Good news for scientists and people who appreciate hair – The 2015 Members Gallery of the Luxurious Flowing Hair Club for Scientists (LFHCfS) and its conjoined clubs has been released. Individual members are announced as they are inducted throughout the year, in the Improbable Blog (Hair Club section), and as each year closes they are […]
Tag: LFHCfS
Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club (LFHCfS) Woman of the Year in beer breakthrough
Dr. Anne A. Madden, the 2015 Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club (LFHCfS) Woman of the Year, is part of the team that made a beer-related breakthrough in the study and manipulation of yeast. Dr. Madden is pictured here (in a photo by Lauren Nichols), examining yeast cultures: Dr. Madden will make a special appearance next week in the Twenty Fifth 1st […]
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 […]
Happy New Year from the luxuriant-haired Prof. Kumar
Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists (LFHCfS) member Arunachalam Kumar sent us a New Year’s greeting in the form of this YouTube video: The video comes with the caption “Ambidextrous anatomist Prof. Arunachalam Kumar of Nitte University, Mangalore India, lecturing to medical students.” Dr. Kumar is a colorful character. Among his many innovations: the “Black Toe” for […]
Genetics & the hair of Steven Pinker, LFHCfS
The Pharyngula blog discusses genetics and its relation to LFHCfS member Steven Pinker: Steve Pinker examined his own genome, and discovered that his genes said he was predisposed to be red-haired and at high risk for baldness. If you’ve seen Steve Pinker [and if you haven’t you can remedy that by watching the video here], you […]
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 […]
Hair club member makes good
Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists (LFHCfS) member Brian May, who recently completed his PhD in astronomy from Imperial College London, was today named as chancellor of Liverpool John Moores University. Click on the photo below to see the university’s official announcement. Dr. May is also lead guitarist for the rock group Queen, a post […]