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How did the Bang get into the Big One?
20 December 2012 > PhysicsAt http://phys.org/print274954301.html ... we learn University of Chicago researchers (Nov 2012) in a paper in Earth and Planetary Science Letters, say there is no evidence

Science, as opposed to myth
20 December 2012 > Inside scienceLovely piece by Rens van der Sluijs on the difference there might be or not be between conventional science and traditional cosmology/ mythology. See www.thunderbolts.info/wp/daily-tpod/traditions-of-science/

Murder in the Mummy and Trojans that never went away - just the Hittites
20 December 2012 > ArchaeologyTwo archaeological pieces of detective work, real or unreal. At www.livescience.com/25647-mummy-murder-mystery-solved.html ... we learn that the mummy generally considered to be that of Ramses III

X-Jets
18 December 2012 > ElectromagnetismAt www.thunderbolts.info/wp/2012/12/09/x-jets/ ... here is the EU perspective on the X Ray jets emitted by the monster black hole. Elsewhere, at www.thunderbolts.info/wp/2012/12/14/martian-volcanic-plates/ ... we are

Out of Africa - revised version now on the conveyor belt
17 December 2012 > AnthropologyThe Out of Africa hypothesis - humans are said to have migrated out of Africa around 60,000 years ago, has remained remarkably robust in spite

Cycles
17 December 2012 > GeologyChiefio has been looking at Dansgaard-Oeschger and Heinrich events during the last Ice Age - go to http://chiefio.wordpress.com/2012/12/15/d-o-ride-my-see-saw-mr-bond/ ... and in his conclusions says they

Fossils that challenge the evolutionary tree of life
14 December 2012 > BiologyWhether it does challenge the evolutionary tree of life or not remains to be seen - that might be just hype. At www.cosmosmagazine.com/news/6264/fossil-find-challenges-tree-life ... what

Corals from the Eemian interglacial
14 December 2012 > CatastrophismAt http://phys.org/print274439306.html ... is a story from a paper peddling scary doomsaying to the CAGW heartbeat. In the Eemian interglacial, 125,000 years or so ago,

C14 plateau affects Stonehenge dating
14 December 2012 > ArchaeologyMike Parker-Pearson, on page 344 of his 2012 book, Stonehenge, says that when all sorts of things were going on, between 2470 and 2280BC, we
This is a black hole
13 December 2012 > AstronomyNow you know what a monster looks like. Meanwhile, one more item on black holes that might set the cat among the pigeons - go

Ice Ages ... a different way of looking at them
9 December 2012 > GeologyWell, perhaps not so different as this paper might be nearly 20 years old, but interesting as Steve Mitchell in his 2004 SIS talk on

The Van Allen probes
9 December 2012 > ElectromagnetismNASA let out some further news on its Van Allen probes - see http://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2012/12/07/nasas-van-allen-probes-reveal-... ... and it is only 3 months since their launch. They

Rain, water out of the sky, and even more rain
9 December 2012 > Climate changePaul Simon's column in The Times, 'Weather Eye', is always worth a read. Commenting on the recent flooding, following a so called drought last winter

A New Chronology for Stonehenge
8 December 2012 > ArchaeologyMike Pitts has a timeline on the Richards, Darvill and Parker-Pearson revised chronology for Stonehenge - go to http://mikepitts.wordpress.com/2012/12/01/stonehenge-in-five-easy-stages... ... but he adds some uncertainty

The Plague of Justinian and Romany intrusions
8 December 2012 > ArchaeologyAt www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/11/121129093138.htm ... a study of the bacterium that causes bubonic plague has revealed an older outbreak probably occurred in the first millennium AD. It

Soil, Comets, and Craters
8 December 2012 > AstronomyAt www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2012/12/nasa-announces-first-full-mars-soi... ... we learn the Curiosity Rover has taken samples and analysed some soil on Mars - see also www.nasa.gov/mars At http://phys.org/print274000788.html ... is

Velikovsky and the Queen of Sheba
7 December 2012 > Ancient historyAn excellent article on the Queen of Sheba appears in the Journal of Creation 24 (2) 2010, a somewhat surprising source in some respects as

Voyager has still not reached the furthest reaches of the solar system
7 December 2012 > AstronomyThis story can be found in a variety of science sources (paper and online) - but see for example www.cosmosmagazine.com/news/6230/voyager-discovers-magnetic-highway-edge... ... but see also www.thunderbolts.info/wp/2012/12/06/voyager-1-confirms-electric-heliosph...

The Megafauna die-off event
7 December 2012 > CatastrophismOne of the authors that wrote a paper debunking the Younger Dryas Boundary event has now switched attention to the Australian megafauna extinctions - see

Is there warming or not?
7 December 2012 > Climate changeTall Bloke gives an airing to somebody who is sure that the greenhouse effect is real - see http://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2012/12/06/tim-folkerts-simple-argument-s... ... is worth reading - and