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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

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,

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

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

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

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

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

Polar Bears have been out of it recently - or mostly so. They are in fact thriving. However, environmentalists have found something else to latch

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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