In the News

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

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

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

  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

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

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

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

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