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Algol and Horus

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

16 November 2018 > Climate change
So much of CAGW hype is hot air and pointless waffle. The idea we are going to switch to electric cars is one of the
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More on Soft Tissue

12 November 2018 > Biology
It seems not everyone is satisfied by the new explanation of why soft dinosaur tissue would survive for 100 million years. Robert sent in a
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Origin of Water

12 November 2018 > Geology
Further 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 > Electromagnetism
At 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 > Geology
Robert 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
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Soft Tissue Dinosaur Fossils

11 November 2018 > Biology
At 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
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Hydrogen and Water

11 November 2018 > Geology
At 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
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1972 and All That

11 November 2018 > Electromagnetism
At 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
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Volcanic co2

11 November 2018 > Climate change
This 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 > Astronomy
Not 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 > Archaeology
At 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 change
This 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 > Geology
At 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 > Electromagnetism
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
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Valentina Zharkova

5 November 2018 > Electromagnetism
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
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Fire in the Atlantic

4 November 2018 > Electromagnetism
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

Comet McNaught

4 November 2018 > Astronomy
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
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9000 years of sun spot data

1 November 2018 > Climate change
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
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Phaethon

1 November 2018 > Astronomy
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
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