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NASA image of a big solar flare going off today, Tuesday the 25th. The story is at www.spaceweather.com and at http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/02/25/strongest-x-class-solar-flare-sinc... However, the Wiki entry

William Thompson advises ... Donald Scott, author of 'The Electric Sky', and heavily criticised by Tom Bridgman, has a Bachelor's and Masters degrees in electrical

The story behind the flooding of the Somerset Levels goes back to the 1990s - as extracted by the fingernails of Richard North and Christopher

In 1912 Franz Xaver Kugler discovered a reference to year 8 of Ammisaduga (see Peter James, Centuries of Darkness, 1991, appendix 3) in some fragmentary

Don Mills, on the Eric Aitchison chronology discussion (contact address available if you wish to participate) chips in on a debate about the Ipuwer Papyrus

Kappa Cassipeiae is a speeding star. It creates a bow wave in its wake as it crosses the sky of the universe. See http://phys.org/print312191608.html   

There were lots of sponges in the shallow warm seas of the Dinosaur Age, it has been deduced, as they were commonly caught up in

At http://phys.org/print312178948.html ... research has revealed that a tiny crustacean, a groundwater shrimp that lives in crevices and can survive in groundwater beneath the surface,

At http://phys.org/print312113734.html ... the headlines read, astronomers find solar storms behave like supernovae. What really are supernovae? Researchers have discovered that coronal mass ejections, or

At http://phys.org/print312133436.html ... it might have been a damp squib for the EU people as Comet ISON has disappeared, blown to smithereens as it approached

Member William Thompson has sent in the title of a book that provides another mother lode. It is Kirk Johnson and Ian Miller, 'Digging Snowmastodon:

At http://phys.org/print312139726.html ... we learn that Venus behaves strangely as a result of the solar wind, almost as if it has the hiccups or is

We've all read the posts at www.thunderbolts.info and watched the various videos - but is it all so clear cut. Surely some of us have

Email request via the contact address on the web page has come in concerning the Venus Tablets of Ammisaduga. Is there a reliable translation anywhere?

A member forwarded a link to the Daily Mash - weather experts confirmed the headline above by looking up Norse mythology which describes extensive flooding

At http://phys.org/print311767523.html ... a couple of years ago Bird Flu was the big doomsaying myth - and don't we like being frightened out of our

That was the title of a book but in this instance the enigma is outlined at http://phys.org/print311926419.html ... in a paper in the Journal of

At www.timesofisrael.com/roving-sea-peoples-may-have-settled-transjordan-ar... ... we learn that a site in the Jordan valley, currently being excavated by a Swedish team, has found artifacts which resemble those

Peter Fairlie-Clarke responded to the post on torrential rain and portents in the sky on 17th February and provided us with a source that might

At http://phys.org/print311929448.html ... we are told Einstein didn't accept the expanding universe theory for a long time but later found it was a way to