In the News

At https://phys.org/print408197994.html ... a study finds that rogue waves are not as rare as thought. One of the steepest yet recorded passed by the North

At https://phys.org/print408099790.html ... a rare find of digested remains of food has been found inside the stomach of a dinosaur - fossilised. The find comes

We had a long article in the March issue of Current Archaeology on dolmens in Pembrokeshire. There are a lot of dolmens along the western

Sam Windsor has commented on the sudden increase in geomagnetism in the 8th century BC by saying that if heavenly fire was part of the

arch At https://phys.org/print407671813.html ... the subject is beetles in amber discovered in Spain, and the fact they shed light on the rise of flowering plants

At www.q-mag.org/huge-spike-in-geomagnetic-field-recorded-in-8th-century-b-... ... a huge spike in the geomagnetic field of the Earth is inferred pottery found in the 8th c entury BC kingdom of

At https://phys.org/print407589279.html ... black holes feed on large discs of gas we are told but sometimes black holes eat too much of the stuff. They

A study in the journal Science (see https://phys.org/print407677784.html ) concerns two archaic skulls uncovered in Xuchang in central China which appear to contradict some embedded

Interesting discussion going on at https://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2017/03/02/is-something-strange-happenin... ... which was prompted by recent volcanoes on Hawaii and at Etna in Sicily, among other things. See also

At https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.co.uk/2017/02/archaeologists-and... ... we have a hands on collision between archaeologists and historians with geneticists. One reason this has occurred is that both sides work

At www.haaretz.com/archaeology/1.772111 .... brush huts, grass bedding, charred grains and lots of stone tool have been unearthed by the Sea of Galilee, going back 23,000

At www.skyandtelescope.com/astronomy-new/when-and-how-did-the-moon-form/ (sent in by Jovan Kesic) ... references various studies such as a Nature Geoscience article'When and How Did the Moon Form?'. It seems

The EU response to the glowing blob. See www.thunderbolts.info/wp/2017/02/24/blob-of-conformity/ Then we their response to a crash between two clusters - see www.thunderbolts.info/wp/2017/02/22/cluster-crash/

At http://creation.com/woolly-mammoths-choked-by-dust ... sent in by Robert Farrar. Once again a Creationist web site goes where others fear to tread and the issues raised are

At https://phys.org/print407057607.html ... the study of ancient skulls in the Americas seems to suggest there were multiple migrations, which contrasts with what the study of

At https://wattsupwiththat.com/2017/02/24/rock-strata-dating-suggests-plane... ... this story is all over the internet but I have chosen this link as the comments are worth scanning. It was published

At https://phys.org/print407145626.html ... cosmic dust particles on  their entry into the atmosphere save themselves from disintegration by creating a bubble of protection. Cosmic dust originates

At www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2017/02/nasa-scientists-pluto-flybys-point... ... which begs the question - does Pluto have the ingredients of life? This is a far cry from the situation prior to

At https://wattsupwiththat.com/2017/02/16/vast-lake-of-molten-carbonate-dis... ... it seems there are 1.8 million square kilometres of semi molten carbonate, or co2 in new speak, lodged beneath the western mountain

Robert Farrar sent in another link - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFI4SYKfpTg ... He asks if David Salkeld's article in SIS Review 2009 (and the idea of Intelligent Design)