Welcome to Getting Curious.

I'm Jonathan Van Ness, and every week I sit down for a gorgeous conversation with a brilliant expert to learn all about something that makes me curious.

On today's episode, I'm joined by Dr. Tina Lissisi, where I ask her,

Do we really understand what's going on with our hair?

Welcome to getting curious, this is Jonathan Benes. This is going to be such a good

episode. I can't even stand it. I'm going to dive right in and introduce our

guests. We have Dr. Tina Lissisi, who is a postdoctoral researcher in biological

anthropology. Her interests include the evolution of human variation in pigmentation and scalp hair as well as science communication.

Your like scholar resume makes you want to take the, my stuff is on a music stand in a sound

studio right now I want to take it I want to flip it I want to go it's bringing out

my like Indiana primal man rage when they see like their team win.

It's making me like, I'm like, yeah, whoa, whoa, except for it's about gorgeous biological anthropology in your scholarship versus a hideous heter normative sport.

So first of all welcome, thank you for taking your time.

I'm so excited to talk to you about this because like you're a hair expert that's just a fact I'm speaking to a hair colleague and I'm just so

excited to talk to you about this like ask you questions about your observations because I feel like we're

basically two people who work on the same thing but like from different angles you're applied and you have all of this

knowledge from all the people's heads you've seen and I have all this theory and books and data.

And as long as we're here, just this texture, everything about it, just so fucking pretty.

I mean, the crop, your cute face.

I am trying to do this cute thing where I don't

compliment everybody but when it's this good I am just going to stick to my

roots as a hair stylist who is a hair stylist first so I can't help. have too many questions, and I can already tell from our pre-production

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