Thu 23 May 2013
In The News
Welcome to our "In the News" page, featuring summaries of Internet news, relevant to Catastrophism and Ancient History.
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8 Apr 2013 How objects from space might have brought life to Earth At http://phys.org/print284290227.html ... researchers from the University of Leeds think they may have solved how objects from space gave rise to life on Earth. Some of the important ingredients may have been in meteorites and cometary dust but it is how they were then transformed into building blocks that has concentrated minds. In a paper in Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta (March 15th), the key, it is suggested, is chemiosmosis, where one chemical is broken down to reform so as to release energy, and possibly, metabolism. |
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8 Apr 2013 Dynasty 17 The Djehuty Project (Spanish) has said it has discovered, near Luxor, four burials from dynasty 17 - see http://phys.org/print284379880.html See also www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-04/snrc-dpd040513.php Akhenaton (Egypt) and Muwatalis (Hittite), not too distant from each other, appear to have inaugurated religious reforms - why? See www.britishmuseum.org/pdf/6d%20The%20failed%20reforms.pdf |
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8 Apr 2013 The Wetting and the Drying out of the Sahara Prior to 3000BC the Sahara was a verdant landscape, a rich grassland with a typical African fauna - see http://phys.org/print284364895.html ... and went back through the early Holocene to the end of the Younger Dryas event. |
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7 Apr 2013 More on March weather Keeping our feet on the ground and trying not to get hyped up by the cold weather this Easter, and snow in April, it is always good to have a read of Weather Eye in the Times, but we may also have a look at that blog with the catchy name, too - see http://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2013/04/05/philip-eden-on-e... ... which is a blinder, and some proper perspective. |
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5 Apr 2013 Babylon A note for all revisionists, from Emmet to Eric and anyone else researching chronology, and the role of Babylon - just 2 per cent of the city has been excavated. Is that enough for deep revisionists to claim there is no evidence of a Persian presence? Two per cent is a very small section of the city and that is probably the palace of Nebuchadnezzar and not a lot else - go to www.cnn.com/2013/04/04/world/meast/iraq-babylon-tourism/index.html |
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5 Apr 2013 Discovering Dark Matter We had the Higgs bosun discovery and now it looks like we might have the vaunted dark matter nailed down - see http://phys.org/print284206733.html The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer has picked up something peculiar - which might be dark matter. It could be picking up something quite different it is admitted, such as a pulsar. As we are thought to live in a sea of dark matter the hard money is on the discovery and this is how it has been presented to mainstream media. If they can pin down dark matter astro-physicists will put some flesh to their theory, but watch this space. |
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5 Apr 2013 The cold March in perspective Getting a handle on how cold it has been this March means looking back down through the Central England Temperature record, the oldest in the world but still only a couple of hundred years in extent. See http://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2013/04/05/cet-march-2013/ ... lovely name for a blog and it's a cracker too. It seems March was not particularly unusual in the grand scheme of things as 1962, from a UK perspective, was just as bad - and the cold and the snow lay on the ground much longer. As for central England a couple of years in the 1880s were as cold and colder. |
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4 Apr 2013 Engineering Fallacy How a new hockey stick was created to coincide with the next IPCC Report - and still on cue to be an icon. Another piece of doomsaying full of environmentalist gibberish. It all started with a PhD on paleoclimate but for some reason grew legs - and a very sharp uptick in temperature that led to lots of swooning by the CAGW types and general over excitement.. |
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4 Apr 2013 Mercury and Venus Was Mercury once a moon of Venus. It seems Tom Van Flandern posed this question quite some years ago - but is there anything to it? See what you think at http://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2013/04/04/tom-van-flandern-was-the-plane... |
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3 Apr 2013 Riposte Laurence Dixon responded to the In the News piece on barycentric orbits on March 29th by making the point that under Newton's laws of gravity two bodies will orbit around their common centre of mass = their barycentre. In that way the blog site in that piece was somewhat misleading as orthodox astronomers use this fact all the time when interpreting binary stars. In the solar system the barycentre of any one planet with the Sun is withing the Sun's radius, but not at its centre. Similarly, the Earth - Moon barycentre is within the radius of the Earth. |