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a carpet of stone tools
14 March 2015 > ArchaeologyI like this one as I can remember struggling, years ago, with trying to comprehend stone tool technology, and why the Middle Palaeolithic was so

Tall el-Hammam
14 March 2015 > ArchaeologyThe 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

dust and nanodust
12 March 2015 > AstronomyAn 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

Diros Bay in Greece
9 March 2015 > ArchaeologyThis 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

unintended consequences strikes again
9 March 2015 > Climate changeI'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...

a single stone tool with a lot to say
9 March 2015 > ArchaeologyAt 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

Ping Pong with the planets
9 March 2015 > AstronomyAt 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

Yucatan Pop
7 March 2015 > CatastrophismAt 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

bang, wallop, sizzle
6 March 2015 > MythologyAt 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

fulgarites
5 March 2015 > ElectromagnetismIt 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

the Rostov slab
3 March 2015 > AstronomyAt 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

starry eyes
3 March 2015 > AstronomyAt 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

snails, humans, and wheat DNA
2 March 2015 > ArchaeologySnails are often collected during archaeological excavations as they can provide evidence of the environment - species variety by species variety. For example, they were

co2 is warming the planet ... oh no it isn't
1 March 2015 > Climate changeThis 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 > GeologyAt 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

Fossil Swim Tracks
27 February 2015 > GeologyAt 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

Big Bang Black Hole
27 February 2015 > AstronomyYes, shortly after Big Bang, a mere 900 million miles away, a huge quasar formed - with a central supermassive black hold for company -

climate change and out of africa
24 February 2015 > ArchaeologySeems like two consensus theories are now in a head lock, being used as a battering ram in support of each other. Gary Gilligan forwarded