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Geological titbits
5 December 2013 > GeologyA fossilised pair of froghoppers have been found in the act of copulation - dating back to the Jurassic. The discovery, in Chinese Mongolia, indicates

The Svensmark and Calder model
5 December 2013 > Climate changeFor those wondering what all those electromagnetic and cosmic ray showers were doing Tim Cullen has the answer in his latest post - he says

What's Under the Ice?
5 December 2013 > GeologyAt 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,

Blue Light
3 December 2013 > PhysicsAt 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

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

Trees
3 December 2013 > Climate changeA 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

An electromagnetic shower
2 December 2013 > AstronomyThe last post was about stellar wind directing material to or from a black hole but what is the connection between the two - one

Black Hole Eating Habits
2 December 2013 > AstronomyThis 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

Phaethon's Tail
1 December 2013 > AstronomyAt 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,

The Zombie in the Sky
1 December 2013 > AstronomyAt 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

ECAT ... update
29 November 2013 > PhysicsAt 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

Resurrected ISON
29 November 2013 > AstronomyAt 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

Picking at Bones
29 November 2013 > PhysicsConsensus 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 > ArchaeologyDamerham is located between Cranbourne and Fordingbridge, on the Wiltshire uplands (the Downs) at the very edge of Cranbourne Chase - and not that far

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

Foraminifera
27 November 2013 > GeologyAt 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

Methane in the Arctic Ocean
27 November 2013 > GeologyAt 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

ISON ... not long to go now
27 November 2013 > AstronomyI'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

The Long Mynd
27 November 2013 > GeologyChanging sea levels, or a reconfiguration of the oceans, are sometimes to be found in the most surprising of places. Anyone holidaying in Shropshire, about

Methane, methanogens, and ice cores (again).
25 November 2013 > PhysicsAt 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