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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,

This climate change malarkey has now migrated to the Pliocene period, and it is said to lie at the root of canyons formed on the

The Daily Mail has picked up on a story I meant to post but never did. Gary Gilligan has forwarded the links at www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2389820/Planktonic-foraminifera-... ...

At www.nature.com/news/ancient-art-fills-in-egypt-s-ecological-history-1.13528 ... concerns the use of Egyptian dynastic art and inscriptions to show how much wildlife once abounded in the region, a survival from

At www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/08/130812154225.htm ... Neanderthals again found to be not so backward. Four bone tools found at Pech de l'Aze were used to work hides. Modern

George Howard provides a link to an unusual web site - see http://cosmictusk.com/beautiful-blog-naturalis-historia-unpacks-the-ydb-... ... and it begins with the Chelyabinsk meteor that exploded over Russia

The Daily Telegraph, August 13th (2013) under Science, has Michael Hanlon telling us that a colossal solar flare hit the Earth in the Dark Ages

At www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2013/08/beyond-the-higgs-boson-worlds-phys... ... which begins of the assumption the LHC actually found the Higgs Boson. I didn't realise it was a certainty - when did

At www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2013/08/-origin-of-magellanic-ribbon-that-... ... meteor dust is not the only thing that forms streams of material in space. So too does the gas involved in the

At http://phys.org/print295252215.html .... some ten to forty tons of meteor dust enters our atmosphere every day - usually as a result of the Earth's orbit

At http://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2013/08/09/newly-discovered-asteroid-2013... ... astronomers expected one space rock to come by but they got a second one, tracking the first asteroid. The first one passed

Tim Cullen has tuned his attention away from chalk, sand, and silica, and has four posts on magnetism - and how it is dealt with

At http://phys.org/print295092645.html ... a report on a paper researching ball lightning, 'Further Insight into the Nature of Ball Lightning' in the Journal of Physics and

At http://phys.org/print295079728.html and www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0009254113002696 ... iron ore deposits in the Pilbara region of Australia are between 26 and 2 million years of age - much

A press release on a new paper on global warming associated with ozone levels in the atmosphere appeared on Phys Org but the effect was

Han Kloosterman, who has been researching what he calls the Ussello Horizon for too many years to count, has a problem. The Ussello Horizon is

At http://phys.org/print295101717.html ... mainstream say that Ice Ages and warm interglacials have alternated regularly, almost like clockwork, for millions of years. Earth's climate, the theory

At http://phys.org/print295014415.html ... there is a nice graph here to start the ball rolling, using five cores that show, with the aid of a blue

At http://phys.org/print295018965.html ... the Big Bear Observatory NST telescope has discovered new features on the face of the Sun - and the link has some