Dandruff Alert warnings
p2pnet.net OT News:- It will soon be compulsory for Americans over the age of 13 to wear thin-mesh hair-nets, says the Bush administration’s National Health Office (NHO).
The news follows reports that researchers have found so much dandruff floating in the air that they’ve classified it as a pollutant.
“Ruprecht Jaenicke of the Institute of Atmospheric Physics in Mainz, Germany, gathered air samples from around the globe at different times of the year and analyzed their content,” says Science, going on:
“He found evidence of a variety of cellular and protein particles – from dandruff to algae, bacteria to viruses – injected directly into the air.”
Unexpectedly large amounts of dandruff and other flaking skin, fur, pollen and similar materials known as biological aerosols were detected, says MSNBC, adding:
“This cellular material had been thought to be only a small proportion of all aerosols, which include mineral dusts, clay and sea salt.”
NHO spokeswoman Melanie Taylor-Smith-Jones said her department will soon issue regular Dandruff Alerts similar to Pollution Index warnings.
“There will be no charge for the DanEts, as we’re calling,” them, she said. “They’ll come in most natural colours and because they’re so tightly woven, should be barely discernible unless you’re really close to someone.
“We’ll be launching a National Health Office DanEt website with more details sometime within the next fews days.”
Taylor-Smith-Jones added that DanEts can be dyed.
The US plan to adopt anti-dandruff measures of the Third Kind is not, however, new. In fact, hair-nets have been in use for centuries.
“In Tudor Spain, the gathered bag – known as a cofia, redecilla (little net), albenaga, or garvin – could be made of fine linen, silk, or netting,” says 16th Century Cauls, Hairnets and Snoods.
“Some of these headcoverings allowed the hair to hang free beneath, while others, such as the painting of a princess shown to the left (c. 1525) contained the hair beneath like a modern snood.”
And doesn’t Will Smith wear one in I, Robot?
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See:-
Science - Skin Cells, Pollen Contribute to Air Pollution, April 1, 2005
MSNBC – Do dandruff and climate change go together?, March 31, 2005
April 1st, 2005 at 11:36 pm
Nowhere else would it be kinda-believable.
It would make a kind of perverse sense to worry about dandruff while the US produces most of the pollution on the planet without trying to reduce it.
April 2nd, 2005 at 12:00 am
Actually,
As someone who is allergic to pet dander and dust mites, (oh and Oak Pollen) I can actually comprend this quite easily. About once a week I have to clean my bedroom tip to stern, vacumm, dust, mop, wash the sheets in hot water, plus I have to replace the pillows about every 2-3 months. (want to do something scary? buy a new pillow, weigh it. In about 3 months weigh it again) That weight differnce is dust mites.
Benadryl is my friend
April 2nd, 2005 at 12:40 am
lol aprils fools i presume
April 2nd, 2005 at 1:58 am
haha april fools =P