An essay by an unnamed person explains how to calculate the value of pi by throwing frozen hot dogs. (Thanks to investigator Krisme Cosh and several others for bringing this to our attention.)
About: Alice Shirrell Kaswell
Posts by Alice Shirrell Kaswell:
xxxxx joins, leaves the LFHCfS
NOTICE (posted May 29, 2007): A scientist who joined the LFHCfS on May 16, 2007 sent the club a request on May 29, 2007. The LFHCfS has of course done what the gentleman asked, resulting in this updated entry. The scientist’s note said: Hi, Thanks for immortalizing my hair in the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club […]
Hairy-faced presidents
Nicholas White has analyzed the relationship between facial hair and presidential elections. (Thanks to investigator Ron Josephson for bringing this to our attention.)
Jonathan McDowell joins the LFHCfS
Jonathan McDowell has joined the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists. Laura Grego, who nominated him, says: I believe Dr. McDowell’s mind is always reaching for the infinite and his hair does not want to be left behind. You can certainly spy his locks in this photo, but I have personally seen them way longer. […]
The Familiar Stranger Project
Familiar Strangers are individuals that we regularly observe but do not interact with. By definition a Familiar Stranger (1) must be observed, (2) repeatedly, and (3) without any interaction. The claim is that the relationship we have with these Familiar Strangers is indeed a real relationship in which both parties agree to mutually ignore each […]
Jason Schneiderman joins the LFHCfS
Jason Schneiderman has joined the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists. He says: I am currently a PhD student in Neuroscience at Mount Sinai School of Medicine of NYU studying brain imaging in schizophrenia. Jason Schneiderman, LFHCfS Graduate Student/Research Assistant Neuroscience PET Lab Mount Sinai School of Medicine New York, New York, USA (Click on […]
Laurence Connor joins the LFHCfS
Laurence Connor has joined the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists. He says: I am a physical scientist at NOAA presently studying the use of satellite radar altimeters to measure sea ice thickness. I have had a diverse scientific career studying mesospheric gravity waves, ocean acoustics, and remote sensing of ocean surface winds. I also […]
John M. Logsdon, Jr. joins the LFHCfS
John M. Logsdon, Jr. has joined the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists. He says: I am a molecular evolutionary geneticist. I work on the origin and evolution of sexual reproduction, deep eukaryotic phylogeny, and lots of other related stuff. John M. Logsdon, Jr., LFHCfS Assistant Professor Department of Biological Sciences Roy J. Carver Center […]
Francesco Mercuri joins the LFHCfS
Francesco Mercuri has joined the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists. He says: With the hope of worthily representing Italy. His main research interests focus on theoretical investigations on complex systems using computational chemistry methods. These methods include Hartree-Fock (HF) and post Hartree-Fock, like configuration interaction (CI), many-body perturbation theory, like Moeller-Plesset (MP), density functional […]
Layla Gordon joins the LFHCfS
Layla Gordon has joined the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists. She says: I hold a BSc in Computer Science with Artificial Intelligence from University of Southampton. I currently work as a research scientist in Ordnance Survey Research Labs in UK. And studying PHD in Computer science in the field of Multi-Agent technology. I previously […]