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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

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