Why Can't I Get Rid of This Cowlick?

You or someone you know may have struggled to get a cowlick to just stay down already, but you can take solace in the fact that these inconvenient hair tufts have a lot to teach us about the world around us.

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Sources:
https://www.math.hmc.edu/funfacts/ffi...
https://people.ucsc.edu/~lewis/Math20...
“Concepts of Modern Mathematics” textbook https://books.google.com/books?id=4WP...
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/...
https://settlement.arc.nasa.gov/70sAr...
http://assets.press.princeton.edu/cha...
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