In the News

At http://spaceweather.com (Wednesday September 30th 2015) .... there is news of sun spot activity on the face of the Sun, and prospects of a CME

The title is tongue in cheek but it was penned to illustrate that there was activity at Stonehenge contemporary with the destruction of Tall el-Hammam

At www.smithsonianmag.com/history/ancient-egypt-shipping-mining-farming-eco... ... there is a marvelous snap shot in time from Old Kingdom Egypt. Archaeologists investigating some caves cut out of limestone geology in

At http://notrickszone.com/2015/08/19/new-study-on-20th-century-sea-level-r... ... no surprise here but this time it comes from the University of Siegen in Germany who issued a press release about a

  at http://popular-archaeology.com/issue/fall-2015/article/possible-site-of-... ... we learn that mainstream is catching up on the possible identification of Tall el-Hammam with ancient Sodom. and here is the

At www.catastrophist.org/home/fire-planet/ ... Han Kloosterman has an interesting correspondence with Derek Age. Kloosterman begins by quoting Ager's book, The Nature of the Stratigraphical Record, Harford

Weaubleau eggs are rocky balls, read concretions of rock found in western Missouri. See for example www.impact-structures.com (8th July 2013) (scroll down to that date)

Divine purification as a result of chastisement is one way to look at meteoric bombardment of the earth in the past - and catastrophic upheaval

The origins of the Zimbabwe culture and Shona civilisation has been pushed back by new discoveries in SW Zimbabwe and NE Botswana, to the 11th

At http://phys.org/print362309577.html ... we learn about a rethink on black holes. It seems they want to ditch Einstein's gravitational waves, part of his general theory

Blackbirds will stop other blackbirds from getting at a food source and they will expend a lot of energy doing this in order to prioritise

At http://wattsupwiththat.com/2015/08/29/the-hood-robin-syndrome/ ... this is one of those posts I printed out weeks ago but left to the side as it is politicised by the

An interesting piece of research in Geophysical Research Letters Sept 23rd 2015 (see http://phys.org/print362211570.html). From the abstract we learn that researchers have found evidence of

At http://phys.org/print362229294.html ... we learn that the ancestors of Aborigines may have lived alongside giant lizards that lived in Australia as recently as 50,000 years

At http://phys.org/print362294586.html ... which begins by telling us that comets are composed of dust and ices which they periodically shed as they swing round the

Interesting post at http://phys.org/print361784158.html ... Earth is like a big bar magnet - and its attract and repulse properties. A Swedish space balloon project is

At http://phys.org/print361773247.html ... a paper in Australian Geography 'Aboriginal memories of inundation of the Australian coast dating from more than 7000 years ago' used stories

Robert Farrar sent in the link www.nasa.gov/feature/pluto-wows-in-spectacular-new-backlit-panorama ... which is another set of images (go to the link but below is one to wet the

At www.world-mysteries.com/milton_darwin1.htm ... there is a post on Richard Milton concering Darwinism, as he calls it but what we might call Gradualism or Uniformitarianism (evolution

At http://phys.org/print362238625.html ... changing sea levels and global cooling events caused serious declines in the number of crocodiles inhabiting planet Earth at any given time