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The Smithsonian has a fascinating article about Viking ritual killing - did it happen, as some historians obviously wallow in the gore, or did it

Prof. Trevor Palmer sent in the following piece, gleaned from the New Scientist 'special issue' of 2nd March. The headline on the cover asks, 'We've

Change, not in the way the warm is causing the cold, but has it changed from warm to cold. We don't know but the Economist

At Hossein Turner's place, http://hozturner.blogspot.co.uk/feeds/posts/default ... a link to a video of electrictiy in the sky is at www.circuitsinourskies.com/index.html Over at http://io9.com/volcanic-lightning-how-does-it-work-459806533?utm ... lightning from

A post at www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/03/2013/fish-based-diets-cause... ... describes how fish can cause problems with C14 dating methodology, even in pottery where fish have been cooked - and

Tall Bloke is enthusiastic about barycentric orbits - but do they exist? I had visualised the 90,000 plus years cycle of the Sun around its

The backdrop of the Trojan War is fascinating as in the Iliad we are told the fleeing Trojans reached the head of the river Xanthus

This crops up every year somewhere - this time at http://frontiers-of-anthropology.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/the-story-of-eas... ... Easter is supposed to be derived from the goddess of spring, Oestra. She

No, this is not out of a catastrophist book or part of the Younger Dryas debate but comes straight from the horses mouth at the

The Heritage Journal, see http://frontiers-of-anthropology.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/the-mysterious-m... ... begins with a reference taken from Geoffrey of Monmouth and the giants of old that brought megaliths to Ireland

At http://phys.org/print283451358.html ... some suprising ideas on the Moon. Apparently, the so called 'lunar cataclysm' began when the gas giants repositioned themselves in the solar

There is a nice post at www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/03/2013/afterlife-of-early-neo... ... with some pictures and diagrams of layout. One can see the trapezoidal design so reminiscent of Early

I posted a link to a TED talk video on 9th March that appeared to delight some people and cause others to grimace. It was

At www.ox.ac.uk/media/news_stories/2013/130314_1.html ... Egypt in the first millennium BC, including the Ptolemaic era, has thrown up some surprises. A port city known  as Thonis to

At www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/03/2013/astronomical-alignment... ... an attempt to catalogue astronomical alignments at temples in Mesoamerica, 70 per cent of which seem to be focussed on the Sun.

At http://blog.al.com/wire/2013/03/ancient_underwater_forest_off.html ... an underwater forest has been found ten miles off shore of Alabama - and scuba divers have come up with pieces of

Keeping the Russian meteor story alive and kicking - another big fireball has been seen, along the east coast of North America - see http://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2013/03/23/another-big-meteor-this-time-o...

The peculiar decision by TED to take down the video talk given by Rupert Sheldrake, apparently due to a faction ganging up on them and

Roger the Tall One, at http://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2013/03/20/inventors-geim-and-novoselov-h... ... Geim and Novoselov of the University of Manchester were awarded the 2010 Nobel Prize for Physics for their

According to New Scientist - see www.newscientist.com/article/dn23290-farming-has-deep-roots-in-chinese-i... ... it seems three grinding stones have been found in China with traces of plant material that seem