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Tim Cullen has a post on the Ring Nebula (Messier 57) which provides an example of the fluorescence produced by gases when they are irradiated

The name is derived from tal or thal = a valley, and Neander = a river, where the first specimen was unearthed, a chap that

At http://phys.org/print303060859.html ... we have a paper published in Environmental Research Letters by two British professors that profess in all sincerity that neither changes in

At http://phys.org/print303045944.html ... the Hubble Space Telescope has found an asteroid sporting six comet like tails arching from an object in the Asteroid Belt (P/2013P5).

At www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2013/11/mystery-of-supermassive-black-hole... ... it sounds a bit like a hypothetical mystery created by a hypothetical model. The growth of black holes to supermassive scales in

This story can be seen at http://bionews-tx.com/news/2013/11/01/texas-prof-says-discovery-alaska-s... ... basically, do the dates of Clovis points in Alaska and Canada suggest a migration across the Bering

At www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/11/131106164150.htm ... there is a report on research done of the airburst event on February 15th 2013 and it claims to have revolutionised scientists'

D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson, 'On Growth and Form' (1917) was critical of Darwin and thought that biologists of the day over emphasized evolution as the fundamental

At http://malagabay.wordpress.com/2013/11/04/liesegang-rings-5-geological-q... ... Tin Cullen gets more and more interesting as he probes down through the uniformitarian minefield of geology. Silicates, according to the consensus

Current Archaeology 285, December 2013, has a story about the discovery of a boat building site on the shores of an Ice Age lake on

A really fascinating series of posts over at Tim Cullen's blog http://malagabay.wordpress.com/2013/10/27/liesegang-rings-1-the-liesegan... ... which goes back to experimentation in the 19th century that resulted in

William Thompson forwarded part of a correspondence from Sam Windsor, colleague of Don Patten (in days of yore). Bearing in mind that the assumption is

This story is at http://notrickszone.com/2013/11/05/scientists-find-that-sea-level-rise-i... ... and comes from Germany but involves a scientific study a the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. They collated data from

A crisis in the climate models, the computer generated graphs that extrapolate warmth ever higher even though it only happened over a few short years

Yes, we live on a watery planet - but the next full plate to follow CAGW as it continues to crumble and come undone at

William Thompson sent in this link, chapter 12 'Catastrophism, Uniformitarianism, and Western Civilisation' from his book, The Biblical Flood and the Ice Epoch - go

The Smithsonian has an interesting piece on the history of the ouija board - a favourite prop of Agatha Christie and ilk, and universally condemned

Geoffrey Parker, 'Global Crisis: War, climate change and catastrophe in the 17th century' (Yale University Press:2013) is by a UK historian that has worked in

We are all aware of Tolkein's Lord of the Rings but where did the idea of a magical ring come from. Was it a temporary

Dennis Cox has a new post at his blog, http://craterhunter.wordpress.com/2013/10/21/the-patterned-peat-lands/ .... he thinks he might have found some evidence of the Younger Dryas Boundary event