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The power point presentation of Bob Johnson's talk at the AGM has provoked a couple of responses. One of them is a link to www.sciencealert.com/boeing-has-patented-a-plasma-force-field-to-protect...

Here we have evidence of tectonic forces difficult to imagine, dinosaur tracks, 462 trails of over 5000 prints, found on a verticle slab of limestone

At http://phys.org/print348473351.html ... NASAs Chandra X-ray Observatory is thought to have witnessed a white dwarf star rip apart a planet which came too close. The

George Dodwell's name keeps cropping up recently, on the Internet. He crops up every now and again at SIS. It's difficult to know how much

At http://phys.org/print349445582.html ... is about the coronol heating theory. Something is going on in the atmosphere of the Sun - but what. Nano flares in

Bob Johnson's power point presentation is now on Anthony Watts blog - see http://wattsupwiththat.com/2015/04/30/how-plasma-connects-the-sun-to-the... ... but if you want to know what other people think

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