In the News

Leading on from the previous posting this story comes from www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2012/12/-december-27-2004-the-day-planet-e... ... which sounds a bit over the top - and probably is. You may

At http://phys.org/print275845800.html ... cosmic rays are thought to originate in massive stars somewhere out in the universe, tiny particles that rain incessantly down from space.

At http://phys.org/print275843816.html ... NASAs Pioneer Venus orbiter, as long ago as 1978, suggested the ionosphere of Venus had a magnetised state with a large horizontal

At the German site of www.spiegel.de/international/world/buried-christian-empire-in-yemen-cast... ... some fascinating archaeology in Yemen sheds some light on the little known period between the end of the

I noticed this at www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-20795347 ... In a look back at 2012 archaeology we read that the beer loving Vikings that settled on Greenland in

At www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/History/Early+History+-+Archaeology/Temple_vessels_Bi...    ... finds, said to date from the Early Monarchy, have been excavated from Tel Motza, not far from Jerusalem. They are thought

Having avoided the Mayan calendar doomsaying it is now worth taking a look at what it all might mean - and Bob Johnson has done

At http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/age-of-worlds-oldes... ... we find that the Early Neolithic in central Europe was not just about farming or husbandry but also involved sophisticated carpentry. The

Erik Verlinde, professor of Theoretical Physics, and dabbler in String Theory, in a recent book, On the Origin of Gravity and the Laws of Newton,

At http://phys.org/print275575752.html ... we learn that climate see saws are not just a feature of the most recent Ice Age but were happening in earlier

Chiefio has turned his mind to genes and has a spiffing post on Native Americans and European roots, all nicely speculative but interesting never the

At www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2012/12/swarms-of-tiny-galaxies-found-burs... ... the Hubble Space Telescope has discovered lots of small galaxies that are teeming with star formation - or so the interpretation goes.

West Stow is an archaeological dig that was developed by English Heritage into a visitor centre and re-enactment of what the village is thought to

Wal Thornhill, in a reply to an email, states, there is no such thing as plate tectonics, the magnetic poles move. An external torque might

Polar Bears, or 'poley' bears as one commenter insists on calling them, was a feature of CAGW exposed by Christopher Booker in one of his

At http://phys.org/print275123990.html ... the Cluster satellites have shown space plasma is full of turbulent swirls - and so called  magnetic reconnection, it is said, has

At www.ref.org.uk/index.php (and variously www.ref.org.uk/press-releases/281-wearntearnhitsnwindnfarmnoutputneconom... or www.ref.org.uk/publications/280-analysis-of-wind-farm-performance-in-uk-... ... we learn the wind turbines have a very short life - between 10 and 15 years. After

A sometimes contributor at http://wattsupwiththat.com, one Alec Rawle, a reviewer of the IPCC papers in progress for the forthcoming IPCC Report on the 'state of

This post appears to use the word glitch in ways it was not intended - strangling a nuance or two. At http://phys.org/print275050837.html ... 'Researchers find

Wow. From super-massive black holes to ultra-massive black holes - the monsters in space are growing all the time - see http://phys.org/print275069018.html How do they