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We already know that Otzi the iceman froze as he was engulfed in an Alpine mountain glacier - but at www.sciencenews.org/article/otzi-iceman-froze-death ... tells us that

Paul Homewood is the guy that authors https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2017/04/23/glacial-advance... age/ ... for example. In this post he relies heavily on HH Lamb's book, 'Climate, History, and

Poley Bears is more cuddly than your average polar bears which aren't averse to hunting humans when they feel peckish. A new post at https://wattsupwiththat.com/2017/04/23/sea-ice-off-newfoundland-thickest...

At http://notrickszone.com/2017/04/22/believe-it-global-warming-hiatus-real... ... so, the future is oriental. Western climate scientists are too firmly wedded to the theory of global warming and cannot accept that

Both William and Robert sent in the link to a story in the Daily Telegraph newspaper - see www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2017/04/21/ancient-stone-carvings-confirm-co... ... researchers in the Engineering department

William sent in the link to https://phys.org/print411984420.html ... a digital online source enables interested parties to look at ten hillforts, and archaeological exploration and finds

Laurence sent in the link https://science.nasa.gov/news-articles/close-approach-comets/ ... which has a video of the close approach of comets. However, we also learn that in 2017 and

Laurence also sent in the link https://watchers.news/2017/03/23/birkeland-currents-stronger-in-the-nort... ... which is another discovery by ESAs Swarm Mission. It has discovered a seasonal variation of Birkeland currents

We've endured months of alarmism about dirty diesel fuel poisoning children living in big cities like London and Birmingham but now another dirty secret has

   At https://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2017/04/21/when-swarm-met-steve/ ... Swarm is a group of satellites designed to study the Sun, the solar wind, and so on. This includes looking at

At http://popular-archaeology.com/issue/spring-2017/article/megafaunal-exti... ... research from the University of Adelaide has found that the bones of Ice Age megafaunal animals across Eurasia and the Americas died

Go to www.cambridge.org/core/journals/radiocarbon/issue/A82311735C77097CA82566... ... which takes you to Radiocarbon journal volume 55 Number 4, and scroll down to page 1869-1887 and the article, "Intcal 13

At www.everythingselectric.com/nice/ ... we have a nice piece on nice smooth planetary migrations. We learn that Neptune moved from 20AU to its current location at

Another piece from The Times (full of almost useless bits of information) in April and concerns the inhabitants of the Cayman Islands. They were devoid

In The Times we have a small piece on an ancient coin that depicts Jesus as a warrior king - or that is what we

William sent in the link www.omicsonline.org/ArchiveHYCR/currentissue-hydrology-current-research-... ... which allows you to read a number of articles in this first of 2017 issue. The article of

The BBC was highly excitable on Thursday evening - hours of debate on the prospect of life on Enceladus, a moon of the planet Saturn.

Teleocrater rhadinus is the name of a critical animal that lived during an important transition - from reptile to dinosaur (and eventually birds). It is

Shepherds, or goatherds come to that, go back a very long way, even in the heart of Europe. At www.swissinfo.ch/eng/prehistoric-farming-7000-years-ago--on-a-swiss-alp/... ... we learn that Swiss

At www.spaceweather.com (April 12th 2017) Comet PanSTARRS has become highly active. Last week the comet brightened six fold- now amateur astronomers are photographing an incredible