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Has anyone checked out the "Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists" lately? There's a graduate student in chemical engineering at Yale - his name is Hermes Huang - who has the most gorgeous long black silky hair. If only mother nature and father DNA had bestowed hair like that upon me.
You can access the site at
http://www.improbable.com/projects/hair/hair-club-top.html
If you have problems with that URL, just google "luxuriant flowing" and click on the first listing. Hermes Huang is the first one in gallery #6.
More proof that long hair is the way to go! Good stuff.
Great to see the scientists doing their but for community.
John.B
Not only do they have luxuriant flowing hair, but also they have a great sense of humor!
Ed
Hello everyone,
I work at a university in Montreal, in the atmospheric sciences department. In my department, there are six longhairs (shoulder length or longer). Three of us have had long hair since at least 10 years. In the environmental sciences department there are two longhairs, and the other computer tech who works with me has had his hair growing from a round the ears haircut to long hair since 2001. I seem to have an influence on some.
For every scientist who has long hair, and posts of the long-haird scientist site, there are maybe ten that do not "tell it to the world". However this site is great to tell the world that long hair is not associated with "bums", drug addicts, etc.
In the science world it seems that long hair is like a signature for those who keep it long. In the arts world, I remember while in college, in Data Processing, I was the only longhair in 1981. I had a few long-haired friends in the "New School", which is an art oriented program. With time msny of those longhairs in the arts school become more punk, and some admonished me for sticking with my style. I was supposed to change because my hair has done its time, and it was time for a fresh new look. It may be generalizing, but I observed that the arts crowd in my time liked long hair, so long as it did not stay on the same person for too long. I was expected to switch to a crewcut for a change, dye it purple at one time, or grow it long, but not stick to one style. That is because a lot of these students were in theatre where styles are expected to be changed on a moment's notice depending on the period of the performance.
All in all, I do find that the science crowd is more "conservative" in the way they like to stick to the style they like, and those who like long hair stick longer to it.
Have a nice day,
Georges in Montreal.
Scientific proof that long hair is best ;)
Mogh
