In the News

At http://phys.org/print287936452.html ... a Russian expedition has driven across the Arctic Ocean in buses fitted with bloated tyres that make them capable of crossing watery

At http://phys.org/print288877504.html ... Prior to the ice cap Antarctica had a tropical, or a near tropical environment - or was it just temperate? - which

Aha. The green economic miracle in genuine full blown working order. For a sample, go to www.bishop-hill.net/blog/2013/5/28/environmentalism-brings-you-forest-cl... which was predicted somewhat earlier - see http://sunshinehours.wordpress.com/2012/09/26/save-the-coal-burn-a-forest/

I was going to have a weekend of rest from  posting to catch up on a few jobs and socialising but here we are, 10.00pm

A paper in Nature by Tobias and Cettaneo is discussed at http://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2013/05/steve-tobias-rediscovering-the-so... ... which claims researchers at Leeds and Chicago universities have discovered a mechanism

An article in Science magazine, May 24th 2013, by Simon Fisher and Matt Ridley, Culture, Genes and Human Revolution - see http://popular-archaeology.com/issue/march-2013/article/are-human-evolut... ... which argues

At www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2013/05/giant-mysterious-blobs-powered-by-... ... Blobs in the Universe - discovered a few years ago, are fuzzy galactic holes thought to consist of hot hydrogen gas. Asatronomers

At www.space.com/21198-mars-asteroid-strikes-common.html ... small space rocks are hitting the planet Mars at about 200 times per annum. These asteroid and comet fragments are normally no

You could knock me down with a napkin. Funny thing but after reading David Pratt, who said that heat flow from the mantle caused changes

Lovely riposte to a pompous green academic at www.bishop-hill.net/blog/2013/5/25/lilleys-reply-to-anderson.html ... and the comments are all one sided. Not a lot of sympathy. Meanwhile, in Germany

David Pratt, in the NCGT journal (March, 2013), see www.ncgt.org/newsletter.php ... says there have been numerous finds of old continental crust in the Atlantic, Pacific

The Rossi E-cat machine has been tested and came up positive - twice. A paper has been written on the results - but all are

At www.geneticarchaeology.com/research/Archaeological_genetics_Its_not_all_... ... presents us with some evidence genetics is not all it is cracked up to be. Okay, genetic differences crop up but how

At http://phys.org/print288345064.html ... an image from the guts of Comet ISON - a jet blasting dust particles off the sunward facing side of the Comet's

At http://cosmictusk.com/wittke_pnas_younger_dryas_clovis_comet/ ... a new paper published in PNAS - George says it is the best yet. This time impact is discarded in favour of

The first report is positive and the second much less so. At www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10884719 ... we have a story on some old coins found on a

David Pratt has his own web site but has published an article in the March 2013 NCGT journal and provides some interesting information you won't

At http://phys.org/print287996395.html ... a paper in Nature Geoscience (online) says the iron core of the Earth is weaker than thought (it has only half the

The first one is recommended by a recent Thunderbolts newsflash, The Fourth Phase of Water: beyond solid, liquid and vapor, by Gerald Pollack (2013). It

This story is at http://phys.org/print287650630.html ... and concerns various theories of how coral reef islands have formed over evolutionary time. A paper in the journal