Treatise on hair gives locks a chance to shine

摘要

After the Exxon Valdez dumped more than 10 million gallons of oil into the Gulf of Alaska, hairdresser Phil McCrory got an idea. He gathered up human hair from his salon, stuffed it into a pair of pantyhose and dunked the bundle into a solution of motor oil and water. The hair sopped up the oil - a discovery that has since inspired environmentalists to create "hair blankets" to clean up oil spills.