In the News

At http://phys.org/print303641255.html ... it seems geologists might have a new way to look for gold in them thar' hills - find the crater and then

At http://phys.org/print303673640.html ... Jupiter's red spot, is a giant vortice that is supposed to lose energy by radiating heat and is suspended between two jet

At http://cosmo.nyu.edu/~rj486/files/RJansson_PhD_thesis.pdf ... the magnetic field of the Milky Way. Each star in the Milky Way has its own magnetic field - like our Sun.

At http://phys.org/print303571573.html ... latest update on plasma fusion - Chinese, American, French. Where are the British? Stuck up a windmill. How much are we really

At http://malagabay.wordpress.com/2013/11/13/methane-myopia-3-earth-science/ ... Tim Cullen takes aim again at the Earth Sciences and a Wikipedia entry that claims, 'palaeo-climatology research published in Current Biology suggests

Two more posts on Comet ISON - at http://phys.org/print303650046.html ... NASAs Messenger spacecraft, orbiting Mercury, has captured images of Comet ISON - and Comet Encke.

At http://notrickszone.com/2013/11/14/more-dissent-erupts-in-germany-free-d... ... it seems that Germany has its equivalent of Nigel Farage - and apparently not to be trifled with. The video is in

At www.newscientists.com/article/dn24492-ancient-mural-may-be-first-picture... (or http://tinyurl.com/njo4uww) ... in 1963 archaeologist James Melaart discovered a large mural on a wall of a house at Catalhuyuk (which was pieced

It seems the paper published a few days ago in Environmental Research Letters (see In the News 10th November) aimed at debunking the Svensmark theory

At www.uea.ac.uk/~jwmp/CAA2003.pdf (or http://tinyurl.com/pjs8vz3) we have a paper released by the University of East Anglia on a significant henge in Norwich. It is situated near

At http://spaceweather.com ... an outburst from Comet ISON. There is a sharp increase in the brightness and it is now on the threshold of naked

The previous post may have been angled to show people in the Middle Ages were irrational when it comes to comets, in comparison with the

At http://phys.org/print303391880.html ... this is about past observations of comets. For some reason the journalist that wrote the piece said, 'first observations' of comets were

This should actually be, 'the birth of the modern Sahara' as apparently the desert has come and gone on a number of occasions. At http://phys.org/print303380174.html

At http://phys.org/print303390618.html ... we have a piece on sea floor methane hydrates, a potential energy source - but also a potential source of global warming

Arthur Custance, 'The Seed of the Woman', Joshua Press, Ontario:2001 (reprint of a 1980 book) (see also www.custance.org and www.joshuapress.com) This book comes recommended by

At www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-11/uoy-ruo110713.php ... it seems cattle were domesticated in China around the same time as in Western Asia - at the beginning of the Holocene

I was having a few dark ales at a beer festival at the weekend when one of my brother in laws said to me, quite

At http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/17th-century-landma... ... researchers at North Carolina State University have recreated the courtyard of St Paul's Cathedral in London as it was in 1622 -

It is well known that early Christianity appealed to women but less is known about how those women were influential in the spread of the