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?Or at least where you’ve been. Researchers have now learnedthat they can track criminals and terrorists by analyzing asingle hair.

Anna Gosline writes in New Scientist that researchersmeasure the ratios of oxygen and hydrogen isotopes in thehair. These isotopes, absorbed into the body from water, aredifferent in different areas. Researcher Stuart Black says,”Hair is particularly good because it grows about [half aninch] a month, so it actually grows a record of not onlywhere you have been but what you have been eating and drinking.”
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We’ve written recently about animals that are missing orturning up in the wrong places due to global warming and thepole shift. A recent “bug splat” test in the U.K. found manyfewer insects that expected. And all over the world,scientists are finding hyperactive fish, stupid frogs,fearless mice and seagulls that fall over?all due topollution.
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People living in the eastern part of the U.S. and Canada sawwho went outside at 9 p.m. on Tuesday, August 31, saw astrange, bright, silvery cloud of light that suddenlyappeared. It lasted for about half an hour, then graduallyfaded. It may have accounted for UFO reports from that area,but it was actually a satellite launch vehicle dumping itsfuel.

Joe Rao writes in space.com that New York amateur astronomerJohn Bortle first reported the sighting. In another part ofNew York, Bill Bogardus and his wife saw the cloud anddescribe it as “?about the size of the moon?It was aroundish, yet not all that round, object drifting towardsour location very slowly, slower that most satellitesbecause it took at least twenty minutes to move from wherewe first saw it…”
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Mysterious booms have been reported before inCalifornia,and now a serious of loud booming noises is shaking housesin Indiana.

In Fort Wayne, Justin Brugger says, “It’s a quick, solid,boom-type noise. One lady described it as a tremor.” Itfirst started happening about a month ago. He says, “Ithought it might be construction?but that doesn’t appear tobe it.”

Brugger plans to plot boom locations on a map from calls hereceives from residents who?ve heard them, in order to findout where they’re coming from. So far, they seem to beoccurring at random times on a long, narrow stretch of land.

Denise Porter-Ross of the mayor’s office says, “It’s just alittle disturbing. You’re hearing these noises, but you goout to investigate and nothing’s there.”read more