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Interesting story at https://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2017/05/08/irish-beach-reappears-overnig... ....an entire beach near the village of Duoagh, on Achill Island, disappeared during a major storm in 1984.; Waves washed away

An interesting read at https://risk-monger.com/2017/05/10/glypho-nicotinoids-and-junck-science-... ... from a man with a bee in his bonnet, and bee decline in his telescope. Not knowing much about

Gary Gilligan sent in this link, suggesting it was not that different from his theory on the origin of sand as outlined in his book,

At https://phys.org/print413431868.html ... Sent in by William. Yakov Ben-Haim, a professor of mechanical engineering in Haifa, has investigated what he calls an 'innovative dilemma' -

Climate Change is not the only subject that is hyperventilated by activists - herbicides and pesticides are often the target of NGOs and the Green

At https://phys.org/print413016938.html ... we have a new species of troodontid with what appears to be an asymmetric feather construct, found in China. It looks a

At https://phys.org/print413024026.html ... ancient meteorite impact sparked long lived volcanic eruptions on Earth is the claim. Not only can meteorites create craters but they can

This is the headline at https://phys.org/print413031282.html ... the earth sank twice flooding eastern Amazonia - according to a team that found a shark tooth in

SIS member Robert has a post on the Thunderbolts forum, go to http://www.thunderbolts.info/forum/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=16703 ... subject, catastrophist geology. 

In Chronology and Catastrophism Workshop 1987:1 there is an article by Emmet Sweeney. He is better known for revisions of historical chronology and has written

At https://malagabay.wordpress.com/2017/05/03/indian-impacts-hammerhead-geo... ... which is a great post by Louis Hissink, an unconventional geologist from Australia. He begins by quoting Fred Hoyle who said that

At www.newscientist.com/article/2129805-first-results-from-jupiter-probe-sh... ... Gary sent in this link to the New Scientist website - Jupiter probe shows huge magnetism and storms. Big planets come with

The journal Mathematics Today also has an article on the mathematics of rolling a large round haunch of cheese down a hill - the annual

The Institute of Mathematicians publication, Mathematics Today, volume 53:2 (April 2007) has a couple of interesting pieces (www.ima.org.uk - where there is a link to

At https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.co.uk/2017/04/can-houses-die-iro... ... From the Bronze Age to the Viking Age, roughly a period of almost 3000 years, burial mounds were sometimes placed on top

It seems Homo naledi remains may be much younger than previously assumed. Much as in very much. Instead of a couple of million years they

In 2014 two rings, separated by a gap, were discovered around Chariklo, the largest known of the Centaur objects orbiting between Jupiter and Neptune. It

At https://phys.org/print412490580.html ... an interesting link after Bob Johnson's talk at the SIS Spring Meeting on 29th April. The orbits of the planets are affected

The Tokomark ST40 fusion reactor is being developed in Oxfordshire. It hopes to be able to compete with the Americans and the Chinese, generating electricity

At https://phys.org/print412432801.html ... we learn that humans were in the Americas 115,000 years earlier than thought. This is roughly during the last interglacial episode. Where