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Red Spot
27 July 2016 > AstronomyAt 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.

Back to Front Brains
24 July 2016 > Climate changeWe 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
24 July 2016 > Inside scienceMartin Sieff was a prominent member of SIS in its early days (way back when) but what has he been up to since that long

wildfire chronology
24 July 2016 > ArchaeologyWildfires are known to have been frequent features of the Australian past - and Aborigines usually get the blame as they have a habit of
Rope making
24 July 2016 > ArchaeologyAt 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

Data manipulation
24 July 2016 > Climate changeNo comment just a link - https://youtu.be/Gh-DNNIUjKU
Mammatus Clouds
24 July 2016 > AstronomyMammatus clouds are so named for their similarity to cow udders and underbelly The clouds above appeared after a thunderstorm in Manitoba. They seem
Greenland's Rivers
20 July 2016 > Geology Under the Greenland glacier radar has revealed a web of canyons caused by former rivers. Live Science provided the image on the left and

Auntie's Porkies
20 July 2016 > Climate changeOh Dear. Auntie has been caught telling porkies. Doom monger Roger from Auntie has been on the air waves - he even provided the words
early arrival
19 July 2016 > AstronomyJuly 19th and 20th, the arrival of a G1 geomagnetic storm following the early arrival of a CME originally expected on the 21st. Expect some

WH McNeil
18 July 2016 > Inside scienceWilliam H McNeil died this week (July 15th) age 98 years - a very good innings. He was the author of 'Plagues and Peoples' (which

Gary Gilligan
18 July 2016 > MythologyAt www.godkingscenario.com/gks/hathor-isis-ptah-sokar-atum-sun-night-atum-r... .. is Gary Gilligan's theory - a new page added to his updated web site. We have a celestial equator as well as

Hill of Chert
16 July 2016 > ArchaeologyAt http://popular-archaeology.com/issue/summer-2016/article/the-ancient-wor... .... a hill, 118m high, on the coast of Aghios Prokopios on the island of Naxos (in the Cyclades) has outcroppings of chert
Early Farmers
16 July 2016 > ArchaeologyThis one is a bit of a surprise. Just as we were about to accept that early farming evolved in the Fertile Crescent and the
Human Origins Again
16 July 2016 > AnthropologyAt http://phys.org/print387794468.html ... fossil finds in China challenge the Out of Africa theory of the evolution of modern humans. The Chinese have wondered if
Aberlady
16 July 2016 > ArchaeologyAt www.eastlothiancourier.com/news/14620182.Archaeologists_find_evidence_of... ... excavations in Aberlady have unearthed the foundations of a large building that has been dated by animal bone to between the 7th

Burning Oil, Fire on Earth
16 July 2016 > CatastrophismThis is almost sheer Velikovsky. At http://phys.org/print387788915.html ... the headline is, did a burning oil spill wipe out the dinosaurs. It seemed to me at
Unstable sun spot
16 July 2016 > Astronomy An unstable sun spot has emerged on the face of the Sun after a few weeks of almost zero activity. We might be in
South Downs LIDAR
15 July 2016 > ArchaeologyBBC News also had a report of the discovery of an extensive field system on the South Downs, including beneath woodland. The LIDAR images are
Must Farm
15 July 2016 > ArchaeologyAs the Must Farm excavations in the Cambridgeshire fens draw to a close we get a more balanced idea of the findings - go to