In the News

The fascination with finding water on Mars is continuing apace at a fair rate of knots. At www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2013/07/caltech-researchers-discover-evide... ... Mike Lamb of Caltech and co-author

At www.geneticarchaeology.com/research/Did_Neandertals_have_language.asp ... we learn that research seems to suggest Neanderthals were very similar to modern humans, in a variety of ways. The idea Neanderthals,

The biggest story this week, in archaeology, is the discovery of the world's oldest lunar calendar in an Aberdeenshire field - in the grounds of

Excellent post by Hossein Turner at http://hozturner.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/the-great-comet.html ... a fresh insight into the Great Comets of the Ancient World, inspired no doubt by comet ISON

In a follow up post on July 3rd Tim Cullen expands further on the geological jigsaw puzzle associated with chalk formation - and includes on

It's a fact that chalk formed extensive beds in the Cretaceous but nowhere in the world is there evidence of chalk being formed today. Limestone,

A brilliant post at http://malagabay.wordpress.com/2013/06/18/chronology-ice-cores/ ... which targets consensus geochronology. Anyone even faintly having recourse to the dating of rock strata will have a bit

An article in Science concerns mysterious burst of radio waves from billions of light years away - which has caused some speculation (see http://phys.org/print292164806.html The

For centuries, a consensus theory ruled the roost, as science (a generalisation) had known that a piece of glass could be made to produce a

In MJ Harper's book, The History of Britain Revealed:the shocking truth about the English language, Icon Books:2006, the author makes some funny but very irreverent

At www.space.com/19537-venus-comet-atmosphere.html ... it seems Venus sometimes has the appearance of a comet rather than a planet according to a European Space Agency source. Part

At http://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2013/07/01/2013-chelyabinsk-meteor-larges... ... the 2013 Russian meteor, or fireball, is the largest ever recorded by CTBTO seismic monitoring (infrasound sensors) and a paper on the

This is all a bit speculative but interesting nonetheless. At the 76th Annual Meteoritical Society Meeting (2013) the Chelyabinsk (Russian) meteor will be discussed and

On a day that a video has been published of a beheading of three Christian monks or Catholic priests in Syria by the very people

At http://phys.org/print291565822.html ... this story comes from NASA and the Voyager 1 spacecraft and speculation surrounding what is actually there at the edge of the

This story can be found at www.livescience.com/37812-cave-art-reveals-ancient-view-of-cosmos.html ... which once again is all in the head, and ignores alternative interpretations. The paper seems to imply

At http://phys.org/print291614362.html ... this is all part of CAGW hype so may be complete waffle without much substance - but interesting in the context of

Problems regarding the amount of oxygen in the solar system in comparison with space at large - see www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2013/06/did-our-solar-system-evolve-in-a-m... At www.space.com/21758-comet-ison-summer-brightness.html ... the size of

The Times (June 21st, 2013) also had a piece on the Greek scholar Eratosthenes, going back to the BC period. In the Egyptian city of

With the closure of some coal and nuclear power stations the fear of power cuts is getting some politicos worried - civils disorder in prospect.