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Tim Cullen, in a post at Tall Bloke's Talk Shop, 'The Other Big Bang Theory', raises an interesting set of issues, not least another example

Water from Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 which spectacularly struck Jupiter way back in 1994 appears to have left behind millions of gallons of water, it is

At www.nature.com/news/first-australians-may-have-been-migrants-rather-than... .. we have news of a paper in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B (doi:10.1038/nature.2013.12865) that has used C14 methodology to seek

At the height of the Late Glacial Maximum, 22,000 years ago, humans were living in NE Brazil, according to a new evaluation of the disputed

Another new book. French intellectual and philosopher Pascal Bruckner, The Fanaticism of the Apocalypse - see the review at www.bishop-hill.net/blog/2013/4/25/bruckners-opus.html

A third millennium BC rich burial has been found near Windsor, reputed to be 4400 years old - see www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/fourthousand-years-old-go... The woman, wearing a knecklace

The notion that slaves, or the lower orders of society, from any origin (foreign or inigenous) built the pyramids is given another blow by recent

Is this a bit of Daily Wail fluff or a piece of spin on a string - or is there something important to be learned

At http://phys.org/print285836945.html .... speculates on a supernova explosion in AD1006 as texts from the time mention a space light so bright it cast shadows at

At www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/04/130417092013.htm ... some new work on the early settlement of the Americas by the University of Barcelona (with an emphasis on South America) which

The BBC television had a programme on Stonehenge and environs last week fronted by a very over excited presenter. I lost track of how many

Another important paper put online by George Howard at http://cosmictusk.com/courty-2013/ ... which I will probably get back to later as far as commenting is concerned.

Brian Sherwood Jones sent in this link on the Maya calendar - go to http://cryptome.org/2013/03/nsa-mayan-astronomy.pdf

Interesting post at www.bishop-hill.net/blog/2013/4/11/crop-yields-and-dumb-farmers.html ... where it is assumed in an academic paper that rising co2 levels would have an adverse effect on crop yields

At www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-04/ps-mlc041113.php ... the Maya long count calendar has been linked directly into the European calendar by C14 dating methodology. The idea of this arose

Yes, one thousand black holes have been seen. In reality, beams of light have been captured and these are assumed to mark black holes -

At www.ncgt.org/newsletter.php (March issue) there is also a letter by Peter M James of Tasmania, and he updates some of the information and data pertaining

This story is at www.space.com/20580-black-hole-eats-giant-planet.html ... so what was actually seen, a feasting event, some munching and consuming, or what? Not a great deal it

In a letter to the NCGT journal of March 2013, see www.ncgt.org, Karsten Storetvedt describes his experiences trying to get geology articles published that do

This story has already featured on Eric's email thread so we are a bit late coming to the party. This version can be found at