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one arm of mainstream might be waking up
25 October 2014 > Climate changeIt seems that some scattered sections of mainstream media is just about waking up to the scale of the money awash in the great global
October Comets
23 October 2014 > AstronomyIt is unclear if anything dramatic happened when Comet Siding Spring came within 87,000 miles of Mars. It seems the ion tail did not sweep

Skeptical about Skeptics
23 October 2014 > Inside scienceAmerican spelling above derives from a new web site at www.skepticalaboutskeptics.org which has been set up to try and counter so called sceptics. As noted

sun spot the size of Jupiter
23 October 2014 > AstronomyAt http://spaceweather.com (scroll down to October 22nd) is reporting on a sun spot that is reputed to be as big as the planet Jupiter -

Pucuncho
23 October 2014 > ArchaeologyAt http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/10/141023-paleo-indians-mig... ... early Americans were in a remote oasis high in the Andes, 14,000 feet above sea level, as recently as 12,800 years ago.

Karakorum glaciers
22 October 2014 > Climate changeAt http://phys.org/print332409057.html ... a computer simulation has been used to try and explain why glaciers in the Karakorum are not melting - the paper can

Ness of Brodgar and the Big Cow
18 October 2014 > ArchaeologyAt www.popular-archaeology.com/issue/fall-09012014/article/archaeologists-m... ... namely, they have dug up the remains of an aurochs, a prehistoric ancestor of modern cattle which roamed in the wild across
Comets and Meteors
18 October 2014 > AstronomyMore down to Earth but up in the sky, go to http://spaceweather.com October 17th looks forwards to Sunday when the green comet (below) approaches Mars

a crack in N America, some Australian volcanoes, and an ancient mountain formation that has disappeared into dust, apart from the roots (a bit like a broken tooth).
18 October 2014 > GeologyAt http://phys.org/print332685617.html ... there is apparently a mid continent Rift across the Mid West, some 2000 miles in length, running from Lake Superior south as

Dust Bowl, Miocene oddity
17 October 2014 > Climate changeAt http://phys.org/print332601657.html ... the discussion here is the dust bowl of the 1930s - a period where temperatures matched those of the 1990s. It was

Bermuda Triangle
17 October 2014 > GeologyWe haven't heard a lot from this bit of alarmism for awhile but www.livescience.com/48290-siberian-holes-bermuda-triangle-mystery.html ... where it seems several mysterious craters that have mysteriously appeared

lampreys, bird eggs, and bird brains.
15 October 2014 > BiologyAt http://phys.org/print332490446.html ... lamprey larva are soft and small and are rarely fossilised. Lampreys themselves are also rarely fossilised because they do not have a

Volcanoes on the Moon in the time of the dinosaurs
15 October 2014 > GeologyAt www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2014/10/ ... scroll down to October 14th - where to start we have black holes - do they eject matter or does matter fall

Heracleion
15 October 2014 > ArchaeologyExcellent programme on BBC2 last night, the 15th of October, on the discovery of Heracleion in the delta zone of Egypt, at the head of

influenza 1918
12 October 2014 > BiologyAt www.datasync.com/~rsf1/vel/1918.htm ... there is a discussion on the 1918 influenza epidemic, overshadowed as it was by WWI (which ended in the same year) and

Rupert Sheldrake
12 October 2014 > ElectromagnetismThunderbolts have a video of an interview with Rupert Sheldrake, author of 'Morphic Resonance' - go to www.youtube.com/watch?v=4henADqlFto which has the title, 'Are Humans Robots'

Moche
11 October 2014 > ArchaeologyCurrent World Archaeology 67 also has an article on the Moche culture of coastal Peru. Interestingly, it mentions a century of climatic and societal turmoil

The femur bone that caused a ripple
11 October 2014 > ArchaeologyIn Current World Archaeology 67 (Oct., 2014) - or go to www.world-archaeology.com ... there is an article by Tom Higham on Denisova Cave which famously

radioactive decay rates
11 October 2014 > DatingAt face value this new paper at Astroparticle Physics 55 (2014) seems to be a case of circling the wagons, a sort of confirmation of

Life
11 October 2014 > BiologyAt www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2014/10/the-missing-link-between-inorganic... ... there is an interesting piece on peptides which are being touted as a sort of missing link between pre-biotic chemistry and the