Followers of our estimable Improbable Research column and its base site may have come across this before, but the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists is always worth a look, writes David Cohen
The club is an exclusive association of scientists who have, or believe they have, luxuriant flowing hair.
Among the benefits offered to members is the opportunity to show off their amazing locks, in all their academic glory, for readers who really ought to be in the lab rather than poring through guff like this.
Thus, we get to meet Stockholm University's Mikael Parkvall , a linguist with a long blond mane interspersed with electric blue highlights; PhD candidate Claudio Salim, who
studies at University Pierre & Marie Curie Paris, in France; and - a
personal favourite - the University of Hawaii's Rachel Blaser, who
writes: ""I have long admired the LFHCfS, and sincerely hope to be accepted into your distinguished ranks. I am a graduate student in comparative psychology, and would like to assure my advisor that this is the only sighting of my hair outside of lab in years."
The club also accepts dead scientists as honorary members - like Sir Isaac Newton and this
other bloke. Naturally, Albert Einstein rates an honorary mention, too, on account of the physicist's unquestioned contributions to the universe of academic hair styles. Relatively speaking, of course.
And, of course, this begs the question to be answered through the medium of the web ... can you do better?
