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Velikovsky perceived his Exodus comet as raining hydrocarbons on the Earth - among other things less salubrious. We now know meteorites contain hydrocarbons - and

Is the origin of Life just cosmic dust in the wind? Carl Sagan famously siad 'we are made of star stuff ...' and perhaps we

Diamonds with garnets can form at depths within Earth's Manetle. Earth scientists, it is said, made a discovery that 550km beneath the surface - oxydised

The full article by Colin Renfrew (which doesn't include the recent discovery of drainage channels under the surface) is available at https://www.britac.ac.uk/sites/default/files/JBA-001-187-Renfrew-HR.pdf ... see also

At https://phys.org/print435551406.html ... new research challenges existing models of black holes as recent findings seem to show magnetic fields associated do not come up to

Current Archaeology 335 (January 2018) has a small piece on a massive hill fort at White Cuterthun on the periphery of the Grampian Mountains in

At https://www.space.com/39431-michigan-meteor-explosion-shook-earth.html ... we learn that although it was just a few feet across its speed was enough to shake the ground as it exploded

Terrific story reported by the Guardian (January 18th 2018) - go to www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jan/18/complex-engineering-and-metal-work... ... but don't be tempted to donate (they have a begging message

Apparently, in Norway schools still teach pupils that in the stone age people lived in caves. I suppose the same is true in the UK

A German blog reports that in Germany there is one weather station that is intact and unchanged for 138 years. It has never been moved

I like the headline on this story - Britain's first departure from Europe (in this case a geological brexit) - go to www.nature.com/articles/doi:10.1038/ncomms15101 ... which

The seams of nodular and tabular flint at the base of the Upper Chalk on the South Downs were mined for axe production during the

At https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2018/01/saturns-moon-titan-sports-earth... .... using Cassini data Cornell astronomers have created a topographical image of Titan. It revealed several new features - such as mountains (no

At https://phys.org/print435394061.html ... international study identifies the process of rock formation by meteor strikes (or nuclear blasts). Nice headline but coesite is a polymath of

At https://phys.org/print435378398.html ... the odd behaviour of a star led to a second look - and a third. It was decided something was disturbing its

In the news section (written by Mike Pitts) of British Archaeology magazine (January 2018) we have the discovery of a big piece of flint at

I posted a story on the Chesil Beach a few years ago but now Gary has sent in a link to his web site that

At www.q-mag.org/the-salon-noir-the-cave-of-niaux.html ... the cave of Niaux was never used as a dwelling but it has a lot of cave paintings. Anne Marie provides the

At www.livescience.com/61441-search-for-king-tut-wife.html ... Zahi Hassan announced (January 16th 2018) that excavations in the Valley of the Kings where the tomb of Tutankhamun's wife may be

At http://spaceweather.com (17th January 2018) we learn that a meteor exploded over Michigan with a sonic boom and a bright flash of light over the