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Again, from Northern Earth 147 (December 2016), Eric Fitch recalls he was innocently listening to a classics CD featuring the music of Purcell, specifically the

Bob Trubshaw, writing in Northern Earth 147 (December 2016) has been reading an Oxbow Archaeological publication written by archaeologist Alastair Whittle (in 1997). This concerns

On our home page we have a Face Book link to Phil Silvia who has been taking part in excavations at Tall el-Hammam in the

Some more info has been published about Plut0 - and Charon (see http://phys.org/print399842130.html ). Is there life in the sub surface ocean on Pluto? Is

So says Judith Curry at https://judithcurry.com/2016/12/03/truthiness-and-factiness-in-politiciz... ... climate scientist Judith Curry ploughs a furrow through the middle of the game. After outlining what she means

At http://spaceweather.com (December 1st 2016) we have a 'mesospheric bore' - strange goings on in the mesosphere. This is a layer of the atmosphere above

On page 11 of Astronomy magazine (see www.astronomy.com) there is a story gleaned from an article in Nature (March) that modelled the emergence of the

A hoary chestnut has reared its head once again - see http://phys.org/print399808185.html ... the Aborigines are blamed when scientists come across evidence of landscape fire

Roger Higgs featured at the Geological Society of America annual meeting in Denver (2016) a few weeks ago, and presented a paper that claimed there

At www.haaretz.com/jewish/archaeology/1.754616 ... a harbour going back to the Old Kingdom of Egypt, 4600 years ago (specifically to the reign of Khufu (Cheops), and the

Potatoes - who set the growing of potatoes into motion? How did they develop them from a wild species that is toxic? Even in modern

At http://phys.org/print399653135.html ... the origin of Saudi Arabia's Ghawar giant oil field is the subject of this link. It would take a massive amount of

At http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.co.uk/2016/11/new-discoveries-rew... .... the military base at Larkfield, part of what is called the Stonehenge landscape (within walking distance of the stones), has been hiding

At http://phys.org/print399180551.html ... scientists looking at the K/T boundary crater off the coast of Yucatan have discovered it was dry land at the height of

Paul La Violette proposed that an active sun and increased comet bombardment triggered by a cosmic ray volley led to the mass die-off of mammoths

At http://phys.org/print398674581.html ... Rosetta, during the most active phase of Comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko, caught evidence of carbon dioxide ice followed by the appearance of two large

At www.newscientist.com/article/2113247-kangaroo-bone-nose-piercing-     ... a piece of kangaroo bone dating back as early as 44,000 years ago is being presented as the oldest bone jewellery belonging

At https://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2016/11/19/new-zealand-quake-ruptured-6-... ... the recent earthquake in New Zealand affected up to six faults - and uplifted significant portions of coastal New Zealand    During

The CAGW movement is closely wrapped up with some other environmental issues such as farming methods. It is interesting to note prior to reading the

At http://phys.org/print398327283.html ... is about the threat of tsunamis from earthquakes while at http://phys.org/print398327221.html ... the focus is on the earthquake itself, magnitude 7.5 -