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Stretching the Dark Age
10 October 2014 > DatingAt www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2014-10/uob-gba100914.php ... the Greek Bronze Age ended 100 years earlier than thought according to a Bayesian averaging of C14 dates undertaken in a recent

Rendevous at the vicinity of Mars
10 October 2014 > AstronomyOctober 19th, one week from now and Comet Siding Spring will pass closely to Mars. NASA is prepared - go to http://phys.org/print332086289.html The comet will

African technology
7 October 2014 > Inside scienceAt http://phys.org/print331792615.html ... a post on a professor from Zimbabwe, Clapperton Chatanetsa Mavhunga (I like his Christian name, presumably from a missionary or somebody the

Sam Carey
7 October 2014 > GeologyAustralian geologist Sam Carey, in the 1930s, explored the continental drift theory of Alfred Wegener, which in those days was regarded as junk science. Carey
Patten on Ionic Rain
7 October 2014 > ElectromagnetismThunderbolts for October 6th is 'I'm singeing in the rain' and is about charged water molecules interacting with Saturn's ionosphere - ionic rain from Saturn's

Cracks in the Earth's Surface
7 October 2014 > GeologyAt http://terracycles.com/joomla/sections/5-earth/36-expandingearthjune2012 ... in Ethiopian a large crack opened up in the crust of the Earth in just a few days in 2005. At the

Fluid Dynamics
7 October 2014 > PhysicsTim Cullen is turning his attention to fluid dynamics but not sure what the end result will be - go to http://malagabay.wordpress.com/2014/10/03/couette-flow-1-viscosity/ ... which may

small galaxies and dark matter
7 October 2014 > AstronomyAt www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2014/10/-tiny-fossil-galaxies-of-first-sta... ... is an article on the discovery of a couple of very small galaxies in the vicinity of the Milky Way that appear

Bolides over Southern Europe
7 October 2014 > AstronomyAt www.q-mag.org/anne-marie-de-grazia-my-encounter-with-a-bolide.html ... she describes the coincidence of a bolide lighting up the night sky at roughly the same time as a Near Earth asteroid

Velikovsky and the Greenhouse Theory
7 October 2014 > Climate changeThe title of this blog post caught my eye - 'Velikovsky and the Weather' - go to http://geoffchambers.wordpress.com/2014/10/07/velikovsky-and-the-weather/ Chambers is a refreshing type of global

Volcanic Fingerprints
7 October 2014 > DatingEach volcanic eruption gives birth to a unique signature in the composition of the ash and in the glass shards that lodge within soil. Even

Birkeland Currents
7 October 2014 > ElectromagnetismWe are used to reading about Birkeland Currents at Thunderbolts and the various plasma based web sites but they are now part of mainstream -

Subhasis Sen
5 October 2014 > GeologySubhasis Sen is the author of 'Decoding the Solar System' (2011), a retired Indian geologist. He has taken an especial interest in the geology of

Mount St Helens and Catastrophism
4 October 2014 > GeologyThere is an illuminating article at www.icr.org/article/mount-st-helens-catastrophism/ ... which shows quite clearly that sedimentary geology can be laid down very quickly and this contradicts the

Expanding Earth versus Plate Tectonics
4 October 2014 > GeologyAt http://expansion.geologist-1011.net/ ... the expanding earth theory is discussed from the perspective of a mainstream geologist. He begins by noting the expanding earth theory relies

Palaeomagnetism
4 October 2014 > ElectromagnetismAt http://palaeomagnetism.geologist-1011.net/ ... there is an interesting debate on magnetic reversals in Earth history. He concludes by saying the causes of magnetic reversals remian unclear

co2 bubbles in the ocean
4 October 2014 > Climate changeAnthony Watts adds the thought - one wonders how many of these newly found thousands of volcanic sea mounts are producing co2 that bubbles into

SIS Forum
3 October 2014 > AstronomyThere are at least four posts on the Forum at this site in which nobody has responded to, even though the subject matter is very

Volcanic Sea Mounts
3 October 2014 > GeologyAt http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/10/02/one-wonders-how-many-of-these-newl... ... scientists have created a map of the world's sea floor using satellite data. Thousands of previously uncharted mountains can be seen rising

The news splash that went squish
3 October 2014 > AstronomyAt http://phys.org/print331284112.html ... the claim that gravitational waves from shortly after the Big Bang had been detected has turned out to be a dud squib.