I generally cut my own hair with clippers, and see a pile of my own hair build up before me in the process. Usually this is brown hair but somewhere between February and April a large bulk of it turned grey.

I was inclined to think it was down to the intense stress that the early part of this year has given me but it seems scientists generally disagree with the idea that stress causes grey hair, its an aging thing and presumably a coincidence when an increased onset coincides with a period of heavy stress, but there are still some who ask questions over the possibility that the underlying chemical processes of aging may also be triggered by stress.

Re: Can stress really cause (contribute to) whitening of the hair?: “stress “can probably contribute” to hair whitening in some genetically predisposed individuals”

The following list was first published on the old UK Baha’i youth website Phoenix Online:

Potential Car Stickers with a Baha’i theme.

• Fast in March
• Too far to travel? Bahá’ís work to make the world smaller!
• I’d rather be in Haifa!
• If you’re trying to meet your Maker there IS a better way!
• Beam me up Unknowable Essence!
• Fed up of this highway? Try the Bahá’í way!
• Restricted Vision? Read World Order of Bahá’u'lláh.
• There’s an old sticker under this one. It quotes the Hidden Words.
• Dizzy Lives!
• I don’t have another car, my other journey’s a spiritual one!
• Enjoy stops on your journey? Join The Bahá’í Faith for services in this world and the next.
• Báb’í on Board!

Coming back from Peterlee late at night I often slump in front of the tv wanting to unwind with something funny or light-hearted. Dissapointed with the choice I recently turned to the internet and found a couple of short films made by Star Wars fans which are quite well made and entertaining if you are familiar with the six Star Wars movies.

Sith Apprentice - This merges Star Wars with the American version of The Apprentice, the show where Donald Trump offers a well paid job to one succesful applicant after a series of tests, the main difference between the US and UK versions of The Apprentice is that the US version ends with live a show in a large theatre where the final decision is made.

Pink Five Strikes Back - This follows the journey of a girl who was a fighter pilot in Episode IV “A New Hope” in the battle against the Death Star, during that battle she chatted to Han Solo and now calls him her boyfriend. Having failed to listen properly in the pilots briefing she doesn’t know where to go and follows “new boy” Luke Skywalker to a strange planet where she meets Yoda. Her story fits nicely, if occasionally a little too obviously, around the real Episode V “The Empire Strikes Back”.

Atom Films has some funny content, here are a few animated music videos that I had to watch a few times over:

Star Wars Gangsta Rap SE

The Real Hussein 2: “Iraq Without Me” (sequel but watch first)

The Real Hussein (preceded “Iraq Without Me”)