Hair-splitting Issue.

topic of the day 023 & video of the day 018

Much a-Do about Hair

off of It's Okay to be Smart

- Duration: 05.39 -

What?
An informative overlook of hair: what it is made and why it differs from one another as well as its history.

Summary of what would you learned:
made of: keratin (same as nails)
pigments from: eumelanin & pheomelanin
angles of follicles: straight or curly
louse: shows when our body started to lose body hair
androgenic hair: difference between the 'carpet' and the 'drapes'
...

Why?

It's never a bad thing to fill your head with useful information about your body and better understand how it came to be.

Then? So?

We look different from each other for a reason and some of these differences can be studied and explained: with SCIENCE!

Lesson Learned:

"We appeared to be much different from each other but in essence, we are just the products of our surroundings, literally."