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Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz Has Internet-Famous Hair

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012115 SOU?  SQUARESPACE CACHEVERSION=1421871065676Pete Souza / The White House(WASHINGTON) — Have you ever heard of Ernest Moniz? If you haven’t, you need to know at least one thing about the U.S. Secretary of Energy: His hair is now-Internet famous.

Moniz didn’t even attend last year’s State of the Union address — he was the “designated survivor” (the cabinet official sent to a secure location just in case disaster were to strike the U.S. Capitol). But this year, the former MIT physics professor turned top government official showed up, sporting his unusual Colonial-style hair.

Users have compared him to Benjamin Franklin, Mr. Bean, and Javier Bardem. The list — and the memes — go on and on.

“If it gets people interested in the Department of Energy, that’s good,” Moniz told The Boston Globe in an interview last year.


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