sunday retrospective/natural girl's reading list: why isn't anyone researching our hair?!

Everything I have learned about my natural hair, I have learned from blogs, websites and forums... from ladies (and the occasional gent) who share their photos on fotki, or start information threads on 'black hair media' and 'long hair care forum'... I piece that together with what I can find on wikipedia, hairboutique.com, etc to determine the chemical make up of a product, and how it will