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At http://phys.org/print298800472.html ... some scientists are proposing a revision of Big Bang. They say the birth of the universe may have happened after a four

At http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/09/18/claim-similuated-satellite-data-ba... ... this one is a real classic. Satellite data has only been around for a limited time so what have this group of

First you go this way, wiggles around, in out in out and shake it all about, and then you go that way, do the ....

This question comes up all the time. What actually happened around 40,000 years ago. The old chestnust that Neanderthals were conservative in their diet no

The liberal elite like to claim that Mrs Thatcher (and Ronald Reagan) won the battle - but they won the war. This is of course

At http://phys.org/print298346381.html ... research at Princetown University and the Swiss Institution of Technology in Zurich have discovered the wobble of the Earth on its axis

Mike Pitts has posted some interesting photographs of Stonehenge from the 1980s - courtesy of another archaeologist. This one caught my eye Se http://mikepitts.wordpress.com/2013/08/29/where-was-the-stonehenge-festi...

Member Gary Gilligan has responded to the question - noctilucent clouds; what would our ancestors have made of them? (particularly during periods of heavy meteoric

Not the very modern humans but those that were around 40,000 years ago - see www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/09/130913093314.htm A rock shelter in Lebanon has produced human fossil

SIS member Robert Farrar has sent in an interesting review of Donald Scott's 'The Electric Sun' - which is worth chewing over. Go to http://www.answersingenesis.org/article/arj/v6/n1/plasma-astronomy

At www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/09/2013/10000-year-old-bones-a... ... excavations in Kents Bank Cavern on Morecambe Bay in the 1990s found bones that ended up in a museum in Barrow in

At www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-09/plos-pas090613.php ... we have a story about migrations through the Sahara when it had rivers. The full article can be dowloaded in full for

In neo-catastrophism the Cambrian Explosion of Life is not a problem as the rock record is perceived as primarily a record of disasters (catastrophes) and

At www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2013/09/dwarf-galaxies-found-to-harbor-100... ... and the title of the post says it all. Modelling of telescope observations, which sounds like a paradox, was used to determine

Northern Earth 135 also has a nice piece on rock art in Scotland's Kilmartin region where there are 133 known panels of rock art in

In Northern Earth 135 (autumn, 2013) there is a little piece with the title, 'what would our ancestors make of this?' which set me thinking.

NASA has released information on the current status of Voyager 1 and the spacecraft has moved into interstellar space, is the claim. It is 12

At http://phys.org/print298105107.html ... a possibly revealing post on the processes occurring at the junction of tectonic plates - in particular subduction zones where one plate

Steve McIntyre has a new post up at Climate Audit - see http://climateaudit.org/2013/09/11/ipcc-and-the-end-of-summer/ ... following a long spell without posting. He has been busy working

Curent Archaeology 283 (Oct 2013) - see www.archaeology.co.uk - has an article on the Cornonation Chair and the Stone of Scone which at one time