcer and while
desalination keeps some wealthy Nations
alive making saltwater sweet demands the
kind of energy and infrastructure that's
just Out Of Reach for the most desperate
Society I really had a chance to teach
in a rural area in China um I was really
shocked to see that how struggling they
were to get some clean water that's
Journey was like 2 hours every day so
it's no wonder that some of the most
promising breakthroughs in water tech
are coming from the Melting Pot
Laboratories of Boston where mit's
yangzong and linang Zang invented a
machine the size of a suitcase that
mimics the circulation power of the
ocean powered only by sunlight they say
their prototype can desalinate 6 L an
hour at a cost cheaper than tap water so
for a device that has the footprint of a
solar panel this will cost around like
150 to $200 wow that's cheap and then
and and you don't have to plug it in it
doesn't need any external power source
it's just the sun above it just just
natural sunlight welcome to the Carson
Beach
Bary horation unit meanwhile a Korean
team from MIT came up with another
potential Game Changer just drink it we
just send our most recent prototype to
the US Army that can produce the 10 lit
per hour of the drinking water with a
direct feed of the sea water Jong yo
tells me his startup ICP water tech is
just getting its first millions in
investment and after two students from
India met as MIT Lab Partners and set
out to clean and recycle the dirtiest of
industrial waste their company gradient
is the first in the sector to be valued
at $1 billion a cleanwater unicorn It
just strikes me that these ideas are the
result of immigrants coming from
developing places who see the problem in
a much more acute way than Americans do
and mingling these ideas in a place like
Boston at MIT where the where the the
dreamers and the doers meet it's
exciting to think about the
possibilities of that combination yeah
we're really fortunate to be here at am
it and in Boston because we are
surrounded by a lot of resources and
right now just like sponge um learning
all those things sea water is the most
abundant resource covering the Earth and
solar is accessible everywhere and then
like why not like make them you know
like combined and then like it can be a
very powerful tool it's more like
Equitable resource to anyone
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anywhere today's story getting a 10 out
of 10 another domino effect of
deliciousness yesterday we saw some
cereal boxes but today's is even cheda
these super cool kids in North
Battleford Saskatchewan collected
macaroni and cheese donations in an
attempt to break a Guinness World Record
the record the largest domino topple for
a single sered food item the Canadian
students worked with their neighbors to
track down 7,000 boxes of mac and cheese
then craft tin Canada match them for
another 5,000 Guinness is currently
reviewing the world record attempt the
real win all of those boxes are now
headed to the local food bank to help
feed those in need that's a really guda
story so guda I C and bear it all right
congrats to Dr Street's class at the
University of South Carolina for the
hashtag your word Wednesday winner
astute an adjective meaning having or
showing shrewdness and an ability to
notice and understand things clearly
just like USC's women's Hoops astute
coach Don Staley today's shout out goes
to Greenland Central School in Greenland
New Hampshire rise up and this shout out
goes to Northeast Magnet High School in
belir Kansas we see you thanks for being
with us we'll see you right back here
tomorrow I'm KY wire and we are CNN
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