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At https://phys.org/news/2026-04-pampas-patagonia-dna-reveals-south.html ... it seems nowadays that genetic information is becoming more and more centred on regionality. Instead of a study of random DNA from

At https://phys.org/news/2026-04-huge-tectonic-boundary-shook-ground.html ... scientists have discovered a Jurassic era tectonic plate boundary near the coast of Mazambique and Tanzania, stretching over 500 km [as currently

Staying on the subject of mysterious stories, William has sent in a series of links to videos online. For example, the ten most mysterious objects

Anyone who has read early copies of SIS Workshop will remember that the Oera Linda book and controversy fascinated a couple of our members. It

This one is a bit strange. We are told the Colorado river disappeared for 5 million years. We are not told the full story of

These black hole thingummyjibs get up to a lot of strange behaviour. Even to the point of contradicting the idea of black holes. They were,

At https://phys.org/news/2026-04-regulatory-loophole-delay-ozone-recovery.html .... a fine piece of gaslighting one might say. The ozone hole was supposed to have disappeared long ag. We were told the

Two stories in one. At https://dailygalaxy.com/2026/04/giant-reservoir-beneath-cascades-mountain/  .... a vast underground reservoir of water sits under the Oregon Cascades. A hidden network of water cascading deep

At https://dailygalaxy.com/2026/04/asteroid-shatters-near-sun-earth-aftermath/  ... a hidden, or dark, asteroid, is creating new streams of meteorites, we are informed. At the moment the asteroid is thought to

William sent in a link to a video and tour of the Scablands in NW USA. It is worth watching if only for the scenary

At https://popular-archaeology.com/article/joseph-and-the-age-of-akhenaten-rethinking-a-scriptural-narrative-through-ancient-egyptian-history/ ... in the Biblical narrative the story of Joseph is chronologically  an aspect of the Patriarchal narrative - as it has become known.

This is one for a tongue in cheek sneaky look at the response to an unusual find - the survival of the casing of a

William sent in the following link to an interesting video on 'goings on' during landings on the moon - by a variety of nations. See

This idea gets an airing at https://dailygalaxy.com/2026/03/scientists-found-a-second-sphinx-beneath-egypt-giza/   .... in a podcast on March 26th Filippo Biondi, described as a radar engineer at the University of

At https://www.livescience.com/animals/extinct-species/it-blew-my-mind-long-lost-ice-age-ecosystem-including-fossils-of-lion-size-armadillo-and-giant-ground-sloth-discovered-in-texas-water-cave ... a cave in Texas has revealed a long lost Ice Age ecosystem we are told. The fossils were just lying in mud,

I suppose gambling has been around a long time - but I didn't expect this ... https://phys.org/news/2026-03-native-americans-dice-gambling-exploring.html ... this article is about Native American dice

At https://phys.org/news/2026-03-scandinavia-largest-burial-mound-monument.html ... using LiDAR it is being suggested Raknehaugen, Scandinavia's largest burial mound, may have been built in response to a devastating landslide rather

At https://spaceweather.com ... for March 26th, and again, today, April 2nd ...  we now have news of a naked eye comet rounding the Sun. Not

At https://phys.org/news/2026-03-sediment-core-reveals-years-precipitation.html ... a sediment core from the Sahara. Well, from an oasis lake in Chad. We more or less know that rainfall in the

This story is at https://phys.org/news/2026-03-laschamps-geomagnetic-excursion-today-aviation.html ... Finnish scientists have been  looking at how a geomagnetic excursion event might affect flights from Helsinki airport. I would