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At http://phys.org/print290255566.html ... water as a lubricant of Plate Tectonics may be over rated according to geoscientists in the current issue of Nature - following

At http://phys.org/print290254727.html ... rock samples from Tunguska appear to be meteoric in origin according to a paper in Planetary and Space Science (5th June 2013)

At www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2013-201&cid=release_2013-201 ... the NASA spacecraft Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has discovered that temperatures in the atmosphere of Mars regularly rise and fall twice a day.

Not everyone is happy with the walking Easter Islands statues hypothesis as in the Oct 12th 2012 article in Journal of Archaeological Research, by Carl

At http://frontiers-of-anthropology.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/piri-res-pdf-sub... .. we have somebody that dates the map to 7000BC, and claims it has a meridian based on Gobekli Tepe in eastern Turkey.

At www.newscientist.com/article/mg21829204.200-egypts-city-of-bean-counters... ... is a story derived from an excavation which displays evidence of repeated flooding events at a town below the Giza plateau, the

Nice post at www.q-mag.org/stonesfallingfro/index.html ... on historical accounts of stones falling out of the sky and the resistance by scientists in Europe to the very

At www.aftau.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=18649 ... it is a conical structure 230 feet in diameter and 39 feet high. It seems to have been built on dry land

At www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/paulhudson/posts/A-typical-British-summer-in-the-making Paul Hudson, a BBC weather man, brought HH Lamb back into life last Monday, quoting his work. Lamb has been out of favour

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