{"id":166,"date":"2005-01-12T11:45:21","date_gmt":"2005-01-12T11:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=166"},"modified":"2005-01-12T11:45:21","modified_gmt":"2005-01-12T11:45:21","slug":"more_on_the_hairbrain_power_co","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2005\/01\/12\/more_on_the_hairbrain_power_co\/","title":{"rendered":"More on the Hair-Brain Power Connection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The crew over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/\">Boing Boing<\/a> has pointed me toward a site that nicely refutes the dubious North Korean claim that long hair robs energy from the brain. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.improb.com\/projects\/hair\/hair-club-top.html\">Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists<\/a>. Some of these undeniably brainy folks have achieved levels of hirsuteness that my own increasingly challenged follicles can only dream of. In some cases, the end result is really <a href=\"http:\/\/www.improb.com\/projects\/hair\/2004\/RobinHicks-HIRES.JPG\">cool<\/a>; in others, it&#8217;s a bit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.improb.com\/projects\/hair\/2004\/patrick-obrien-hair-HIRES.jpg\">frightening<\/a>. (No personal insult intended to the latter fellow, it&#8217;s just that, as much as I admire lengthy male tresses and guys who dare to express themselves, I think you can go too far with any particular look. I don&#8217;t want to know how much this guy spends annually on conditioner&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>One thing that I thought was cool, given my longtime affection for the rock group Queen, was the inclusion in the LFHC of guitarist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.armaghplanet.com\/html\/astrogazers_brian.htm\">Brian May<\/a>, who is apparently quite the amateur star-gazer. Who would&#8217;ve guessed the guy responsible for &#8220;We Will Rock You&#8221; has a thing for astronomy?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The crew over at Boing Boing has pointed me toward a site that nicely refutes the dubious North Korean claim that long hair robs energy from the brain. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists. Some of these undeniably brainy folks have achieved levels of hirsuteness that my own [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-ramblings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}