In the News

At www.space.com/31419-asteroid-2015-yb-earth-flyby.html ... a bus sized asteroid buzzed past the Earth on the morning of December 19th - almost unannounced. It didn't stop. In fact

At www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/12/151218161458.htm ... NASAs MMS mission (Magnetospheric Multiscale) is looking at magnetic effects caused by the solar wind. The explosive realignment of magnetic fields is

Tim Cullen at https://malagabay.wordpress.com/2015/12/22/neal-adams-06-pangea-proven-w... ... has posted, so far, some seven videos made by Neil Adams on the Expanding Universe theory. Have a look at

  the Sun is not quiet. It is brewing up a storm. Go to www.spaceweather.com ... and just beyond the Sun's eastern horizon it is

   Old Nick gets about as we have a Devil's Hole and a Devil's Punchbowl over here in the UK. At http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.co.uk/2015/12/a-climatological-tr... ... we have

This story was everywhere - but then dogs are very popular as human companions, as working dogs (retrieving dead animals, rooting out rabbits in holes,

At http://phys.org/print369561139.html ... an interesting study of a massive volcanic field in the Andes that reveals a surprising amount of uplift in a short time

Gardeners and farmers are well aware of aphids as a sap eating pest of various crops and flowering plants. They suck up a sugary sap

Catastrophism has many tentacles and far reaching affects, not least human and animal migrations. At http://westerndigs.org/800-year-old-camp-found-in-oregon-sand-dunes-pose... ... an assemblage of pottery, stone points, a gaming

Winter Warmers usually come in the shape of bottles of strong ale or mulled wine or even in warm jugs of cider laced with ginger,

The recent earthquake in Nepal caught the headlines around the world but it does not appear to have been anything particularly special in the grand

A Swedish study has found domestic water pipes are crawling with bacteria. However, this is not your bad kind of bacteria but your good kind

At www.q-mag.org/the-german-sun-machine-is-on.html ... posted by Anne Marie de Grazia at her web site. Greens don't like fusion it seems as they are raising a storm

At http://anthropology.net/2015/12/18/14000-year-old-bone-found-in-red-deer... ... we learn that analysis of a 14000 year old femur bone and skulls bones found in 1989 at the Red Deer cave

Joy sent in a link to https://eos.org/articles/human-radio-transmissions-create-barrier-to-kil... ... and at first I thought it was a spoof, then realised they were being serious. The claim

The Toronto Conference has now got a nice list of speakers - see www.planetamnesia.com/toronto-conference/featured-speakers/ These include Anne Marie de Grazia who will focus on Quantavolution

Robert Farrar has sent in a link to www.thethirdwayofevolution.com ... which he came across as a link from another web site he was looking at.

At www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/stonehenge-bluestones-were-moed-fr... ... and variously at locations such as http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.co.uk/2015/12/stonehenge-blueston... A week ago archaeologists were cock-a-hoop as they claimed they had found the quarry where

A surprising number of article have been written on the Star of Bethlehem that suggest a comet as a possible candidate - see for example

Our Autumn speaker in Watford, Mark Bailey, is in the news - see http://phys.org/print369576018.html As the director of the Armagh Observatory he has reported on