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Discovering the City of Sodom
28 October 2013 > ArchaeologySteven 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

What was mainstream astronomy doing when Velikovsky was writing his books?
25 October 2013 > CatastrophismVarious 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

The Greening of a Comet
25 October 2013 > ElectromagnetismAt 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

Dendrochronology anomalies
24 October 2013 > DatingBob Porter reports on gaps in the Belfast Chronology in a recent article authored by Mike Baillie and D Brown, 'Confirming the existence of gaps

Mars and Meteorites
24 October 2013 > AstronomyA 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,

Finkelstein and pollen grains
24 October 2013 > ArchaeologyWe covered this subject at the recent Study Group Meeting at the house of David Roth (in London) as one of the attendees had a
Thrust
24 October 2013 > GeologyAt 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

Neanderthals ... and the rest
24 October 2013 > AnthropologyAt 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

Solar UV and ozone
23 October 2013 > ElectromagnetismAt 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

The vibrating galaxy
23 October 2013 > AstronomyAt 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

Gulf Stream - all you need to know
23 October 2013 > Climate changeGo 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 > ElectromagnetismThe 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

NASA and the asteroid threat ... and Mankind in Amnesia
20 October 2013 > Climate changeOkay, it is likely that most Near Earth Objects are in resonant orbit with the Earth, and have been for untold numbers of years, and

Homo Erectus ... came in several different flavours?
19 October 2013 > AnthropologyThis 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

Neanderthals in the Channel
19 October 2013 > ArchaeologyNot 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

Churning Sun
19 October 2013 > ElectromagnetismAt 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

Fat Black Holes
19 October 2013 > AstronomyWe'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

Asteroids creep up on You
19 October 2013 > AstronomySome 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

Comet ISON ... will it, won't it?
19 October 2013 > ElectromagnetismAt 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' -

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