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At http://phys.org.print282845516.html ... we learn that a chunk of continental plate is lodged underneath central California and is responsible for the so call Isabell Anomaly.

Comet Pan-STARRS has emerged from it passage around the back of the Sun intact - see http://phys.org/print282814278.html ... but it is glowing brighter than a

Phil Plait, the ultra conformist blogger at Bad Astronomy, is diagnosed at the Bishop's quarters. It seems he objected to an article in the Mail

The best place to visit as the Marcott and Shakun hockey stick is getting the full blast of fresh air as Steve McIntyre slowly unravels

At www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/348953/Disputed_finds_put_humans_in_... ... Clovis before - a long time before. Stone tools from a rock shelter have been dated 22,000 years ago - and possibly

At http://spaceweather.com March 15th, news of a geomagnetic storm warning, a CME on the Sun that is earth facing. Direct hit expected, on sunday the

Biblical Numbers have exercised the minds of numerous scholars over the years but we are little wiser after all that ink has been spent. The

At www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/03/2013/mattarahkka-mother-ear... ... we have a lovely piece, several pages of printout, on Sami rock art, by Inga-Marie Mulk, an archaeologist from northern Sweden. It

NASA has a story about Jupiter - see www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2013-095&cid=release_2013-095 There is a lovely image of a swirling atmosphere, with cloudless patches dotted near the equator.

A timely reminder that tree rings, ice cores, and speleotherms, which are all used to reconstruct climate in the past by geologists as much as

Tom Findlay has just had a book published, A Beginner's View of our Electric Universe, so he was directly asked a couple of pertinent questions

A rather strange story at http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/failure-to-hunt-rabbits-part-of-... ... and concerns the absence of rabbits and similar small animals in the diet of Neanderthals. It seems a

At www.cracked.com/article_20206_5-shockingly-advanced-ancient-buildings-th... .... some intersting images of underground settlements in different parts of the world. Derinkuyu in Turkey, for example, discovered in the 1960s when

At www.gsbkerala.com/saraswati.htm ... the lost river Saraswati is the the main theme and begins by saying climate change and geotectonic movements (earth movements) led to

Continuing the theme of desertification in recent posts see www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/05/120528154943.htm ... we have climate change directly involved in the collapse of the Indus civilisation, around

This story is at http://phys.org/print282294394.html ... and concerns the discovery of a hidden network of rivers flowing beneath the Greenland ice sheet, potentiallly catastrophic as

This subject seems to have had a bit of a revival again. The red rain of Kerala was speculatively linked to a fireball (and meteorite)

The resonant orbit of the Russian meteor and the bigger piece of space rock prompted member William Thompson to send in some information on Patten

This is one of those funny stories that has caught on without any firm evidence to support it. Lots of blogs are bloviating on the

The solar flare of AD774/5 (sometimes AD776) is the subject Mike Baillie has earmarked for his 2013 AGM talk - but I'm sure it will