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Two takes on the same discovery. The newspaper likes the Arthurian angle and dallies a bit - www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/king-arthur-castle-cornwa... ... and www.medievalhistories.com/luxury-tintagel-early-medieval-period/ ... the excavations in

Could every town have its own small nuclear reactor - see www.climatechangenews.com/2016/07/27/could-every-uk-town-have-a-small-nu... ... as an alternative strategy to building large and expensive nuclear plants such

At http://popular-archaeology.com/issue/summer-2016/article/population-boom... ... domesticated plants and animals are part of everyday life but they represent a unique change in the way of life of humans,

This is the famous flood of the yellow emperor Yu that is being talked about, dating back to around 4000 years ago. It is mentioned

At http://crev.info/2016/08/fossil-dna-stuns-geologists/ ... the link is provided by Robert Farrar and concerns an open access paper in the journal Geology that documents the existence of

At https://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2016/08/04/the-us-renewable-fuel-standar... ... is a bit of old fashioned investigative journalism by Marita Noon and Christine Lakatos. Those with special access (crony capitalists) and influence

At http://phys.org/print389507947.html ... some tens of thousands of photographs of Ceres were returned by NASAs Dawn spacecraft - but none of them could peer inside

At http://phys.org/print389515752.html ... in a discussion of fossil vultures we are tolt they disappeared alongt with other meg-fauna from N America, SE Asia and East

Upcoming climate conference is being advertised on the web, but with a difference. This one is sceptical of climate science claims and climate models and

At http://phys.org/print388854293.html ... video surveillance at solar power towers in California have revealed flying animals such as birds and bats and various insect species on

At www.spaceweather.com Monday Aug 1 2016 ... it seems a mysterious form of aurora can be seen on occasion, known as the proton arc. The

At www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2016/07/is-jupiters-volcanic-moon-io-poise... ... in 2001 an eruption from the Surt volcano on the Jupiter facing hemisphere of Io had an estimated output of 78,000 Gigawatts

In Down to Earth 96 (August 2016, ISSN 0969 3408), we have an article by geologist Brian Ellis who has been looking at records and

At http://phys.org/print388825389.html .... another study on the Viking sun stones - this time a proper experiment ...    .... although sun stones have been featured

At http://phys.org/print388832074.html ... a DNA analysis of living and extinct species of New Zealand wrens have upset geological theories as it has been claimed New

At http://phys.org/print388828337.html ... Jupiter's red spot heats up the upper atmosphere, thereby explaining the anomalous high temperatures that can hardly be the result of sunshine.

We seem to get a lot of people thinking in a lopsided manner nowadays - but it seems climate scientists take the biscuit in this

Martin Sieff was a prominent member of SIS in its early days (way back when) but what has he been up to since that long

Wildfires are known to have been frequent features of the Australian past - and Aborigines usually get the blame as they have a habit of

At https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.co.uk/2016/07/40000-year-old-rop... ... a German team (see Archaologische Ausgrabungen Baden Wurttemberg) have found a rope or twine making tool dating to the Aurignacian period (roughly