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At http://apps.ohiohistory.org/ohioarchaeology/the-moorehead-circle-a-cerem... .... the Moorehead Circle is situated at the head of a major ravine on the Little Miami River. It is a triple ring

A fascinating piece of archaeology at http://siberiantimes.com/science/casestudy/features/f0100-stone-bracelet... ...   a stone bracelet from 40,000 years ago - made of a polished green stone. It was

At www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-04/wsu-ctc042815.php ... this is a story on Tibet and it seems there was a major change at the end of the third millennium BC

At http://phys.org/print348483517.html ... dinosaur footprints have turned up on an Australian beach - but they are only exposed during spring tides. This indicates the continental

At http://news.sciencemag.org/paleontology/2011/01/fall-rome-recorded-trees ... an analysis of European tree ring data suggests that a series of mild summers may have been the key to the rise

At www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-04/uom-ato042715.php ... a classic case of circling the wagons and shutting down an upstart theory. This time, it is the idea that Solutrean Points

At http://notrickszone.com/2015/05/02/151-degrees-of-fudging-energy-physici... .. which is all about cooling the heels of climate data - the oldest parts of the climate records. Mike Brakey is described

The power point presentation of Bob Johnson's talk at the AGM has provoked a couple of responses. One of them is a link to www.sciencealert.com/boeing-has-patented-a-plasma-force-field-to-protect...

Here we have evidence of tectonic forces difficult to imagine, dinosaur tracks, 462 trails of over 5000 prints, found on a verticle slab of limestone

At http://phys.org/print348473351.html ... NASAs Chandra X-ray Observatory is thought to have witnessed a white dwarf star rip apart a planet which came too close. The

George Dodwell's name keeps cropping up recently, on the Internet. He crops up every now and again at SIS. It's difficult to know how much

At http://phys.org/print349445582.html ... is about the coronol heating theory. Something is going on in the atmosphere of the Sun - but what. Nano flares in

Bob Johnson's power point presentation is now on Anthony Watts blog - see http://wattsupwiththat.com/2015/04/30/how-plasma-connects-the-sun-to-the... ... but if you want to know what other people think

The Eric Aitchison email thread on chronology was sent a link to http://ajw.asahi.com/article/behind_news/social_affairs/AJ201504250044 ... by Johnny Godowski, who likes all things unusual, and concerns the

At http://phys.org/print349406787.html ... we learn that the recent earthquake in Nepal which badly affected Katmandu that seismological data (using sound waves which travel through the

For those unable to attend our AGM and Spring meeting they missed a real treat. Both talks were excellent and videos of them will be

The New York Times of February 17th 2015 had a piece on Jurassic mammals. It said that scientists once thought the only mammals that existed

The New York Times, March 11th (sent in by a US member) had a short piece on DNA studies of the Armenian people of the

Meanwhile, we had comets and meteor dust in AD536 - and now we have a catastrophic end to the Late Bronze Age. The article is

I've already done this story but it has popped up again as New Scientist is offering it as a free to download article in order