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milking ways

18 January 2015 > Archaeology
At http://phys.org/print340626087.html ... milking cows has been going on in Ireland for 6000 years. Traces of dairy fats have been discovered on pottery dating from
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Middle Palaeolithic Africa

18 January 2015 > Archaeology
At http://chauvetdreams.co.uk/2014/07/70000-year-old-african-settlement-une... .... it seems, not just Neanderthals were being underestimated but Middle Palaeolithic people in Africa as well. People were living in a village
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plankton blooms

18 January 2015 > Climate change
At http://phys.org/print340618543.html ... the accepted theory on what causes plankton blooms is under attack by a marine botanist. Currently, a phyto plankton hot spot in

not much to choose between them after all

16 January 2015 > Archaeology
At www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-01/uom-ydd011415.php ... it seems there is less and less, and even less to distinguish between Neanderthal craftsmanship and cognizant ability, and those of modern
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Mirror on the Past

16 January 2015 > Archaeology
At http://westerndigs.org/mesoamerican-fools-gold-mirrors-found-in-arizona-... ... a link between Arizona and central Mexico in pre colonial times has been established by various artefacts. The latest exmaples are some
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Catastrophe at 6150BC

16 January 2015 > Catastrophism
At www.q-mag.org/moss-betrays-the-season-of-the-storegga-event/ ... which is the well known Storegga tsunami that was triggered by a submarine landslide in the upper portion of the North Sea,
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Dust and Comets

15 January 2015 > Astronomy
At http://phys.org/print340359127.html ... we learn that the Rosetta Mission to Comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko, otherwise known as 67P, has been displaying evidence of multiple jets of dust
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Trick and Treat

15 January 2015 > Climate change
At the English language German blog of Pierre Gosselin another scale falls from the eye. Yes, a bit of a humdinger this one - broken
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Rocking around the World

14 January 2015 > Astronomy
On January 26th an asteroid will pass within 3 times the distance of the Earth from the Moon - not exactly a close shave (see

Lakes in the Sahara

12 January 2015 > Geology
At http://phys.org/print339925008.html ... we have a fascinating story, rock art that depicts people swimming (a sort of dog paddle) - in one of the dryest
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The Seychelles Enigma

12 January 2015 > Geology
During the last interglacial, herewith dated 125,000 years ago average global temperatures, it is said, were not a lot different than today - yet large
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Converting sunlight into electricity

12 January 2015 > Climate change
This story is at www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/12/141207091648.htm ... and is about advances made in solar panels in Australia. It involves focussed sunlight. This will make the photo
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2300BC and maize migration

12 January 2015 > Archaeology
At www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/01/150108084903.htm ... we learn that maize was domesticated from wild teosinte grasses in southern Mexico and can be tracked into the American SW, using

Uganda Rock Art

12 January 2015 > Archaeology
  At http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/unmasking-ugandas-r... ... rock art in Uganda, dating, it is thought, between 3000BC and 400AD (or thereabouts) appear to be the product of herding
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Booming over Oklahoma

12 January 2015 > Astronomy
At http://phys.org/print340055912.html ... a number of mysterious booms have been heard in central Oklahoma - sounding much like sonic booms rather than anything under the
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Lovejoy and Magnetic Storm

12 January 2015 > Astronomy
At http://spaceweather.com Friday January 9th (2014) it is suggested a magnetic storm hit Comet Lovejoy as activity seems to be ocurring in the blue ion
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The homogenisation of homogenised data

8 January 2015 > Climate change
This is a post that explains homogenisation of temperature data so well, it almost blurts out of the page. Very often climate scientists pop up
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Black Osiris

7 January 2015 > Archaeology
At www.dailymail.co.uk/science-tech/article-2900324/Egyptian-god-s-tomb-dis... .... a purposely blackened tomb has been found in Egypt. The Daily Mail supplies some useful pictures and drawings. It was apparently dedicated

What a Beauty

7 January 2015 > Astronomy
      What a beauty. Comet Lovejoy. The image is at http://spaceweather.com, January 7th - there is also a comet photo gallery to browse. Lovejoy is
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Dinosaur remains on the Isle of Wight

7 January 2015 > Geology
AQt http://phys.org/print339753649.html ... fossils from the Early Cretaceous period can be found in some parts of the Isle of Wight - the age of the
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