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At http://phys.org/print307703213.html ... the Quadrantids meteor shower is due in January - from the 1st to the 10th. The parent source is unknown - probably

At www.haaretz.com/weekend/magazine/.premium-1.565559 ... there is a review by Dalia Karpel (Dec 28th, 2013) of a book on Velikovsky by Michael Gordin, a professor at Princetown

Lynn Rose and Bob Bass have recently died and now we have news that Halton Arp has also passed away. At the www.haltonarp.com/bio ... there

In January of 2013 co2 was at 395ppm, some 50 points higher than it was in 1985. However, in spite of rising co2 the Earth

Global warming research ship in the firm grip of global warming sea ice - see www.joannenova.com.au/2013/12/antarctic-ice-swallows-boat-media-spin/ A couple of days prior to christmas the boat

Velikovsky's 'Mankind in Amnesia' claimed that humans shut out facts they are not happy to dwell on and when it came to catastrophic events that

At www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lincolnshire-25345754 ... we have a perfect example of the BBC way of reporting - grabbing soundbites from universities, organisations, NGOs, and charities, and adding

At www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/12/2013/disease-and-trauma-wit... ... raises an interesting question. Collapse, as a result of catastrophism of some kind, whether it was tectonic or otherwise, and the shifting

the province of Aceh in the west of Sumatra is indelibly stamped by the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami, a one hundred foot wave that raced

This is posted as it is unusual and takes me back to my younger years and reading Thor Heyerdahl's 'Kon Tiki Expedition' - which was

This is worth reading. Recommended. Go to http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/12/26/new-paper-clouds-blown-by-the-sola... ... which claims there is a terrestrial impact on cloud cover due to the interplanetary electric field

The 19th century Temperance Movement is an interesting, if brief, piece of history. When I drive to my daughter's house we go through the old

We have a couple of interesting posts on noctilucent clouds at the South Pole. At http://phys.org/print263633588.html ... astronauts on the International Space Station took some

We already know that Caesar Augustus was associated with a strange star in 44BC - or thereabouts. It seems that an 'archaeo-informacist' (don't ask) has

Lars G Franzen and Thomas B Larsson wrote a paper 'Landscape analysis and stratigraphical and geochemical investigations of playa and alluvial fan sediments in Tunisia

At www.livescience.com/42126-spider-rock-art-discovered-in-egypt.html and www.livescience.com/42123-spider-rock-art-egypt-photos.html The rock panel was found along a shallow sandstone wadi in the Kharga Oasis, 108 miles west of Luxnor - deep

At www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2524770/ESA-satellite-reveals-po... ... it seems Arctic sea ice has increased by 50 per cent since last year. Why isn't this common knowledge? What has the

At www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/12/2013/signs-sailors-ship-gra... ... there is a lovely tale complete with images drawn on the walls inside medieval churches, mostly in coastal locations such as Lincolnshire

The new visitor centre at Stonehenge has opened and includes the remade face of Stonehenge Man - see www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/before-stonehenge-did-thi... ... One is never sure of

At www.space.com/24005-halleys-comet-linked-to-ancient-famine.html ... we hear that a piece of Halley's comet might have impacted with Earth in AD536, blasting dust into the atmosphere and cooling