Improbable Research

Dack Stuart has joined the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists (LFHCfS). He says:

My luxurious, flowing and award-winning hair (2011 Moustachio Bashio winner for “Most creative use of hair”, University of Delaware) often elicits “oohs”, “aahs”, and the occasional “whoa” upon entering a room.  I originally grew it in college because that’s what college-age men do, but I decided to keep it once I noticed the hypnotic effect it has on people.  People often ask for the pleasure of touching my luscious locks, and I need not expand on the effect it has on the fairer sex.  My hair is particularly useful in making up for my inability to grow a luxurious flowing beard, and it really goes well with an outrageous Hawaiian shirt and a lei.  In the world of marine consulting it looks especially dashing when I stand at the bow of ship, though it is often covered by a hard hat.  My luxurious hair is not just for my own glamour: I have donated my hair twice to www.wigs4kids.org and I am currently growing it a third time for donation.

Dack Stuart, MA, LFHCfS
Coastal Scientist
Woods Hole Group
Woods Hole, Massachusetts, USA

Diane McCarthy has joined the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists (LFHCfS). Mark McCracken, who nominated her, says:

Diane McCarthy, to whom I have the honor to be married, recently defended her thesis in Biology regarding the phylogeography of Tilia Americana, and then promptly moved to Colorado in search of new challenges. She has presented to wild acclaim at two different Botany Conferences (2009, 2011). She finds her luxuriant flowing hair to be quite useful for storage and indexing of T. Americana samples. She also has a background in Urban Planning, and is interested in integrating the two disciplines so as to help humankind more harmoniously co-exist with nature

Diane McCarthy, PhD, LFHCfS
Recent Graduate of the Department of Biological Sciences
Program in Ecology and Evolution
University of Illinois at Chicago, USA

Adam Perzynski has joined the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists (LFHCfS). He says:

When I tell people I am a sociologist they say, “You even look like a professor!” Admittedly on occasion I encounter a colleague who thinks I am homeless. A month or so ago I was contemplating dropping these locks, but now that I found out about this club, I am going to hold onto my tremendous mane for the foreseeable future. I am a sociologist at Case Western Reserve University and MetroHealth Medical Center. I am research methodologist who conducts behavioral and social science research in the School of Medicine, but my locks and I flourish most when teaching an undergraduate course I developed at CWRU titled, “Society through Online Video.”.

Adam T. Perzynski, PhD, LFHCfS
Center for Health Care Research and Policy
Case Western Reserve University at MetroHealth Medical Center
Cleveland, Ohio, USA

Yakov Kronrod has joined the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists (LFHCfS). Kathryn Devaney, LFHCfS, who nominated him, says:

Yakov Kronrod is a polymath whose intellectual curiosity earned him the nickname ‘professor’ long before he officially entered academia. His current areas of expertise include computational linguistics, tracking down long-lost relatives and, of course, the intricacies of maintaining luxuriant, flowing hair.

Yakov Kronrod, LFHCfS
Graduate Student in computational linguistics
University of Maryland
College Park, Maryland, USA

Larissa Unruh has joined the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists (LFHCfS). She says: