My daughter was kind enough to remind me that yesterday was the first day of summer. She loves the calender in her room… particularly the holiday notations. Summer means sun and sun means sunburn… if you’re not careful. Every Bald Man should know that sunscreen is an essential part of the survival kit. Yeah, sure, there’s skin cancer and premature skin aging risks to be sure, but you don’t have to think long-range to get motivated. Just remember how much a sunburn hurts; that should do it for most of us. But be careful when you select your sunscreen. The Environmental Working Group, a consumer and environmental watchdog in DC, released a report claiming more than 80% of sunscreens don’t live up to their claims.... [Read more]

Here’s an interesting looking book: Medicalized Masculinities, edited by Dana Rosenfeld and Christopher Faircloth. From the Book Description out at Amazon.com: When medicalization—the characterization of human traits in terms of disease and ailment—first appeared as a concept in the 1970s, most social science gender scholarship focused on female or genderless bodies. The work on men, health, and medicine was scant and tended to depict masculinity as intrinsically damaging to men’s health. Medicalized Masculinities considers how these threads in scholarship failed to consider the male body adequately and presents cutting-edge research into the definition and regulation of masculinity by medicine. Renowned health and gender studies... [Read more]

Whadya know? Fred Thompson, Official Baldiness.com Unannounced Presidential Candidate, is the leading Republican candidate according to a Rasmussen poll released today. Thompson held a statistically insignificant one percentage point lead over former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani in the national poll of likely Republican primary voters, 28 percent to 27 percent. It was the first time all year anybody but Giuliani has led the 10-strong Republican field. (link) Technically it’s first place, but that’s like giving answers on a math test to the 12th decimal because that’s what the calculator said. (For the record, that’s dumb and a dead giveaway to the teacher that you don’t understand the material and are just regurgitating... [Read more]

I had wondered myself; now I wonder no more. Q: Dr. Bernstein, why have you not had a hair Transplant? I’m sure this question gets asked a lot. Thanks. A: Yes, all the time. My donor area is very thin (so I am not a good candidate) and I have gotten used to being bald. It has been years. [Read more]

Internet and marketing guru Seth Godin has revealed the secret of his success over at Bestseller Interviews. 4) Between your books and blogs, the amount of insightful content you produce is staggering. How do you do it? Does being bald help? Being bald, of course, is a cooling mechanism, and no sense overheating the cranium. There you have it! Pay no attention to his other comments on observation, selling, earning permission, finding your niche, etc. It’s all right here: The KEY is in the CRANIUM! h/t – Eye on DNA [Read more]