By The Way...

Thursday, May 17, 2007
9:52:00 AM EDT
Hearing Nothing at the moment
Members of the bald tribe, some news for you:

Hair loss in humans might not be irreversible, suggest scientists who have helped create new hair cells on the skin of mice.

It was thought hair follicles, once damaged, could never be replaced.

But a University of Pennsylvania, US, team, writing in the journal Nature, says hair growth can actually be encouraged using a single gene.

The bad news: It's the same gene that encourages out-of-shape men to wear Speedo bikini briefs out in public. So, as a nation, we are going to be faced with a choice, here.

All right, not so much with the Speedos.

You know, I wouldn't mind having my hair back, but I have to say that generally speaking, I look better now I'm balder. This is partly due to the fact that when I had hair it was thin and flyaway anyway, and I couldn't do a damn thing with it; it always looked like I had just gotten up out of bed. I suppose if I was the sort of person to spend hours on my hair, I could have made it work, but then if I was the sort to spend hours on my hair I might have to stab myself in the eye. Once again, that whole "faced with a choice" thing.


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• #3 Comment from psychfun 
  5/17/07 9:29 PM | Permalink

  Actually I find receeding hairlines VERY SEXY! ;-) And I know thin hair myself! I hope this can work for women too. My nieces have the thickest hair...I didn't get that gene. Now maybe it would help to make it thicker though???
  
  Now what about grey hair? But again I find it SEXY! ;-) Richard Gere and George Clooney look so much more sexier with grey hair I think but then I have ALWAYS liked older men...problem is as I get older that means they are REALLY OLDER! YIPES!
  
  Ya, I think it really depends on the partner...I mean in some ways if one finds you sexy without or it doesn't matter to them then they find YOU sexy & not just what you look like & that is much better if you ask me.
• #2 Comment from dpoem 
  5/17/07 10:27 AM | Permalink

  I miss my hair for no other reason than the fact that my head is a hell of a lot shinier than yours.  You'd think someone lacquered the thing or something.
  
  -Dan
  http://journals.aol.com/dpoem/TheWisdomofaDistractedMind/
   
• #1 Comment from monponsett 
  5/17/07 9:57 AM | Permalink

  While I generally feel that only American blacks look good with the baldy, I for one feel that it suited you better than this follicle recession that seems to have already made it over the top of your head.
  
  My opinion matters very little here, though. Does your wife prefer the shaved head?
  
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