Improbable Research

Sara Muhonen joined the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists (LFHCfS). She says:

My research is about the gastrointestinal tract and exercise in horses and as you can see in the picture my hair can compete with the mane of a horse.

Sara Muhonen, AgrD, LFHCfS
Postdoctoral researcher
AgroSup Dijon
Dijon, France

Holly Brothers joined the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists (LFHCfS). She says:

My hair is too cool for school and so am I.

Holly Brothers, LFHCfS
Graduate student in psychology
Ohio State University
Columbus, Ohio, USA

Matan Shelomi joined the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists (LFHCfS). He says:

I am an entomology PhD student at UC Davis, currently studying the digestive physiology of the Phasmatodea. I did my undergraduate at Harvard, where I first experimented with long hair. My strawberry-blond hair is my prized possession. It varies in color naturally with the seasons, going from bright red in the summer to dirty blond in the winter. Women want it, men also want it, and people in the nations I do fieldwork in want to touch it. Look closely and you can see that this is actually an overgrown mullet: I went to the barbershop two years prior with a photograph of MacGyver and said “do this!” Best haircut I ever had. (The photo here was taken by Kathy Keatley Garvey.)

Matan Shelomi, LFHCfS
Graduate Student in Entomology
Bohart Museum of Entomology
University of California – Davis
Davis, California, USA

Caitlin Wichlaczhas joined the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists (LFHCfS). She says:

I’m a grad student in Archaeology at Washington State University. I get a haircut about once every eight years, and usually donate my surplus flowing hair to those in need. My most memorable haircut was performed with a sharpened Marshalltown trowel.

Caitlin A. Wichlacz, MA, LFHCfS
Graduate student in Archaeology
Department of Anthropology
Washington State Unversity
Pullman, Washington, USA

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

I rather think my hair is on the short side, since it doesn’t hang much past my bra-strap when braided, and I’ve friends with hair reaching past their knees. This photo shows my hair with 12th Century style hair additions. Please note that the fouriaus* more than doubles the apparent length of my hair.  But when wearing a costume patterned after one of the statues in the Chartres Cathedral it seemed right to wear the appropriate accessories, too. Besides, it is fun to wear braids that long!

* Fouriaus:  Sheathes covering braids or bourre (false hair) source: Goddard, E. R. (1925). Women’s Costume in French Texts of the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries. The Johns Hopkins Studies in Romance Literatures and Languages, Vol. VII. Paris, Universitaires de France: 263.

Reia M. Chmielowski
Laboratory of Experimental Petrology
Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra
Università degli Studi di Milano
Milan, Italy