On Hair Color in France (by Leslie Lamport) (research.microsoft.com)

One word: L'Oréal.

... our observation that a number of the blonde and red-haired female subjects showed brown coloration in the few millimeters of hair closest to the scalp. This suggests two obvious possibilities. One is that chimerism may be involved. However, our data were obtained in the fall, and so we offer an alternative conjecture: that the bright coloration displayed by females may be a seasonal phenomenon, with their hair turning brown in the colder months and then lighter with the return of warm weather...

lol

Leslie Lamport is hilarious (and also a genius). If you're ever bored and want to try to decipher how to implement PAXOS based on a prose description of Greek society, check his original PAXOS paper, "The Part-Time Parliament": http://research.microsoft.com/users/lamport/pubs/pubs.html#l...

“A table is nearly always better than a dumb pie chart; the only worse design than a pie chart is several of them.”