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Robert Farrar sent the two links below - just the sort of material In the News requires. Members are asked not to be so skimpy

Ther discoveries at Happisburgh have excited some of the media. Here are two links to videos - www.nhm.ac.uk/about-us/news/2014/feb/we-were-here-earliest-humans-leave-... See also http://blogs.channel4.com/tom-clarke-on-science/oldest-human-footprints-... and have a look

The earthwork known as Vespasian's Camp, named after a Roman general, is situated on a hill with wide views over the surrounding countryside. It is

At http://suspecterrane.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/its-controversial.html ... this is a geologist's take on the fracking issue and the wild publicity and propaganda he says is bandied around in order

What has Patrick McCafferty been up to since he gave a talk at an SIS meeting a few years ago? Well, he pops up as

In the 19th century fertiliser was at a premium. Soot, bones, ashes, dung, maltings and various other things were tried in order to increase the

There is an interesting article at the Daily Mail Online. It is featured  elsewhere but there are some nice images on the newspaper web site

A post at http://notrickszone.com/2014/02/16/uncovered-16th-century-hallucinatory-... ... is derived from Online Speigel and their review of a book, 'The Book of Miracles' (available via Amazon and other

How can the Arctic get flushed with warmer latitude water every 18 years or so? This appears to have happened recently - so what mechanism

Donald W Patten, a geographer by training, was born in 1929 in Montana, not far from Glacier National Park. He died recently and will be

Sand, from Namibia ... courtesy of Gary Gilligan How would a lump of sand like that, dumped in a catastrophe, look like in a geological

In the UK we have had sink holes swallowing a car parked outside a house in a former brick works (and clay pit) and another

This is an interesting discovery. At www.geneticarchaeology.com/research/Revolutionary_new_view_on_heritabili... ... complex heritable traits can affect flowering times and plant architecture - and these, are passed on to

At www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2014-051 ... the mysterious rock that caused a fuss a week or so back - it looked like a jelly donut/jam doughnut, turns out

The big news this week is that it has now been established there was a co-regency between Amenophis III and Akhenaten. This lasted around 10

At www.newscientist.com/article/dn25046-the-reptile-labour-that-lasted-248-... ... is a classic case of uniformitarianism glossing over the discovery of an uncomfortable fossil, a reptile in the act of giving birth

This year has been very cold in N America and very mild in parts of Europe. In Britain and Ireland we have had persistent and

At http://anthropology.net/2014/02/07/oldest-hominin-footprints-found-outsi... ... is a report on the discovery of human footprints at Happisburg in Norfolk, going back, it is believed, to 850,000 years ago.     

                                                                    

Welkl, we've had Hawking's 'Black Hole that don't exist' - go to www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2014/02/dark-gravity-dark-matter-might-not... ... which involves Hongcheng Zhae of St Andrews University, and a team