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Mrs God
21 November 2013 > ArchaeologySean Kingsley in World Current Archaeology 62 - see www.world-archaeology.com (story not on site at moment as this is the December 2013 edition), uses the

Life from Chicxulub
20 November 2013 > CatastrophismAt https://medium.com/the-physics-arxiv-blog/56e227224a25 ... rocks from the Chicxulub asteroid 'must' have spread through the solar system, it is theorised in the arXiv paper. What do they

The problem on the Sun
20 November 2013 > PhysicsOne of physics biggest unsolved problems is described at http://phys.org/print303981706.html ... where two astrophysicists claim they have 'almost' solved why the Sun's corona is much

Oxygen, the atmosphere, and black smokers
20 November 2013 > PhysicsThis is the third link that is reminiscent of Malaga Bay (remember the black smokers on the ocean bottom) - see http://phys.org/print303899664.html ... a paper

Methane producing microbes
20 November 2013 > PhysicsMalaga Bay also came to mind when I read the headline here too - see http://phys.org/print304016779.html ... microbiologists have found that methanogen microbes can reduce

the evolution of the atmosphere of the Earth
20 November 2013 > PhysicsI couldn't help thinking of some of Malaga Bay's postings when coming across this at http://phys.org/print303991846.html ... a piece of research on amber deposits. A

Polish frontier
20 November 2013 > ArchaeologyAt www.naukawpolsce.pap.pl/en/news/news,397981,dabki-where-hunters-met-farm... ... a Polish settlement site in Pomerania, on an island in a lake, and dating between 5100 and 3600BC, displays no evidence of

Glaciology is a slippery science
18 November 2013 > Ancient historyAt http://malagabay.wordpress.com/2013/11/17/methane-myopia-5-ice-core-scie... ... and he begins, 'Glaciology is a slippery science ...' and we might all say aye to that. He then quotes Wikipedia extensively

Indian migrations
18 November 2013 > ArchaeologyAt www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/09/2013/genetic-link-shown-bet... ... a paper published in PLoS ONE, using DNA methodology, has shown a fairly stable population in Syria and the middle Euphrates valley

Aborigine fish trap, Sami rock art
18 November 2013 > ArchaeologyAt www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/03/2013/fishtrap-evokes-powerf... ... which is a bit of a soft soap kind of reporting, nothing like a bit of environmental emotionalising, but the subject itself
The Greek dark age and the end of the LB age.
18 November 2013 > Ancient historyAt www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/08/2013/catastrophic-climate-c... ... this concerns what caused the abrupt end of the thriving civilisations of the LB age which were followed by a period of

Toad Denier and 'toady deniers'
16 November 2013 > Climate changeHere is a story of consensus science to make you blush - but not if you are feeling a touch on the toady side -
Of Wolves and Dogs
16 November 2013 > ArchaeologyKeeping to the wolfish theme at http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/dogs-likely-origina... .... another theory on the origin of the domestic dog. In all likelihood European dogs did evolve from
Little Red Riding Hood - a folk tale
16 November 2013 > ArchaeologyAt http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/science-on-trail-of... .... the folk tale of Little Red Riding Hood has a near global dispersal and may reflect ancient human migrations - or cultural

8 million km long ...
16 November 2013 > AstronomyAt www.spaceweather.com ... Comet ISON is getting brighter and brighter as we approach the end of November encounter with the Sun. Its tail now extends

There be gold and nickel in them there craters
16 November 2013 > GeologyAt http://phys.org/print303641255.html ... it seems geologists might have a new way to look for gold in them thar' hills - find the crater and then

Red Spot and WISE, the giver of plenty
16 November 2013 > AstronomyAt http://phys.org/print303673640.html ... Jupiter's red spot, is a giant vortice that is supposed to lose energy by radiating heat and is suspended between two jet

The weak magnetic field of the Milky Way
16 November 2013 > ElectromagnetismAt http://cosmo.nyu.edu/~rj486/files/RJansson_PhD_thesis.pdf ... the magnetic field of the Milky Way. Each star in the Milky Way has its own magnetic field - like our Sun.

Tokamak
15 November 2013 > Climate changeAt http://phys.org/print303571573.html ... latest update on plasma fusion - Chinese, American, French. Where are the British? Stuck up a windmill. How much are we really

Dinosaur flatulence and global warming
15 November 2013 > GeologyAt http://malagabay.wordpress.com/2013/11/13/methane-myopia-3-earth-science/ ... Tim Cullen takes aim again at the Earth Sciences and a Wikipedia entry that claims, 'palaeo-climatology research published in Current Biology suggests