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Whale fossils in the desert sands
9 March 2014 > BiologyAt 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

Solar alignments at Petra
9 March 2014 > ArchaeologyAt 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

Limestone
9 March 2014 > GeologyThis 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 changeFirst 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

Blue aurora
7 March 2014 > ElectromagnetismAt 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

Another Stonehenge theory ...
7 March 2014 > ArchaeologyWe have had the healing properties of the blue stones and now we have the rocks that ring like bells. Paul Devereux, in an article

Cahokia
6 March 2014 > ArchaeologyAt 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

Planets and Red Dwarf Stars
6 March 2014 > AstronomyAt 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,

Climate see-saw
6 March 2014 > Climate changeAt 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 > ElectromagnetismAt 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

The Caribbean as a pristine environment ... and the Beringia Standstill.
2 March 2014 > ArchaeologyAt 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

Cantre'r Gwaelod
2 March 2014 > CatastrophismAt 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

Richard III update, and an early Anglo Saxon cemetery
2 March 2014 > ArchaeologyA controversy has developed over the remains of Richard III - some people not keen on DNA testing. A rift has broken out between different

The Old Cathedral of Mainz
2 March 2014 > ArchaeologyGunnar 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 > ArchaeologyAt 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

Cheesey Tales
2 March 2014 > ArchaeologyThe 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

Gerald Hawkins
2 March 2014 > AstronomyGerald 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 > ArchaeologyAt 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

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

It Ain't the Sun wot warms the earth
28 February 2014 > Climate changeI know the Royal Society is one of those organisations that is all about holding up the nose and feeling important but incredibly they are