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At www.datasync.com/~rsf1/vel/1918.htm ... there is a discussion on the 1918 influenza epidemic, overshadowed as it was by WWI (which ended in the same year) and

Thunderbolts have a video of an interview with Rupert Sheldrake, author of 'Morphic Resonance' - go to www.youtube.com/watch?v=4henADqlFto which has the title, 'Are Humans Robots'

Current World Archaeology 67 also has an article on the Moche culture of coastal Peru. Interestingly, it mentions a century of climatic and societal turmoil

In Current World Archaeology 67 (Oct., 2014) - or go to www.world-archaeology.com ... there is an article by Tom Higham on Denisova Cave which famously

At face value this new paper at Astroparticle Physics 55 (2014) seems to be a case of circling the wagons, a sort of confirmation of

At www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2014/10/the-missing-link-between-inorganic... ... there is an interesting piece on peptides which are being touted as a sort of missing link between pre-biotic chemistry and the

At 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

October 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

At 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

Australian geologist Sam Carey, in the 1930s, explored the continental drift theory of Alfred Wegener, which in those days was regarded as junk science. Carey

Thunderbolts 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

At 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

Tim 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

At 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

At 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

The 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

Each volcanic eruption gives birth to a unique signature in the composition of the ash and in the glass shards that lodge within soil. Even

We 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 is the author of 'Decoding the Solar System' (2011), a retired Indian geologist. He has taken an especial interest in the geology of

There 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