In the News

Two more posts on Comet ISON - at http://phys.org/print303650046.html ... NASAs Messenger spacecraft, orbiting Mercury, has captured images of Comet ISON - and Comet Encke.

At http://notrickszone.com/2013/11/14/more-dissent-erupts-in-germany-free-d... ... it seems that Germany has its equivalent of Nigel Farage - and apparently not to be trifled with. The video is in

At www.newscientists.com/article/dn24492-ancient-mural-may-be-first-picture... (or http://tinyurl.com/njo4uww) ... in 1963 archaeologist James Melaart discovered a large mural on a wall of a house at Catalhuyuk (which was pieced

It seems the paper published a few days ago in Environmental Research Letters (see In the News 10th November) aimed at debunking the Svensmark theory

At www.uea.ac.uk/~jwmp/CAA2003.pdf (or http://tinyurl.com/pjs8vz3) we have a paper released by the University of East Anglia on a significant henge in Norwich. It is situated near

At http://spaceweather.com ... an outburst from Comet ISON. There is a sharp increase in the brightness and it is now on the threshold of naked

The previous post may have been angled to show people in the Middle Ages were irrational when it comes to comets, in comparison with the

At http://phys.org/print303391880.html ... this is about past observations of comets. For some reason the journalist that wrote the piece said, 'first observations' of comets were

This should actually be, 'the birth of the modern Sahara' as apparently the desert has come and gone on a number of occasions. At http://phys.org/print303380174.html

At http://phys.org/print303390618.html ... we have a piece on sea floor methane hydrates, a potential energy source - but also a potential source of global warming

Arthur Custance, 'The Seed of the Woman', Joshua Press, Ontario:2001 (reprint of a 1980 book) (see also www.custance.org and www.joshuapress.com) This book comes recommended by

At www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-11/uoy-ruo110713.php ... it seems cattle were domesticated in China around the same time as in Western Asia - at the beginning of the Holocene

I was having a few dark ales at a beer festival at the weekend when one of my brother in laws said to me, quite

At http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/17th-century-landma... ... researchers at North Carolina State University have recreated the courtyard of St Paul's Cathedral in London as it was in 1622 -

It is well known that early Christianity appealed to women but less is known about how those women were influential in the spread of the

A similar misconception was applied to the native peoples of the Pacific North West, the fisher folk and food producers (and processors) that also actively

This story is at http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/first-farmers.html ... once again shows that the notion of hunter gatherers in the Darwinian concept is somewhat flawed and bears no

This story was at www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/11/041118104010.htm ... this is an old story going back to 2004 but repeated here because it doesn't seem to have had

The media have been feasting on supertyphoon Haiyan but the Bishop is a little sceptical of a link with CAGW - go to www.bishop-hill.net/blog/2013/11/9/storms-and-global-warming.html ...

A paper by Fabien Locher and Jean-Baptiste Fressoz, 'Modernity's Frail Climate: A Climate History of Environmental Reflexivity' published in Critical Inquiry (2012) is discussed at