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Portrait of Andreas Eberhard Rauber (1575/ around 1700); Barbershop in ‘The Book of Trades’ (‘Das Ständebuch’), Frankfurt am Main, 1568; portrait of Lucas Cranach the Elder

A very hairy story

07 Nov 2016

Beards are back in fashion. But today’s hipster styles convey rather different messages to the hair men cultivated in the early modern period...

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Suvi's ponytail

Rapunzel, Leonardo and the physics of the ponytail

13 Feb 2012

New research provides the first mathematical understanding of the shape of a ponytail and could have implications for the textile industry, computer...

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