In the News

At http://phys.org/print304238468.html ... there is another invocation of hell ... but this time accompanied by heaven ... The 'blurb' came about in result of the

In this post at www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2510546/Hole-40-years.html ... hell is invoked, a bit of a tabloid 'word-play' on an unusual story. The door to hell is in

At www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/11/2013/neanderthal-string-theory ... a Neanderthal occupation site in the Ardeche in France has shownthey used string to thread a knecklace of stones, teeth, and shells,

At www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-25004282 ... research published in the Journal of Archaeological Science say they have found the specific outcrop of spotted dolerite from where most of

Wal Thornhill has a take on that six spoked asteroid reported last week. Go to www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9HPVMw1IN0&feature=youtu.be

Sean Kingsley in World Current Archaeology 62 - see www.world-archaeology.com (story not on site at moment as this is the December 2013 edition), uses the

At https://medium.com/the-physics-arxiv-blog/56e227224a25 ... rocks from the Chicxulub asteroid 'must' have spread through the solar system, it is theorised in the arXiv paper. What do they

One of physics biggest unsolved problems is described at http://phys.org/print303981706.html ... where two astrophysicists claim they have 'almost' solved why the Sun's corona is much

This is the third link that is reminiscent of Malaga Bay (remember the black smokers on the ocean bottom) - see http://phys.org/print303899664.html ... a paper

Malaga Bay also came to mind when I read the headline here too - see http://phys.org/print304016779.html ... microbiologists have found that methanogen microbes can reduce

I couldn't help thinking of some of Malaga Bay's postings when coming across this at http://phys.org/print303991846.html ... a piece of research on amber deposits. A

At www.naukawpolsce.pap.pl/en/news/news,397981,dabki-where-hunters-met-farm... ... a Polish settlement site in Pomerania, on an island in a lake, and dating between 5100 and 3600BC, displays no evidence of

At http://malagabay.wordpress.com/2013/11/17/methane-myopia-5-ice-core-scie... ... and he begins, 'Glaciology is a slippery science ...' and we might all say aye to that. He then quotes Wikipedia extensively

At www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/09/2013/genetic-link-shown-bet... ... a paper published in PLoS ONE, using DNA methodology, has shown a fairly stable population in Syria and the middle Euphrates valley

At www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/03/2013/fishtrap-evokes-powerf... ... which is a bit of a soft soap kind of reporting, nothing like a bit of environmental emotionalising, but the subject itself

At www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/08/2013/catastrophic-climate-c... ... this concerns what caused the abrupt end of the thriving civilisations of the LB age which were followed by a period of

Here is a story of consensus science to make you blush - but not if you are feeling a touch on the toady side -

Keeping to the wolfish theme at http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/dogs-likely-origina... .... another theory on the origin of the domestic dog. In all likelihood European dogs did evolve from

At http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/science-on-trail-of... .... the folk tale of Little Red Riding Hood has a near global dispersal and may reflect ancient human migrations - or cultural

At www.spaceweather.com ... Comet ISON is getting brighter and brighter as we approach the end of November encounter with the Sun. Its tail now extends