In the News

A good start is provided at www.thunderbolts.info/wp/2017/01/11/plasmoids-are-the-power/ ... which begins - what causes energetic emissions from galactic cores? This is the essence of the black

Gary sent this one in - go to www.astrobio.net/venus/dark-streaks-venus-clouds-microbial-life/ ... a story that comes from the Astrobiology magazine and raises the question of life on

At www.scientificamerican.com/article/atmospheric-rivers-california-megaflo... ... we have a story that has been around the blogosphere all week - with lots of mirth aimed at the California governor

At https://www.hakaimagazine.com/article-short/archaeological-find-puts-hum... ... this concerns the controversial Bluefish Caves in the Yukon where evidence seems to exist to show humans were living in the region

    January 6th in northern Ontario, weird light show. Go to www.livescience.com/57482-light-pillars-photo-ontario.html ... and for some weird geological pictures there is a video show at

A nice cheerful press release at http://phys.org/print403337522.html .... the subject is bioclay, an invention that provokes plants into thinking they are being attacked by pests

At http://phys.org/print403288528.html ... some revelatory facts on how palaeontologists peg fossils on the Tree of Life that you commonly come across in museum displays and

At www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-38561076 ... Japanese scientists have modelled the innards of the Earth and claim that silica exists as 5 per cent of the core. Whilst

A Near Earth Object passed close to the Earth on Monday morning. It was the size of a ten story building but it wasn't noticed

This story comes from www.scientificamerican.com/article/cold-fusion-lives-experiments-create-... ... which is a source hardly likely to be full on keen on cold fusion. It was dismissed as junk

This article at Thunderbolts was inspired by the news over Christmas that earth has a liquid iron jet stream as revealed by ESAs Swarm mission

At www.astronomy.com/news/2016/11/large-ice-sheet-discovered-on-mars?/ ... which appears to be a large area of ice and rocks and very deep. At www.q-mag.org/boom-star-visible-in-2022.html ... we are told a collision

It is thought ocean acidification might become the next doom mongering scare story if CAGW is 'Trumped' in the coming months. It might be useful

nAt www.tornosnews.gr/en/greek-news/21698-minoan-civilization-capital-knosso... ... contrary to what most people think, that Knossos was severely affected by the Thera volcano and limped on towards the end of

At http://nypost.com/2016/12/29/massive-anomaly-lurks-beneath-ice-in-antarc... ... this is the Big One - in more ways than one. It comes just as the Thunderbolts people are telling us craters

Fascinating post by Dr Wile at http://blog.drwile.com/?p=15423#more-15423 ... we have all succombed to the reasoning put abroad in the media and by earnest people in

Bone beds. What are they? It is rare to come across a complete dinosaur skeleton - or even a partial skeleton. These are what scientists

A liquid iron plume streaming from Earth's core has been likened to an internal jet stream. It is claimed that it is actually accelerating which

At www.haaretz.com/jewish/archaeology/1.716368 ... many scholars think the Bible was consolidated by the end of the 5th century BC but almost no manuscripts from that period

At www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/newgrange-sun-trap-may-be-onl... ... where we are told the roof box or sun trap in the passage tomb of Newgrange may only be 50 or so