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Whale fossils in the desert sands

9 March 2014 > Biology
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
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Solar alignments at Petra

9 March 2014 > Archaeology
At http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/astronomy-and-lands... ... a monastery at Petra in Jordan is aligned to the winter Sun, which illuminates the position of a deity. At that same
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Limestone

9 March 2014 > Geology
This is an interesting observation by Peter Mungo Jupp at www.thunderbolts.info/wp/2014/03/05/the-jurassic-coast-a-transmutation-e... ... as in the uniformitarian model limestone is formed slowly, over long periods of

The Man on the Moon and Climate Science

9 March 2014 > Climate change
First of all, a bit of a wake-up call, and the power of the Sun  - see http://spaceweather.com March 9th At http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/03/08/the-group-the-right-climate-stuff-... ... which is
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Blue aurora

7 March 2014 > Electromagnetism
At http://spaceweather.com ... on March 3rd, had a piece on aurora, sparked by a prominent earth facing sun spot. Aurora are usually green, and sometimes
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Another Stonehenge theory ...

7 March 2014 > Archaeology
We have had the healing properties of the blue stones and now we have the rocks that ring like bells. Paul Devereux, in an article
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Cahokia

6 March 2014 > Archaeology
At http://westerndigs.org/epic-fire-marked-beginning-of-the-end-for-ancient... ... there is a fascinating story that the mounds (ancient earthen pyramids) and plazas of a typical Meso-american town/city ritual layout, at what
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Planets and Red Dwarf Stars

6 March 2014 > Astronomy
At www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2014/03/milky-ways-red-dwarf-stars-a-hotsp... ... and http://phys.org/print313126310.html ... a paper published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, by astronomers from the University of Hertfordshire,
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Climate see-saw

6 March 2014 > Climate change
At http://phys.org/print312636171.html ... a team at University of Cambridge has demonstrated that the event around 2300BC involved a movement of the summer monsoon rains which

Aurorae

3 March 2014 > Electromagnetism
At www.spaceweather.com for March 3rd (2014) there is some nice information on the recent aurora that could be seen as far south as the Channel
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The Caribbean as a pristine environment ... and the Beringia Standstill.

2 March 2014 > Archaeology
At  www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/02/2014/caribbean-ecosystem-re... ... a study of plant and animals life in one part of the Caribbean, in the north of the Bahamas, and possibly representing
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Cantre'r Gwaelod

2 March 2014 > Catastrophism
At http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/02/140226-wales-borth-bronz... ... is about the petrified trees of Borth, and asks if they are linked to the legendary kingdom of Cantre'r Gwaelod. I can
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Richard III update, and an early Anglo Saxon cemetery

2 March 2014 > Archaeology
A controversy has developed over the remains of Richard III - some people not keen on DNA testing. A rift has broken out between different
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The Old Cathedral of Mainz

2 March 2014 > Archaeology
Gunnar Heinsohn has been eager to expand on Illig's lost early AD centuries, and has expanded the theory by creating an even bigger lost age,

The Jelling Stone

2 March 2014 > Archaeology
At www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/02/2014/early-christians-in-vi... ... refers to excavations at Ribe in Denmark and what this means for the spread of early Christianity amongst the Vikings. Evidence of
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Cheesey Tales

2 March 2014 > Archaeology
The Chinese aren't supposed to be cheese eaters as they are largely lactose intolerant and yet researchers have found lumps of yellow staff associated with
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Gerald Hawkins

2 March 2014 > Astronomy
Gerald Hawkins, who recently died, generally had a bad press in mainstream. They never liked the theory in his book 'Stonehenge Decoded' and neither am

Pock marked stone in Scotland

2 March 2014 > Archaeology
At http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/prehistoric-rock-ar... ... where a boulder decroated with cup and ring marks was found, decorated on both sides. It was found at Heights of Fadderty
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Earth Lights

2 March 2014 > Electromagnetism
  Excellent piece on Earth Light at www.thunderbolts.info/wp/2014/02/28/earth-lights/ ... which is largely about research by Dr Friedemann Freund, who wrote an article, 'Rocks that Crackle
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It Ain't the Sun wot warms the earth

28 February 2014 > Climate change
I know the Royal Society is one of those organisations that is all about holding up the nose and feeling important but incredibly they are
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