In the News

Do you like walnuts? They were a valuable trade commodity in the past, spreading out along the Silk Road, from  Persia to China in the

At https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milutin_Milankovitch ... there is some surprising information about the man a lot of catastrophists regard as an arch villain of unifomitarianism, infamous for his

  What is this supposed to represent? It is nine feet in length. Is it the coma of a comet, or a plasma column, or

A good take on cosmic impacts and any kind of catastrophe can be found by going to https://cometstorm.wordpress.com/a-different-kind-of-climate-catastrophe/ ... Dennis Cox is an ex military

  At http://siberiantimes.com/science/casestudy/news/n0302-startling-changes-... ... we have giant holes created when pingos erupted after filling with gas. The craters are found on the Yamal peninsular in

At www.abdn.ac.uk/news/8083/ ... the Rhynie Man carries an axe of a type associated elsewhere with animal sacrifices. He also wears a hat or headdress and

At http://phys.org/print359743299.html ... IRIS and Hinode telescopes and satellites - looking at the Sun. Why is the Sun so hot? Ideas being explored, filaments, Alfven

NASAs Dawn spacecraft spotted a tall conical mountain on Ceres It stands 4 miles high and the perimeter is sharply defined - no rubble or

At http://notrickszone.com/2015/08/26/suppression-of-science-former-noaa-me... ... it seems CAGW science actively connived and went out of its way to actually ban mention of natural cycles of warming and

At www.livescience.com/52017-catastrophic-volcanoes-caused-biggest-extincti... ... geologists working in Siberia (Russian and American) are blaming volcanics for the extinction event at the Permian boundary, a somewhat obvious discovery

I don't know what the fruit of sycamore trees might be - I only know the ones with seeds that we used to spin like

This is a piece of tweaking the nose of the Leakey's - those avid finders of fossil humans in the African Rift Valley - see

At http://phys.org/print359878549.html ... accelerator mass spectrometry has been used by Russian biologists to date the remains of a cave lion that had been preserved in

Lots of noise this week as apparently Stephen Hawking has spoken on the subject of black holes - see http://phys.org/print359978825.html ... He claims he has

Thunderbolts this month also has a piece by one Andrew Hall, described as an engineer and writer. He is clearly somebody with his feet on

Bob Porter over at the New Chronology Yahoo group has written that C14 dates from Thebes differ from those of the same period taken from

Stephen Smith may have a mechanism, loosely described, to explain the heat found on Pluto - following a query from an SIS member. See www.thunderbolts.info/wp/2015/08/21/thermal-axes/

  get up to date with Comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko as we approach our autumn speaker meeting and the presentation by Mark Baily of the Armagh Observatory.

The Ryan and Pitman claim (back in 1997) that the Black Sea was flooded when a rock sill at the Bosporus was breached and salt

The ancient geography of the Mediterranean Basin has been profoundly changed by sea level rise following the Late Glacial Maximum. This global event led to