Hair Variation, What’s Her Story? with Dr. Tina Lasisi

Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness

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Science, Self-improvement, Comedy, Education, Society & Culture

4.9 • 21.5K Ratings

🗓️ 23 February 2022

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

What do you get when a biological anthropologist studying hair and a hairstylist compare notes? A stunning new episode of Getting Curious. Join Dr. Tina Lasisi and Jonathan as they explore the evolutionary history of human hair, measuring hair variation, and the twists and turns of Jonathan’s hair school textbook. Tina Lasisi is a Postdoctoral Researcher in Biological Anthropology. Her research is on the evolution and genetics of human variation in pigmentation and scalp hair. She also works on science communication and education. You can follow Tina on Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok @tinalasisi. Her website is www.tinalasisi.com, and you can explore more of her work at linktr.ee/tinalasisi. Want to support other Black Biological Anthropologists? Dr. Lasisi recommends following @BlackinBioAnthro on Twitter and Instagram, and @rockstaranthro on Instagram. Join in on the conversation, and find out what former guests are up to, by following us on Instagram and Twitter @CuriousWithJVN. Transcripts for each episode are available at JonathanVanNess.com. Love listening to Getting Curious? Now, you can also watch Getting Curious—on Netflix! Head to netflix.com/gettingcurious to dive in. Jonathan is on Instagram and Twitter @JVN and @Jonathan.Vanness on Facebook. Our executive producer is Erica Getto. Our associate producer is Zahra Crim. Our editor is Andrew Carson. Our socials are run and curated by Middle Seat Digital. Our theme music is “Freak” by QUIN; for more, head to TheQuinCat.com. Getting Curious merch is available on PodSwag.com.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Getting Curious. I'm Jonathan Vaness and every week I sit down for a gorgeous conversation
0:05.8	with a brilliant expert to learn all about something that makes me curious. On today's episode,
0:11.9	I'm joined by Dr. Tina Lassici, where I ask her, do we really understand what's going on with our hair?
0:22.7	Welcome to Getting Curious, this is Jonathan Vaness. This is going to be such a good episode. I can't
0:26.6	even stand it. I'm going to dive right in and introduce our guests. We have Dr. Tina Lassici,
0:33.2	who is a postdoctoral researcher in biological anthropology. Her interests include the evolution
0:41.0	of human variation and pigmentation and scalp hair as well as science communication. You're like
0:49.4	scholar resume. Makes you want to take the, this, my stuff is on a music stand in a sound studio right
0:55.5	now. I want to take it. I want to flip it. I want to go, it's bringing out my like Indiana,
1:03.2	primal man rage when they see like their team win. It's making me like, I'm like, yeah,
1:09.5	woo, except for it's about gorgeous biological anthropology in your scholarship versus like a hideous
1:15.3	heteronormative sport. So first of all, welcome. Thank you for taking your time.
1:20.0	I'm so excited to talk to you about this because like you're a hair expert. That's just a fact.
1:26.7	I'm speaking to a hair colleague and I'm just so excited to talk to you about this and like ask
1:31.3	you questions about your observations because I feel like we're basically two people who work
1:34.7	on the same thing, but like from different angles, you're applied and you have all this knowledge
1:38.6	from all the people's heads you've seen. And I have all this theory and books. And data.
1:43.6	I know. And as long as we're your hair, just this texture, everything about it. Just so
1:49.2	fucking pretty. I mean, the crop, your cute face. I am trying to do this cute thing where I don't
1:53.7	compliment everybody, but when it's this good, I am just going to stick to my roots as a hair stylist
1:59.1	who is a hair stylist first. So I can't help. I have too many questions and I can already tell
2:03.7	from our pre production that we're going to have too much fun. So I'm not going to get sidetracked.
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