NUYAT – HAIR SUK UKSURTUWIQAMI NUYAI QAT’RITAARTUT. – WHEN A PERSON GETS TO BE AN ELDER THEIR HAIR TURNS GRAY (WHITE). Before the adoption of western hairstyles in the mid-nineteenth century, Alutiiq men and women wore their hair long. Men typically cut their hair at the shoulders and braided it. Women cut bangs across their […]
University of Alaska Fairbanks researchers have linked specific chemical signatures found in human hair with a diet of traditional Yup’ik foods. The finding could help scientists make connections between diet and long-term health trends in Alaska Native populations. The study was published this month in the Journal of Nutrition. The researchers examined the diets […]
Sprouting from your head at the rate of more than three inches a year, hair is a recorder of the things you eat and drink and where you ate and drank them. An Ottawa-based researcher once assembled a countrywide database of Canadians’ hair designed to help the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. With a likable partner […]
Images of a man dragging a young girl around by her hair has sparked anger on the Internet as well as revived the debate on the appropriate discipline of children after they were posted to Facebook by Texas woman Erika Burch. The posting on Facebook has been shared well over 153,000 times and garnered over 8,000 comments […]