Why don’t your eyelashes grow as fast as your hair?

Hello kiddos,

This is Professor Mordy Maven, Thinker, Wonderer, and Figure-Outer of all things Science-ish. What that basically means is I try really hard to figure stuff out. I do the hard work so you don’t have to!

Now, you guys know how much I like to be helpful, right? Well, my brother’s hair was looking like a shaggy mess and given that his bar mitzvah is coming up, I knew how busy my mother was taking care of photographers, caterers, and stuff. She kept saying that she’s running around like a chicken without a head. (Interesting imagery!) I knew that there was no way she was going to have time to take him to the barber. And since I’ve always been good at cutting….

It only took a little convincing to get my brother to sit down on the stool in the bathroom and close his eyes. Then, I took out my scissors and gave him a haircut myself.

And guess what? It came out… wonderful! In fact, he looked so great that I felt confident enough to continue. I decided to give him a teeny, tiny trim… on his eyelashes.