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In The Times January 10th 2014, the Red Knecked Phalorope spends the summer months gobbling midges in Scotland but it spends the winter in a

At http://heritageofjapan.wordpress.com/2014/01/25/the-tang-dynasty-cosmic-... ... further to the recent post on a comet recorded by astronomers during the 8th century AD the link describes the cosmic world

Lactose tolerance evolved - it is a genetic change. At http://phys.org/print309711543.html ... we have a story about milk digestion and lactose tolerance. A research undergraduate

In the very first SIS Workshop Martin Sieff had an article on the raash of Uzziah as it was described by Velikovsky in one of

William Thompson has provided two links for this story from the British Museum - www.foxnews.com/2014/01/24/ancient-tablet-reveals-more-details-about-noa... and www.csmonitor.com/layout/set/r14/Science/2014/0125/Noah-s-Ark-Was-it-rea... ... which promotes a book by Irving Finkel,

At http://phys.org/print309782864.html ... the newly reactivated NEOWISE space telescope mission has been up and running for 25 days. In that time it has detected 857

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.