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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

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