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...Hair also makes a good forensics tool because it tends to stick around, decomposing at a much slower rate than other parts of the body. A criminal may unknowingly leave behind a strand of hair, a clue for detectives now to follow up on. "A single hair can determine a person's location during the past weeks or even years," says Cerling...
...This method can also help in proving or disproving alibis. For example, if a serial killer is roaming the country and claims that he has never been in Akron, Ohio, but you have a history of his hair that places him in that geographic area, it raises some questions. "It's like a credit card transaction that puts you in a place. If you said you were never there, then you have some explaining to do," points out Park...
...latest research, currently under peer review, she asked students to fill out questionnaires about scenarios in which discrimination was possible but not explicit. A company remains open on Martin Luther King Day, or a police officer stops a black man whose clothing and hair match those of a crime suspect, for example. "They're ambiguous because we want more information," Crosby says. "If it's an ambulance company, you might want it to stay open," or if the person in question is actually the criminal, you would want him to be stopped...
...Than Skin Deep,” the Harvard College Women’s Center’s spring art exhibition, is taking an in-depth look at body issues—literally. The largest piece in the show is an over-sized photograph of a vagina, complete with pubic hair and a manifesto. The work, entitled “The Vag Club,” connects final clubs to the vulva and is just one of the many works that illuminates how art can address social issues at Harvard. Every semester the Women’s Center stages an exhibition...
...short poem about a woman getting out of bed to get a drink of water, the man beside her wakes because of her shuffling. At first he’s irritated, then worried that his wife is no longer with him: “Suddenly his hair stands on end. / Is this shuffling real, or is it only a memory, in the past, in nonexistence?” The poem’s Philemon then comes to a realization: “It is real! She really shuffles. So, they are still together. Grateful and reconciled, he falls back into...