In the News

At https://phys.org/print460636942.html ... electrically charged dust arranges itself in straight lines in the laboratory. Space dust is also electrically charged as it collects electrons from

Benny Peiser introduces Valentina Zharkova at https://www.thegwpf.org/professor-valentina-zharkova-the-solar-magnetic-... .... in a talk (watch the video) on how the solar magnetic field may affect climate on the

Sent in by Robert. An interesting story at https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/144141/a-fire-in-the-middle-of-... ... the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer- Suite on the Suomi NPP satellite captured thermal anomalies off

At https://phys.org/print460383012.html ... data from NASAs STEREO spacecraft (short for Solar and Terrestrial Relations Observatory) has been reassessed. The subject in question goes back to

At https://principia-scientific.org/arctic-antarctic-sea-ice-now-at-histori... ... this is in reference to the Holocene as a whole. Apparently, scientists are discovering via biomarker proxies that modern sea ice changes

At http://spaceweather.com/ (30th October, 2018) NASAs Parker Solar Probe is now closer to the Sun than any other spacecraft in history. It is inside the

This link was provided by William. Go to www.ninjajournalist.com/world/pyramids-fb/?utm_campaign=Pyramid%20Tale%2... ... which is a strange mixture of archaeology and pyramidiology. Have a browse.        

At https://phys.org/print460193508.html ... archaeologists have found evidence of domestic cattle, sheep, and goats, in the high mountain passes of Kyrgystan going back over 4000 years.

Remaining on the subject of dinosaurs and birds we have a really interesting post at https://phys.org/print459590617.html ... biologists have speculated that birds descend from one

At https://phys.org/print459671315.html ... we have a possible missing linke - between dinosaurs and birds. It looks like they might need to find a fossil from

This story was sent in by William - go to https://popular-archaeology.com/article/what-contributed-to-the-downfall... ... the headline of which puts it into context - what contributed to the

Weather Eye in the Times (of London) a couple of weeks ago had a piece on tsunamis that affected the Shetland Islands (and the Scottish

Slides from Bob Johnson's two talks at the September SIS speaker meeting are available to read on the web site in case anyone is unaware

At https://www.archaeology.org/issues/310-1809/trenches/6882-trenches-italy... ... an Ice Age necropolis found in a cave in NW Italy. There was a massive 300 feet deep sand dune in front

At http://spaceweather.com 16th October 2018, we hae news of an upcoming comet (Comet Wirtanen) which may provide us with a dramatic show in December. It

At https://phys.org/print458809784.html ... looks like at least one country, Japan, is prepared to seriously consider a connection between the solar wind/ earth's magnetic field connection

At https://wattsupwiththat.com/2018/10/14/ipcc-achieves-net-zero-credibility/ ... is a guest essay by Barry Brill. We are told that between 2032 and 2050 there will be species extinctions, weather extremes,

At http://spaceweather.com, October 14th 2018, we learn that a burst of meteors seen over Europe was just the edge of a much bigger stream of

Apparently, there is a cosmological lithium problem - see https://phys.org/print458379012.html .... and it is one of the unresolved issues of the Big Bang theory. Nuclear

At https://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2018/10/11/ipcc-sr15-report-lacks-cost-b... ... the 2018 IPCC Report lacks cost analysis according to Bjorn Lomborg. He says the costs involved are not worth it - a