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Gary Gilligan has sent in an article by Velikovsky published by the New York Times on July 21st of 1969 - which appeared in Pensee

We've had the expanding Earth - now we have shrinking Mercury. This story is at www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=mercury-is-shrinking-more .... and turns out not to be a big

Therre is a nice piece at http://thunderbolts.info/tpod/2005/arch05/050404antarctic-fossil.htm ... which tells us about a petrified forest in Antarctica. It is dated to Late Permian - which

A new book, details forwarded by secretary Jill Abery, written by SIS member David M Barker - 'Science and Religion: reconciling the conflicts' and published

another humdinger from the stable of Tim Cullen - a logical follow on from his last piece on the luminous nature of the Moon. What

Several posts on Mars today - and the focussed search for water and moisture on the red planet. At http://phys.org/print305921732.html ... we have images of

Disappointment all round. Comet ISON is effectively dead - zilch (see http://phys.org/print305804079.html). There is no evidence of a zombie half existence - or a resurrection

At http://westerndigs.org/oldest-known-footprints-in-north-america-identified/ ... a surprisingly large number of human footprints have been preserved in sedimentary rocks in N America - going back to the Younger

You have heard of the expanding earth theory - which gives Plate Tectonics a run for its money. Now we have the expanding universe theory

Oh Dear oh dear. That chappie Rog the Not so Short One has been rather naughty - go to http://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2013/12/08/ipcc-ar5-synthesis-report--pre... ... which is basically the

It is worth having another look at the Expanding Earth theory as it has a lot of things going for it in contrast to Plate

At http://malagabay.wordpress.com/2013/12/07/cosmic-ray-blues-the-bloody-moon/ ... we have another cracker by Tim Cullen. . A lunar eclipse provides Earth dwellers with a view of an orangey red Moon

This refers to a paper by a German-British team of geoscientists that say that the warming of the cold Younger Dryas period happened rapidly but

The Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Switzerland is said to have found the Higgs boson, formed during collisions between bunches of protons travelling close

Bryn celli Dhu on Anglesey, is a prehistoric mound situated in the middle of a farm field, suitably fenced off from livestock and with a

A photo chop - or is it a photo shop. A splice photograph of a Copenhagen beauty spot ... The link to the tweet is

The idea of science being settled about anything is a bit of an oxymoron but never mind - that is what we have come to

Albedo is derived from Latin = whiteness - in this instance it is reflected sunlight. From albus = white is the diffuse reflectivity or reflecting

At http://phys.org/print305395954.html ... measurement of polarised light in the afterglow indicates the presence of a stable magnetic field associated with a young black hole -

Well, what caused it is a matter of debate - if you go to Piers Corbyn's web site he predicts earthquakes from solar and lunar