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Vikings and Slavs

4 December 2014 > Archaeology
Member Gary Gilligan sent in an interesting link to put up - go to www.ancient-origins.net/history/headless-vikings-dorset-002382 ... which is in fact a story that was at
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Benny Peiser

3 December 2014 > Climate change
Benny Peiser is a former council member of SIS and organised the SIS second Cambridge Conference (1997) which was perhaps the apogee of our achievements,
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A firewall in space

2 December 2014 > Astronomy
At http://phys.org/print336218352.html ... an invisible shield 7200 miles above the surface of the Earth appears to block dangerous electrons - a sort of protection from
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Antikythera Mechanism

2 December 2014 > Archaeology
At www.pugetsound.edu/news-and-events/campus-news/details/1345/ ... the ancient Greek Antikythera Mechanism, known as the world's first computer, salvaged from an ancient ship wreck, may be older than scientists
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Steve Mitchell vindicated by Irish sea level changes in post Roman period

2 December 2014 > Archaeology
At www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/antlers-and-horse-bones-datin... .... red deer antlers shed by young animals and horse bones dating back to between 430 and 548AD appear to suggest pagan practises
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Siding Spring update

2 December 2014 > Astronomy
At http://phys.org/print336388496.html ... the approach of comet Siding Spring to the planet Mars a few weeks ago has now been updated by including images and
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Ice Cores

2 December 2014 > Geology
Some interesting ideas on the ice cores. Are the mainstream dates acceptable because they fit into the uniformitarian model as they appear to rely on
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Bees

27 November 2014 > Climate change
Polar Bears have been out of it recently - or mostly so. They are in fact thriving. However, environmentalists have found something else to latch
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Milton Zysman

26 November 2014 > Catastrophism
Milton Zysman, when discussing extinction events, said that around 30,000 years ago (please note modern calculations are anything between 40,000 and 30,000 years ago) the
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Baker's Hole

24 November 2014 > Geology
Baker's Hole at Ebbsfleet in Kent is an old chalk quarry situated next to a big railway station on HS1 and contains sediments going 250,000
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Rosetta Update

24 November 2014 > Astronomy
At http://phys.org/print335689483.html ... the spacecraft is still orbiting the comet but is not in contact with the probe. However, it is able to continue with

A boulder that was swallowed by a lot of clay

24 November 2014 > Geology
At http://phys.org/print335727974.html ... builders in Everett, Washington State, came across the boulder 30 feet beneath the ground - a rather large pebble   It is
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Tibet

24 November 2014 > Archaeology
Humans have been present on the high Tibetan plateau for at least 20,000 years and permanent villages have been there since 3200BC. Solid evidence of
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vitrified forts in Scotland

23 November 2014 > Archaeology
Euan Mackie in an article, 'Can European Prehistory Detect Large Scale Natural Disasters?' came up with an interesting solution to the mystery of the vitrified
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Solent archaeology washing away in the tides

23 November 2014 > Archaeology
The Mesolithic community discovered by a team of divers off Bouldnor Cliff on the Isle of Wight is being eroded away - by the actions

an environmentalist on the climate scam

22 November 2014 > Climate change
At https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/doomed-planet/2014/11/climate-scams-melt... ... a marine biologist and environmentalist disagrees with the Green Blob - see also http://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2014/11/22/walter-starck-the-climate-scam... ..... which is lifted from Quadrant. An interesting
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Plants fox co2 researchers

20 November 2014 > Climate change
Several stories on the recent finding that plants suck up lots of co2 and when the crops are grown and then cut a lot of
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the big land slip in the big country

20 November 2014 > Geology
At http://phys.org/print335611854.html ... and sent in by Gary, the same story is at www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2841829/The-largest-landslide-Earth Researchers-reveal-ground-really-did-Utah-21-million-years-ago-shifting 55-MILES-minutes-killing-path.html ... which has more pictures and a map that
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The Sun and Lightning

20 November 2014 > Astronomy
At http://phys.org/print335609396.html ... we are told the Sun may be playing a part in the generation of lightning strikes on Earth by temporarily bending the

What Gravity did for us

20 November 2014 > Astronomy
We all know what the Romans did for us - they created the border between Scotland and England. What did gravity do for us? It
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