In the News

At www.astronomy.com/news/2017/01/meteorites-bombardment-earth ... an interesting read at this link (also sent in by Jovan). Extraterrestrial material is constantly raining down on the Earth - most

Planets Shaken is the title of a four volume series of books by Lee Brainard, the first of which, Brainard, the first of which, The

It's the19th of May and we are told at www.spaceweather.com that Earth is the path of a plasma stream emanating from a coronal hole -

One of the more whacky papers published this year can be found at https://phys.org/print414236899.html ... and was published at Evolutionary Psychological Science. It doesn't start

At https://phys.org/print414218228.html ... a new species of fungus gnat found in a piece of amber from India closely resembles its relatives in Europe (found in

Robert Maglione has written a book, 'The Legendary Shamir' which should interest various members of SIS as the question of what was shamir has cropped

At https://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2017/05/16/dinosaur-asteroid-hit-worst-p... ... which is on the recent BBC2 documentary, 'The Day the Dinosaurs Died' (see post yesterday). One of the points made is that

Further to the forum post by Robertus we actually now have a claim that the earth's magnetic field interacts with Plate Tectonics. The link was

At https://phys.org/print414139220.html ... we learn of a project involving Nottingham University intends to map and model the sea floor in regions known to have been

At www.thunderbolts.info/forum/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=16534 ... there is a post by Robertus Maximus, described as an alternative to Plate Tectonics and Earth Expansion models. He came up with

Following the mantra, 'you won't find evidence of catastrophism unless you actively look for it' we had a prime example of this on BBC2 television

At https://malagabay.wordpress.com/2017/05/01/indian-impacts-the-hole-story/ ... is Tim Cullen at his irreverent best giving settled science a blast of cynical cold air. He regularly takes the Michael out

This is a peculiar post as the author lives in Australia and is speculating about a lignite open cast mine in Germany. Has he all

Jovan sent in the link - www.skyandtelescope.com/astronomy-news/amazing-new-radar-views-of-astero... ....   the image is a series of radar images of the near earth asteroid, which show how

Robert sent in two links - www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4500220/Dinosaur-fossil-preserve... ... and www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2017/06/dinosaur-nodosaur-fossil-dis... ... with the comment, the dinosaur is so well preserved that it might have been

Excavations to renew and re-lay a gas pipe across the southern portion of Verulamium, Roman St Albans, has unearthed another pottery kiln - see http://popular-archaeology.com/issue/spring-2017/article/a-new-discovery...

At http://climatechangedispatch.com/youre-calling-me-anti-science/ ... is a post by a solar scientist who says that alarmists would call him anti-science as he doesn't believe co2 is the

At https://phys.org/print413432138.html ... why do comets expel oxygen? It was first encountered in early 2015, and previously was unknown (or that is what is implied).

More on Zealandia at www.geosociety.org/gsatoday/archive/27/3/article/GSATG321A.1.htm ... which seems to be the full paper (forwarded by Jovan). It is 6 pages long (8 pages with notes

At https://phys.org/print413442372.html ... this story was on BBC Oxford news this week. The village of Westcott is on the Bicester to Aylesbury section of the