In the News

The Conversation, a US politic rag that is a bit self righteous and 'right on' has apparently had a hissy fit. At http://phys.org/print356942688.html ... we

At http://wattsupwiththat.com/2015/07/16/the-three-faces-of-the-giss-land-o... ... is an interesting post by Bob Tisdale, a specialist on ENSO events (and well clued up). He has looked at US data

At http://phys.org/print356248555.html ... news of an interesting theory that evolution of life was driven by Plate Tectonics. One could substitute the latter for catastrophims and

At www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-07/uoc--gap072115.php ... a genome study at the University of California-Berkeley has concluded Native Americans ae descended from a single migration from Siberia which they

At http://crev.info/2015/07/feathered-velociraptor/ ... there is a post with the title, 'Feathered Velociraptor - untangling the Spin' and refers to the Nature journal 'Scientific Reports' on

The Circle of God by Brian Hobley will set you back £105 but it appears to be a pretty comprehensive study which may attract SIS

The flyby of Pluto by a NASA mission to the far reaches of the solar system has caught the imagination of the media, and Joe

At http://phys.org/print356593679.html ... apparently, soft tissue is often preserved in fossils - such as worm sperm from Antarctica (80 million years ago). Such worms reproduce

Useful links as we are having a talk on comets at our autumn speaker meeting. At http://phys.org/print356337886.html ... Comet PanSTARRS made an appearance in northern

At http://phys.org/print356258414.html ... a dinosaur with wings, and feathers, and it is reminiscent in outline to the 'Jurassic Park' Velociraptor - being described as a

At http://notrickszone.com/2015/07/20/surprise-no-sea-level-rise-at-tanzani... ... there is a translation of an article by Dr S Luning and Prof Fritz Vahrenhalt, posted by Pierre Gosselin. The two authors

At http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.co.uk/2015/07/worlds-oldest-picto... ... at Gobekli Tepe, the iconic site with the T shaped uprights in the highlands overlooking the North Syrian plain, a scene on

At www.spaceweather.com ... more on the space weather baloon mission by students, 'Earth to Sky Calculus' and a nice image, below, of green skies over

Buckminster fullerenes are back on the menu at http://phys.org/print356180451.html ... scientists at the Swiss University of Basel has identified a particle, the positively charged buckminster

At www.holoscience.com/wp/global-warming-in-a-climate-of-ignorance/ ... for anyone who might like the idea the Sun drives climate on the Earth this is a read you might enjoy -

At http://wattsupwiththat.com/2015/07/18/climate-change-baltic-herring-and-... ... is a guest post by Tim Ball, a Canadian scientist that got on the wrong side of the Green Blob (some years

At http://joannenova.com.au/2015/07/lost-knowledge-10th-century-cure-for-mr... ... we learn that a medieval cure by a so called 'leech doctor' was found to treat superbugs that modern doctors struggle to

Referring to non-uniformitarians as Flood catastrophists has developed recently into a new twist as mainstream science has, it seems, developed its very own 'holy' Flood

At http://phys.org/print356339924.html ... tells a story of the discovery of fossils in Ilminster in Somerset back in the 19th century. They have been in a

Gary Gilligan sent in the following link - www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3161511/A-home-home-Curiosity-fi... ... which is a comparison of Mars with the Earth. Gary asks - does it also