In the News

At http://phys.org/print291361534.html ... news of a new book on the discovery of evolution, John Wyhe, Dispelling the Darkness: Voyages in the Malay Archipelago. Alfred Wallace

At http://phys.org/print291396902.html ... we learn that more than ten thousand asteroids and comets that can pass near the Earth have now been discovered. They range

David Keys, author of Catastrophe: An Investigation into the Origins of the Modern World, Random House:1999, is the archaeology and history correspondent for The Independent

I picked up a book in a hospital second hand shop (proceeds used to finance the bits and pieces around the wards) by Allan Chapman.

At www.geneticarchaeology.com/research/Chalking_up_a_marine_blooming_alga_G... ... chalk deposits are formed from the white shells that envelop single celled photosynthetic alga known as Ehux, a coccolithopare with an exo

Four interesting posts on astronomy - at http://phys.org/print290928922.html ... ESOs Very Large Telescope Interferometer has observed dust around a huge black hole which seems to

The Tanana River appears in Velikovsky's Earth in Upheaval, associated with the Alaskan muck deposits (and underlying gold in the river gravels). He claimed human

We get different coloured flint in Britain. For example, in the Vale of Aylesbury you can pick up pieces of orange and brown flints from

The Neolithic period in Taiwan (formerly the island of Formosa) lasted from about 3000BC to 500BC. During that period there developed a remarkable jade industry

At a recent SIS study group meeting the Eskimo claim they could hear aurora was discussed, which has recently been verified by scientists. They said

At http://chiefio.wordpress.com/2013/06/21/the-fallacy-of-trapped-heat/ ... this post is reminiscent of a talk Peter Warlow gave to the SIS at the Harlequin Theatre in Redhill in April 2009,

At http://phys.org/news/2013-06-meteorologists-mull-weird-british-weather.html ... climate scientists and meteorologists from the Met Office had a meeting a couple of days ago. They were somewhat bemused by all

At http://phys.org/print290759007.html ... we learn that Treezilla is a monster map of trees launched by the Open University (or at tax payers expense to be

At http://phys.org/print290764261.html ... Crantor, a large asteroid with a diameter of 70km, has an orbit similar to that of Uranus, which it tracks. It takes

His book, 'On Growth and Form' appears on page 101 of Trevor Palmer's 'The Perilous Planet Earth; Catastrophes and Catastrophism Through the Ages' Cambidge University

Well, that is the headline at http://phys.org/print290673740.html .... but it emerges that what has been found is an active tectonic zone to the west of

The last of the three posts goes where it naturally weaves a path - http://malagabay.wordpress.com/2013/06/16/the-inflating-earth-4-gravity/ .... and leads from the equatorial bulge to the question

In the next of his posts on the Inflating Earth model, Tim Cullen turns to the equatorial bulge - how does this feature fit into

I seem to have got stuck on this theme of the Expanding Earth theory but here are another three pieces to look at by those

Maps presented as a video provide a three dimensional representation of the universe through the use of rotation, panning, and zooming facilities. The Cosmic Flows