In the News

At http://phys.org/print322466839.html ... a new slant on that story famously told by Herodotus. Egyptologist Olaf Kapar has a theory that has a ring of truth

The European Space Agency (ESA) is studying Earth's magnetic field - from space (see http://phys.org/print322463763.html). Meanwhile, NASA is organising a mission to Titan, the largest

Churyumov Gerasimenko is a comet named after two Russian observers. It sparked into life in April and early May but the comet has now gone

At http://phys.org/print322472069.html ... a team of astrophysicists who proclaimed a month or so back they had made a breakthrough in  confirmation of the Big Bang

Rens Van Der Sluijs has two posts at Thunderbolts this week. At www.thunderbolts.info/wp/2014/06/19/plasma-in-the-ice-age/ ... he refers to two engraved pendants fashioned out of reindeer bone

Renewables are under development all the time. The cost of building wind farms, and installing concrete bases and access roads, and a general disturbance of

The Times of July 26th 1970 reported on findings by a group of French oceanographers, and this was that the Atlantic was much smaller in

At http://phys.org/print322235628.html ... an ESA Herschel image of the Helix Nebula has found some interesting molecules - the OH+ molecular ion which is a requirement

Dark matter meets catastrophism - courtesy of Harvard University researchers. At http://phys.org/print322123461.html ... a new theory is being aired and it involves a disc of

At www.livescience.com/46335-remains-of-ancient-egypt-epidemic-found.html ... is a report on bodies covered in a thick layer of lime found in Egypt. Lime was used to disinfect disease ridden

At http://geology.gsapubs.org/content/early/2012/03/16/G33117.1.abstract ... we have a large body of sand in the northern region of the North Sea basin which is described as extrusive. Where

At http://phys.org/print321534287.html ... according to recent CAGW hype we should all be scared - the West Antarctic ice sheet is melting. In reality the problem

At www.spaceweather.com on Monday 16th June (2014)  a summer sun halo.    If you want to know when earth facing sun spots are despatching CMEs

Go to http://malagabay.wordpress.com/2014/06/13/the-carnegie-curve/ ... it seems scientists were looking at electricity in the atmosphere and on the Earth a hundred years ago - and an

At www.livescience.com/46312-popigai-crater-linked-eocene-mass-extinction.html .... this is one of those events normally attributed to climate change rather than catastrophism - mainly because joining up the dots between

At www.livescience.com/46292-hidden-ocean-locked-in-earth-mantle.html ... there is a report on another study that has found an awful lot of potential water between the Mantle and the crust.

There is quite a bit of published material on prehistoric roads and tracks nowadays and it is generally though they originated as animal tracks followed

Major new climate change project by Dr David Evans - see http://joannenova.com.au/2014/06/big-news-part-i-historic-development-ne... ... produced without any funding whatsoever (apart from personal donations). No government handouts

An interesting post at www.bishop-hill.net/blog/2014/6/13/the-inhumanity-of-the-environmentalis... ... which is a bit political - but raises an interesting issue. Does opposition to genetically modified food, which is

At http://phys.org/print321643387.html ... we are told the cosmologists may have certain astronomical ideas wrong - and they require adjusting. In other words, the whole kaboosh