In the News

At http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/10/141023-paleo-indians-mig... ... early Americans were in a remote oasis high in the Andes, 14,000 feet above sea level, as recently as 12,800 years ago.

At http://phys.org/print332409057.html ... a computer simulation has been used to try and explain why glaciers in the Karakorum are not melting - the paper can

At www.popular-archaeology.com/issue/fall-09012014/article/archaeologists-m... ... namely, they have dug up the remains of an aurochs, a prehistoric ancestor of modern cattle which roamed in the wild across

More down to Earth but up in the sky, go to http://spaceweather.com October 17th looks forwards to Sunday when the green comet (below) approaches Mars

At http://phys.org/print332685617.html ... there is apparently a mid continent Rift across the Mid West, some 2000 miles in length, running from Lake Superior south as

At http://phys.org/print332601657.html ... the discussion here is the dust bowl of the 1930s - a period where temperatures matched those of the 1990s. It was

We haven't heard a lot from this bit of alarmism for awhile but www.livescience.com/48290-siberian-holes-bermuda-triangle-mystery.html ... where it seems several mysterious craters that have mysteriously appeared

At http://phys.org/print332490446.html ... lamprey larva are soft and small and are rarely fossilised. Lampreys themselves are also rarely fossilised because they do not have a

At www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2014/10/ ... scroll down to October 14th - where to start we have black holes - do they eject matter or does matter fall

Excellent programme on BBC2 last night, the 15th of October, on the discovery of Heracleion in the delta zone of Egypt, at the head of

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