Among the books about Indian club swinging by amateurs, Benjamin Gardiner’s 1884 book, Indian Club Swinging by an Amateur, is one of the most, in its way, swinging. This illustration on page 14 of the book strikes some swingers as a highlight never to be completely forgotten:
The Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists™ (LFHCfS) and its siblngs — the Luxuriant Former Hair Club for Scientists™ (LFHCfS), and the Luxuriant Facial Hair Club for Scientists™ (LFHCfS) — now have, collectively, 506 members: 317 male, 189 female. This data may be of interest to someone, somewhere, some time. Maybe. If you know a scientist who would enjoy being a […]
The Danish magazine Dansk Magisterbladet published a celebration of the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists (LFCHfS). BONUS: The magazine looked at the Ig Nobel Prizes two years ago, on page 14 of their November 2012 issue.
Fashion news! We’re giving a makeover to the website for the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists™ (LFHCfS) and its conjoined clubs, The Luxuriant Former Hair Club for Scientists™ and The Luxuriant Facial Hair Club for Scientists™. LFHCfS began in 2001 with its first member (psychologist Steven Pinker), and became so popular that it quickly grew beyond the bounds of […]
We received this inquiry about the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists (LFHCfS): Are members monitored for continued luxuriance and effusiveness ? Should a Hall of Fame be established for those with historical hirsuteness but who have now retired from the club due to reasons either within or without their control. Yours recedingly (and never […]
Aaron Hoover has joined the Luxuriant Former Hair Club for Scientists (LFHCfS). His sister Melissa Hoover, who nominated him as a birthday gift, says: Aaron Hoover, currently a Ph.D. candidate in mechanical engineering at UC Berkeley, and soon to be an assistant professor at Olin College in Boston. Aaron works with Professor Ron Fearing in […]
Bald John Sokolowski has joined the Luxuriant Former Hair Club for Scientists (LFHCfS). He says: My name is Bald John. By day, I am a medical and research photographer at a hospital and research facility in Tucson, Arizona. By night and by weekend, I am an inventor and a scientist of adaptive keyboards as well […]
Dan Zimmerman has joined the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists (LFHCfS). He says: I’m a Ph.D. student in Physics at the University of Maryland, working in Dan Lathrop’s nonlinear dynamics lab. We designed and built a three meter diameter, rapidly rotating fluid flow apparatus geometrically similar to Earth’s core, in the hope of observing […]