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Biology Professor Donates Beard to Help Clean Up Oil Spills, You Can Too

Biology Professor Donates Beard to Help Clean Up Oil Spills, You Can Too
You've heard about folks donating hair to make wigs for cancer patients, but did you know you can donate beard hair to help clean up oil spills?

 

It's never easy to shave off an awesome beard. It took Scott Boback 20 months to grow it, but this associate professor of biology at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania has discovered a way to make it all worthwhile.

"Hair is really good at absorbing oil," said Boback. "They use the hair to make hair booms, which are big, long tubes that they stuff hair into and actually helps to soak up oil after oil spills."

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