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Cool Stuff Daily

Mon. 06/29 - Virtually Relive Your Daily Commute

Cool Stuff Daily

Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

Tech News, News, Science, Society & Culture

4.6739 Ratings

🗓️ 29 June 2020

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

A barber who’s invented a new, safe way to give people haircuts. The son who embarked on an eighty-five day solo trip across the Atlantic ocean to get to his dad’s 90th birthday after the coronavirus canceled all flights. An experiment in Australia that’s been running for almost a hundred years. Why we feel strangely "aggressive" impulses towards pets and babies we find unbearably cute. And a website that helps you virtually relive your daily commute. Sponsor: betterhelp.com/REPORT, for 10% off your first month Links: Barbershop owner develops 'Shield on Wheels' to protect hairstylists, clients amid coronavirus pandemic (Yahoo News) With Flights Banned, Son Sails Solo Across Atlantic to Reach Father, 90 (NY Times) The Pitch Drop Experiment (Atlas Obscura) Cute Aggression May Make People Better Caretakers (The Atlantic) driveandlisten.herokuapp.com Listen to local music as you 'drive' through your favourite city with this new app (Lonely Planet) 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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welcome to the good news ride home for Monday, June 29th, 2020.

0:40.9

I'm Jackson Bird.

0:42.3

Today, a barber who's invented a new, safe way to give people haircuts.

0:47.7

The son who embarked on an 85-day solo trip across the Atlantic Ocean to get to his dad's 90th birthday after the coronavirus

0:56.1

canceled all flights. An experiment in Australia that's been running for almost a hundred years.

1:03.8

Why we sometimes feel strangely aggressive impulses towards pets and babies that we find

1:09.7

unbearably cute. and a website that helps you

1:13.4

virtually relive your daily commute. Here are some of the good things from the news today.

1:21.8

Even with barbershops and hair salons reopening in towns across the U.S., many of us still don't feel it's

1:29.2

completely safe just yet to go get a haircut. One barber in New Jersey has invented something

1:35.3

that he hopes will help. He calls it shields on wheels, and it's basically like a big,

1:41.8

curved barrier about six feet tall and three or four feet wide.

1:46.6

It's made of wood and plexiglass with a small opening in the middle where the barber's hands can go in to cut a customer's hair from a safe distance and while keeping them both safe from transmission.

1:57.6

And the curved barrier is on wheels so that the barber can move it around the

2:01.8

chair throughout the haircut. Edwin Ramirez, the inventor, is a barber and owner of a barbershop

2:07.3

called 201 styles. He's also a woodworker and graphic designer, so when he had to close up

2:12.6

shop during lockdown, he turned to those other hobbies to find a way to make sure he could

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