World’s Strangest

I am 19, and with my family gene history, that means that I am just starting to hit puberty …… More accurately, it means I am at the point where I have just enough facial hair for it to be a pain in my ass, but not enough for me to do anything cool with [...]

The mildly disturbing creature you see above may not immediately seem recognizable, but it is just your everyday spectacled bear –sans hair. According to the BBC, three bears in the Leipig Zoo, and other bears in zoos throughout Europe, have inexplicably lost their hair over the last few years. Many zoo employees are stumped as [...]

Hair ice, also called silk frost, is a type of ice formation that looks like silk and seems to only appear on woody, barkless materials on the ground. The ice structures tend to grow out of a small pore in the wood, sort of like hairs on the human head. Dr. James Carter has more [...]

Why are humans mostly free of body hair, in comparison to other primates? Losing body hair was an evolutionary advantage in that it allowed early hominids to forage over a greater distance in harsher climates. In Scientific American, Mariette DiChristina writes: Our forebears abandoned their easier foraging habits, traveling longer distances through a tropical landscape to [...]

Silversmith and offbeat artist Polly van der Glas creates jewelry made from human teeth, hair, and sterling silver. aside from rings, she also makes necklaces, earrings, purses and more. All works are handmade in Melbourne, with sterling silver, human hair and human teeth. Human teeth are locally donated and sterilised, and human hair is either locally [...]

Move over, Johnny Depp. There’s a new Edward Scissorhands in town, and he cuts hair. With Clawz. Yep, you read that right. Here’s Valentino LoSauro who invented a new way to cut hair: “The idea came to me in the late 90’s,” he said. “I am a pianist as well as a hairdresser and wanted to combine [...]

Inspired by Edward Scissorhands, these ‘Clawz’ are revolutionising the hairdressing industry. Valentino LoSauro, who has sold 30,000 of the fingertip scissors, spent two years developing the device. He claims the Clawz, made from responsive elastic and razor-sharp stainless steel, can cut hair twice as fast as normal shears. Razor sharp: Valentino LoSauro spent two years developing the Clawz Mr [...]

Remember the wild hair of Andre Agassi in the 1990s? Yep, you guessed it: a wig! “I asked myself: you want to wear a toupee? On the tennis court? I answered myself; what else could I do?” But the wig began to disintegrate as he took a shower the night before the Paris final — “probably I [...]

by Alvin Ward Disneyland may be the Happiest Place on Earth, but don’t think that means you can just waltz in and do whatever you want. In fact, Mickey Mouse’s theme parks have banned quite a few things over the years. Here are just a few of the things on which the Mouse has dropped his [...]

Ed. Note: Todays’ guest blog star (and our good friend) Dr. Michael Reed knows hair care. The Manhattan-based dermatologist and hair loss expert has devoted his life to helping folks keep the locks on their heads. He’s even got a new book out on the topic: Women’s Hair Loss: The Hidden Epidemic. Today, Dr. Mike’s [...]