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English Channel

9 October 2015 > Geology
At www.theotherside.co.uk/tm-heritage/background/channelform.htm ... what made the 22 mile gap between Dover and Calais?   There are geological faults along the line of the Channel and
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Richard of Wallingford

9 October 2015 > Archaeology
Visiting St Albans cathedral you will find a nice booklet for sale on God's clockmaker, one Richard of Wallingford (hat tip from SIS member David
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Thame

9 October 2015 > Archaeology
Thame is a market town in Oxfordshire, with a river Thame flowing through on its journey to the Thames. It was probably an important place

Pluto Blue

9 October 2015 > Astronomy
  At http://phys.org/print363535162.html ... it seems that Pluto has blue skies, just like the Earth. It also has patches of frozen water - and both
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Mars

9 October 2015 > Astronomy
The NASA 'Day in Review' newsletter (jplnewsroom [at] jpl [dot] nasa [dot] gov) 9th October 2015 reports on the discovery that lakes once existed on
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IPCC workings

7 October 2015 > Climate change
At https://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2015/10/06/tony-thomas-the-ipccs-legion-... ... is a remarkable post as it describes how 75 per cent of the science that the IPCC commissions is actually dumped and
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dust and atmosphere

7 October 2015 > Astronomy
At http://wattsupwiththat.com/2015/10/06/recent-lunar-eclipse-reveals-a-sig... ... dust from the Chile volcano, Calbuco, which erupted in April just gone, almost six months ago, has caused the moon to be
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Chernobyl

7 October 2015 > Biology
At www.bishop-hill.net/blog/2015/10/6/wildlife-thriving-in-chernobyl.html ... the Chernobyl exclusion zone straddles both sides of the border between Belorussia and the Ukraine. An article in Current Biology seems to
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feeding frenzies (update)

5 October 2015 > Climate change
Some strange goings on have been noticed - and all covered in secrecy and an unwillingness to let the public into the inner workings of
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fighting back

5 October 2015 > Archaeology
At http://popular-archaeology.com/issue/fall-2015/article/the-iceman-cometh ... the geneticists have been having it all their own way recently as far as the origins of Native Americans are concerned -
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eels and the Gulf Stream

2 October 2015 > Biology
Otto Muck, in his book 'The Secret of Atlantis' Collins:1978, was a catastrophist and though his theory was overtaken by other ideas, on the fate

Siberian mammoths

2 October 2015 > Catastrophism
Robert Farrar sent the link to http://siberiantimes.com/science/casestudy/news/n0434-new-mass-grave-of-... .... the bones of eleven mammoths and one woolly rhinoceros were found near the Ob river in western
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mummification

2 October 2015 > Archaeology
At http://popular-archaeology.com/issue/fall-2015/article/mummification-was... ... which means it was probably common across Europe too. University of Sheffield archaeologists have developed a process to show that some bones

Deccan Traps

2 October 2015 > Geology
The Deccan Traps, a vast lava outflow, are located east of Mumbai (formerly Bombay), and here we have a bit of putting one and one

Europa

2 October 2015 > Astronomy
At http://phys.org/print362821573.html ... Europa is a moon of Jupiter and the link provides some historical information on the discovery, by telescope (the kind you hold

Ceres

2 October 2015 > Astronomy
At http://phys.org/print362900111.html ... NASAs Dawn spacecraft has been taking pictures of another small planet, or large asteroid, Ceres - which again displays evidence of unusual

Charon

2 October 2015 > Astronomy
  At http://phys.org/print362930969.html ... the New Horizons spacecraft has returned pictures of Charon, the larger companion of Pluto. The pictures are thought to show a

more on black holes

2 October 2015 > Astronomy
At http://phys.org/print362921819.html ... we have a little history of black holes and how the idea came about. It is illuminating.   This is how a
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what's it all about

2 October 2015 > Climate change
At http://blogs.theprovince.com/2015/09/29/michelle-stirling-paris-is-about... ... some 50,000 people, supposedly intent on saving the planet will be flying into Paris, or coming by train or road, all using
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water on Mars

30 September 2015 > Astronomy
At http://phys.org/print362657730.html ... NASAs Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has found evidence of water flow, it is claimed. Using an imaging spectrometer researchers detected the signature of
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