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Mon. 03/21 - Squid Tech to Prevent Human Sunburns

Cool Stuff Daily

Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

Tech News, News, Science, Society & Culture

4.6739 Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2022

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

How to appear effortlessly charming to new people you meet. Plus, using squid technology to protect humans from the sun. And a new generation of search apps that search everything you touch on your devices. Sponsors: Indeed, Get a free $75 credit at Indeed.com/goodnews Shopify, Get a 14-day free trial at shopify.com/kottke Links: The tricks to make yourself effortlessly charming (BBC) How Squid Camouflage Could Help Prevent Skin Cancer in Humans (Northeastern University) Squid camouflage-inspired sticker can tell when you've had too much sun (New Atlas) L'Oreal's Ingenious Nail Art Detects Harmful UV Rays (Fast Company, 2018) This new breed of unified search apps does what Google doesn't (Fast Company) Heyday Kottke.Org Jackson Bird on Twitter See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:27.8

Music lines and stores subject to availability ends 14th of february welcome to the cocky ride home for monday march 21st 22 i'm jackson bird today how to appear effortlessly charming to new people that you meet

0:36.2

plus using squid technology to protect

0:39.1

humans from the sun, and a new generation of search apps that search everything you touch

0:45.0

on your devices. Here are some of the cool things from the news today. Whether it's returning

0:53.1

to the office or getting back into a more regular social life,

0:56.0

a lot of us have found ourselves having to relearn conversational norms here and there,

1:02.0

after so many months predominantly interacting via screens.

1:05.0

Or maybe you moved somewhere new, started at a new job or a new school,

1:10.0

and are hoping to make a good first

1:11.3

impression. Whatever the reason, the BBC recently shared some tips on how to come off as

1:16.7

effortlessly charming. Now, some of this will be stuff that you've heard before, but it does

1:21.4

seriously seem like most of us have gotten a bit more awkward throughout the pandemic, so I figured

1:26.4

it wouldn't hurt to air a refresher.

1:28.9

And while the explanation for how the kinds of people who just seem to charm the pants off

1:33.1

of everyone in a room is often just natural appeal, it turns out there is also quite a bit of

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