In the News

Sophisticated technology fails - human acumen wins out. Perhaps the technology is not sophisticated enough - and with geophysics that is probably a fact. These

At http://news.sciencemag.org/archaeology/2014/08/strange-history-north-ame... ... it seems archaeologists are trying to make sense of various Arctic migration patterns across the top of N America. We are told,

At http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.co.uk/2014/08/ani-ruins-reveal-hi... ... we have some nice pictures of Ani, an ancient 5000 year old Armenian settlement. At a recent symposium historian Sezai Yazici said

At http://phys.org/print328513988.html ... artifacts from a very early period of human activity have been found - Clovis and Pre-Clovis. The deciding factor will in the

I was sure there had been a pre-publication version of this paper in the Journal of Geology but I can't find it now. Another paper

At http://phys.org/print328538416.html ... the space dust in question was collected by NASAs Stardust mission in 2006, microscopic particles captured from the vicinity of a comet.

At http://malagabay.wordpress.com/2014/08/29/dendrochronology-the-mad-carbo... .. Tim Cullen gives an opinion on the process involved where the C14 model was wedded to the bristlecone pine dendrochronology, an odd

Jennifer Marohasy appears to be on full song and has informed her email subscribers of more stations in distress status, in Australia. These have had

Why did people fix stone tips on spears and arrows? Good question. What was the advantage over sharpened wood? South African researchers have been experimenting

At www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2014/08/vast-streams-of-gravel-detected-in... ... which almost sounds Velikovskyesque. The NSF Green Bank Telescope has detected pebble sized gravels amongst dust grains near the Orion Nebula. However,

At http://phys.org/print328339018.html ... it did occur to me this might be a spoof - but assuming it is genuine, we are told that 10 million

Zoroastrianism is a very interesting faith as it involved fire temples - and apocalyptic ideas. It was the state religion of ancient Persia and ruthlessly

Meteorologist Joe Bastardi has consistently argued against CAGW over the years as he has a method of including weather patterns in the past of determining

I came across this post during a Smithsonian alert - go to www.smithsonianmag.com/history/what-lies-beneath-Stonehenge.html ... and it seems the author of the piece was on a

Not a great deal if you go to www.spaceweather.com (August 24th). It describes an explosion in the magnetic canopy of an emerging sun spot, AR2

The headline to this was decided because at the end of the piece he has a picture of Velikovsky's book jacket, Mankind in Amnesia. Andrew

Tim Cullen appears to continue to be impressed by Gunnar Heinsohn's articles at www.q-mag.org (and another one has been posted over the last couple of

At http://phys.org/print327822387.html ... we have a picture of Jupiter cut open in an attempt to explain why its magnetic field is similar to that of

At http://phys.org/print327833513.html ... one of the big stories this week was the claim by the Russian news agency ITAR-TASS  that cosmonauts have discovered sea plankton

In mainstream geology the Carboniferous (coal beds) were laid down 300 million years ago. At that time most of the ocean floor did not exist.