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Floods and Quangos

10 February 2014 > Climate change
At www.bishop-hill.net/blog/2014/2/10/follow-the-money.html and www.bishop-hill.net/blog/2014/2/10/alas-smith.html we get a flavour of the argument - and its a perfect environmentalist driven train crash, but the politicos are squirming
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Iron working in the pre-Roman period

9 February 2014 > Archaeology
At http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/ancient-iron-workin... ... this story caught my eye because a friend of mine has discovered several bloomeries in what is nowadays an isolated woodland environment
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Ice Age mammals and their feeding habits

9 February 2014 > Catastrophism
One of the big problems uniformitarians have is the diet of Ice Age mammals. We've all heard of those mammoths that were found with grasses,
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Fossil Whales

9 February 2014 > Evolution
At www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140205103701.htm ... research by a student at the University of Otago in New Zealand took him to California, to a geological formation in San

Smacking Mars

9 February 2014 > Catastrophism
Space rock hit Mars on a regular basis. At www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2014-037 ... we have a crater 100 feet in diameter at the centre of radial burst
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How to do dodgy climate science

7 February 2014 > Climate change
Cracking dismantlement of a warmist graph that words alone could not hope to do justice. The video link is at http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/02/07/friday-funny-two-guys-with-a-ruler... ... must see video.
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Camels, swans, hogs and horses, and Herdwick sheep

7 February 2014 > Biology
A lovely mix of stories here. At www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140203131518.htm ... research at Tel Aviv University shows that domesticated camels were not introduced to the Levant until
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Stephen Hawking Update

7 February 2014 > Physics
The idea black holes don't exist, as espoused by Stephen Hawking, has been challenged by physicists according to www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2014/02/major-league-physicists-challenge-... ... although, as already noticed in
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Rabbits and the Mesolithic

7 February 2014 > Archaeology
The Independent newspaper and various other sources such as the BBC are reporting that rabbits digging holes near Lands End have unearthed a treasure trove
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The birth of planets, magnetic loops, and space dust

7 February 2014 > Astronomy
At http://phys.org/print310388983.html ...  a paper in Astrophysical Research Letters by scientists from Bistol's 'School of Physics' concerns a computer simulation of how planets form around
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Egypt in the last interglacial

7 February 2014 > Geology
We are going back over 100,000 years ago but at http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/enormous-scale-of-n... ... is a wonder. We have a reconstruction of the landscape of the Nile
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When did large land masses first appear?

7 February 2014 > Geology
If you are into the Expanding Earth theory the land masses have been there all along and it is the oceans that have grown and
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Miocene

6 February 2014 > Geology
In early issues of SIS Workshop there were several references in Monitor, and a letter from Jill Abery, concerning the Mid to Late Miocene geological
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Khoisan Peoples and King Solomon's Mines

5 February 2014 > Archaeology
At http://archaeologicalnewsnetwork.blogspot.co.uk?2014/02/humanities-forgo... ... we have another story that brings to mind early SIS Workshops and the various writings of Nell Kluitman. In these, the impression
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Sodom and Gomorrah chronology

4 February 2014 > Ancient history
In a talk at the 1991 SIS AGM meeting in London (at the Library Association) one of the speakers, Bernard Newgrosh, likened the Sodom and
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The Jolly Jelly Jape

2 February 2014 > Astronomy
At http://phys.org/print310294198.html ... it seems NASAs Rover vehicle has dislodged a strange rock, white on the outside and red in the middle. It was described
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Archaeology end of January

2 February 2014 > Archaeology
At http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/c14-dates-question-... ... seem to show modern humans emerged in the Near East at the same time as elsewhere in western Asia and Europe, around
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Overkill, or Natural Disaster?

2 February 2014 > Catastrophism
At http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/what-killed-great-b... ... one of the most implausable theories is that humans were capable of killing off the great herds of the Ice Age -
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A letter from Workshop 2:4 (1980)

1 February 2014 > Catastrophism
The letter is by WL Goodman of Bristol, and is as follows ... Dear Sir, it has always been a mystery to me why people,
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Grey, not quite Black

31 January 2014 > Physics
AQt http://phys.org/print310115554.html ... we are told black holes are real, and they have a picture of one - a mass accreting black hole is a
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