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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

At http://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2014/08/04/jet-streams-and-headlines/ ... begins by noting a lurid headline from the Daily Express concerning a weather forecast made by Piers Corbyn. Apparently, he has said

At http://phys.org/print326102164.html ... we have two bubbles towering above and below our galaxy - see image (courtesy of NASA)    ... and these are big

At http://phys.org/print326092712.html ... we learn that a distinct coma surrounds comet 67P (otherwise known as Comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko).     the hazy circular structure on the right

At http://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2014/07/31/a-busy-week-for-moon-theories/ ... opens by reporting on new research that claims the Moon's core is surrounded by liquid which in turn is caused by Earth's

Rens van der Sluijs has twice featured Mount Bego on Thunderbolts - and it also appears in his books. Under the title Rock Science it

The Cassini spacecraft took readings of the day length of Saturn - and the length of time it takes Saturn to complete each rotation. It

NASA have released an animation of an aurora on Saturn which is fascinating to watch - a link is provided by Tall Bloke at http://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2014/07/28/image-of-the-day-animation-of-...

Uniformitarian geology is both weird and wonderful - at the same time. Gary Gilligan has sent in a link to www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2705916/Was-Bahamas-created-Saha... ... which begins, the

At http://phys.org/print325391913.html ... how did they all get there is the big question. The bones of tens of thousands of animals are piled at the

At http://phys.org/print325476995.html ... we have an analysis of a solar flare in 2012 that just missed the Earth and NASA, after examining the data, are

Lots of hype around over the fact Voyager 1 and 2 are on the edge of the heliosphere - but have they really escaped the

Considering that we are part of the European Union we appear to have very little news content of what is happening on the continent -

1014AD is marked by a large ammonium spike (Mike Baillie, New Light on the Black Death) and in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, a huge sea flood

At http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2014/07/dwarf-galaxies-challenge-ou... ... which stems from the discovery of dwarf galaxies surrounding the Andromeda Galaxy, orbiting it in an immense plane. Everywhere astronomers looked they

Anne Marie has sent news that Alfred de Grazia has died. He was in his nineties.

At http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.co.uk/2014/07/dam-construction-tu... ... you'd think the environmentalist brigade, so fond of blocking dam building in the third world, would baulk at the idea of dam