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Wed. 11/16 - Fruitcake Flavored: The Pumpkin Spice of Christmastime?

Cool Stuff Daily

Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

Society & Culture, News, Tech News, Science

4.6739 Ratings

🗓️ 16 November 2022

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Can wearing a mask yourself make it harder to recognize the faces of people, even when they’re not wearing a mask? Plus, why Kraft Heinz has upped the goof factor with so many off-the-wall stunts in recent years. And is fruitcake the new go-to holiday season flavor? Sponsors: Rocket Money, Cancel your unnecessary subscriptions at RocketMoney.com/COOL Shopify, Sign up for a free trial at shopify.com/cool Links: Mask-wearing can make it more difficult to recognize masked and unmasked faces of others (York University) Kraft Heinz turns to gimmicks and nostalgia to revive its 'dusty' brands (CNN Business) Brands Are Bringing Fruitcake Back, in Flavor Form (Eater)  Figgy Pudding Spam Puts a Seasonal Spin on the Classic Canned Meat (Food & Wine) Figgy pudding Spam tastes like a hot dog fruitcake. Run away. (Washington Post) ​​Artemis I Launch to the Moon (Official NASA Broadcast) (NASA, YouTube) Artemis Blog (NASA) 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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It's Wednesday, November 16th, 2022. I'm Jackson Bird today. Can wearing a mask yourself

0:58.8

make it harder to recognize the faces of other people even when they are not wearing a mask? Plus,

1:06.0

why Kraft Hines has upped the goof factor with so many off-the-wall stunts in recent years.

1:13.0

And is Fruitcake the new go-to holiday season flavor?

1:18.4

Here's some cool stuff for your ride home.

1:23.3

It's no shocker that it's tough to recognize people who are wearing face masks, but could

1:28.7

wearing a face mask yourself, even when the other person isn't, also make it more difficult

1:34.3

to recognize people? That's what the results of a new study out of York University, published

1:39.5

today in the journal Cognitive Research Principles and Implications indicates. So to be clear, what they're

1:45.5

saying is that if you, say, encounter someone you've only met once briefly before and they don't

1:51.3

have a mask on, but you do, your wearing of a mask might make it more difficult for you to recognize

1:58.5

that unmasked acquaintance. Sounds kind of odd, right?

2:03.4

Well, brains are weird. I mean, I have trouble recognizing people with or without face masks on.

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