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rivers in the Sahara
13 November 2015 > GeologyGary sent in this link. At www.nature.com/ncomms/2015/151110/ncomms9751/full/ncomms9751.html ... and for double the effect see www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3312097/Lost-sands-time-Hidden-a... ... we learn that not so long ago, in the
a big one brewing
13 November 2015 > Astronomy this image is at www.spaceweather.com November 13th (2015) and is a giant dark filament or magnetic coil seen on the face of the Sun.

ancient origins
8 November 2015 > CatastrophismThis is a reference to a web site that will interest some readers - www.ancient-origins.net ... it covers such things as human origins, myth, strange

diluting catastrophe
8 November 2015 > CatastrophismAn exercise in uniformitarian dilution of the evidence can be witnessed at http://phys.org/print365932414.html ... extinction events are reduced to depletion of vital trace elements. There

waking up and bursting forth
8 November 2015 > AstronomyThis story is at http://phys.org/print365933001.html ... in June 2015 a huge burst of energy erupted across the electro-magnetic spectrum of a binary system in a

a Mars a day ...
8 November 2015 > AstronomyAt https://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2015/11/06/forget-mars-anomaly-nasa/ ... and see also http://phys.org/print365966626.html .... we learn that NASAs MAVEN mission has provided researchers with the data to tell us what caused

another update
8 November 2015 > ArchaeologyAt www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/11/151103064601.htm ... scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology say that traces of cereals found at the bottom of Bouldnor Cliff in

update
8 November 2015 > ArchaeologyAt www.livescience.com/52700-mysterious-geoglyphs-in-kazakhstan-revealed.html ... it seems the New York Times date of 8000 years ago may not be up to scratch. Live Science asked the three
Taurids amid auroral flow
7 November 2015 > Astronomy www.spaceweather.com November 7th ... I've captured the image but not the video (the burst of light) so go to the link for that. You

human origins
6 November 2015 > AnthropologyAn alternative theory to Out of Africa can be found at www.rafonda.com ... Ronald Fonda places the origins of Homo sapiens sapiens (modern humans) in
Taurid meteors
5 November 2015 > AstronomyWWW.spaceweather.com ... November 5th - earth is currently passing through a stream of gravelly debris from Comet Encke, source of the Taurid meteor shower. Meteorites

windy days
5 November 2015 > Climate changeThe Grid was about to go down - no wind. No Sun either as it was dark. Somebody filled their pockets - go to www.bishop-hill.net/blog/2015/11/5/dead-calm.html
crack in the hills
5 November 2015 > Geologythis crack in the ground suddenly appeared in the foothills of the Bighorn Mountains in Wyoming. How did it come about? Nobody is saying for

IBEX
4 November 2015 > AstronomyA few days ago we had Ibex carved on stone at Sirwah in Yemen (animals) but today we have the NASA mission IBEX. At www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/ibex/news/nooxbowshock.html

Justinian Plague
4 November 2015 > CatastrophismAt www.thunderbolts.info/wp/2015/10/26/the-justinian-plague-of-562-a-d-an-e... ... Peter Mungo Jupp is back with another tale which he dates to 562AD - presumably using the chronology within Short's chronicles (or

Jersey engravings
4 November 2015 > ArchaeologyCarvings on Jersey have been provisionally dated to 14000 years ago, in the warm period between the Oldest and the Younger Dryas events. It appears

joking aside ...
4 November 2015 > Climate changeThe representative of the British government at the Paris climate bean feast will be the chump that got laughed off BBC Radio 5 live a

Comet Encke
3 November 2015 > AstronomyA paper in the October 13th issue of the Astrophysical Journal used data from NASAs STEREO observatory to look at gusts of the solar wind

Sa'ba
3 November 2015 > ArchaeologyAt http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.co.uk/2015/10/yemens-ancient-city... ... concerns damage caused to the ancient city of Sirwah in the prolonged war between rival factions in Yemen. The ruins are as
geoglyphs Kazakhstan
2 November 2015 > ArchaeologyRobert Farrar and Brian Sherwood Jones both forwarded links to this story at www.nytimes.com/2015/11/03/science/nasa-adds-to-evidence-of-mysterious-a... ... and at www.livescience.com/47954-geoglyphs-discovered-in-kazakhstan.html ... satellite pictures from 430 feet above