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Something to chew on here. See for example http://malagabay.wordpress.com/2013/08/03/black-and-white-bloch/ and http://malagabay.wordpress.com/2013/08/06/geomagnetism-virtual-reality-v... Tim Cullen is not a fan of mainstream geomagnetic science, one of the main

At www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/352848/description/News_in_Brief_Big... ... J Bamber of Bristol University and chums have uncovered a large canyon while mapping Greenland's sub glacial terrain with ice penetrating radar.

Lots of fuss surrounding the new paper concerning the role of the ocean in the recent cooling of global temperatures - all blamed on La

At www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2013/08/big-bang-simulation-of-380000-year... .. not sure if they have found the Big Bang - but they've found something (which may be profound, important, or inconsequential). Physicists

At www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-08/plos-hsm082313.php ... new research has found some previously unknown archaeological sites in the Bolivian Amazon. Hundreds of small forested mounds of earth, considered to

At http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/08/29/a-new-understanding-of-the-solar-d... ... the story was sent in by Leif Svalgaard, solar scientist. He is unimpressed by the Electric Universe and consistently rejects various ideas

Interaction between the first farmers and the pre-existing population of Europe has always been thought to be unlikely. Farmers tended to set down roots and

At http://phys.org/print296907712.html ... we've had Mars chocolate bars and claims it is made of cheese, canals on Mars and little green men, and 'Journey into

At www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-23861397 ... St Andrew's University, a stone's throw from Trevor, have created the world's fastest spinning man-made object, a microscopic sphere achieving speeds of

At www.livescience.com/39247-mini-human-brains-grown-in-dish.html ... the first example of a developing human brain to have been created in a laboratory - using stem cell technology

The search for evidence of New Physics continues apace. The idea is to discover extensions to the Standard Model. See http://phys.org/print296713617.html The same story is

This story is at http://phys.org/print296756636.html ... research shows solar radiation peaked in the 1930s. This is not surprising as the highest temperatures of the 20th

An interesting piece of research from Spain - see http://phys.org/print296738850.html ... the facts on the ground don't appear to fit the assumed picture. Mountain glaciers

At http://phys.org/print296718236.html ... airline pilots often reported seeing strange lights, nicknamed sprites. They observed them when flying during storms, sometimes high above the actual clouds

Both The Times and the Independent newspapers have posted pieces on the Beowulf connection with Danish excavations at Lejre, 23 miles west of Copenhagen. See

At http://phys.org/print296759652.html ... some images of fragments of the Chelyabinsk meteor which seem to show the object had been involved with a previous encounter of

Tall Bloke is back on to the theme of the Golden Ratio. His last post on the subject did not go down so well but

The Times, August 16th, ran a story on Bath Abbey, and building renovations designed to repair subsidence and install underfloor heating at the same time.

The UK heatwave dissipated a few weeks ago but for a while Alasaka and the Canadian Arctic enjoyed some lovely summer weather, reaching 29C (84F)./

Not sure how important this might be but Tall Bloke thinks he is on to something - see http://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2013/08/25/rog-tallbloke-carbon14-and-sol... ... an interesting post even if