hair

Whilst debating a creationist the other day they brought up something I hadn't really thought of before: the fact that humans, unlike other primates, seem to have head hair that is only controllable through technology. While I countered that as evidence of "creation"--noting that it would only...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20081111/sc_livescience/originofbadhairdiscovered The kind of keratin we have in the make-up of our hair and nails was thought to have evolved in mammalian ancestry, now it seems that the keratin evolved before there were mammals around, and actually was in...

One of my colleagues told me that a tuft of hair had gone grey after a biopsy. She had a birthmark on her head, and her hairdresser had noticed that the mark had changed colour and was growing, and a bi0opsy of the birthmark was taken. The next day, the hair on the spot where the biopsy was...

is it normal for babies to have this much hair at 4 months? And it's so black.... Is she wearing a wig? :D

... evolution-wise -- not talking about fashion statements. mslxl

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=9533284617&rd=1&sspagename=STRK%3AMESE%3AIT&rd=1#ebayphotohosting Would almost be worth throwing the money away just to have it analyzed for debunking purposes.

We hear about Islamic and Jewish prohibitions on uncovered female hair. Human hair in general seems to have been big medicine in the ancient Near East; cf. the Samson story.* I would surmise that this hair business is very ancient. Is it pre-Semitic? Non-Semitic? What gives? Anybody have some...

Ever think anything like that? It's possible. You know how we discover alternative uses to almost everything? Take a root. Roots can be eaten. And they may make good medicine. Almost everything is like that. There are other uses and purposes to things. Well, as you know, I am always trying to...

Since I don't want to be screaming that into my shower drain a decade or so from now, I'm curious: Are there any really effective methods of preventing or even reversing baldness? I have a hard time telling, since I have a feeling baldness is a field ripe with woo.

Bogus, valid, or both (ie some are valid some are bogus), anyone know? Specifically, this place... http://www.interclinical.com.au/ They do hair analysis. Does anyone with any experience in this have some facts? Thanks muchly. I am also looking into Dr David L. Watts who is their Director...

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When I was an adolescent my parents told me that a lot of strenous physical exercise increases testosterone, thereby diminishing the hairiness on the chest and legs, because this will stimulate the testosterone and have it used for muscles rather than hairiness on the chest and legs; so they...

Ok I found a gray hair. The hair is gray from the scalp to the end length of the rest of my hair. Since hair is dead how can it change color all the way all at once?

Like the sensationalist thread title? OK, the BBC actually reported: The researchers go on to say that it is too soon to say for sure that brain damage will be caused by such devices, and that the study needs replication, etc. Interestingly, the article ends: How long before the...

...not gone tomorrow, though. My understanding is that hair, once it's out of the follicle, is finished, so to speak. So if you're seeing it, it can't be changed, except the exterior of the shaft can have slight changes made to it. I'm asking about this because my horsie friends are convinced...

I was surfing the internet and I came across a picture of a clown. Then I immediately started thinking about Stephen King's "It" (because I have such healthy thought processes). There is a scene where one boy witnesses his friend being dragged off by a mysterious glowing ball of "dead light"...

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=571&ncid=751&e=1&u=/nm/20030627/hl_nm/men_hair_dc They're presenting this report based on the preferences of only 50 men? I think wider sampling would make the result more believable.

Why Pubic Hair Does Not turn Grey? I mean like the hair of the head. Do you know some special reasons? Thanks, S&S Edited to fix the spelling of "pubic".

Researchers identify signals that cause hair follicles to sprout