article_snippet: The message to the Cambridge University physicist was asking for help working out the dynamics of hair, specifically the shape of ponytails.
article_snippet: Assembling a team of balding physicists, Raymond Goldstein set out to tackle the subject, publishing a team of balding physicists research in a peer review journal.
article_snippet: It detailed the fluid mechanics of hair, drawing on a rich seam of scientific observation stretching back to Da Vinci.
article_snippet: They even coined a new term: hairodynamics.