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 […]
News reports (in Iran and in the New York Times) lead us to suspect that the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists (LFHCfS) is now banned in Iran. The photo here, showing non-banned hair styles, is from an Iranian source: Membership in The Luxuriant Former Hair Club for Scientists (LFHCfS), a sibling organization of the […]
John Patrick Alao has joined the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists (LFHCfS). He says: I am a rastaman scientist studying the interactions between the stress response and DNA damage response pathways. I particularly love working with fission yeast cells. I am based in the laboratory of Prof. Per Sunnerhagen. John Patrick Alao, PhD, LFHCfS […]
Peter Borst has become the first person to join both the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists (LFHCfS) and its conjoined-twin organization, the Luxuriant Former Hair Club for Scientists (LFHCfS). He says: I feel especially fortunate to be working as Dr. Paula Cohen’s Lab Technician as it is an interesting mix of lab work and […]
Ig Nobel Prize winner Jim Gundlach, co-author of the study “The Effects of Country Music on Suicide,” in Upper Oddington, England, during the 2008 Ig Nobel Tour of the UK. The tour is part of the UK’s National Science Week. Photo: Carol Gundlach. (That’s an excerpt from AIR 14:4. A glorious large version of the […]