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Laurence sent in this link - go to www.inform.kz/en/karaganda-archaeologists-complete-reconstruction-of-an-... ...     which might not be what you expected (looking more like a garden rockery feature).

Robert sent in this link - go to www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4998508/Scientists-create-incred... ... Scientists claim to have mapped most of the tectonic plates, ancient and recent, which  they

At https://phys.org/print427601705.html ... scientists have discovered sea levels did not rise slowly after the end of the Ice Age but rose in a series of

Turquoise and Lapis Lazuli are bright blue minerals. For some reason they have been highly prized by historical communities - whether it was ancient Britons

At https://phys.org/print427551247.html ... electricity in space is now out into the mainstream open as indicated in this post. Solar eruptions could electrically charge areas of

Still running with the Moon, subject wise, we www.astronomy.com/news/2017/10/moon-atmosphere ... (link sent in by Jovan) where we are told that for 70 million years the

Another interesting article by Tim Cullen in the Atomic Comet series - go to https://malagabay.wordpress.com/2017/10/19/the-atomic-comet-sea-of-showers/ .. the Sea of Showers is a vast lava plain

An interesting paper is discussed at http://notrickszone.com/2017/10/19/ph-d-thermal-engineer-claims-supernov... ... which is relevant to the SIS membership following the talk by Rupert Holms at our autumn meeting

Another article in October's Nature Commmunications - it is discussed at https://wattsupwiththat.com/2017/10/19/greenland-glacier-retreated-durin... .... It seems that an ice stream, more properly a glacier, retreated during

Meanwhile, Scientific American asks - will Italy's supervolcano erupt soon?(sent in by Jovan) - go to www.scientificamerican.com/article/will-italy-rsquo-s-ominous-supervolca... .... this question  comes a few weeks after

Gary also sent in this link - www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4991930/Google-Earth-reveals-400... ... 400 stone structures have been found on the edge of volcanoes in Saudi Arabia - first

Gary sent in links to this story. So too did Jovan and William. See for example www.abc.net.au/news/science/2017/10/18/volcanic-eruptions-and-the-fall-o... ... the claim is that distant volcanoes triggered

The BBC news teams were full of it on Monday (the 16th October) and on Five Live on Tuesday morning they got excited all over

It is often depressing to read CAGW stuff but you are rarely far away from it especially in the media with its constant thump thump

This is described at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_time_hypothesis ... the Phantom Time Hypothesis was first published by Heribert Illig in 1991. It proposes a conspiracy by the Holy

Some photos of budgerigars at a water hole just outside Alice Springs in Australia. Something different. Go to www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4975654/Rare-photo-shows-10-00-budgies-... ....         ..

Gary also sent in this link to an article in Aeon - go to https://aeon.co/essays/the-sacred-monarchies-that-survive-into-the-postm... ... which he thought might be a throwback to his

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