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5 December 2013 > Geology
A fossilised pair of froghoppers have been found in the act of copulation - dating back to the Jurassic. The discovery, in Chinese Mongolia, indicates
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The Svensmark and Calder model

5 December 2013 > Climate change
For those wondering what all those electromagnetic and cosmic ray showers were doing Tim Cullen has the answer in his latest post - he says
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What's Under the Ice?

5 December 2013 > Geology
At http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/12/03/a-new-look-at-greenlands-ice-sheet... ... I suppose the impetus for this article comes from climate change - is the ice melting in Greenland, can it happen rapidly,
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Blue Light

3 December 2013 > Physics
At http://malagabay.wordpress.com/2013/12/02/cosmic-ray-blues-hadronic-shower/ .... Tim Cullen is surpassing himself this week as he sifts through a variety of sources on cosmic rays and hadronic showers, a
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Cannibal Neanderthals

3 December 2013 > Anthropology
Apparently, research presented to the Royal Society  in London by scientists from the Institute of Evolutionary Biology in Barcelona, as reported by the Sunday Times,
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Trees

3 December 2013 > Climate change
A comment at 12.28pm on www.bishop-hill.net/blog/2013/12/2/green-fairies.html ... has the immortal line, '25 years ago Greens were chaining themselves to trees - now they are burning
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An electromagnetic shower

2 December 2013 > Astronomy
The last post was about stellar wind directing material to or from a black hole but what is the connection between the two - one
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Black Hole Eating Habits

2 December 2013 > Astronomy
This story is at various places, and for example at http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/fast-furious-refine... ... and black holes are associated with X-ray emissions - but one of them
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Phaethon's Tail

1 December 2013 > Astronomy
At http://phys.org/print304851254.html ... the December Geminids are a regular meteor shower emerging out of that part of the sky defined as the constellation of Gemini,
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The Zombie in the Sky

1 December 2013 > Astronomy
At www.universetoday.com/106832/zombie-ison-behaving-like-a-comet-stunned-a... ... well, something came out of the back end of the Sun - but was it the nucleus. It certainly blazed with light
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ECAT ... update

29 November 2013 > Physics
At http://phys.org/print304868667.html ... it seems we have a post by somebody not entirely convinced of cold fusion. However, it seems that ECAT portable cold fusion
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Resurrected ISON

29 November 2013 > Astronomy
At www.spaceweather.com ... we learn that Comet ISON has re-emerged on the other side of the Sun. Whether the nucleus is whole or severely reduced
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Picking at Bones

29 November 2013 > Physics
Consensus theories are often kept on board long after their sell by date. People become attached to them - a sort of comfort zone. Should

Damerham

28 November 2013 > Archaeology
Damerham is located between Cranbourne and Fordingbridge, on the Wiltshire uplands (the Downs) at the very edge of Cranbourne Chase - and not that far
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The Irish Elk

28 November 2013 > Biology
The Irish Elk was in fact a giant deer - part of the Pleistocene megafauna - found in Britain, Ireland, and across northern Europe into
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Foraminifera

27 November 2013 > Geology
At http://phys.org/print304594532.html ... some new discoveries on foraminifera, the tiny shells of sea creatures such as plankton that are an important prop of Ice Age
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Methane in the Arctic Ocean

27 November 2013 > Geology
At http://phys.org/print304596241.html ... (the same story is at http://wattsupwiththat.com and has hundreds of comments to wade through) but basically we learn that methane is bubbling
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ISON ... not long to go now

27 November 2013 > Astronomy
I've just heard there was a solar flare on the Sun, and it is heading in the direction of Comet ISON. In order to keep
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The Long Mynd

27 November 2013 > Geology
Changing sea levels, or a reconfiguration of the oceans, are sometimes to be found in the most surprising of places. Anyone holidaying in Shropshire, about
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Methane, methanogens, and ice cores (again).

25 November 2013 > Physics
At http://malagabay.wordpress.com/2013/11/22/methane-myopia-7-miles-mathis/ ... we have a link to somebody also criticising mainstream's treatment of methane - go to http://milesmathis.com/meth.pdf Tim Cullen notes that within ice
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