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The Gist

The Paradox of Shaving

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

Daily News, News

4.53.7K Ratings

🗓️ 5 January 2017

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

New Yorker writer Maria Konnikova returns for another round of everyone's favorite game, "Is That Bulls--t?" Konnikova takes on a long-held theory about hair growth: The more often you shave, the faster it grows back. Konnikova's most recent book is The Confidence Game.  In the Spiel, the Megyn Kelly backlash begins.    Sponsors:  ZipRecruiter. Post your job listing to all the top job sites with a single click. Try it for free by going to ZipRecruiter.com/gist. Harry's. Get the smooth shave you deserve. Right now Harry's is giving away their shave set for free when you sign up. All you have to cover is the shipping. Go to Harrys.com, enter code gist at checkout and you'll also get one of their post-shave balms for free. Join Slate Plus! Members get bonus segments, exclusive member-only podcasts, and more. Sign up for a free trial today at slate.com/gistplus. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:33.4

Sturrs. Day, January 5th, 2017 from Slated to the Gist, I'm Mike Pesca. So I'm doing

0:43.7

okay yesterday I guess under the weather is a way to say it, I was ill. Now I'm feeling

0:49.8

about 73%. I'm really at 93% not quite 8% yeah I'm at 73% which opens up a lot of questions

0:59.4

doesn't it? Like when people say I'm about 90% you can go with it. But when people say

1:03.9

I don't know I'm about 50% you always say well what is 50% well okay let's start this

1:08.4

what zero if you're the zero mean dead but probably shouldn't mean dead it should be

1:12.6

off the chart not on the negative side just somewhere parallel like if you're dead you're

1:17.0

not feeling anything so zero should be a place of unimaginable suffering. So then what's

1:22.1

50 is 50 like the miserableness of a really bad flu that doesn't seem like 50 that seems

1:28.0

like 30 when a football player says you know it's Tuesday and I have until Sunday and right

1:33.2

now I'm at 50% but I'm I'm hoping to get into game shape. I think we understand that

1:38.0

that doesn't mean he's experiencing flu like symptoms and running to the bathroom every

1:41.6

eight minutes so maybe depending on context 50% means different things. But even if we

1:46.8

could figure out what 50% means and what 90% means by the way we do never question 90%

1:52.0

no one ever says what does 90% mean but since we don't know what 50% means I think we

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