They say human hair acts as a natural oil spill cleanup tool that's extremely effective. The idea for using hair to clean up oil spills came from Phillip McCrory, an Alabama-based hairdresser who ...

But this cut is far from ordinary. "The hair usually goes to oil spill clean-up mats," said Lam. The strands of hair cut from the young man's head are carefully collected, and then turned into a ...

Proposals range from soaking up the oil with human hair to inflating a giant balloon ... dose of radioactivity to a catastrophic oil spill, said Daniel Foster in National Review Online, actor ...