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Climate the Movie

21 March 2024 Climate change
Watch Martin Durkin's latest film exposing climate alarmism and the dodgy dealing .. . at https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/03/20/climate-the-movie-watch-here/ ... or you can go to https://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2024/03/20/climate-the-movie-is-here/ ... which

Another variation on Sekhmet

20 March 2024 Ancient history, Mythology
After passing over some part of Nicholas Costa's view of Sekhmet I received a response from Eric. He had already sent me one of his

What was Sekhmet

17 March 2024 Ancient history, Catastrophism, Mythology
Nicholas Costa has a piece on the goddess Sekhmet, sent to me after asking a question about Akhnaton and his religious revolution after witnessing something

Hittite Tablet

17 March 2024 Ancient history, Archaeology
I got excited when I first started reading the link but that subsided quite quickly. The title dates the tablet at 3300 years ago -

Alaska Dinosaur Tracks

17 March 2024 Catastrophism, Geology, Palaeontology
At https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/03/240312221007.htm .... the discovery of dinosaur tracks and fossilised plants, which include tree stumps, in what is now NW Alaska, provides information on the 

Tim Berners-Leer

17 March 2024 Inside science, Uncategorised
At https://www.livescience.com/technology/communications/35-years-after-first-proposing-the-world-wide-web-what-does-its-creator-tim-berners-lee-have-in-mind-next-inrupt .... Tim Berner-Lee, the founder of the World Wide Web, appears to be unhappy that the balance of power has drifted to large

Indian Migration Influx

17 March 2024 Anthropology, Archaeology, Catastrophism, Genetics
At https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/indias-evolutionary-past-tied-to-huge-migration-50000-years-ago-and-to-now-extinct-human-relatives .... Genetic research in India has come up with an interesting observation. Modern Indians have inherited genes from what is now Tajikistan as

Great Blue Spot

16 March 2024 Astronomy, Biology, Electromagnetism, Evolution
Robert sent in some interesting links to share amongst  readers. At https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTNkZjqRwPw&ab_channel=LPPFusion ... which is a presentation by Eric Lerner on the so called 'Big

Sand Ripples

16 March 2024 Astronomy, Geology
At https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/03/240312133825.htm ... scientists propose a new theory that explains sand ripples on Earth by comparing them to sand ripples on Mars. Sand ripples are

Mars Tugging on Earth

16 March 2024 Astronomy, Dating, Geology
This was also sent in by Gary - https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/rivers-oceans/every-24-million-years-mars-tugs-on-earth-so-hard-it-changes-the-ocean-floor ... After a few days William sent in an alternative link - https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/every-2-4-million -years-205045105.html ... and

Giant Volcano Mars

16 March 2024 Astronomy, Geology
Sent in by Gary - gaint volcano 280 miles wide discovered on the planet Mars. He provided a link to GB News science section -

Erosion and Gobekli Tepe

14 March 2024 Archaeology, Geology
Another interesting research paper at https://doi.org/10.31015/jaefs.2021.3.17 ... this one got people at Ancient Origins excited. Published in the 'International Journal of Agriculture, Environment and Food

Pacific Ocean Plate

14 March 2024 Geology, Plate Tectonics
At https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2023GL105452 ... the consensus view on Plate Tectonics may not be all it is cracked up to be. It is assumed the Pacific plate

Spiral Core of Comet 12P

14 March 2024 Astronomy
As Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks is due for its April rendevous around the Sun - see https://spaceweather.com ... which has two posts, slightly different, on the 12th

James Webb Upsetting Consensus

10 March 2024 Astronomy, cosmology, Electromagnetism
At https://www.space.com/james-webb-space-telescope-universe-first-stars-black-hole-population-3 ... here we are back to the period shortly after Big Bang. At https://www.livescience.com/space/cosmology/james-webb-telescope-detects-oldest-dead-galaxy-in-the-known-universe-and-its-death-could-challenge-cosmology ... a dead galaxy. Expired. Lived  its life and

Homo Erectus

10 March 2024 Archaeology
We have Homo erectus building wooden structures in Zambia, half a million years ago [see https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-66846772 ] and now we have stone tools in Europoe

Star Dunes

8 March 2024 Electromagnetism, Geology
Gary sent in this link ... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-68450147.amp ... Star dunes. Scientists claim to have solved the mystery behind earth's largest sand dunes. The subject of

Comet Pons-Brooks

8 March 2024 Astronomy, Electromagnetism
At https://spaceweather.com ... see archive March 5th 2024. Here we are back to Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks. It is coming to life once again. The page has

Mineral Rings

8 March 2024 Geology
At https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00647-y ... Yang Li has been the co-author of a lot of geological papers. He has another one out at Nature. The preamble is

Underwater Volcanoes

5 March 2024 Geology
At https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/antarctica/zoom-through-a-spectacular-chain-of-ancient-underwater-volcanoes-on-antarctic-ocean-floor ...  research in the Southern Ocean has mapped a string of sea mounts  that may have shaped the Antarctic Circumpolar Current - which