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Stonehenge axe symbols

19 December 2014 > Archaeology
This is an old post but worth looking at again. At www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/revealed-early-bronze-age... ... is about a laser scan of some of the sarsens that revealed
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typhoon capers

19 December 2014 > Catastrophism
At www.sciencenews.org/article/super-typhoon-shoved-supersized-boulder ... we learn that the devastating typhoon that struck the Philippines in November of last year (2013)was so powerful a wave pushed a
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It's 'not' an icy snowball

19 December 2014 > Astronomy
At www.sciencenews.org/article/rosetta-may-have-spotted-comet's-primordial-... ... the rugged terrain of Comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko was the subject of a talk at the 2014 AGU annual meeting in San Francisco (December,
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Bankrupting Physics

18 December 2014 > Physics
A book is now available, 'Bankrupting Physics: how today's top scientists are gambling away scientific credibility' and is written by Alexander Unzicker and Shiella Jones.
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Space Waves

18 December 2014 > Astronomy
NASA, on 16th December, in a news release, said that the Voyager 1 spacecraft, at the edge of the solar system, had experienced three shock
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Teotihuacan

18 December 2014 > Archaeology
The pyramids of Teotihuacan, located just outside modern Mexico City, is a vast complex that was abandoned for over 1000 years when the Aztecs migrated

Asteroids and Meteors

18 December 2014 > Astronomy
At http://phys.org/print338024091.html ... below is an image of cliffs on Comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko, processed by one Stuart Atkinson. The cliff is nearly verticle    See also
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Fountains of the Deep

18 December 2014 > Geology
At http://phys.org/print338021988.html ... hydrogen rich waters have been discovered deep underground in different locations around the world - including Canada, South Africa and Scandinavia. This
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Stratospheric Warming bring Snow to Somewhere near You

14 December 2014 > Electromagnetism
Tim Cullen at http://malagabay.wordpress.com/2014/12/13/a-christmas-recipe-for-snow/ ... makes the point the Sudden Stratospheric Warming events show that the polar vortex is an electro magnetic phenomenon in that
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67P and counting

14 December 2014 > Astronomy
Comet Churyumov Gerasimenko, known also as 67P, is almost as black as coal - but images show it as grey - see http://phys.org/print337631011.html ... This
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Back to Front

14 December 2014 > Catastrophism
At http://phys.org/print337590873.html ... a group of geologists from MIT and further afield claim there was a major volcanic eruption just prior to the asteroid strike
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Light without the Sun

12 December 2014 > Catastrophism
At www.GenesisFile.com ... there is, according to a recently received email suggesting we might take a look at the site, there is a presentation of
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Hopewell demise - 400AD

12 December 2014 > Archaeology
In the Journal of Archaeological Science (December 2014) there is an article on blades and flints from the Hopewell Culture (Ohio, Missouri, Tennesee) - see
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Rosetta, are you wetter

12 December 2014 > Astronomy
At http://blogs.esa.int/rosetta/2014/11/07/virtis-detects-water-and-carbon-... ... as the data is being processed and we may have to wait a while for sound evidence it is worth going back
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Greenland Ice Sheet

12 December 2014 > Dating
Tim Cullen has come up with two more posts on how the ice cores were calculated - which will not please the defenders of the
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The Axis Age

8 December 2014 > Ancient history
Michael Wood, in BBC History magazine (Christmas issue 2014) writes from China - and specifically, from the birth place of Confucius. In East Asia the
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The 2300BC event hits Orkney

8 December 2014 > Archaeology
At http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2014/08/neolithic-orkney/smith-text ... the temple complex at the Ness of Brodgar was built around 3000BC but only some 10 per cent of stone buildings at
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It's a Hoot

6 December 2014 > Climate change
Humour is a useful tool, especially when outnumbered. At http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/12/05/friday-funny-over-a-centurys-worth... ... this is a guest post (not by Anthony) and is mostly a light hearted
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Another vindication of Steve Mitchell

4 December 2014 > Archaeology
The relevant article is in Current Archaeology 298. It is currently on sale in Smiths over the Christmas period, and no doubt some other newsagents.

Climate Weirding and Shifting Sands

4 December 2014 > Archaeology
Weirding of the weather aka 1952. In a BBC news report from deepest Shropshire we learn of the uncovering of 27 cottages that were destroyed
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