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The Paris climate bean feast in December is looking like it might be a gem - one to raise a smirk. The promise of a

William Thompson provided the link, www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/researchers-lost-world-of-dinosaurs-thrived-in... ... I'm not sure if the journalist that did this post was raising a query, with tongue in cheek,

At http://phys.org/print362144022.html ... we learn that Earth's core contains more oxygen than previously allowed. Geologist Rick Ryerson and colleagues modeled geophysical and geochemical signatures they

At http://siberiantimes.com/home/born-in-siberia/sasha-the-worlds-only-baby... ... a baby woolly rhinoceros, 34,000 years old, has been dated to a specific period that witnessed an unknown catastrophic event, possibly two

Peter Fairlie-Clarke also provided a link to a paper - all the way back to 1907. I know he's knocking on, but ... but as

William Thompson forwarded the link http://impact-structures.com/news/Stoettham_c.pdf ... 'Characteristics of a Holocene impact layer in an archaeological site in SE Bavaria' which involved the Institute for

Robert Farrar sent in the link to http://astronomynow.com/2015/09/20/the-surface-of-rosettas-comet-is-chan... .... which seems to have preceded the link on PhysOrg (http://phys.org/print362124520.html). Robert asks if electrical erosion has

At https://curryja.files.wordpress.com/2015/09/longhurst-final.pdf .... is a free to download e-book (can be printed out or read online) by Alan Longhurst, a geologist rather than a climate

The Denisova cave in the NW Altai caused a bit of a stir a couple of years ago when the tooth of an individual was

At http://phys.org/print361438706.html ... the composition of asteroids is discussed. They are mostly rock but some contain a lot of clay and silicates as well as

It seems a more sober assessment of Homo naledi is now emerging after the media went over hype. At http://phys.org/print361434216.html ... more details have emerged

a cloud of plasma 600,000km in length is being held above the surface of the Sun by its magnetic field - go to www.spaceweather.com

Exodus is going to feature in one of our talks at the speaker meeting in Watford this weekend so it might be worth while if

At www.thunderbolts.info/wp/2015/09/07/food-for-thought/ ... there is a marvellous piece by Rens Van Der Sluijs on the food of the gods and the idea of people feeding

At http://phys.org/print361182218.html ... surfaces vary in colour when something about them changes, due to composition and make-up (geology) and other differences (liquid and solid etc).

At http://astronomynow.com/2015/09/09/ceres-bright-spots-seen-in-striking-n... ... where we have an image (below) of the white blob, or bright spot, on the asteroid Ceres - as seen by the

At www.independent.com.mt/articles/2009-07-13/news/could-sardinia-be-the-lo... ... this story goes back a couple of years and is apparently dead and buried - so the conference must have been a

At http://anthropology.net/2015/09/11/news-from-rising-star-cave-homo-naled... ... another story picked up by the media in general without a lot of thought about what was being said in the press

Not all the big discoveries are taking place in space - archaeology is having a nice plate full at the moment. At http://phys.org/print360840353.html ... the

The new discovery at Durrington Walls henge can be found on most media web sites from The Guardian to the Independent. It is also at