In the News

At www.livescience.com/49660-taj-mahal-gardens-align-solstice-sun.html ... the Taj Mahal in India, built by a Moghul emperor following the death of one of his wives, is aligned to sun

At http://news.yahoo.com/did-volcano-wipe-neanderthals-144225250.html ... it has been suggested a massive volcano that blew around 40,000 years ago led to the demise of the Neanderthals. Benjamin Black,

Mainstream is slowly getting its head around the idea that something peculiar happened at the end of the Bronze Age. Claude Schaeffer was making the

At www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=105823127 ... we have the discovery in a cave in SW Germany of four flutes, one of which is made from the bones of

At www.q-mag.org/mega-streams-of-the-atlantic.html ... we have something that I've not seen anywhere else - somebody questioning the idea of the ocean circulation system, or how it

Yet another story on the inhabitants of Easter Island. Were they decimated as a result of rubbishing their own environment or were they blighted by

At http://siberiantimes.com/science/casestudy/features/f0052-face-of-tattooed- ... the face of the Siberian princess mummified and preserved for 2500 years in permafrost on the high altitude plateau of Ukok. She

At www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/uk-weather-storms-expose-ancient... ... in February of last year the spring storms near Penzance in Cornwall uncovered tree stumps from between 4000 and 6000 years ago

As the weather warms up towards our spring meeting and the visit of Piers Corbyn (see next SIS meeting in Watford in May) it might

This post came about as we have Roma gypsies camped out in Hyde Park, opposite the big hotels on Park Lane, having arrived on our

The Gordon Research Conference on the Origins of Solar Systems is due to meet from June 28-July 3 2015 at Mount Holyoke College in South

Willie Soon and Sally Baluinas upset the Green Blob some years ago by writing a peer reviewed article in a climate journal that claimed the

In 'The Scotsman' of 27th July 2014 prehistorians are on record as saying that discoveries made at the Ness of Brodgar on Orkney are more

The Wash is a geographical feature in case anyone reading this is not aware of UK topography. It adjoins the Fens, a vast tract of

At http://phys.org/print341045140.html ... evidence is said to exist that our galaxy could be a huge wormhole - but not everyone would agree (even physicists). The

At http://phys.org/print341136762.html ... cosmic magnetic fields is the subject here and something called 'Weibel filamentation instabilities' - a plasma instability present in homogenous, or nearly

At http://phys.org/print341155255.html ... the journal Science, January 23rd, has published four articles on the Rosetta Mission - so get down to WH Smith's. Mind you,

At www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2015-029 ... NASA writers are telling us that Comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko is gushing water vapour into space - and it has been increasing in volume.

This is an interesting one as uranium isotopes are used to date rocks and float the geochronological time span. The story is at http://phys.org/print340960522.html ...

Comet Lovejoy is currently visible in binoculars as a greenish blob approaching the Pleiades, east of Orion. We now have a second comet that has