In the News

At Nature Science Reports 4:3728 (DOI:10.1038/srep03728) - download the four page article at http://cosmictusk.com/8th-century-event-flares-now-comets/ ... Yi Liu et al 'Mysterious abrupt C14 increase in coral

This debate began at Anthony's site, Watts Up With That, some time ago, after the publication of a climate paper that made a great deal

At www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-25865118 ... winter gales in Wales have exposed the hidden remains of trees dating back 6000 years ago. However, on the TV a couple

SIS member Robert Farrar sent a link to www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2543973/Ceres-gushing-water-liqu... ... which is about a giant asteroid described as a dwarf planet, namely Ceres, gushing water

At http://phys.org/print309545108.html ... water ice is the most abundant solid material in the universe. Much of it is produced as a by product of star

At http://sciencenordic.com/print/2958 ... traces of wine in jars going back to 1100BC have been found in Denmark and Sweden, suggesting Norse people were trading with

I suppose this gives us some idea of resonant orbits - or why we are not being constantly bombarded by objects and debris from elsewhere

At www.q-mag.org/balkans-archaeologists-puzzle-over-7000y-old-copper-find-a... .... which has everything for your average catastrophist and Velikovskian. Ami de Grazia translates into English an article from the German newspaper Der

At www.bishop-hill.net/blog/2014/1/21/the-empty-set.html ... in the last few weeks one warmist paper used the models to prove its going to get a lot wetter during the

The discovery of a new Egyptian tomb at Abydos has been hitting the news this last week - see for example http://phys.org/print309008810.html. The discovery of

In Current World Archaeology 63 (www.world-archaeology.com) ... we learn the Buddha was born in an era prior to writing so the story relies on an

Euan MacKie was involved with the SIS from its very beginnings. However, his several articles in early journals mostly revolve around the issue of no

At http://cosmictusk.com/dutch-crutch-kloosterman-hits-field-with-pit-sticks/ ... Han Kloosterman contracted throat cancer quite some years ago and when he spoke at an SIS meeting at the Harlequin Theatre in

At http://sciencenordic.com/vikings-grew-barley-greenland ... at the bottom of a medieval rubbish pit on an abandoned farm on Greenland archaeologists found charred grains of cultivated barley seed.

Steven Collins, Let My People Go, TSU Press (2012) ISBN 9780615687940 .... who was the pharaoh of the Exodus? No one knows of course but

At http://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2014/01/19/just-hit-the-noaa-motherlode/ ... steven goodard announces that he was idly fiddling around yesterday evening, trying to make sense of the ISHCN V1 and V2 graph

At www.forteantimes.com/features/fla/6421/the_science_delusion.html ... describes how Rupert Sheldrake has dalt with mainstream criticism concerning his theory of Morphic Resonance. This attempts to explain how single organic

On the chalk and in a river valley. At www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-surrey-25720131 ... when Guildford fire station was been pulled down Stone Age tools were found dating

This is a story that appeared a couple of years ago, but Fortean Times and Paul Devereux raised the issue once again. At www.forteantimes.com/strangedays/archaeology/3748/spirals_underground ...

The Guardian has a somewhat belated tale at www.theguardian.com/science/2014/jan/19/mathematics-of-happiness-debunke... ... that has caused a bit of amusement. The comment section is somewhat muted and it