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A Vietnamese man hasn’t had a hair cut in 31 years. He’s hoping to get into the Guinness Book of World Records for having the longest hair in the world. How does hair look when you put off getting a haircut for that long? His twenty-foot-long hair is matted in a thick rope that does not look attractive, perhaps because the last time he washed it was 6 years ago.

Tran Van Hay, who is now 67 years old, started growing out his hair when at age 36. A government official says, “He can’t work anymore as a farmer because of the volume of hair so he’s just collecting herbs for traditional medicine as charity work.” Tran is trying to beat the record of Hoo Sateow in Thailand, whose hair in 1997 was over 16 feet long.
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Otzi is the name of a prehistoric man who was buried under a glacier in the Italian Alps about 5,000 years ago. His body came to the surface in 1991 because the Alps are melting. Now North America has its own Otzi.

William Tinning writes in The Herald that a 700-year-old male body has been found that was frozen in ice until recently. Hunters discovered him in British Columbia in 1999, and he’s been given the name Kwaday Dan Ts’inchi (Long Ago Person Found). He was wearing a cloak made from squirrel pelts and a woven hat, and carried a walking stick, a wooden spear and a pouch containing edible leaves and part of a fish.
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As we’ve written here before, one of the mysteries about global warming events of the past is that huge amounts of the greenhouse gas methane were suddenly released into the atmosphere. Where did this come from, and could it happen again? Scientists think one of the culprits may have been ordinary dirt.
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Does the film The Day After Tomorrow portray events that could really happen? Instead of arguing about it, computers around the world are going to test it. Environmentalist Mat Collins says, “Extreme scenarios make great films, but for practical planning we need to know how likely it is that such events will actually happen.”

Alex Kirby writes in bbcnews.com that pclimateprediction.net is inviting computer users to download and run a climate model that tests how the weather worldwide may change if the Gulf Stream flow is affected by melting Arctic ice, as the film shows. An earlier effort to create “the world’s most comprehensive probability-based forecast of 21st century climate” attracted 49,000 participants in 130 countries.
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