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Not perhaps fading as moving away - go to http://phys.org/print310978191.html ... the Apollo astronauts and Soviet Russian'Moon Rovers' left various things behind on the visits

At http://phys.org/print311010604.html ... you haven't heard of Homo antecessor? Well, he lived a very long time ago. The oldest hominim in Europe apparently, going back

At http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/Print/5368.aspx ... the lost pharaoh of dynasty 16 (update). It seems there was an independent dynasty at Abydos contemporary with the Hyksos, and the

Provoked by the recent claim that camels are first known in the southern Levant in the Iron Age a New Chronology Yahoo Group commenter claims

At www.bishop-hill.net/blog/2014/2/10/follow-the-money.html and www.bishop-hill.net/blog/2014/2/10/alas-smith.html we get a flavour of the argument - and its a perfect environmentalist driven train crash, but the politicos are squirming

At http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/ancient-iron-workin... ... this story caught my eye because a friend of mine has discovered several bloomeries in what is nowadays an isolated woodland environment

One of the big problems uniformitarians have is the diet of Ice Age mammals. We've all heard of those mammoths that were found with grasses,

At www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140205103701.htm ... research by a student at the University of Otago in New Zealand took him to California, to a geological formation in San

Space rock hit Mars on a regular basis. At www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2014-037 ... we have a crater 100 feet in diameter at the centre of radial burst

Cracking dismantlement of a warmist graph that words alone could not hope to do justice. The video link is at http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/02/07/friday-funny-two-guys-with-a-ruler... ... must see video.

A lovely mix of stories here. At www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140203131518.htm ... research at Tel Aviv University shows that domesticated camels were not introduced to the Levant until

The idea black holes don't exist, as espoused by Stephen Hawking, has been challenged by physicists according to www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2014/02/major-league-physicists-challenge-... ... although, as already noticed in

The Independent newspaper and various other sources such as the BBC are reporting that rabbits digging holes near Lands End have unearthed a treasure trove

At http://phys.org/print310388983.html ...  a paper in Astrophysical Research Letters by scientists from Bistol's 'School of Physics' concerns a computer simulation of how planets form around

We are going back over 100,000 years ago but at http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/enormous-scale-of-n... ... is a wonder. We have a reconstruction of the landscape of the Nile

If you are into the Expanding Earth theory the land masses have been there all along and it is the oceans that have grown and

In early issues of SIS Workshop there were several references in Monitor, and a letter from Jill Abery, concerning the Mid to Late Miocene geological

At http://archaeologicalnewsnetwork.blogspot.co.uk?2014/02/humanities-forgo... ... we have another story that brings to mind early SIS Workshops and the various writings of Nell Kluitman. In these, the impression

In a talk at the 1991 SIS AGM meeting in London (at the Library Association) one of the speakers, Bernard Newgrosh, likened the Sodom and

At http://phys.org/print310294198.html ... it seems NASAs Rover vehicle has dislodged a strange rock, white on the outside and red in the middle. It was described