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C Warren Hunt, of http://eearthk.com fame, has a book that you can buy at www.polarpublishing.com, 'The Environment of Violence: readings of cataclysms cast in stone'

Alfred Wegener, looking around for some process in order to move the continents, thought drift was perhaps due to tidal forces from the Moon -

At http://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2013/01/26/makarieva-et-al-finally-get-th... and http://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2013/02/02/makarieva-et-al-make-the-headl... which is being presented on sceptic sites as another blow to CAGW science - and see also www.thegwpf.org/research-blows-climate-science-wide-open/ and http://tallbloke.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/douglas-sheil.jpg Where

At http://phys.org/print278935705.html ... an experiment is described that involves firing a rocket into the sky above Alaska in order to study auroral wind - a

Two posts on a German blog today are interesting. In the first we have a Swedish climate scientist say that global warming has been so

Over at archaeologist Mike Pitts blog are some impressive pictures of Silbury Hill taken recently after excessive rain and overloaded water tables - go to

At http://eearthk.com/Articles03.html ... Charles Warren Hunt takes a swipe at the Plate Tectonics consensus theory. He describes it as a hypothesis based on not well

At http://phys.org/print278861188.html ... apparently, ozone levels influence the southern hemisphere jet stream - but not the northern hemisphere jet stream. This rather strange finding is

Coming hot on the heels of the news that Lucy lived in the trees is another spike in the hide of the consensus hymn sheet.

In Parker-Pearson's recent book on Stonehenge he described how snails were able to give a clue about the Neolithic environment on Salisbury Plain - open

At www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/Ice-Age-iLion-Mani-is-worlds-earliest-f... ... straying back on to yesterday's Ice Age art theme we learn here that a piece of mammoth ivory carved into the shape

Scientists from Royal Holloway College (part of London University) in association with Sandia National Laboratory in the US, and 13 other universities in N America

This is an intersting exhibition running between February 7th and the 26th May 2013 - see www.britishmuseum.org ... If you wondered where Henry Moore might

Fresh from his stint at last year's Electic Universe conference Robert Schoch has a fascinating article in the current issue of Current World Archaeology 57

At www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2013/01/the-moon-was-once-powered-by-a-dyn... ... it seems scientists have found evidence that rocks on the moon were magnetised millions of years ago. This discovery has led to

Here is a bit of humour from the pen of a journalist in India - go to www.bishop-hill.net/blog/2013/1/28/its-cold-in-india.html ... and comes from Jug Suraiya writing

The Earth in an electric solar system is a paper by Louis Hissink in the New Concepts in Global Tectonics Newsletter, a link forwarded by

At http://phys.org/print277964429.html ... we learn that the recently visited asteroid Vesta might have had a very active inner life (but early in the history of

Tall Bloke's Talk Shop has an interesting series by Tim Cullen (retired and living in Malaga) - go to http://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2013/01/24/tim-cullen-planetary-rotation-... and http://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2013/01/23/tim-cullen-planetary-rotation-... ... in which

At www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2013/01/gravitinos-will-they-unlock-the-my... .... is a post on the ongoing search to discover what exactly dark matter is (if it is anything) and why it is