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The Eric Aitchison email thread on chronology was sent a link to http://ajw.asahi.com/article/behind_news/social_affairs/AJ201504250044 ... by Johnny Godowski, who likes all things unusual, and concerns the

At http://phys.org/print349406787.html ... we learn that the recent earthquake in Nepal which badly affected Katmandu that seismological data (using sound waves which travel through the

For those unable to attend our AGM and Spring meeting they missed a real treat. Both talks were excellent and videos of them will be

The New York Times of February 17th 2015 had a piece on Jurassic mammals. It said that scientists once thought the only mammals that existed

The New York Times, March 11th (sent in by a US member) had a short piece on DNA studies of the Armenian people of the

Meanwhile, we had comets and meteor dust in AD536 - and now we have a catastrophic end to the Late Bronze Age. The article is

I've already done this story but it has popped up again as New Scientist is offering it as a free to download article in order

At www.space.com/29067-chiron-centaur-asteroid-comet-rings.html ... astronomers have spotted rings around the huge space rock Chiron. For the possible significance of this asteroid see Clube and Napier -

At http://phys.org/print348212853.html ... we learn that magnetic field data collected by the Philae lander and transferred back to Rosetta shows the comet itself is not

At www.culture24.org.uk/history-and-heritage/archaeology/art523965-archaeol... ... and see also www.oxfordarchaeology.com/news/oaeast-news/369-archaeologists-uncover-ol... ... during a pre-construction survey of a pipeline project in Essex archaeologists came across cremated (burnt) bones dating

At http://phys.org/print348319050.html ... some upside down thinking has been set the right way up as a result of field studies conducted by Cardiff University. Icebergs

At http://phys.org/print348140840.html ... a rib tickler from climate change troughers feeding on the public teat that was predictably broadcast loud and clear by the BBC

At www.ncgt.org/newsletter.php ... click on the issue, March 2011 (and have another look at that date, 2011 - not 2015) and scroll down to page

At https://malagabay.wordpress.com/2015/02/18/carver-mead-coherent-science/ ... in this post Tim Cullen is something in awe of a scientist. Carver Mead is something special though as he has an

Tim Cullen again, at his scintillating best, cutting a swathe through the settled science paradigm - and this time it is Brownian motion (all the

Another piece of settled science bashing from the baneful keyboard of Tim Cullen at https://malagabay.wordpress.com/2015/03/29/the-society-for-the-detection... ... the missing world, in this instance, being an object

William Thompson and Donald Billings, 'Observations Bearing on the Kippenhahn-Schluter Quiescent Prominence Model' (1967) Astrophysical Journal volume 149 page 269-273 - see http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1967Apj...149..269T/0000270.000.... ... William

Peter M James second article at www.ncgt.org/newsletter.php (March issue, page 87-98) is interesting but we need to bear in mind he is not an archaeologist

At www.ncgt.org/newsletter.php ... click on the March 2015 issue and scroll down to page 98, near the bottom. Mikhal Kovalyov and S Kovalyov published a

At www.ncgt.org/newsletter.php ... click on the March issue at the top and scroll down to page 98. RT Cahill of Flinders University in Adelaide published