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halloween hello

29 October 2015 > Astronomy
At http://phys.org/print365259735.html ... also at www.space.com ... the asteroid or dark comet has been picked up by NASA on Hawaii and by ESA at an

oxygen surprise

29 October 2015 > Astronomy
At http://phys.org/print365260954.html ... and https://www.sciencenews.org/article/oxygen-leaking-comet-surprises-astro... ...we learn that oxygen has been found on Comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko which came as a surprise to scientists as it challenges

ostrich dinosaurs

29 October 2015 > Biology
  dinosaurs with feathers and dinosaurs that look like ostriches - see http://phys.org/print365249627.html ... the point of interest ffor Catastrophists here is that the tail
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dairy good

27 October 2015 > Inside science
Over at http://notrickszone.com/2015/10/18/now-dawning-on-the-washington-post-sc... ... Pierre Gosselin is on one of has favourite grouses, having a pop at dietary guru Ancel Keys (now long dead). He
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solar storms

27 October 2015 > Astronomy
It seems Swedish researchers at Lund and Uppsala universities are saying a rapid increase of radioactive carbon in tree rings at 774/5 and 993/4AD are

long time tsunami

24 October 2015 > Catastrophism
pretty impressive piece of rock on the island of Santiago in the Cape Verde Islands. It is the result of a tsunami wave caused by
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alphabet

23 October 2015 > Archaeology
The evolution of the alphabet is a tease with contrarian views that oppose the consensus view that it emerged in the early years of the
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magnetic stars

23 October 2015 > Electromagnetism
At http://phys.org/print364733015.html ... astronomers have discovered stars are strongly magnetised. Using a technique known as astroseismology, where sound waves generated by turbulence at the surface
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again, and again

23 October 2015 > Catastrophism
Yes, the claim that stone age humans had the ability to bring about the demise of Ice Age animal life is up and running once
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comets and extinctions

23 October 2015 > Catastrophism
On a similar theme, at http://phys.org/print364584736.html ... according to a study in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Michael Rampino (a geologist) and
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the Halloween asteroid

23 October 2015 > Astronomy
At http://phys.org/print364646245.html ... the asteroid will pass Earth on October 31st, just at about the date of traditional Halloween and Diwali celebrations. It has already
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plague

23 October 2015 > Biology
At http://phys.org/print364704390.html ... new research seems to indicate bubonic plague has bedevilled human populations for much longer than consensus has allowed, even as early as
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good co2

23 October 2015 > Biology
The Swiss are innovative. At https://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2015/10/21/co2-capture-plant-to-enhance-... ... the Swiss intend to capture co2 from the atmosphere which will then be used as a greenhouse gas
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comet sugars, alcohol

23 October 2015 > Astronomy
Comet Lovejoy released large amounts of alcohol and sugars into space late last year according to new observations by an international team - see http://phys.org/print364829979.html
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cracking codes

22 October 2015 > Archaeology
At www.nature.com/news/ancient-civilizations-cracking-the-indus-script-1.18587 ... as far as codes, or undecyphered scripts are concerned, the Indus script has kept a few brians busy over many years. One

black hole rethink

22 October 2015 > Astronomy
At http://phys.org/print364634051.html ... the recent announcement that an eleven year search had failed to find the gravitational waves from two black holes in the process
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Einstein and Delft

22 October 2015 > Physics
At http://phys.org/print364664826.html ... a paper in Nature (Oct 22nd 2015) seems to undermine Einstein who said nothing moved faster than light. The Delft experiment involved
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zircons, moon, life

22 October 2015 > Physics
Robert Farrar sent in this link to www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/10/151017152343.htm ... durable crystals known as zircons are used to date some the earliest and most dramatic cataclysms
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dinosaurs Utah

19 October 2015 > Geology
Palaeontologists have discovered a cliff side in Utah full of dinosaur fossils from the Triassic. Preliminary findings were presented at a conference in Dallas in
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another NEO on way

18 October 2015 > Astronomy
At https://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2015/10/19/surprise-asteroid-to-give-ear... ... an asteroid is due to pass close to the earth at some 1.3 lunar distances on October 31st (2015). It was discovered
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