Improbable Research

Matthew A. Brown has joined the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists (LFHCfS). He says:

I began taking hair growth somewhat seriously at the age of 12. Luckily the mullet gave way to fully fledged long hair and a beard by the end of high school. The facial hair is now neatly trimmed and by no means flowing. Which both looks much better and keeps it out of chemicals in the paleontology lab, where I spend my time researching the stability of historic fossil treatments, implementing new methods for safely exposing, stabilizing, and reconstructing specimens, and mounting expeditions to travel the dry and dusty places of the globe to collect more bones.

Matthew A. Brown
Chief Preparator
Vertebrate Paleontology Laboratory
University of Texas, Austin
Austin, TX, USA

Thom Adams has joined the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists (LFHCfS). Carl Tracy, who nominated him, says:

Dr. Thom is an Associate Professor of mechanical engineering at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology as well as one groovy ass dude.

Thomas M. Adams, Ph.D., LFHCfS
Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering
ROSE-HULMAN Institute of Technology
Terre Haute, Indiana, USA

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

My hair is so long and luxuriant I even attract inanimate objects! After gaining an ‘Undergrad Masters’ from the University of Bristol, UK, I’m now pursuing a ‘Graduate Masters’ at the University of Alberta, Canada. I love things that explode, in this case volcanoes, and study their ashes.

Hayley Dunning, LFHCfS
Graduate student in Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
University of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

News reports (in Iran and in the New York Times) lead us to suspect that the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists (LFHCfS) is now banned in Iran. The photo here, showing non-banned hair styles, is from an Iranian source:

Membership in The Luxuriant Former Hair Club for Scientists (LFHCfS), a sibling organization of the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists (LFHCfS) is presumably not banned, and may even be encouraged.

We would enjoy hearing from anyone who can inform us as to the legal status in Iran of either the LFHCfS or the LFHCfS or both.

(Thanks to investigator David Kessler for bringing this to our attention.)

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

Since I was young, I have been told that I have perfect hair – straight, soft, and shiny, and I have been the envy of many people since.  Currently, I am a graduate student in Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of Delaware on my work on selenoproteins in both Dr. Bahnson‘s and Dr. Rozovsky‘s groups.

Diane Pham, LFHCfS
Graduate student in chemistry and biochemistry
University of Delaware
Newark, Delaware, USA