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At http://malagabay.wordpress.com/2013/12/02/cosmic-ray-blues-hadronic-shower/ .... Tim Cullen is surpassing himself this week as he sifts through a variety of sources on cosmic rays and hadronic showers, a

Apparently, research presented to the Royal Society  in London by scientists from the Institute of Evolutionary Biology in Barcelona, as reported by the Sunday Times,

A comment at 12.28pm on www.bishop-hill.net/blog/2013/12/2/green-fairies.html ... has the immortal line, '25 years ago Greens were chaining themselves to trees - now they are burning

The last post was about stellar wind directing material to or from a black hole but what is the connection between the two - one

This story is at various places, and for example at http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/fast-furious-refine... ... and black holes are associated with X-ray emissions - but one of them

At http://phys.org/print304851254.html ... the December Geminids are a regular meteor shower emerging out of that part of the sky defined as the constellation of Gemini,

At www.universetoday.com/106832/zombie-ison-behaving-like-a-comet-stunned-a... ... well, something came out of the back end of the Sun - but was it the nucleus. It certainly blazed with light

At http://phys.org/print304868667.html ... it seems we have a post by somebody not entirely convinced of cold fusion. However, it seems that ECAT portable cold fusion

At www.spaceweather.com ... we learn that Comet ISON has re-emerged on the other side of the Sun. Whether the nucleus is whole or severely reduced

Consensus theories are often kept on board long after their sell by date. People become attached to them - a sort of comfort zone. Should

Damerham is located between Cranbourne and Fordingbridge, on the Wiltshire uplands (the Downs) at the very edge of Cranbourne Chase - and not that far

The Irish Elk was in fact a giant deer - part of the Pleistocene megafauna - found in Britain, Ireland, and across northern Europe into

At http://phys.org/print304594532.html ... some new discoveries on foraminifera, the tiny shells of sea creatures such as plankton that are an important prop of Ice Age

At http://phys.org/print304596241.html ... (the same story is at http://wattsupwiththat.com and has hundreds of comments to wade through) but basically we learn that methane is bubbling

I've just heard there was a solar flare on the Sun, and it is heading in the direction of Comet ISON. In order to keep

Changing sea levels, or a reconfiguration of the oceans, are sometimes to be found in the most surprising of places. Anyone holidaying in Shropshire, about

At http://malagabay.wordpress.com/2013/11/22/methane-myopia-7-miles-mathis/ ... we have a link to somebody also criticising mainstream's treatment of methane - go to http://milesmathis.com/meth.pdf Tim Cullen notes that within ice

At http://phys.org/print304333656.html ... a dust ring in the orbit of Venus has been confirmed. This appears to be related to the cloud of dust we

We know it was smaller in the Medieval Warm Period otherwise Scandinavian farmers would not have colonised the edges of the ice sheet and therefore

Are the politicos getting cold toes and hopping around on one leg - which way to put the foot down, backwards or forwards. This comes