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milking ways
18 January 2015 > ArchaeologyAt 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

Middle Palaeolithic Africa
18 January 2015 > ArchaeologyAt 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

plankton blooms
18 January 2015 > Climate changeAt 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 > ArchaeologyAt 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

Mirror on the Past
16 January 2015 > ArchaeologyAt 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

Catastrophe at 6150BC
16 January 2015 > CatastrophismAt 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,

Dust and Comets
15 January 2015 > AstronomyAt 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

Trick and Treat
15 January 2015 > Climate changeAt the English language German blog of Pierre Gosselin another scale falls from the eye. Yes, a bit of a humdinger this one - broken

Rocking around the World
14 January 2015 > AstronomyOn 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 > GeologyAt 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

The Seychelles Enigma
12 January 2015 > GeologyDuring the last interglacial, herewith dated 125,000 years ago average global temperatures, it is said, were not a lot different than today - yet large

Converting sunlight into electricity
12 January 2015 > Climate changeThis 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

2300BC and maize migration
12 January 2015 > ArchaeologyAt 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

Booming over Oklahoma
12 January 2015 > AstronomyAt 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

Lovejoy and Magnetic Storm
12 January 2015 > AstronomyAt 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

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

Black Osiris
7 January 2015 > ArchaeologyAt 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

Dinosaur remains on the Isle of Wight
7 January 2015 > GeologyAQt 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