Recycle Your Eclipse Glasses

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🗓️ 23 August 2017

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Astronomers Without Borders wants to share your used eclipse glasses with kids in other parts of the world for the 2019 total solar eclipse. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Scientific Americans 60 Second Science. I'm Steve Mursky.
0:06.0	Oh!
0:07.0	Oh!
0:08.0	There it is!
0:10.0	Holy crap!
0:11.0	Whoa!
0:12.0	Whoa! You can take off your glasses!
0:17.0	You've all taken off your glasses by now, along with the family and friends of my friend Dennis Meredith because the great American
0:24.1	eclipse of 2017 has come and gone and most people in the path of totality which
0:29.7	the Merediths were in Sun Valley Idaho Idaho, saw a terrific show.
0:34.6	Now they have their memories, and batches of eclipse glasses
0:38.5	cluttering up their homes.
0:40.2	But don't throw them away, because many of the glasses are certified for safe use for up to three years,
0:47.0	which is good news for people, especially kids in South America and Asia who might not be able to afford or otherwise acquire new
0:56.7	eclipse glasses. Those two regions will experience a total solar eclipse in 2019 and a California nonprofit called Astronomers Without Borders wants
1:07.9	your old glasses to share with schools and those kids. Astronomers without borders has not yet announced an
1:14.7	address to send the glasses so hold on to them a bit longer and check back into
1:19.4	their Facebook page or their website at
1:23.0	W.
1:25.0	Astronomers Without Borders.org.
1:26.0	They request that you don't send the glasses directly to them
1:29.0	but to the various outlets they'll be announcing as
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