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Discovering the City of Sodom

28 October 2013 > Archaeology
Steven Collins and Letayne Scott, 'Discovering the City of Sodom', Howard Books (Simon and Schuster):2013 (isbn 978-1-4516-8430-8) This is the most unusual book about an
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What was mainstream astronomy doing when Velikovsky was writing his books?

25 October 2013 > Catastrophism
Various catastrophists, in the spirit of Velikovsky, have claimed the planets were involved in catastrophic events. This was a direct spin-off from his ideas concerning
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The Greening of a Comet

25 October 2013 > Electromagnetism
At http://phys.org/print301901189.html ... why is comet ISON green? Green is a sign that the comet if becoming more active as it comes closer to the
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Dendrochronology anomalies

24 October 2013 > Dating
Bob Porter reports on gaps in the Belfast Chronology in a recent article authored by Mike Baillie and D Brown, 'Confirming the existence of gaps
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Mars and Meteorites

24 October 2013 > Astronomy
A meteorite find in the US in the 1930s has been under the microscope - see http://phys.org/print301725844.html. Research has shown the meteorite, or space rock,
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Finkelstein and pollen grains

24 October 2013 > Archaeology
We covered this subject at the recent Study Group Meeting at the house of David Roth (in London) as one of the attendees had a

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24 October 2013 > Geology
At http://phys.org/print301846082.html ... see picture below. This was taken a few weeks ago and shows just what landscape features an earthquake can create - a
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Neanderthals ... and the rest

24 October 2013 > Anthropology
At http://phys.org/print301582052.html ... is about the search for a common ancestor linking modern humans with Neanderthals. Going by dental fossils (they don't have much else
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Solar UV and ozone

23 October 2013 > Electromagnetism
At http://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2013/10/23/new-paper-finds-solar-uv-varie... ... Dr Sandip Dhomse of the University of Leeds has a paper published in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics that notes solar UV radiation
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The vibrating galaxy

23 October 2013 > Astronomy
At http://arxiv.org/abs/1302.2468 and http://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2013.10/23/milky-way-turns-out-to-be-a-vo... and even http://phys.org/print301684171.html ... the wobbling galaxy with velocities going upwards and downwards, seems to show our galaxy has a wave
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Gulf Stream - all you need to know

23 October 2013 > Climate change
Go to www.ldeo.columbia.edu/res/div/ocp/gs/ ... as it concerns a touch of climate mythology - the Gulf Stream and European climate, by Richard Seager.

Black Holes now make new stars

23 October 2013 > Electromagnetism
The usual tale of black holes swallowing matter around them is beginning to change its tune. At http://phys.org/p;rint301741495.html ... see what you make of it
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NASA and the asteroid threat ... and Mankind in Amnesia

20 October 2013 > Climate change
Okay, it is likely that most Near Earth Objects are in resonant orbit with the Earth, and have been for untold numbers of years, and
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Homo Erectus ... came in several different flavours?

19 October 2013 > Anthropology
This is turning into a big story - see http://phys.org/print301240629.html ... the discovery of early human skulls in Georgia (in the Transcaucasus) which have been
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Neanderthals in the Channel

19 October 2013 > Archaeology
Not literally as the Channel was dry land at the time. At www.nerc.ac.uk/press/releases/2013/81-neanderthals.asp ... the St Brelade cave in Jersey contains sediments dating back to
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Churning Sun

19 October 2013 > Electromagnetism
At http://phys.org/print301210854.html ... the Sun's magnetic field is a churning and undulating cycle as it reaches solar maximum - it then flips. Solar maximum comes
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Fat Black Holes

19 October 2013 > Astronomy
We've had muching black holes and hungry black holes but it seems we now have fat black holes - see http://phys.org/print301210413.html ... fat black holes
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Asteroids creep up on You

19 October 2013 > Astronomy
Some nice asteroid stories in the news. At http://phys.org/print301303272.html ... concerns a newly discovered asteroid that made a close approach to Earth on September 16th
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Comet ISON ... will it, won't it?

19 October 2013 > Electromagnetism
At http://phys.org/print301286033.html ... the headline reads, 'Is the Christmas comet cracking up?' and at http://phys.org/print301247934.html ... the headline is 'Incoming comet ISON appears intact' -
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John Ackerman

16 October 2013 > Catastrophism
New Velikosky type book out by someone known as John Ackerman, Egyptian Astrophysics: the 30 year cycles, which appears to be straight out of the
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