In the News

Tim Cullen at http://malagabay.wordpress.com/2014/12/13/a-christmas-recipe-for-snow/ ... makes the point the Sudden Stratospheric Warming events show that the polar vortex is an electro magnetic phenomenon in that

Comet Churyumov Gerasimenko, known also as 67P, is almost as black as coal - but images show it as grey - see http://phys.org/print337631011.html ... This

At http://phys.org/print337590873.html ... a group of geologists from MIT and further afield claim there was a major volcanic eruption just prior to the asteroid strike

At www.GenesisFile.com ... there is, according to a recently received email suggesting we might take a look at the site, there is a presentation of

In the Journal of Archaeological Science (December 2014) there is an article on blades and flints from the Hopewell Culture (Ohio, Missouri, Tennesee) - see

At http://blogs.esa.int/rosetta/2014/11/07/virtis-detects-water-and-carbon-... ... as the data is being processed and we may have to wait a while for sound evidence it is worth going back

Tim Cullen has come up with two more posts on how the ice cores were calculated - which will not please the defenders of the

Michael Wood, in BBC History magazine (Christmas issue 2014) writes from China - and specifically, from the birth place of Confucius. In East Asia the

At http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2014/08/neolithic-orkney/smith-text ... the temple complex at the Ness of Brodgar was built around 3000BC but only some 10 per cent of stone buildings at

Humour is a useful tool, especially when outnumbered. At http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/12/05/friday-funny-over-a-centurys-worth... ... this is a guest post (not by Anthony) and is mostly a light hearted

The relevant article is in Current Archaeology 298. It is currently on sale in Smiths over the Christmas period, and no doubt some other newsagents.

Weirding of the weather aka 1952. In a BBC news report from deepest Shropshire we learn of the uncovering of 27 cottages that were destroyed

Member Gary Gilligan sent in an interesting link to put up - go to www.ancient-origins.net/history/headless-vikings-dorset-002382 ... which is in fact a story that was at

Benny Peiser is a former council member of SIS and organised the SIS second Cambridge Conference (1997) which was perhaps the apogee of our achievements,

At http://phys.org/print336218352.html ... an invisible shield 7200 miles above the surface of the Earth appears to block dangerous electrons - a sort of protection from

At www.pugetsound.edu/news-and-events/campus-news/details/1345/ ... the ancient Greek Antikythera Mechanism, known as the world's first computer, salvaged from an ancient ship wreck, may be older than scientists

At www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/antlers-and-horse-bones-datin... .... red deer antlers shed by young animals and horse bones dating back to between 430 and 548AD appear to suggest pagan practises

At http://phys.org/print336388496.html ... the approach of comet Siding Spring to the planet Mars a few weeks ago has now been updated by including images and

Some interesting ideas on the ice cores. Are the mainstream dates acceptable because they fit into the uniformitarian model as they appear to rely on

Polar Bears have been out of it recently - or mostly so. They are in fact thriving. However, environmentalists have found something else to latch