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Michael S. James writes for abcnews.com that the scotch you love to drink, your favorite shampoo, that watch you like to wear?all these and many other items you use and own could all be fakes. There are fake versions of almost everything for sale: auto parts, drugs, toys, cosmetics and even vintage wines, artwork and airplane parts. Author David M. Hopkins says, “It’s now possible to fake everything.”

He says, “It’s not just the contents. It’s the ability to fake the packaging. It’s the ability to fake the labels. In some cases, it’s certificates of authenticity. Everything is fake.”
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When you find the oldest tree in the world, what do you do??You clone it, of course. The gnarled and twisted Methuselah bristlecone pine, discovered in the California mountains, isn’t very pretty, but it is almost 5,000 years old, making it the oldest living tree on Earth. Its location is secret, so it doesn’t fall victim to souvenir hunters.
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FBI profilers have recently identified several serial killers as being white?when they were actually black?which may have delayed their capture. Since race is one of the easiest ways to identify someone, police departments want to figure out how to identify a suspect’s race from DNA evidence left at the crime scene.

You’d think that this would be easy to do but it’s not. For one thing, despite their appearances, most people are a mixture of several different races. Researcher Tony Frudakis has invented a technology that breaks the ethnicity of a murder suspect down by percentage. It hasn’t made an error in more than 3,000 blind tests.
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While men are agonizing about going bald, scientists are wondering why humans are so hairless. Our close cousins the chimps have no hair loss problems. Researchers think we humans may have lost our body hair so we’d have fewer parasites.
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