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Certain hair products — many of which are used on black girls from birth to help straighten their hair — have been linked to such health issues such as diabetes, cardiovascular disease and breast cancer.
Health
Study shows hair care products targeted to black community contain harmful chemicals
The generation of a ball of mouse skin through stem cell work has created excitement among the the scientific community about possible new insight in skin formation — especially on humans.
Health
A ball of mouse skin could lead to new insight in human skin generation
Safi Haso, about 70 years old, from Girik village of Kobani. "We are probably the last generation that has tattoos," she says. "All Kurdish women had them." In addition to facial, hand and neck tattoos, Haso has tattooed her own breast with circles around
Culture
These Kurdish refugee women are proud owners of facial tattoos
Culture
Veterans display their wars through ink and art
The eyes tattooed on this Soviet prisoner's chest signify "I can see everything" and "I am watching," the powerful tattoo of a criminal "overseer." The eight-pointed stars tattooed on the shoulders mark the bearer as an "authoritative’" thief.
Culture
What it means when you see a Russian guy with a knife tattooed on his neck
Arts, Culture & Media
On a Razor’s Edge: Beards and Reforms in Iran
Arts, Culture & Media
Getting Inked: The Story Behind Traditional Maori Tattoos
Arts, Culture & Media
Journalist Mai El Shoush Creates Arab Comic Book Heroine, Rayann Lawsonia
Arts, Culture & Media
Tattoo Culture Along the Texas-Mexico Border
Business, Economics and Jobs
Your Occupational Tattoos
Beautiful Minds
Naked Protest
Conflict & Justice
Shades of blackness: skin tone atters across America
Chris Rock Asks: What is ‘Good Hair?’
Conflict & Justice
Global Hit – Deeya
Arts, Culture & Media
Geo answer
Health & Medicine
Unpopular opinion