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Shrinking glaciers around the world have revealed plants that once thrived before the ice advanced. This in turn led to a spate of learned papers

In one of those peculiar stories the author keeps telling the reader, don't worry - its not going to happen. Apparently, we are informed, the

Tall Bloke's Talk Shop has an interesting post at http://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2014/03/21/p-a-semi-topology-of-the-curve... ... which is a matter of patterns, I suppose, as we have spherical planets and

The reason is that this is the consensus mainstream theory - but why do they insist on keeping strictly on song when all the evidence

The Current Archaeology piece on human footprints at Happisburgh in Norfolk can now be read (part thereof) online - go to www.archaeology.co.uk/articles/features/first-impressions-discovering-th... (see the earlier

This story is still on the boil and is bound to develop further. At www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2014-082 ... and various other science sites on the Internet as

At http://youtu.be/i-T7tCMUDXU ... Gerald Pollack describes the fourth state of water. Tim Cullen, at http://malagabay.wordpress.com/2014/03/15/99-of-your-molecules-are-water/ ... begins with Wikipedia's claim that 60 per cent of

This is not a reference to the Big Chill in the winter of 2013/4 but to a period of very cold weather that is recorded

Guess who is speaking at the Electric Universe conference - Piers Corbyn. That should make it a bit exciting - I wonder what he will

Here, the idea of language evolution is said to perhaps be a means to plotting prehistoric migrations of people. In this instance, the theory is

At http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/precursor-of-europe... .... fossil rhinoceros found in Vietnam, and dating way back, seem to bear similarities to rhinos once extent in Europe. This suggests SE

At http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/chemical-ghosts-of-... ... focuses on the research of Mary Schweitzer who came out with the idea organic molecules can be preserved for millions of years,

At http://phys.org.print313920371.html ... we all know what the consensus view is on cosmic background radiation in the afterglow of Big Bang - but here we

The key word here is 'in' the Earth - or underground. At http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/rare-mineral-points... ... which came about after the discovery of a water rich gem

William Thompson has now had his catastrophist list posted by George Howard - go to http://cosmictusk.com/a-comprehensive-modern-catastrophist-bibliography/ ... which is good news for William Thompson and

At www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/04/120426135008.htm ... biologists have discovered new mechanisms that control how proteins are expressed in different regions of embryos which seem to shed new light

The Online journal Nature Geoscience reports on the discovery of the mineral zircon at Jack Hill, 800km from Perth in Australia. The grains of zircon

A sizeable sun spot is attracting the attention of astronomers - go to http://spaceweather.com March 11th (scroll down to the page of that date). It

Jan Harding, 'Cult, Religion, and Pilgrimage: archaeological investigations of the Neolithic and Bronze Age monument complex at Thornborough, North Yorkshire' CBA Research Report 174 (2013)

At http://phys.org/print312566680.html ... evidence of mass strandings of marine animals crop up every now and then in the fossil record. A recent example, posted here