On your head are thousands of ickle things. No, not nits; hairs. Although human hairs are only 0.1 millimeters wide, they vary greatly in length. This flexibility can lead people to abuse their hair and use it as some kind of artistic- or self-expression. The ickle hairs are teased and treated with lotions to persuade them to maintain a shape or style - Edward Scissorhands and David Beckham   might be examples of extremes ... or that Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen. Hairs are actually dead stuff but appear to be alive because they generally disobey what we ask of them. In some cases, hairs will even gang up and they can become less than ickle - remember Sheena Easton? Bob Dylan said that people with longer hair could think more clearly because there was less inside their ickle heads to tangle up their brain. He might have written nice songs but I don't think he paid much attention in science class do you? ID

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