Naut's Tidbits & Snippets for Monday, January 21, 2008

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Monday, January 21, 2008

I know you have been waiting for this: Why curly hair doesn’t get tangled..

While teaching physics at Ecole Polytechnique in France, Physicist Jean-Baptiste Masson used hair fibers as an example of a complex system that could be modeled simply. The example made him wonder: Does curly hair get more tangled than straight hair? He thought that a person sporting, say, Shakira’s... Sign in to see full entry.

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