In the News

This one comes courtesy of https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/may/08/mapping-begins-of-lands-... ... a collation of 15 years research is being put together in a map of the bottom of the

At https://eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-05/run-tis050619.php .... the first image of a black hole has led to the next challenge - how to take sharper images in order to

At https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0213572 ... a human footprint that seems to shatter the peopling of the Americas mainstream song sheet. A sedimentary structure at Osome in southern

At https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2019/05/anglo-saxon-princely... ... (see also https://phys.org/news/2019-05-britain-king-tut-tomb-roadside.html) ... a small bump on a patch of grass in Essex, situated between a road and a railway line,

At https://phys.org/news/2019-05-complex-geology-contributed-deepwater-hori... ...  a research paper in Scientific Reports (May 7th 2019) says that complex geology in the Gulf of Mexico contributed to the Deepwater

At https://phys.org/news/2019-05-jets-galaxy-cores-common.html ... we are told astronomers have a rough understanding of how galaxies emit jets from their cores (presumably a reference to the jets

At https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.co.uk/2019/05/the-fossilization-... ... a bone bed in Spain from the Lower Cretaceous is offering up fossilised remains of dinosaurs, mammals, crocodiles, pterosaurs, lizards, tortoises, and

At www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/biblical-artifacts/inscriptions/biblic... ... a new reading of the Moabite Stone by a team led by Finkelstein, Na-aman, and Romer, using high resolution photography (imaging) seems

At www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/04/190425073625.htm ... a research paper in Scientific Reports (2019:9 (I) 10.1038/s41598-019-42670-4) claims there was a savannah grassland landscape in Borneo during the Late Pleistocene

At http://spaceweather.com (May 7th 2019) we learn about a potential earth directed CME emanating from the sun spot that has turned around to face the

Robert has sent in a number of links recently. This one involves the discovery of amino acids preserved in amber, apparently with an origin in

This refers not to boiling something in water but to the boiling point of heat, creating bubbles. At http://spaceweather.com (May 3rd 2019) we are informed

At https://notrickszone.com/2019/05/03/new-study-finds-that-wind-turbines-c... .... it seems that not only do wind turbine rotor blades kill hundreds of birds and bats in their thousands upon thousands it

This story is at http://spaceweather.com (30th April 2019) which could also have the title - how to look for sprites ... ... a large hole

A couple of links sent in by Jovan - go to www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/04/190429111826.htm ... and www.newscientist.com/article/2200961-titan-has-a-belt-of-ice-6300-kilome... ... Titan is coming up with all kinds of surprises

AGW has thrown up some crazy ideas and scaremongering but this one takes the biscuit, you might say. Are the lizards shedding their clothing. At

It seems that not only has Velikovsky recently come under fire in SIS journals, particularly by one author who has a copy of Bob Forrest

Jovan sent in this link - https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/did-a-meteor-from-another-sta... ... did a meteor from another star strike the Earth's atmosphere back in 2014? Stars and planets routinely

We learnt last week that Titan's lakes are full of methane rather than water. We also have lots of methane on Earth. Landfill sites, for

William Thompson's 'Cosmic Catastrophism affecting the Earth - Bibliography and Handbook' is now available to access at https://www.third-millennium.co.uk/features ... this is the web site of