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The origin of sand on earth has intrigued Gary Gilligan for a number of years. He sent in the link www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4967664/NASA-image-reveals-possi... ... but see also

At https://phys.org/print426749820.html ... and at the link sent in by Gary, www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4963386/3-200-year-old-slab-tell... ... and also in the current issue of Popular Archaeology, we have a

Move over Ponzi - forget about Bernard Madoff. Ignore the Enron scam, and sniff at mortgage debt leading to bank collapse, one Judith Sloan thinks

At www.q-mag.org/a-germanic-harbor-town-found-at-the-mouth-of-the-elbe-rive... ... apparently, mainstream hasn't been looking or thinking of Romans ensconced in the wetlands around the mouth of the Elbe River so it

At https://phys.org/print426844120.html ... a new theory on why the Sun's corona is hotter than its surface. This was the subject of Bob Johnson's talk at

At https://phys.org/print426835053.html ... Dinosaur blood - new research urges caution regarding fossilised soft tissue. It seems that previous claims showing the preservation of keratic protein

At http://popular-archaeology.com/issue/fall-2017/article/30-000-year-old-s... ... a reconstruction of the faces of the Sungir people who lived in central Russia some 30,000 years ago, has been done (see

Rice was grown 11,000 years ago along the Yangtze River in China (at the very start of the Holocene) and 2000 years ago in West

At https://phys.org/print426427240.html ... considering recent wailing by the CAGW fraternity, hurricanes have increased because of global warming (ignoring the fact hurricanes have been short in

This one is going to get better - may be. The K2 comet (otherwise PANSTARRS comet) is currently beyond the orbit of Saturn but is

The Old Faithful geyser in Yellowstone National Park attracts millions of visitors ( see https://phys.org/print426478631.html ... but little is known about the geology of the

Here is at https://malagabay.wordpress.com/2017/10/09/the-atomic-comet-neutron-bombs/ ... Those of the opinion that the EU electric comet is the bees knees might like to read this post from

New book by Australian geologist Ian Plimer, 'The Climate Change Delusion and the Great Electricity Ripoff' ... sure to zoom into the best selling lists.

Full Moon this week. In the old days the harvest moon allowed farmers to bring in their ripening crops even after sunset. Nowadays they have

Tom Whipple in The Times a couple of weeks ago had a piece on the flood of AD1014. I cut it out and came back

At https://phys.org/print425973790.html ... a huge solar storm doubled radiation levels on the surface of Mars - back in September. It was observed and recorded by

Bob Johnson is addressing the autumn speaker meeting at the weekend so it is opportune to look at his presentation at the EU Conference in

An article in Scientific American covers the same ground as a press release reported here a week or so ago - see www.scientificamerican.com/article/scientists-closing-in-on-the-dawn-of-... ... which

A study in the journal Science pots modern human origins in South Africa back to 300,000 years ago. The DNA from the remains of a

Sorghum is a native sub-Sahara grass that has been utilised for thousands  of years by hunter gatherers as well as farming communities. It emerged as