In the News

At www.nature.com/news/grand-canyon-is-not-so-ancient-1.14584 ... and this is somewhat overdue some might say. The story brings to light a geological skirmish over the age of the Grand

At www.geneticarchaeology.com/research/Blue_eyes_and_dark_skin_thats_how_th... ...at first I thought this might be a bit of modern politikking but the research is published in Nature which would put that

At www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2014-026 ... NASAs NEOWISE mission has already clocked Comet Siding Spring (which is the 2014 hopeful) and this new comet is set to pass

The Usoskin and Kovaltsov paper at arXiv (see link on two posts previous to this one) is by two scientists who have previously written on

The Chinese paper on a comet involvement in the C14 spike at 775AD, as recorded in Tang astronomical records (Liu et al, Nature Science Report

Chesil Beach, between Weymouth and Abbotsbury, is a huge bank of pebbles, which are graded. Various theories exist about how it originated. However, behind the

For an interesting obituary go to www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/science-obituaries/10598040/Halton-A... ... Halton Arp is associated with adopting an opinion opposed to the Big Bang theory of how everything

There is nothing new under the Sun and so it is with the latest identification of Sodom with Tall el-Hammam in the Kikkar plain, where

This appears to be the calendar referred to by Euan MacKie in a recent post - go to www.celticnz.co.nz/Coligny/ColignyPart1.htm ... but it looks an awful

At www.currentscience.ac.in/Volumes/105/01/0061.pdf ... computer modelling of eclipses doesn't fit with observation. The above link shows recorded eclipse data from India, which is regarded as reliable,

In The Times January 10th 2014, the Red Knecked Phalorope spends the summer months gobbling midges in Scotland but it spends the winter in a

At http://heritageofjapan.wordpress.com/2014/01/25/the-tang-dynasty-cosmic-... ... further to the recent post on a comet recorded by astronomers during the 8th century AD the link describes the cosmic world

Lactose tolerance evolved - it is a genetic change. At http://phys.org/print309711543.html ... we have a story about milk digestion and lactose tolerance. A research undergraduate

In the very first SIS Workshop Martin Sieff had an article on the raash of Uzziah as it was described by Velikovsky in one of

William Thompson has provided two links for this story from the British Museum - www.foxnews.com/2014/01/24/ancient-tablet-reveals-more-details-about-noa... and www.csmonitor.com/layout/set/r14/Science/2014/0125/Noah-s-Ark-Was-it-rea... ... which promotes a book by Irving Finkel,

At http://phys.org/print309782864.html ... the newly reactivated NEOWISE space telescope mission has been up and running for 25 days. In that time it has detected 857

At Nature Science Reports 4:3728 (DOI:10.1038/srep03728) - download the four page article at http://cosmictusk.com/8th-century-event-flares-now-comets/ ... Yi Liu et al 'Mysterious abrupt C14 increase in coral

This debate began at Anthony's site, Watts Up With That, some time ago, after the publication of a climate paper that made a great deal

At www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-25865118 ... winter gales in Wales have exposed the hidden remains of trees dating back 6000 years ago. However, on the TV a couple

SIS member Robert Farrar sent a link to www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2543973/Ceres-gushing-water-liqu... ... which is about a giant asteroid described as a dwarf planet, namely Ceres, gushing water