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How did the Bang get into the Big One?

20 December 2012 > Physics
At 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
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Science, as opposed to myth

20 December 2012 > Inside science
Lovely 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/
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Murder in the Mummy and Trojans that never went away - just the Hittites

20 December 2012 > Archaeology
Two 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
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X-Jets

18 December 2012 > Electromagnetism
At 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
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Out of Africa - revised version now on the conveyor belt

17 December 2012 > Anthropology
The Out of Africa hypothesis - humans are said to have migrated out of Africa around 60,000 years ago, has remained remarkably robust in spite
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Cycles

17 December 2012 > Geology
Chiefio 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
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Fossils that challenge the evolutionary tree of life

14 December 2012 > Biology
Whether 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
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Corals from the Eemian interglacial

14 December 2012 > Catastrophism
At 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,
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C14 plateau affects Stonehenge dating

14 December 2012 > Archaeology
Mike 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 > Astronomy
Now you know what a monster looks like. Meanwhile, one more item on black holes that might set the cat among the pigeons - go
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Ice Ages ... a different way of looking at them

9 December 2012 > Geology
Well, perhaps not so different as this paper might be nearly 20 years old, but interesting as Steve Mitchell in his 2004 SIS talk on
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The Van Allen probes

9 December 2012 > Electromagnetism
NASA 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
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Rain, water out of the sky, and even more rain

9 December 2012 > Climate change
Paul 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
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A New Chronology for Stonehenge

8 December 2012 > Archaeology
Mike 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
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The Plague of Justinian and Romany intrusions

8 December 2012 > Archaeology
At 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
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Soil, Comets, and Craters

8 December 2012 > Astronomy
At 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
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Velikovsky and the Queen of Sheba

7 December 2012 > Ancient history
An excellent article on the Queen of Sheba appears in the Journal of Creation 24 (2) 2010, a somewhat surprising source in some respects as
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Voyager has still not reached the furthest reaches of the solar system

7 December 2012 > Astronomy
This 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...
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The Megafauna die-off event

7 December 2012 > Catastrophism
One of the authors that wrote a paper debunking the Younger Dryas Boundary event has now switched attention to the Australian megafauna extinctions - see
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Is there warming or not?

7 December 2012 > Climate change
Tall 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
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