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A member forwarded a link to the Daily Mash - weather experts confirmed the headline above by looking up Norse mythology which describes extensive flooding

At http://phys.org/print311767523.html ... a couple of years ago Bird Flu was the big doomsaying myth - and don't we like being frightened out of our

That was the title of a book but in this instance the enigma is outlined at http://phys.org/print311926419.html ... in a paper in the Journal of

At www.timesofisrael.com/roving-sea-peoples-may-have-settled-transjordan-ar... ... we learn that a site in the Jordan valley, currently being excavated by a Swedish team, has found artifacts which resemble those

Peter Fairlie-Clarke responded to the post on torrential rain and portents in the sky on 17th February and provided us with a source that might

At http://phys.org/print311929448.html ... we are told Einstein didn't accept the expanding universe theory for a long time but later found it was a way to

Robert Farrar sent the two links below - just the sort of material In the News requires. Members are asked not to be so skimpy

Ther discoveries at Happisburgh have excited some of the media. Here are two links to videos - www.nhm.ac.uk/about-us/news/2014/feb/we-were-here-earliest-humans-leave-... See also http://blogs.channel4.com/tom-clarke-on-science/oldest-human-footprints-... and have a look

The earthwork known as Vespasian's Camp, named after a Roman general, is situated on a hill with wide views over the surrounding countryside. It is

At http://suspecterrane.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/its-controversial.html ... this is a geologist's take on the fracking issue and the wild publicity and propaganda he says is bandied around in order

What has Patrick McCafferty been up to since he gave a talk at an SIS meeting a few years ago? Well, he pops up as

In the 19th century fertiliser was at a premium. Soot, bones, ashes, dung, maltings and various other things were tried in order to increase the

There is an interesting article at the Daily Mail Online. It is featured  elsewhere but there are some nice images on the newspaper web site

A post at http://notrickszone.com/2014/02/16/uncovered-16th-century-hallucinatory-... ... is derived from Online Speigel and their review of a book, 'The Book of Miracles' (available via Amazon and other

How can the Arctic get flushed with warmer latitude water every 18 years or so? This appears to have happened recently - so what mechanism

Donald W Patten, a geographer by training, was born in 1929 in Montana, not far from Glacier National Park. He died recently and will be

Sand, from Namibia ... courtesy of Gary Gilligan How would a lump of sand like that, dumped in a catastrophe, look like in a geological

In the UK we have had sink holes swallowing a car parked outside a house in a former brick works (and clay pit) and another

This is an interesting discovery. At www.geneticarchaeology.com/research/Revolutionary_new_view_on_heritabili... ... complex heritable traits can affect flowering times and plant architecture - and these, are passed on to

At www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2014-051 ... the mysterious rock that caused a fuss a week or so back - it looked like a jelly donut/jam doughnut, turns out