How to Be Beautiful and Why it Matters & Small Inventions that Rocked Your World

Something You Should Know

Mike Carruthers | OmniCastMedia

Education, Social Sciences, Self-improvement, Science, Health & Fitness

4.5 • 4.3K Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2018

⏱️ 46 minutes

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When you search for something in Google does it matter what order you put the words in? What about punctuation – does that matter? We start this episode with the best ways to optimize Google searches to get the best results. (https://edu.google.com/coursebuilder/courses/pswg/1.2/assets/notes/Lesson1.5/Lesson1.5Wordordermatters_Text_.html) What makes someone beautiful? Can you really become more beautiful? These are important questions because beauty and attractiveness have some clear benefits for everyone. Rachelle Smith, associate professor of psychology at Husson University, is author of the book The Biology of Beauty (https://amzn.to/2JOKMtn). Rachelle joins me to explain the importance of your own beauty and how to maximize what you have. If you are going on a job interview it matters whether you are the first person interviewed or the last person or better yet, the fourth person. I’ll explain why. (http://www.businessinsider.com/always-go-fourth-during-interviews-2015-5) Seemingly small inventions like the razor blade, the TV dinner and paper money have had profound impacts on our lives and the economy in ways you never knew. Tim Harford, author of the book Fifty Inventions that Shaped the Modern Economy (https://amzn.to/2JV5zM9) joins me for a fascinating explanation of how these innovations have transformed our lives. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Today on something you should know, it's not just what you search in Google that gets
0:06.7	you the right results, it's how you search it.
0:09.6	Plus the biology of what makes people beautiful and attractive.
0:13.8	Men are attracted to skin, so the more skin a woman shows the more attention she might
0:20.0	get, women might not even be doing it on purpose.
0:23.2	Just when they wear the little shorters here, they get more attention and that's reinforcing
0:27.1	even outside of their conscious awareness.
0:29.0	Also, how employers choose which candidate gets the job is different than you think.
0:34.9	And small inventions that change the world in big ways, like frozen TV dinners.
0:40.7	They saved an enormous amount of time, really educated women in the 60's were spending
0:45.8	literally hours a day putting food on the table for their families.
0:49.5	Once that process was sped up, then they could go out and they could earn a living and
0:53.8	of course that gave them economic independence.
0:56.5	All this today on something you should know.
1:01.4	I just learned, discover credit cards do something pretty awesome.
1:06.2	At the end of your first year, they automatically double all the cash back you've earned.
1:11.7	That's right, everything you've earned doubled.
1:14.6	All the cash back from eating at your favorite soup dumpling restaurant doubled.
1:19.4	All the cash back from that trip you sort of learned how to snowboard, also doubled.
1:24.8	And the best part, you don't have to do anything ridiculous to get it.
1:28.5	Oh, discover does it automatically.
1:31.6	Seriously though, see terms and check it out for yourself at discover.com slash match.
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