In the News

At www.hud.ac.uk/news/researchnews/archaeogeneticresearchrefutesearlierfind... ... well, I never, kicked into touch - now bouncing back. You can't keep a good consensus theory down - it will pop

A story that may come up trumps during later excavations is never the less worth looking at for the time being. At http://popular-archaeology.com/issue/june-2013/article/archaeologists-un... ... close

At www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2013-198&cid=release_2013-198 ... NASA reports on a black hole in the middle of the Sculptor galaxy that has apparently gone quiet - even gone to

At http://phys.org/print290089874.html ... most of the matter in the universe may be made out of particles with a doughnut shaped electromagnetic field known as an

At http://badarchaeology.wordpress.com/2013/01/03/old-maps-the-americas-and... ... firstly this blog is rather pretentious and orthodox in outlook, authored by someone that thinks he has a mission to debunk what

At http://geoffchambers.wordpress.com/2013/06/07/emmotts-big-wet-mac/ ... is a guest post by one Alex Cull, based on Stephen Emmott's odd book, Ten Billion, where reference is made to the

Doggerland is the floor of the North Sea basin, more properly the southern end of the North Sea. It is named after the Dogger Bank,

For some reason the ladies get away without blame - but then again, its only a word. Alfred de Grazia's web site has a post

Another book, the third in a row. This one is by Rens van der Sliujs, Traditional Cosmology: the Global Mythology of Cosmic Creation and Destruction

At http://asnoc.wordpress.com/2012/08/02/the-last-of-the-druids-the-mystery... ... a book by Ian Forbes, The Last of the Druids; the mystery of the Pictish symbol stones, Amberley Publishing:2012 may also interest

The journal Science, 7th June 2013, has published a paper on a study of Comet Lovejoy as it passed through the Sun's corona in december

At http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews/2013/06/heres-what-antarctica-... ... there are some nice images, erived from computer modelling, of the Antarctic and what it looks like beneath the ice. Trees and

At www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2013/06/black-widow-pulsar-at-the-top-of-s... .... a pulsar appears to be travelling through the galaxy at a speed of almost a million km an hour. A bow shock

The Russian meteor forum at www.thunderbolts.info/forum/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=10572 ... is now 20 pages of discussion.

At http://phys.org/print289737797.html ... stalagmites from a cave in Borneo have been used to produce a 100,000 year temperature tool, displaying warmings and coolings during the

At www.livescience.com/37189-new-viking-voyage-discovered.html .... new information on Viking voyages in N America has emerged. Not only were they trading with indigenous peoples in the Canadian Arctic

This story has been circulating on the web for a week or so - and here we have a belated link , go to www.world-science.net/othernews/130111_LQG

As noted a week or so ago, George Howard at http://cosmictusk.com/wittke_pnas_younger_dryas_clovis_comet/ ... posted news of a fresh paper on the YD event. So far he

This post was sent from http://joannenova.com.au/2013/06/can-the-moon-change-our-climate-can-tid... ... Joanne asks the question. Meanwhile, Piers Corbyn at www.weatheraction.com thinks the Moon does affect the climate as his

The full paper is available at www.plosgenetics.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pgen.1003460... ... all 27 pages in full. This story was posted a week or so ago - South American