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Summary: Did you know that there is a lot of physics that goes into making animated hair look realistic? Today we chat with MIT graduate student Jay Miller who studies how a single hair curls. But this research goes way beyond animation; it turns out you can apply these same principles to a whole bunch of stuff, like the flagella on bacteria and very long steel pipes.