Micro Wave: What Makes Curly Hair Curl?

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🗓️ 8 January 2021

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Hair scientist Crystal Porter explains the science behind curly hair (hint: It involves mushy cells in teeny-tiny tunnels). Plus, a bit of listener mail from you! Which you can always send by emailing [email protected].

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0:00.0	You're listening to Shortwave from NPR.
0:05.9	Maddie Sifai here with Arielle Azabidi, former intern, now with her first microwave episode.
0:12.7	Hey Maddie, very excited.
0:14.6	Happy Friday.
0:15.6	Happy Friday, Azie.
0:17.0	So a microwave for all of you who forgot, they are short, fact-filled episodes ending with
0:22.2	some lovely listener mail.
0:24.4	Okay.
0:25.4	So what fund do you have for us today, Azie?
0:27.9	Well, Maddie, lately I've been thinking about all the things you and I have in common.
0:32.8	You know, a passion for science and mountains and how we both hate how much everyone at NPR
0:39.0	makes puns.
0:40.0	Oh my God, Arielle, you can't say that out loud.
0:43.3	Big pun is very alive here.
0:46.1	There's no room for secrets on this team, Maddie.
0:48.2	Come on.
0:49.2	There's some room.
0:50.2	There's some room.
0:51.2	No.
0:52.2	Look, you know what?
0:53.2	Something else our listeners might not know about us is that we both have curly hair.
0:57.7	That's true.
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