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A friend of redditor ninjao won a mustache competition boldly known as The International Man of Movember. Here‘s a rear view. What do you think are his superpowers?
The Boy Scouts Of America are looking to recruit the future Ron Swanson’s of the world, but you don’t need a beard to join, you just need the desire to “be one with the wild” (their campaign slogan). Only time will tell whether their ads, featuring kids with epic beards, will increase their numbers or scare the wits out of potential recruits!
Peter Simon’s friend Tom Offer-Westort had a full beard and head of hair and wanted to shave them off. So they made a stop motion video of the process and then reversed it. Now it looks like Tom is applying his hair like makeup. -via Blame It on the Voices
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Beards From Below is a website dedicated to taking pictures of beards…. from below. Why would someone create a website of such unique facial hair perspectives? The about page only says “about awesomeness!” I think you will agree, the best ones look like a neck with no head.
Elmar Weiss, a longtime beard champion, has once again captured the world title for best beard. Since the competition was held in Norway, he sculpted his long beard into a Norwegian flag and a moose.
In 2005 he won with with a beard styled into the shape of Berlin’s Brandenberg Gate, and in 2007 with a representation of London’s Tower Bridge.
He said he had begun preparing his creation for the Trondheim event at 7am, with the help of his sister.
“When my beard isn’t styled, it goes down to my waist. It is sort of folded up,” he told the AFP news agency.
Link via Geekosystem | Photo: AFP
Is this brilliant or stupid? Or is the brilliance such that it is indistinguishable from stupidity? Should we force Alex to grow one? Let us ponder these issues.
Link via Geekologie | Photo: The Monkey Tail
At this point, there’s nothing very special about taking a picture of yourself every day for a year as you grow a beard. But about a minute into the video, Cory Fauver of Carleton College starts getting really creative. He moves through hallways, spins around, and shows stop-motion animated movements that took weeks to create.
via Urlesque
by Catherine Maloney, Fairfield University, Fairfield, Connecticut, Sarah J. Lichtblau, University of Illinois, Champaign, Illinois Nadya Karpook, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida Carolyn Chou, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Anthony Arena-DeRosa, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
A feline subject reacts to a photograph of a man with a full dark semicircular beard.
Cats were exposed to photographs of bearded men. The beards were of various sizes, shapes, and styles. The cats’ responses were recorded and analyzed.
Boone (1958) found inconclusive results in studying feline reactions to clean-shaven men. O’Connor and Brynner (1990) found inconclusive results in studying feline reactions to shaven heads. Quant (1965) found inconclusive results in studying feline reactions to bangs. Seuss (1955) found inconclusive results in studying feline reactions to hats. Ciccone (1986) found inconclusive results in studying feline reactions to hairy legs. Other related studies (Smith/Brothers 1972, Conroy 1987, Schwartzenegger 1983) have since been retracted because the investigators were not able to reproduce their results.
Norquist (1988) performed a series of experiments in which cats were exposed to photographs of Robert Bork[1] (not pictured here), a man whose beard is confined largely to the underside of the jaw. After viewing the Bork photograph, 26% of the cats exhibited paralysis of the legs and body, including the neck. An additional 31% of the cats exposed to the Bork photograph showed other types of severe neurological and/or pulmocardial distress and/or exhibited extremely violent behavior. Because of this, we did not include a photograph of this type of bearded man in our study.
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A little-known leaflet by Upton Uxbridge Underwood circulated in 1913 judges men in a different way, not by their works, but by their fabulous facial hair.
His masterpiece, The Language of the Beard, an epicurean treat confected for the delectation of fellow bon vivants, vaunts the premise that the texture, contours, and growth patterns of a man’s beard indicate personality traits, aptitudes, and strengths and weaknesses of character. A spade beard, according to Underwood’s theories, may denote audacity and resolution, for example, while a forked, finely-downed beard signifies creativity and the gift of intuition, a bushy beard suggests generosity, and so on.
See 15 poets and their beards described and rated. Pictured is the highly-rated beard of Sidney Lanier. Link -Thanks, peacay!
