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Excuse me for labouring this particular paper but it appears to have some important things to say which are quite contrary to the current consensus

At http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2010/11/16/gut-bacteria-recap-th... ... is an interesting post forwarded by member Brian Sherwood Jones  in response to a post a few days ago. The evolution of

At http://phys.org/print289204265.html ... physicist Peter Wittich explained the Higgs Bosun and what it all means - and all about the Large Hadron Collider. Looks like

Obviously, one might say. You could hardly imagine them with a spanner in the hand and the bonnet open. No, this is more to do

Interesting piece of geology this - the remains of an Alpine forest found in a clay layer. How long did it take the clay to

At http://phys.org/print289127301.html ... researchers at the Open University and the University of Manchester have found conclusive proof ancient Egyptians used meteorites to make artifacts -

At http://phys.org/print289131595.html ... the Gemini Observatory on Hawaii has released new images of Comet C/2012 SI (ISON) on its journey through the solar system and

Ignoring the fact the weather is far from hot, global warming is still the chosen field for throwing money at - and one of the

At www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2013-182&cid=release_2013-182 ... asteroid 1998 QE2 passed 15 lunar distances from the Earth in the last few days. It was 1.7 miles in diameter and

An interesting post at http://malagabay.wordpress.com/2013/04/15/why-the-sky-is-blue/ ... which according to Wikipedia, and various others, the sky is blue because air scatters short wavelength light more than

This story is at www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2013-179&cid=release_2013-179 ... the WISE mission is still coming up with information and in this study of the data there was an

At http://phys.org/print289030328.html ... in the International Journal of Low Radiation, Russian researchers say the seriousness of the Chernobyl nuclear accident has been highly exaggerated by

At http://phys.org/print289048472.html ... new evidence suggests the Arctic Ocean was circulating much the same as it is now during the last Ice Age - how

At http://phys.org/print289048035.html ... pigeons pecking the ground in search of seeds or crumbs may appear to be acting randomly as a scavenger but the birds

This story is at http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/russian-scientists-... ... in this instance, a female mammoth, on Lyatchovsky Islands (off Novasibirsk archipelago). The tissue of the animal was in

At www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2013/05/the-human-neocortex-more-complex-t... ... a blog post with an interesting video to watch, Carl Sagan and Roger Penrose discussing the neocortex and the make-up of the

A revised edition of the Secret History of Twin Planet Earth by Errol Hawkins (2007) - see http://malagabay.wordpress.com/2013/04/29/secret-history-of-twin-planet-... ... and www.secrethistoryoftwinplanetearth.net/ ... which is an

At http://malagabay.wordpress.com/2013/05/30/the-tale-of-the-tektites/ ... Tim Cullen looks at tektite fields and their distribution. He then looks at them in the context of the Inflating Earth model

This is a term picked up from Tim Cullen and it epitomises the subject somewhat better than the 'expanding earth'. It is better by far

At www.space.com/21306-moon-craters-asteroid-impacts.html ... a quarter of the Moon's impact craters may retain substantial remnants of the asteroids and meteors that made them. In other words,