Hadrian’s Wall was constructed after repeated clashes with red-haired tribes in Britain. Roman writers described them as fierce, massive, and uncontrollable. Tacitus. Germania. Translated by Alfred John Church and William Jackson Brodribb. London: Macmillan, 1877. #STEMTok

Ginger Science. We’re about the whole redhead. #STEMTok #gingertok #gingers #redheads #gingerscience

Ginger Science. We’re about the whole redhead. #STEMTok #gingertok #gingers #redheads #gingerscience

Ginger Science. We’re about the whole redhead. #STEMTok #gingertok #gingers #redheads #gingerscience

We're more than a fetish..... Ginger Science. We’re about the whole redhead. #STEMTok #gingertok #gingers #redheads #gingerscience

How many redheads, tubes of chili cream, and poky sticks do you need to prove a scientific hypothesis? If you're 2005 academia: 20 women, 1 hot mess, and no follow-up. If you're us? A global, ginger-powered research engine.  It’s time to stop poking redheads in labs and start

Ginger Science. We’re about the whole redhead. #STEMTok #gingertok #gingers #redheads #gingerscience

Ginger Science. We’re about the whole redhead. #STEMTok #gingertok #gingers #redheads #gingerscience

Ginger Science. We’re about the whole redhead. #STEMTok #gingertok #gingers #redheads #gingerscience

Ginger Science. We’re about the whole redhead. #STEMTok #gingertok #gingers #redheads #gingerscience

Ginger Science. We’re about the whole redhead. #STEMTok #gingertok #gingers #redheads #gingerscience

Everyone thinks of melanin as the pigment responsible for the gorgeous array of human skincolor. Or “that pigment that makes you tan.” But redheads know better. There are multiple types of melanin—and they don’t all behave the same. This week, we’re breaking down the science

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Ancient Bias. In Aristotle's Physiognomonica reddish hair is grouped with a swift pulse and prominent veins as outward signs of the choleric humour dominated by hot, dry yellow bile. Such people “leap to action before reflection,” a behavioural shorthand that centuries later

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The Malleus Maleficarum is often cited as saying red hair is a sympton of witchcraft. However, neither AI nor the humans at Ginger Science could find any evidence of this in the book. More anti-Ginger bias!! #GingerTok #GingerScience #STEMtok #Witches

Redheads are rare in every human population, but they appear with unusual concentration across northern and western Europe. Chapter 2 of The Ginger Code explores three lenses through which red hair was historically seen in Europe: the continental lens of supernatural mistrust,

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