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The Sunscreen Smokescreen, July 11, 2011

It started with a question. It always does. This time, the question was simple: How much sunscreen should I wear? I’m a pale geek who burns. I wanted to know the optimal. A simple question with a simple answer, right? Wrong. This simple question took me on a massive journey through the data, information myths and misinformation that surround our perception of sunscreen. I’m calling it the Sunscreen Smokescreen. All our data, calculations and references here: http://www.bit.ly/sunscreensmoke

via Information Is Beautiful | Ideas, issues, knowledge, data – visualized!.

Poem narrated by Baz Luhrmann (see quote below) – Everybody’s Free (To Wear Sunscreen)

Strange Random Sunscreen Quote:

Ladies and Gentlemen of the class of ’97… wear sunscreen.

If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be IT.

The long term benefits of sunscreen have been proved by scientists whereas the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable than my own meandering experience.

Mary Schmich Everybody’s Free (to wear sunscreen) – Chicago Tribune, with acknowledgements to Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare.

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