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Joel Snape

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Writer, video maker, BJJ black belt, piano dabbler. Work in @guardian, @ObserverUK, @thetimes, @sciencefocus, and a bunch of other places.
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Tech companies know everything about me – so why do they try to sell me so much rubbish?

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By Joel Snape Verified
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Don’t know they know red is not my colour? Photograph: Alistair Berg/Getty Images We live, as I’m sure someone’s chief growth officer has recently boasted on an earnings call, in a golden age for data capture. Jeff Bezos knows what I buy, read and watch; Mark Zuckerberg will be aware that I recently sold a car transport box for a medium-sized dog.
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The truth about blushing: why we do it, how we can resist it — and why it’s actually good for us

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By Joel Snape Verified
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By Joel Snape / The Guardian Add TT as Preferred Source “Blushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions,” Charles Darwin once wrote, and he wasn’t wrong. Though certain species of bird pinken up as a means of communication, and uakari monkeys have red faces when in good health, we seem to be the only animal that flushes as a sign of embarrassment.
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Why waste your time on social media when you could be flicking through picture books?

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By Joel Snape Verified
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‘It’s quite rare that I pick one up without feeling as if I’ve improved my knowledge of the world.’ Photograph: Pavlina Popovska/Getty Images (posed by a model) There are lots of reasons not to read picture books. You can’t really mark them “done” in the same way you might, say, tick A Tale of Two Cities off your bucket list, or add them to your tally when you’re humble-bragging about what you’ve read over the past 12 months.
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