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The Grid was about to go down - no wind. No Sun either as it was dark. Somebody filled their pockets - go to www.bishop-hill.net/blog/2015/11/5/dead-calm.html

this crack in the ground suddenly appeared in the foothills of the Bighorn Mountains in Wyoming. How did it come about? Nobody is saying for

A few days ago we had Ibex carved on stone at Sirwah in Yemen (animals) but today we have the NASA mission IBEX. At www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/ibex/news/nooxbowshock.html

At www.thunderbolts.info/wp/2015/10/26/the-justinian-plague-of-562-a-d-an-e... ... Peter Mungo Jupp is back with another tale which he dates to 562AD - presumably using the chronology within Short's chronicles (or

Carvings on Jersey have been provisionally dated to 14000 years ago, in the warm period between the Oldest and the Younger Dryas events. It appears

The representative of the British government at the Paris climate bean feast will be the chump that got laughed off BBC Radio 5 live a

A paper in the October 13th issue of the Astrophysical Journal used data from NASAs STEREO observatory to look at gusts of the solar wind

At http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.co.uk/2015/10/yemens-ancient-city... ... concerns damage caused to the ancient city of Sirwah in the prolonged war between rival factions in Yemen. The ruins are as

Robert Farrar and Brian Sherwood Jones both forwarded links to this story at www.nytimes.com/2015/11/03/science/nasa-adds-to-evidence-of-mysterious-a... ... and at www.livescience.com/47954-geoglyphs-discovered-in-kazakhstan.html ... satellite pictures from 430 feet above

At www.spaceweather.com November 1st (2015) we have a monster sun spot looming. It has quadrupled in size since it first appeared on October 29th. The

A really fascinating post by Canadian climate scientist Tim Ball at http://wattsupwiththat.com/2015/10/30/vladimir-putin-climate-and-politic... ... it seems the Russian leader, Putin, has said, 'global warming is a

At http://phys.org/print365330655.html ... astrophysicists at the University of Toronto are saying that after a close encounter with Jupiter another, an unknown and unnamed planet was

Archaeologist David Jaques was on the BBC News the other night standing in front of a tree throw - a pretty big one. It seems

The tomb of a Greek warrior who lived contemporary with dynasty 18 in Egypt has been found at Pylos on the Peloponesse. Bronze, gold and

The Times (of London), last week, had a post by Oliver Moody on a mammal that lived contemporary with the dinosaurs, a mouse like creature

After all those surveys of the western Amazon basin and the subsequent stories of lots of settlements with plazas and temples and so on we

At http://notrickszone.com/2015/10/27/geophysical-research-letters-shock-fi... ... a new paper by Haas et al 'Ice thickness in the NW passage' in Geophysical Research Letters (October 2015) which shows that

At http://siberiantimes.com/science/others/news/n0464-meet-this-extinct-cav... ...   two lion cubs have been found in Yakutia, preserved in perma frost. Cave lions were extent during early to middle Pleistocene

At http://phys.org/print365229743.html .... the fear of solar storms wrecking communication systems is troubling space scientists and almost every week the subject appears in articles and

At http://phys.org/print365271409.html ... what is happening with Voyager 1? A paper in Astrophysical Journal Letters, Oct 28th 2015, claims to know the secret that has