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your skin filing a formal complaint about choices you made hours ago
means The red, sore, sometimes peeling skin damage you get when you stay out in the sun too long without protection.
from A plain English compound of "sun" and "burn," both ancient Germanic words — "sun" related to Old English "sunne" and "burn" to "beornan," to be on fire. The pairing is straightforward and relatively modern, naming the obvious: the sun, doing to you what fire does. No mystery here, just two old words shaking hands over a shared talent for scorching.
- delayed damage
- redness peaks 12 to 24 hours after exposure
- actual injury
- it's literally radiation-burned, dying skin cells
- peeling truth
- shedding is your body evicting damaged cells
- cloudy myth
- up to 80 percent of UV passes through clouds
- snow trap
- snow reflects nearly all UV back at you
george hamilton — actor famous for maintaining a perpetual deep tan, requiring regular uv exposure and tanning beds
apollo 1 crew — gus grissom, ed white, and roger chaffee suffered fatal burns in launch pad fire on january 27, 1967