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At http://phys.org/print294651259.html ... a comet graveyard is in effect, the Asteroid Belt - although comets are not necessarily out like a snuffed light for keeps,

At http://phys.org/print294650860.html ... in 2008 Norwegian scientists discovered Loki's Castle, a field of five active hydrothermal vents on the Mid Atlantic Ridge between Norway and

American bloggers tend to think the EPA and other federal agencies are swamped by an environmentalist soup and yet fracking has taken off big time

At www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/08/2013/neolithic-engraved-sto... ... since 2010 some 80 decorated pieces of stone have been unearthed, and altogether some 450 inscribed pieces. Now, a discovery in Structure

In Current Archaeology 282 (Sept 2013) - www.archaeology.co.uk - there is an interesting article on Star Carr (a longer but similar article appeared in Antiquity

Rens van der Sluijs at his best - go to www.thunderbolts.info/wp/2013/08/01/polar-wondering-2/ It begins with the recent movements of the geomagnetic pole - and estimated movement

At www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/352058/description/Y_chromosome_anal... ... which is basically telling us the male line is as old as the female mitochondrial line - but what does it mean

Catching up ... the end of Permian extinction is now being blamed on a comet or asteroid strike, 252 million years ago (see http://phys.org/print294567573.html). The

Mainstream media and NASA have gone quiet but over at http://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2013/03/05/andrew-cooper-were-the-recent-... ... comments are still coming in 5 months after the posting was uploaded and

At www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-07/uol-mdi072813.php ... a lead coffin within a stone coffin has been dug up at the Richard III site (in a car park in Leicester).

Current World Archaeology 5:12 (Aug/Sept, 2013) (see also www.world-archaeology.com) has a piece on iron use in Egypt. It is thought smelting reached Egypt in the

Environmental archaeologist Mike Allen and Charley French noticed the ditch and bank of the Avenue were dug alongside a pair of natural chalk ridges whose

At http://malagabay.wordpress.com/2013/07/21/geology-mind-the-gap/ ... is another amusing post from Tim Cullen with a sarcastic take on geology as it is presented by mainstream academia. In this

At www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2013-234&cid=release_2013-234 ... concerns Centaurs, small celestial bodies that orbit the Sun between Jupiter and Neptune - what are they? A new study derived from

At http://anthropology.net/2013/07/26/the-role-of-climate-on-african-stone-... .... the blog author refers to a paper in the May 2013 issue of Nature Communications, 'Devolopment of middle stone age innovation linked

At http://phys.org/print293984345.html ... we have the IRIS mission's first look at the Sun's interface region. This is a very exciting mission which will provide science

At www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2013/07/oxygen-were-the-building-blocks-of... ... we have a recognition there is a problem with the consensus model of a soup of noxious gases forming the atmosphere during

At http://gelbspanfiles.com/?p=609 ... there is a post on Willie Soon that has gravitated elsewhere around the blogs. He is a climate scientist that dared to

The difference between research into co2 driven climate change then and now is a feature of Steve McIntyre at http://climateaudit.org/2013/07/26/guy-callendar-vs-the-gcms/ In 1938 Guy Callendar, employed

Another new paper on the Younger Dryas boundary event - by Andrew Overholt and Adrian Melott. They are thinking in terms of increased levels of