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The short and the curlies
29 December 2013 > ArchaeologyAt www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lincolnshire-25345754 ... we have a perfect example of the BBC way of reporting - grabbing soundbites from universities, organisations, NGOs, and charities, and adding

Indus collapse ... was there an epidemic?
28 December 2013 > ArchaeologyAt www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/12/2013/disease-and-trauma-wit... ... raises an interesting question. Collapse, as a result of catastrophism of some kind, whether it was tectonic or otherwise, and the shifting

Indonesian tsunamis
28 December 2013 > Catastrophismthe province of Aceh in the west of Sumatra is indelibly stamped by the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami, a one hundred foot wave that raced

A megalithic town on a coral reef in the Pacific
28 December 2013 > ArchaeologyThis is posted as it is unusual and takes me back to my younger years and reading Thor Heyerdahl's 'Kon Tiki Expedition' - which was

Clouds and the Interplanetary Electric Field (IEF)
28 December 2013 > ElectromagnetismThis is worth reading. Recommended. Go to http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/12/26/new-paper-clouds-blown-by-the-sola... ... which claims there is a terrestrial impact on cloud cover due to the interplanetary electric field

Copper mines at Tankardstown and Knockmahon
28 December 2013 > ArchaeologyThe 19th century Temperance Movement is an interesting, if brief, piece of history. When I drive to my daughter's house we go through the old
Noctilucent clouds and meteor smoke
28 December 2013 > AstronomyWe have a couple of interesting posts on noctilucent clouds at the South Pole. At http://phys.org/print263633588.html ... astronauts on the International Space Station took some

Caesar Augustus and the god Apollo
28 December 2013 > AstronomyWe already know that Caesar Augustus was associated with a strange star in 44BC - or thereabouts. It seems that an 'archaeo-informacist' (don't ask) has

Franzen and Larsson
24 December 2013 > CatastrophismLars G Franzen and Thomas B Larsson wrote a paper 'Landscape analysis and stratigraphical and geochemical investigations of playa and alluvial fan sediments in Tunisia
Spiders on Rocks ... or meteor radiants?
24 December 2013 > ArchaeologyAt www.livescience.com/42126-spider-rock-art-discovered-in-egypt.html and www.livescience.com/42123-spider-rock-art-egypt-photos.html The rock panel was found along a shallow sandstone wadi in the Kharga Oasis, 108 miles west of Luxnor - deep

Sea Ice, Super Symmetry
21 December 2013 > PhysicsAt www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2524770/ESA-satellite-reveals-po... ... it seems Arctic sea ice has increased by 50 per cent since last year. Why isn't this common knowledge? What has the

Ships and Sailors ... and Churches
20 December 2013 > ArchaeologyAt www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/12/2013/signs-sailors-ship-gra... ... there is a lovely tale complete with images drawn on the walls inside medieval churches, mostly in coastal locations such as Lincolnshire

Stonehenge Man
20 December 2013 > ArchaeologyThe new visitor centre at Stonehenge has opened and includes the remade face of Stonehenge Man - see www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/before-stonehenge-did-thi... ... One is never sure of
Halley's Comet and the 6th century AD
20 December 2013 > CatastrophismAt www.space.com/24005-halleys-comet-linked-to-ancient-famine.html ... we hear that a piece of Halley's comet might have impacted with Earth in AD536, blasting dust into the atmosphere and cooling

Marsili
20 December 2013 > GeologyLaurence Dixon sent in the link to this information. A super volcano has been found on the sea bed off Italy, at a midway point

A Lost World
20 December 2013 > GeologyI have probably done this one before but never mind. At http://frontiers-of-anthropology.blogspot.co.uk/2011/07/atlantis-like-su... ... it seems that on the floor of the Atlantic, to the NW

Migration ... tales to tell
20 December 2013 > ArchaeologyThe recent research on a genome from an arm bone of a youth found buried in Siberia has caused waves, so to speak. It has

Grains
20 December 2013 > ArchaeologyThe oldest of anything is only what has been discovered in the oldest setting - and so it is with human use of grains as
Nuclear Fusion and CAGW
20 December 2013 > PhysicsIn Provence in the South of France over 30 countries have combined to set up a research facility known as ITER. This international nuclear fusion

Sad News
20 December 2013 > VelikovskyIt has been announced that Bob Bass has died - see www.velikovsky.info/RobertWBass