What Do Sunblock and The Art of Persuasion Have In Common?

She's very pale. Obviously uses lots of sunblock. Also, sex sells.

You’re going to have to bear with me as I get science nerd on you for a minute. But at least you can never say, “Karol never learns me nuthin.” You can also never say that because you didn’t grow up in the backwoods.

A few months back I had been reading about the importance of vitamin D and I stopped using chemical sunblock when I went outside. Our bodies use the sun’s UV rays to produce vitamin D, but sunblock blocks the production of vitamin D by blocking these UV rays.¹

Normally I was near-OCD about using sunblock. If you met me anywhere sunny in the past few years I had a sunblock stick in my pocket. (“Is that a sunblock stick in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?”) I used sunblock religiously.