A number of eminently hairy and hairless scientists

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 […]

Makeover for the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists (LFHCfS) site

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 […]

Aaron Hoover joins LFHCfS

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 […]

Dan Zimmerman joins LFHCfS

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 […]