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Hanging Gardens of Babylon
24 November 2013 > ArchaeologyI've just watched a Channel 4 TV documentary on the Hanging Gardens of Nineveh, Sunday 24th of November, in which an Oxford University researcher has

Humans in the Americas 30,000 years ago?
24 November 2013 > ArchaeologyAt http://phys.org/news/2013-11-ancient-giant-sloth-bones-humans.html ... a paper in 'Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences' concerns an investigation in Uruguay at a bone bed. Humans are

Microscopic life in the oceans
24 November 2013 > BiologyAt http://phys.org/print304250664.html ... a fascinating piece on ocean life cycles and sampling a cup full of sea water. A glass of water from the oceans

Ice Cube
24 November 2013 > AstronomyThe Ice Cube laboratory is a neutrino observatory where the detectors are buried a mile under the surface of Antarctica. They claim to have found

The Leonids
24 November 2013 > AstronomyTim Cullen turns his attention to the Leonids - go to http://malagabay.wordpress.com/2013/11/24/astral-karma-the-leonids/ ... and the source of this meteor shower is Comet Tempel Tuttle (which

Atmospheric chemistry
24 November 2013 > AstronomyTim Cullen has been looking at the role of methane in space science - and in the politikking of CAGW. He claims this is 'another

Ice Age migrations
23 November 2013 > ArchaeologyAt www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-11/uoc-asg112013.php ... a skeleton of an individual dated around 24,000 years ago, at the height of the Late Glacial Maximum (LGM) was found at

Comet ISON update ... and a new comet on the block (one that has been hiding from us)
23 November 2013 > AstronomyAt http://phys.org/print304107315.html ... Comet ISON spreads its wings - two wing like features have appeared resembling the letter U (so we have a tail plus

Collective consciousness
23 November 2013 > BiologyAnother story from the Daily Mail - see www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2509971/Are-PSYCHIC-scientists-b... ... which suggests sixth sense (which we may very well possess) is a psychic power ...

The geezer at Gezer
23 November 2013 > ArchaeologyAt www.livescience.com/41143-city-found-under-canaanite-city.html ... archaeologists have unearthed a city beneath a Canaanite city - in Israel. This is how the story is presented, as if this

A swarm of satellites
23 November 2013 > AstronomyWell, three to be exact - see http://phys.org/print304250622.html The European Space Agency (EPA) are putting three satellites into orbit, each the size of a small
The new island off Japan
23 November 2013 > GeologyAt http://phys.org/print304227456.html ... a new island has formed at the back end of the Ogasawara chain to the south of Japan. Volcanic activity has
Heaven and Hell
23 November 2013 > AstronomyAt http://phys.org/print304238468.html ... there is another invocation of hell ... but this time accompanied by heaven ... The 'blurb' came about in result of the

Door to Hell
23 November 2013 > GeologyIn this post at www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2510546/Hole-40-years.html ... hell is invoked, a bit of a tabloid 'word-play' on an unusual story. The door to hell is in

Neanderthals ... string and cord now on the list of skills
22 November 2013 > ArchaeologyAt www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/11/2013/neanderthal-string-theory ... a Neanderthal occupation site in the Ardeche in France has shownthey used string to thread a knecklace of stones, teeth, and shells,

Bluestone Source Rock (and Ley Lines)
22 November 2013 > ArchaeologyAt www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-25004282 ... research published in the Journal of Archaeological Science say they have found the specific outcrop of spotted dolerite from where most of

The six armed asteroid ... update
22 November 2013 > AstronomyWal Thornhill has a take on that six spoked asteroid reported last week. Go to www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9HPVMw1IN0&feature=youtu.be

Mrs God
21 November 2013 > ArchaeologySean Kingsley in World Current Archaeology 62 - see www.world-archaeology.com (story not on site at moment as this is the December 2013 edition), uses the

Life from Chicxulub
20 November 2013 > CatastrophismAt https://medium.com/the-physics-arxiv-blog/56e227224a25 ... rocks from the Chicxulub asteroid 'must' have spread through the solar system, it is theorised in the arXiv paper. What do they

The problem on the Sun
20 November 2013 > PhysicsOne of physics biggest unsolved problems is described at http://phys.org/print303981706.html ... where two astrophysicists claim they have 'almost' solved why the Sun's corona is much