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At  www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/decades-long-quest-still-earth-man... ... great article - very interesting. The ingenuity of humans (or some of them). Geologists are trying to actually drill down into the

Is this significant? A comment at http://joannenova.com.au/2016/01/great-barrier-reef-an-icon-that-half-of... ... comment at 7.28am on January 30th. He said the Great Barrier Reef is 500,000 years old, we

Gary Gilligan sent in this one - at www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1302234.Jupiter-swallowed-planet... and www.newscientist.com/article/mg20727733-600-jupiter-swallowed-a-super-ea... ... where we are told Jupiter swallowed up a planet ten times the size

At http://wattsupwiththat.com/2016/01/29/study-suggests-a-sea-level-climate... ... this will probably prove to be an important paper as published in the journal Science (Jan 2016) as it introduces an element

At http://blog.drwile.com/?p=10925 ... is about feathered dragons, as the consensus view is that birds are descended from the dinosaurs. Alan Feduccia is an evolutionary biologist

At http://phys.org/print373045866.html ... Guisseppe Piazzi discovered Ceres way back in January of 1801 - 200 years prior to the Dawn Mission. Piazzi was the director

This post at https://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2016/01/29/renu-malhotra-nonlinear-reson... ... see also the whole paper at http://arxiv.org/pdf/chao-dyn/9406004.pdf ... and written by NASA scientist Renu Malhotra. It is basically an introduction

You've heard of Out of Africa - it seems there is also an Out of Taiwan theory that is proving to be difficult to uphold

This is a big issue it would seem. There are 24 articles on megafauna in January's Ecography journal and the journal of PNAS - see

William Thompson forwarded this link - http://eos.org/research-spotlights/scientists-detect-wisps-of-wind-in-space ... on a paper in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics (January 2016). It is about the

Must Farm, the archaeological site that uncovered a Bronze Age village and boats in Cambridgeshire is also a working quarry (for the nearby brick works).

Robert Farrar sent in this link to Dr Jay L Wile at http://blog.drwile.com/?p=14280 ... which discusses the 'universal genetic code' and says it is far

Yesterday we had TV footage of a Chinese man who had never seen the sight of snow -let alone touch it. He lived in southern

At https://malagabay.wordpress.com/2015/12/30/proglacial-mega-myths/ ... we have an irreverent attempt to demolish the Ice Age story. It is also a swipe at the uniformitarian mind-set as he

A couple of years ago there was a TV documentary, 'True Appaloosas' about a journey by a New Zealand horse breeder, Scott Engstrom, when she

At https://malagabay.wordpress.com/2016/01/21/carbon-14-the-baikal-excursions/ ... this is an interesting read but not sure what to make of his train of thought. From the perspective of somebody highly

sticking to a watery theme, at https://malagabay.wordpress.com/2016/01/19/the-deluge/ ... Tim Cullen get to look at Noah and all that - and the fountains of the deep.

Under a covering of mica rich sand and sediment there are a surprising number of footprints - in what had been a field near Tucson

At https://malagabay.wordpress.com/2016/01/22/parting-pacific-pottery/ ... Tim Cullen is away on a new angle, similarities between Jomon pottery from Japan and the pottery of the Valdivia Culture in

At http://phys.org/print372520223.html ... it seems that coal was formed 300 million years ago just as Pangea was in the process of coming together - or