In the News

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.

In Dinosaurs and the Expanding Earth Stephen Hurrell (One Off Publishing) claims he was intrigued by the fact that dinosaurs were often massive - but

Gary Gilligan sent in the following link - www.acs.org/content/acs/en/pressroom/newsreleases/2014/august/dust-and-t... ... and the title describes the contents at the link. Dust in the atmosphere can influence

At http://phys.org/print326994700.html ... we have an interesting story sent in by member William Thompson. He was fascinated by the fact there is actually a conflict

Humans living in North Africa, including what is now the Sahara desert, are thought to have been at the vanguard of the Out of Africa

At http://heritageofjapan.wordpress.com there are several interesting new postings, a flurry of activity after a long quiet period. One, 'Study reveals DNA link between ancient Peruvians

At http://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2014/08/16/satellite-mission-on-high-atmo... ... is due to launch in 2015 and a web site in English is scheduled to record what it finds. The satellite is

At www.q-mag.org/cyprus-salt-lakes-exonerate-peoples-of-the-sea-causing-the... ... there is a post taken from a 2012 article (a link to the pdf version is provided) which revolves around salt lakes

Gunnar Heinsohn and Trevor Palmer are currently locked into a debate that mainly centres around the conventional version of Roman history. Palmer is on the

At http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.co.uk/2014/08/discovery-suggests-... ... a set of tusks in a museum, once attached to a mastodon skull that was thrown overboard, ended up in the nets

At http://phys.org/print327069680.html ... comet Siding Spring, the other comet of interest this autumn, will pass by Mars in October, just 132,000km away - which is

A magnetic filament winding down the face of the Sun has been compared to a canyon of fire at www.spaceweather.com August 17th. It appeared two

Victor Clube has an article in SIS Review V:4, 'Cometary Catastrophes and the ideas of Immanuel Velikovsky' and whilst admitting the Clube and Napier theory

Henry Hoyle Howorth, The Glacial Nightmare and the Flood, ISBN 9781154091298, General Books of Memphis Tennesee (2012). This is a 19th century book that has

Bones of aurochs have been found in plentiful quantities at Blick Mead (as reported a couple of weeks ago). This site was used for a

Steve Mitchell, in an article in SIS Review claimed Anglo Saxon Londinwec was situated further up the Thames terracing than it was during the Roman

It seems the late Alfred de Grazia anticipated the chronological impasse that has gripped some of our revisionist brethren of late. In SIS Review V:3

I did some earlier posts on Rhodes Fairbridge and the barycentre of the solar system - which is not always within the body of the

At http://eos.tufts.edu/varves/Geology/chronology.asp ... an interesting outline on varve chronology and its usefulness in assessing the Late Glacial period and the beginning of the Holocene. The