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At http://phys.org/print350561270.html ... ocean acidification has been ruled out in the wake of the K/T boundary event (the end of Cretaceous extinction event). A paper

A fascinating bit of research at http://phys.org/print350566147.html ... Kelvin-Helmholz waves in the atmosphere form when high speed wind blows over more stagnant air masses. The

At www.bishop-hill.net/blog/2015/5/13/science-is-often-flawed.html ... is an interesting short piece on how science is too often venerated when it should be taken with a pinch of salt

At www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/wp/2015/05/05/scientis... .... at what is called the Space Weather Workshop which took place in Boulder, Colorado, sponsored by NOAA and NASA, there was a

On a high point of Dartmoor an undiscovered, until now, stone circle has been found and is being excavated - see www.guardian.co.uk/science/2015/may/11/highest-stone-circle-in-southern-... Archaeologists are over

Roughly where the city of St Louis is now situated, or not too far short, there was a major native American settlement with monumental architecture

At http://phys.org/print349947893.html ... past tectonic movement in Western Australia is being blamed for coral platforms left high and dry. Apparently, the thinking is that uplift

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