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As the weather warms up towards our spring meeting and the visit of Piers Corbyn (see next SIS meeting in Watford in May) it might

This post came about as we have Roma gypsies camped out in Hyde Park, opposite the big hotels on Park Lane, having arrived on our

The Gordon Research Conference on the Origins of Solar Systems is due to meet from June 28-July 3 2015 at Mount Holyoke College in South

Willie Soon and Sally Baluinas upset the Green Blob some years ago by writing a peer reviewed article in a climate journal that claimed the

In 'The Scotsman' of 27th July 2014 prehistorians are on record as saying that discoveries made at the Ness of Brodgar on Orkney are more

The Wash is a geographical feature in case anyone reading this is not aware of UK topography. It adjoins the Fens, a vast tract of

At http://phys.org/print341045140.html ... evidence is said to exist that our galaxy could be a huge wormhole - but not everyone would agree (even physicists). The

At http://phys.org/print341136762.html ... cosmic magnetic fields is the subject here and something called 'Weibel filamentation instabilities' - a plasma instability present in homogenous, or nearly

At http://phys.org/print341155255.html ... the journal Science, January 23rd, has published four articles on the Rosetta Mission - so get down to WH Smith's. Mind you,

At www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2015-029 ... NASA writers are telling us that Comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko is gushing water vapour into space - and it has been increasing in volume.

This is an interesting one as uranium isotopes are used to date rocks and float the geochronological time span. The story is at http://phys.org/print340960522.html ...

Comet Lovejoy is currently visible in binoculars as a greenish blob approaching the Pleiades, east of Orion. We now have a second comet that has

At http://phys.org/print340626087.html ... milking cows has been going on in Ireland for 6000 years. Traces of dairy fats have been discovered on pottery dating from

At http://chauvetdreams.co.uk/2014/07/70000-year-old-african-settlement-une... .... it seems, not just Neanderthals were being underestimated but Middle Palaeolithic people in Africa as well. People were living in a village

At http://phys.org/print340618543.html ... the accepted theory on what causes plankton blooms is under attack by a marine botanist. Currently, a phyto plankton hot spot in

At www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-01/uom-ydd011415.php ... it seems there is less and less, and even less to distinguish between Neanderthal craftsmanship and cognizant ability, and those of modern

At http://westerndigs.org/mesoamerican-fools-gold-mirrors-found-in-arizona-... ... a link between Arizona and central Mexico in pre colonial times has been established by various artefacts. The latest exmaples are some

At www.q-mag.org/moss-betrays-the-season-of-the-storegga-event/ ... which is the well known Storegga tsunami that was triggered by a submarine landslide in the upper portion of the North Sea,

At http://phys.org/print340359127.html ... we learn that the Rosetta Mission to Comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko, otherwise known as 67P, has been displaying evidence of multiple jets of dust

At the English language German blog of Pierre Gosselin another scale falls from the eye. Yes, a bit of a humdinger this one - broken