PooPrints using dog DNA to catch lazy owners | See a watch worth nearly $500K | How real Vermont maple syrup is made
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What Kim's Watching October 29, 2019
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Facebook, YouTube and Instagram have a drug problem
If you know where to look, the things you can find for sale on social media sites is shocking. Add illegal drugs to the list. Drug dealers are aggressively marketing steroids and other drugs on sites like YouTube, Facebook, Instagram and Twitter â and we can't trust Big Tech to move fast enough to stop it.
Great calls from the show: Using pet DNA to catch bad dog owners
How annoying is it when you see a dog owner who doesn't pick up after his or her furry friend? It's lazy, it's gross and it's downright disrespectful. That's where PooPrints comes in. Kim talks with senior scientist Chesleigh Winfree about the clever way the company is bringing bad dog owners to justice in more than 4,000 apartment complexes, HOAs and government municipalities using doggie DNA.
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Why is this watch worth almost half a million dollars?
Swiss timepieces are some of the classiest jewelry on Earth. Their beauty is only rivaled by their craftsmanship â but this kind of quality doesnât come cheap. It takes months of labor to assemble one of these precision watches, and the process that goes into making them is unlike anything else. Now, learn why this one Swiss watch can fetch nearly half a million dollars.
How is real Vermont maple syrup made?
You canât have pancakes without maple syrup! A popular staple of breakfasts everywhere, the condiment is beloved in the northern hemisphere for its sweet taste and sticky consistency. But where does syrup come from? As it turns out, itâs maple tree sap â but thereâs much more to syrup-making than sticking a hose into a tree.
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Leaves are transformed into biodegradable plates
As companies work toward sustainable goals for their products, they face a major hurdle: waste removal. Thousands of items on the market cannot decay over time, and some of the plastics out there are deeply harmful to the environment. Now, see how one company is creating dinnerware from an unlikely environmentally-friendly source.
Planting trees with drones
Thereâs plenty of worthwhile environmental causes, but this one is using technology to take their goals even further. With specially designed drones that drop seeds, TeamTrees dreams of filling the world with hardy plants that can heal the atmosphere and renew our natural resources.
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