The phrase (and maybe the very idea of) “pseudo green hair” was introduced to the public in this trichological study: “Pseudo Green Hair,” Xavier Tomas, Marina Nogueras, Alvaro Bartolome, and Juan Ferrando, International Journal of Trichology, vol. 14, 2022, pp. 65-7. The authors report: “we present a case of green hair highlights, coinciding with the […]
This week’s Feedback column (that I write) in New Scientist magazine has five segments. Here are bits of each of them: Tiny black hole batteries — … They handwave away the swath of problems reputed to afflict anyone who suggests even going near a black hole. Their black hole, they specify, will be a “tiny black hole”. This […]
Jan Philipp Röer has joined the The Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists™ (LFHCfS). He says: Hair plays a very important role in my research, specifically the hair cells of the inner ear. I’m interested in what makes a sound attract our attention and the mechanisms we have in place to prevent irrelevant sound from […]
The awarding of the 2023 Ig Nobel Medicine prize for research on nostril hairs revives happy memories of a publicity campaign mounted a decade earlier by the organization Clean Air Asia. That campaign introduced itself by saying: The campaign seeks to highlight, humorously, that urban populations should not adapt to worsening air quality but actually […]