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A parish in Lousiana is being swallowed by a sink hole (sometimes known as swallow holes because they swallow objects). At http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews/2013/08/watch-this-sink-hole-s... ... there is

It might be the title of an old pop song but there is something in those words. Go to http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/science/2013/08/the-science-behind-honey... ... salt, sugar, and dried

An interesting story at http://phys.org/print296465433.html ... African mountain bamboos are hidden away, like the mountain gorillas that feed on them, in the mountains at the 

At www.newscientist.com/article/dn24082-early-south-americans-conquered-the... ... it is assumed the Atacama desert was a barrier to human settlement but excavations of a site on a low hill surrounded

The post on Giant Redwoods on August 24th included the information of a narrow growth tree ring event at 1739AD that could not be attributed

At www.newscientist.com/article/mg21929303.400-worods-oldest-temple-built-t... ... we have an update on Gobekli Tepe, which consists of around 20 circular enclosures. Each is surrounded by a ring of T

At http://phys.org/print296285682.html ... excavations at Gabii, to the east of Rome, have revealed a buried structure made of giant stone blocks resembling a Lego construct

At www.jewishpress.com/news/archaeologists-find-israel-was-land-of-milk-hon... ... the discovery of 27 flasks going back to 1000BC (Iron I) found 10 of them were containers for cinnamon. This spice is

At http://phys.org/print296373520.html ... which is taken from www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2013-257&cid=release_2013-257 ... where NASA report WISE is being taken out of mothballs and reactivated, in order to seek

At http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/08/130822-santorini-atlanti... ... ignoring the equation of the Thera eruption with the Atlantis legend what we seem to have here is a new C14 date

At www.sfgate.com/science/article/Ancient-redwoods-in-growth-spurt-of-a-lif... ... very often we hear negative stories about the Californian giant redwood tree - they are on the verge of dying, global warming

At http://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2013/08/22/fred-banks-remembering-the-ste... ... is actually more to do with a new book by Ferdinand Banks, 'Energy and Economic Theory' (2013) World Scientific: London, New York

I don't know how George Howard does it but he has come up trumps again with another downloadable 10 page article - see http://cosmictusk.com/the-eyes-have-it-clovis-peck-out-ydb-event-in americas-oldest-petroglyphs

At www.aftau.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=19035 ... Tel Aviv University archaeologists have uncovered huge fortifications dating to the Iron Age - at Ashdod-Yam. A mud brick wall 12 feet

It was thought the Faeroes were first settled by the Vikings but it now seems they were colonised as early as the 4th to 6th

Bearing in mind some of the things blogged at Malaga Bay the following is interesting - see http://phys.org/print296117095.html (the same story is at Science News

The background behind the Anglo Saxon poem Beowulf has just been brought to life by excavations in Denmark - BBC History magazine Sept 2013 (see

At www.newsobserver.com/2013/08/19/3116729/corps-archaeologists-study-misso... ... the Missourie River carves a slice off one of its banks every now and again and these reveal flint scrapers and knives,

A comment on page 16 at www.bishop-hill.net/blog/2013/8/20/more-kahya.html makes the point that practically all oil and gas that has ever been drilled had bituminous shales as

Tony Haynes, in an email, and continuing his research into alternative energy such as plasma and cold fusion, has found another twist in the story,