In the News

At www.spaceweather.com March 30th 2017 ... we are told the stream of solar wind, a CME event, has continued into a 4th day and we

At https://phys.org/print410012455.html ... an asteroid orbiting the 'wrong way' around the Sun has been risking a collision it would seem, but somehow they always miss

At http:///www.everythingselectric.com/venus-models/ ... it seems that mainstream views on the heat generated on Venus are changing. The greenhouse theory was applied to the planet and

Danish Vikings - why they moved to England - see http://sciencenordic.com/why-danish-vikings-moved-england/ ... as many as 35,000 Danes decided to seek pastures new in the 9th

At https://oxbowdbbc.wordpress.com/2017/01/17/offas-dyke-the-brexit-dimension/ ... which is guest post by Keith Ray on plans to preserve Offa's Dyke (used as a recreation source by long distance walkers).

Claude Blot's ideas often appear at the New Concepts in Global Tectonics web site and online journals - see www.ncgt.org. He pops up at www.everythingselectric.com/claude-blot/

At www.spaceweather.com (March 25th) we are told a potent coronal hole is facing the earth and sending out a stream of solar wind that will

At https://phys.org/print409322936.html ... astronomers have developed a way to detect the ultra violet background of the universe. In so doing they hope to discover the

Finistere is best known from the UK shipping forecast. At https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.co.uk/2017/03/14000-years-old-en... ... some 40 prehistoric engravings have been found in Finistere in Britanny ...                                                                 

At https://phys.org/print409396981.html ... Cambridge University and the Natural History Museum in London have published new research which seems to show there is a need to

Robert sent in the links - http://crev.info/2017/03/water-theories-evaporate/ ... and https://theconversation.com/comets-or-volcanoes-scientists-are-changing-... ... which was featured in a post a while back. However, as Peter disagrees with

Jovan sent in this link a few weeks ago and I've only just got around to reading it - and that is only the Introduction

It seems Comet Churyumov Gerasimenko (or Comet 67P in shorthand), the target of the ESA Rosetta Mission that dominated the astronomy news in 2015 is

The book, 'Sun, Weather, and Climate' (2005) by John R Herman and Richard A Goldberg is a reprint of a book originally published in 1978.

Gary sent in the link, www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2017/mars-volcano-earths-dinosaurs-went-ext... ... the word 'about' is as big as you want to make it - and here may lie an

Grasses have an ability to conserve water in their leaves. They can also absorb carbon dioxide without losing any water. Grasses are well equipped to

   ... winding waterways - captured from space. This example comes from Egypt. Physics and river flow - and fractals. The subject of a new

The good side of midges is explored at www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/03/170317132648.htm ... ecologists have been studying midges in Wisconsin and Iceland. There are 15,000 lakes in Wisconsin

The headline should be - rethinking some aspects of human evolution. At https://cosmosmagazine.com/palaeontology/accidental-tool-makers ... and I suppose the problem can be laid at Uniformitarian principles,

The Daily Express, a UK newspaper with a beef as far as the BBC are concerned, as the Express supports Brexit and the BBC is still