In the News

The monthly magazine, British Archaeology, May 2013, has an interesting editorial by archaeologist Mike Pitts (he also has a website - see http://mikepitts.wordpress.com and www.britisharchaeology.org/ba129).

In Fortean Times (FT302) June 2013 ... Bob Rickard reports on the TED affair, the furore that developed around Rupert Sheldrake and Graham Hancock, saying

In Current World Archaeology issue 59, volume 5:11, May 2013 (see also www.world-archaeology.com and www.facebook.com/currentworldarchaeology) there is an article on Tas Silg, a temple recorded

At http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/06/02/multiple-intense-abrupt-late-pleis... ... is a post by Dan Easterbrook, a geologist at Western Washington University (bellingham). There is nothing especially important about it, and it

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