Anthony Morgan and Sarika Cullis-Suzuki reveal their own personal hair dilemmas in the documentary Hairy Tales.
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Morgan worries that DNA will determine the destiny of his hair. "My cousin was bald by, like, 18. My brother was bald by 21," he says. "I'm lucky to have left." Our ancestors evolved to walk on two legs in equatorial Africa, where the sun would have been beating down on them and they would have had to find ways to stay cool if they wanted to survive.
All human hair is incredibly strong. "On a weight basis, it's as strong as steel," materials scientist Marc Meyers said. But perhaps surprisingly, the thicker a strand of hair is, the weaker it gets. A pool noodle duel between Morgan and Meyers demonstrates how the thicker the hair, the relatively weaker it gets. Cullis-Suzuki heads to a dermatology clinic for a visit with Dr. Renée Beach, who ran a hair-loss clinic at a Toronto hospital for nearly a decade. She examines the science — and social consequences — tied to our tresses. "I think we're obsessed because it's undeniable that people get judged based on their hair," she says.
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