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Gary Gilligan sent in these links - a surprising view of the Sahara. Go to https://www.newscientist.com/article/2077342-secret-sahara-reveals-fairy... ... and https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn27971-humans-accidentally-created... ... https://www.newscientist.com/article/volcano-hunters-dig-into-the-sahara...         

Fred Jueneman was a member of SIS for many years. He died in 2014. There is a nice piece featuring him at www.thunderbolts.info/wp/2016/02/15/the-sands-of-mars/ .... which

Survival International is one of the smaller but better NGOs - and they have complained about the activities of one of the bigger NGOs who

At www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/environment/archaeology/12150373/Remains-... ... not perhaps the most cited link for this story but it provides nice images which are computer simulations but provide a good

At www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-02/e-2fb020816.php ... some 200,000 fish bones were discovered in and around a pit in Sweden that has been dated over 9000 years ago to

At Thorikos in Greece, at the foot a a Mycenaean acropolis, and overlooking the harbour of Lavrio, a French team have found an amazing network

At http://phys.org/print374150033.html ... I always find it strange when a new piece of research claims to have come up with something new when it has

Long article on Jerusalem at http://rogerswebsite.com/articles/Lost-History-of-Jerusalem.pdf ... lots of effort went into this and lots of pictures to go with the text. Enough there to

Dr John Christy is one of the more clever of the climate scientists and doesn't buy into the alarmism - go to http://dailycaller.com/2016/02/02/scientist-ruthlessly-debunks-one-of-no... ... is

News on plasma fusion - see http://phys.org/print373880299.html ... and meanwhile, at www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/2016/02/04/one-of-saturn... ... according to a recent study the inner portion of one of Saturn's

Hasan Peker is Turkey's leading expert on Luwian heiroglyphics. In a recent London lecture (February 2016) he told of the discovery in 2015 of the

The Zika virus appears to be the latest in a long line of health 'doom mongerings' that has gone viral on social media and the

    At http://phys.org/print373795118.html ... some really nice images of the surface of the Moon taken by the Chinese rover Yutu and the Chang'e lander. At

An article in Current Biology 26 page 1-7 by Posth et al is interesting - see also http://phys.org/print373788881.html ... which provides a link via dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2016.01.1037

At www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/biblical-artifacts/artifacts-and-the-b... ... excavations at Tell es-Safi, the site of Biblical Gath, one of the famed 5 cites of the Philistines, have reached Iron Age

At www.jewishpress.com/news/hiker-discovers-3500-year-old-egyptian-seal-in-... ....     Late Bronze age Egyptian seals are still to be picked up from the ground it would seem - a bit like

Jets, outbursts of super heated gas moving at close to the speed of light, hae long been associated with the cores of giant elliptical galaxies.

A special issue of the Journal of Human Evolution (Jan 2016) presents the results of a long term excavation of a site in Lower Saxony

At http://www.ann-geophys.net/34/1/2016/ ... abstract of a paper by multiple authors from multiple space centres across Europe and the US. These are people looking at the

Robert Farrar sent in links to two stories from Astronomy Now - see http://astronomynow.com/2016/01/30/phase-of-the-moon-affects-amount-of-r... ... and http://astronomynow.com/2016/01/30/understanding-the-magnetic-sun/ ... 1) phases of the moon affect the