A 2004 study called “Magnetic Susceptibility Artifacts on MRI: A Hairy Situation” includes this image, with the description: “15-year-old boy with acute sinusitis and subdural empyemas. Gadolinium-enhanced … images show left subdural empyema and image distortion from susceptibility artifacts caused by iron oxide particles suspended in beeswax dressing in patient’s hair.”
Tag: hair
Bald John Sokolowski joins LFHCfS
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 […]
Joanne Manaster joins LFHCfS
Joanne Manaster has joined the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists (LFHCfS), a conjoined-twin organization to the Luxuriant Former Hair Club for Scientists (LFHCfS). She says: I am a bioengineering instructor at the University of Illinois-Urbana. I am also involved in practically nauseating amounts of science outreach at every level. My personal website Lovely Scientist […]
Forceful hair-combing measured
In 1966, hair combing made noise on both sides of the Atlantic – musical noise to the east, scientific to the west. In England, the Beatles released a song that said: “Woke up, got out of bed, dragged a comb across my head”. In America, William C Waggoner and George V Scott of the Colgate-Palmolive […]
The hair of Father Time
John Ptak points out that Father Time, though often portrayed during his end-of-year bald phase, was once seen as an unruly-haired fellow: This image proves that even Time itself can have a bad hair day, from time to time. The woodcut image appears as the printer’s mark (of Simonem Colineum, or Simon de Colines) in […]
LFHCfS member’s genome sequenced
Steven Pinker, who in 2001 became the first member of the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists (LFHCfS), has had his genome sequenced. The New York Times has published Pinker’s firsthand account of the adventure. (Photo below is from the Times article)