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Solent archaeology washing away in the tides
23 November 2014 > ArchaeologyThe Mesolithic community discovered by a team of divers off Bouldnor Cliff on the Isle of Wight is being eroded away - by the actions
an environmentalist on the climate scam
22 November 2014 > Climate changeAt https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/doomed-planet/2014/11/climate-scams-melt... ... a marine biologist and environmentalist disagrees with the Green Blob - see also http://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2014/11/22/walter-starck-the-climate-scam... ..... which is lifted from Quadrant. An interesting

Plants fox co2 researchers
20 November 2014 > Climate changeSeveral stories on the recent finding that plants suck up lots of co2 and when the crops are grown and then cut a lot of

the big land slip in the big country
20 November 2014 > GeologyAt http://phys.org/print335611854.html ... and sent in by Gary, the same story is at www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2841829/The-largest-landslide-Earth Researchers-reveal-ground-really-did-Utah-21-million-years-ago-shifting 55-MILES-minutes-killing-path.html ... which has more pictures and a map that

The Sun and Lightning
20 November 2014 > AstronomyAt http://phys.org/print335609396.html ... we are told the Sun may be playing a part in the generation of lightning strikes on Earth by temporarily bending the
What Gravity did for us
20 November 2014 > AstronomyWe all know what the Romans did for us - they created the border between Scotland and England. What did gravity do for us? It

The humble shrew foxes climate change modellers
19 November 2014 > ArchaeologyThis story is at http://phys.org/print335546019.html ... a professor of geological science at the University of Oregon has said that the fossil record of five mammal

Dark Age foxes Climate Change modellers
19 November 2014 > ArchaeologyAt http://phys.org/print335450652.html ... and http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/11/17/climate-change-was-not-to-blame-fo... ... does not concern the end of the Bronze Age in the Aegean and Western Asia but concerns the end

Philae
19 November 2014 > AstronomyThe ROSETTA Mission that landed a 220lb probe, the Philae, on Comet Churyumov Gerasimenko was a remarkable engineering and technological feat by the ESA. It

Building Blocks of Life
15 November 2014 > BiologyMedia discussions on the Rosetta mission are fond of telling us that the probe on the comet is all about studying the origins of life

Oceanic Plates
15 November 2014 > GeologyAt http://phys.org/print335167915.html ... it is said that the continental margins on either side of the Atlantic Ocean are thinner than expected and a paper in

A summer palace in Siberia
15 November 2014 > ArchaeologyAt http://siberiantimes.com/science/casestudy/features/f0009-who-built-this... .... we lean that a palace complex on an island in a lake in southern Siberia dates back 1300 years. Known as Por-Bajin
What makes hail stones
15 November 2014 > AstronomyAt http://phys.org/print335198820.html ... hailstones in storms can for around biological material that is swept up and bounced around clouds. In the process they pick up

Red Spot on Jupiter
15 November 2014 > AstronomyInteresting link considering what has been alleged of the red spot in Velikovskian literature. At www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2014-391 ... Jupiter's red spot is not another Venus in
Roman era god in stone
15 November 2014 > ArchaeologyAt www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/11/141110083519.htm ... a Roman relief depicts an unknown deity at a sanctuary in Asia Minor....... It is five feet high and made from a

More on Kostenki
15 November 2014 > AnthropologyAt http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/11/141106-european-dna-foss... ... here is another post on the DNA extracted from a Palaeolithic European in Russia and clarifies the findings more transparently than earlier
Bolide Events 1994-2013
15 November 2014 > AstronomyNASA released the map below that reveals that small asteroids frequently enter and disintegrate in the Earth's atmosphere with a random distribution around the world.

Comet behaving like a comet
11 November 2014 > AstronomyAt www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2014/11/mars-once-in-a-million-years-comet... ... is another report on the NASA release on Comet Siding Spring from data produced by their MAVEN mission to Mars. Debris from

galactic corpses
8 November 2014 > AstronomyAt http://phys.org/print334486790.html ... we learn there is a mystery at the heart of our galaxy, the Milky Way. It has lots of gas, dust, and

Frozen Bison
8 November 2014 > ArchaeologyAt www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2014-11/sovp-c9y102714.php ... a steppe bison has been found in eastern Siberia, in a frozen state. It is almost intact and has a complete brain,