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Algol and Horus
16 November 2018 > AstronomyIn Open Astronomy we have an article with the title, 'Algol as Horus in the Cairo Calendar: the possible means and the motives of the

Cobalt
16 November 2018 > Climate changeSo much of CAGW hype is hot air and pointless waffle. The idea we are going to switch to electric cars is one of the

More on Soft Tissue
12 November 2018 > BiologyIt seems not everyone is satisfied by the new explanation of why soft dinosaur tissue would survive for 100 million years. Robert sent in a

Origin of Water
12 November 2018 > GeologyFurther to the post www.sis-group.org.uk/news/hydrogen-and-water.htm ... on November 11th we have an article in an Australian source on the subject - see https://cosmosmagazine.com/geoscience/geophysicists-propose-new-theory-t... ... which
Mountain Building
12 November 2018 > ElectromagnetismAt https://www.thunderbolts.info/wp/2016-05-11/arc-blast-part-1/ ... this subject popped up the other day in the study group meeting. I thought I would have a read - and the
Antarctic Plate History
11 November 2018 > GeologyRobert sent in these links - https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6371355/Relics-lost-cont... ... and www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Observing_the_Earth/GOCE/ESA_s_gravity_mapper... ... and https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-34733-9 ... The European Space Agency has uncovered relics of lost continents that

Soft Tissue Dinosaur Fossils
11 November 2018 > BiologyAt https://phys.org/print460957896.html ... the discovery of what looks very much like soft tissue of dinosaurs preserved in rocks in recent years has obviously perplexed scientists

Hydrogen and Water
11 November 2018 > GeologyAt https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-11/asu-agd110618.php ... geoscientists have found that Earth contains within itself six or seven global oceans worth of hydrogen - in addition to all the

1972 and All That
11 November 2018 > ElectromagnetismAt http://spaceweather.com (November 9th 2018) ... we have a story about space weather during the Vietnam war. In 1972 a giant sun spot let loose

Volcanic co2
11 November 2018 > Climate changeThis story popped up at https://climatechangedispatch.com/massive-volcano-emissions-warming/ ... which was then picked up at https://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2018/11/07/discovery-of-massive-volcanic... ... which claims previous measurements show that sub glacial volcanoes have
The Glory
9 November 2018 > AstronomyNot the Glory of the Lord but something equally as fascinating. At https://phys.org/print460798257.html ... concerns the optical phenomenon known as a glory - that is
Bones and DNA
9 November 2018 > ArchaeologyAt https://popular-archaeology.com/article/the-girl-in-the-cave/ ... another excellent article from Popular Archaeology. This one concerns the body of a teenage girl found in a cenote in the Yucatan.
Living in a Flat Earth
7 November 2018 > Climate changeThis is the title of an interesting post by climate scientists Tim Ball at https://wattsupwiththat.com/2018/11/04/most-people-live-in-a-flat-earth-... ... most people live in a flat earth and struggle
Raising the Land
7 November 2018 > GeologyAt https://phys.org/print460738798.html ... the 2016 Chile earthquake caused the land to rise on two islands off the coast. A bleached fringe of dead marine algae,
Electrified Space Dust
7 November 2018 > ElectromagnetismAt 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

Valentina Zharkova
5 November 2018 > ElectromagnetismBenny 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

Fire in the Atlantic
4 November 2018 > ElectromagnetismSent 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
Comet McNaught
4 November 2018 > AstronomyAt 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

9000 years of sun spot data
1 November 2018 > Climate changeAt 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

Phaethon
1 November 2018 > AstronomyAt 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