In the News

An article in Physics Today (Sept, 2014, page 32) by David King and Mark Boslough, describes what happened when the Chelyabinsk meteor exploded in an

At http://phys.org/print360468954.html ... black holes are strange affairs. They refuse to allow anything to escape from out of their clutches - even light itself. No

At www.bishop-hill.net/blog/2015/9/5/temperature-questions.html ... the El Nino brewing in the Pacific is causing a lot of agitation amongst the CAGW faithful. Why an entirely natural cycle

Brian Sherwood Jones forwarded this link www.press.uchicago.edu/books/HOC/index.html ... the first volume of the 'History of Cartography' was published in 1987 - and another three books

  At http://phys.org/print360320788.html ... it has been found that European domesticated pigs have far more genetic links to the wild European boar population than previously

A digital reconstruction of the continental shelf underneath the North Sea basin is about to take place, we are told, following the allotment of a

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