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a carpet of stone tools

14 March 2015 > Archaeology
I like this one as I can remember struggling, years ago, with trying to comprehend stone tool technology, and why the Middle Palaeolithic was so
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Tall el-Hammam

14 March 2015 > Archaeology
The Tall el-Hammam excavation has ended for another year. It is an excavation heavily orientated towards the Bible and from that position, the director, Steven

coronal mass ejection March 11th

12 March 2015 > Astronomy
  coronal mass ejection on March 11th. Go to http://spaceweather.com
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dust and nanodust

12 March 2015 > Astronomy
An interesting piece of research - see http://phys.org/print345105547.html .... we've all heard of the dust in space created by comets and asteroids on their journeys
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Diros Bay in Greece

9 March 2015 > Archaeology
This story is at www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-03/fm-era030415.php ... and concerns ongoing excavations at Diros Bay in Greece. The remains of an ancient settlement and graveyard (with megalithic
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unintended consequences strikes again

9 March 2015 > Climate change
I'll leave you to read the link. Unintended consequences from Green policies - a never ending saga - go to www.bishop-hill.net/blog/2015/3/9/ditch-the-greens-if-you-want-to-keep-t...
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a single stone tool with a lot to say

9 March 2015 > Archaeology
At http://westerndigs.org/stone-tool-unearthed-in-oregon-hints-at-oldest-hu... .... this excellent web site has come up with another humdinger. A multi-purpose stone tool made from an orange agate was unearthed at
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Ping Pong with the planets

9 March 2015 > Astronomy
At www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-31664162 ... rogue planets are forcing astronomers into a rethink of the birth of our solar system. Planetary pin balls are on the table
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Yucatan Pop

7 March 2015 > Catastrophism
At http://phys.org/print344769202.html ... evidence of a massive tsunami wave that struck the eastern side of the Yucatan Peninsular has been found. It is claimed it
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bang, wallop, sizzle

6 March 2015 > Mythology
At http://phys.org/print344585068.html .... surprise, surprise. Australian Aborigine people have stories about a fire devil that burnt people on the surace which they attributed as revenge
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fulgarites

5 March 2015 > Electromagnetism
It is a well known theory that lightning causes fulgarites but an open access paper at http://dx.doi.org/10.1130/G36255.1 ... for the Geological Society of America, claims
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the Rostov slab

3 March 2015 > Astronomy
At www.livescience.com/48298-bronze-age-sundial-moondial-discovered.html ... a slab of rock discovered 20 years ago and having spent that time in the back of a museum in Russia has
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starry eyes

3 March 2015 > Astronomy
At http://phys.org/print344225723.html ... star clusters forming in a remote part of the Milky Way. Apparently, this is not supposed to happen according to the consensus
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snails, humans, and wheat DNA

2 March 2015 > Archaeology
Snails are often collected during archaeological excavations as they can provide evidence of the environment - species variety by species variety. For example, they were
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co2 is warming the planet ... oh no it isn't

1 March 2015 > Climate change
This is a tale of two takes on a single paper in Nature journal (Feb 25th 2015) and the press release can be read at

more on those mysterious holes appearing in permafrost in Siberia

27 February 2015 > Geology
At http://phys.org/print344070295.html ... more on the mysterious craters in Siberia. Global warming is blamed. Huffington Post - complete with all the scaries and some really

Jewish fortunes in the Exile and beyond

27 February 2015 > Archaeology
   This is an image of a clay tablet with cuneiform writing, as practised in ancient Babylonia. The said tablet is one of over a
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Fossil Swim Tracks

27 February 2015 > Geology
At www.livescience.com/49937-ancient-reptile-tracks-mass-extinction.html ... we are told the end of Permian mass extinction event may even have wiped out marine worms and other burrowing creatures that
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Big Bang Black Hole

27 February 2015 > Astronomy
Yes, shortly after Big Bang, a mere 900 million miles away, a huge quasar formed - with a central supermassive black hold for company -
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climate change and out of africa

24 February 2015 > Archaeology
Seems like two consensus theories are now in a head lock, being used as a battering ram in support of each other. Gary Gilligan forwarded
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