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Hair Today

Joining the awesome list of books about things (think Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World, Salt: A World History, all those great tomes by Mary Roach) is the alliteratively titled Hair: A Human History, by Kurt Stenn. "From the felted wool covers of tennis balls to the horse-tail hair of a violin’s bow," this reviewer writes, "Stenn, a former dermatologist and hair follicle scientist, digs up the myriad ways that hair has threaded its way into humans’ lives—and history": https://www.sciencenews.org/article/everything-you-ever-wanted-know-about-hair-%E2%80%94-and-then-some?utm_source=Society+for+Science+Newsletters&utm_campaign=ac7b6213ef-Latest_From_Science_News&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_a4c415a67f-ac7b6213ef-104586561

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