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If you think it has been cold in the UK, or in the Mid West, over the last week or so, and then grab a

The La Brea tar pits are well known for the animals ensnared in them but there are also trees, bits of trees, branches, and various

At http://phys.org/print280669880.html ... asteroids aren't supposed to have tails. Comets do. We now have ten exceptions to the rule. Spanish astronomers have observed another one

At www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2013/02/saturns-shockwaves-reach-supernova... ... the Cassini spacecraft is said to have struck a strong blast of solar wind as it orbited the planet Saturn - and

Catastrophism ... www.pibburns.com/catastro.html (Philip Burns) Cosmopier ... http://sites.google.com/site/cosmopier/ .. which has some interesting ideas on End of Pleistocene and environmental change www.catastrophism.com ... Ian Tresman's

Phew! Saved by the bell. The consensus model of crystal formation lives to fight another day - see http://phys.org/print280505766.html Exactly how a crystal forms from

Interesting post up at Tall Bloke's Talk Shop who reckons he can discern a Fibonacci series and the Golden Ratio in the way the solar

Shlomo Sand, in The Invention of the Jewish People, was somewhat more minimal than other minimalists, as the rewriting of history continues unabated. Minimalists are

Two posts at Cosmic Tusk turn the Bos paper upside down - basically it argues against a 2007 paper by Firestone et al but ignores

At http://phys.org/print280132683.html ... and again at http://phys.org/print280123324.html ... we have further on the Russian meteor. Phys Org are making a meal of it today and

The space rock 2012DA14 has passed by without anything out of the ordinary happening -safe to look out of the window. However, it wasn't for

At http://phys.org/print279904761.html ... farting cows are the target of a cattle feed company hoping to make a few pennies from CAGW. Carbon credits to punish

Mark Boslough, sometimes known as the Bos, claimed comets make up only one per cent of the population of earth crossing objects - and exist

At www.latimes.com/news/world/worldnow/la-fg-wn-mexico-firegod-pyramid-2013... ... we find that the largest pyramid at Teotihuacon had a respresentation of the fire god, Huehueteotl, on the apex - yet the

An interesting update on Claude Schaeffer can be found at https://lirias.kuleuven.be/bitstream/123456789/373607/1/SRL2013-Jusseret... and the authors have even consulted the Velikovsky Archives. It seems the ideas of

At http://phys.org/print279447975.html ... anyone that has been fishing for salmon, or just walking the river bank in somewhere like Vancouver Island, will have wondered why

At http://phys.org/print279440535.html ... volcanoes may be a key to the Ice Ages, is being suggested in a new paper in the journal Geosphere. Actually, they

At http://chiefio.wordpress.com/2013/02/08/2012-da14-a-week-17200-miles/ .... EM Smith is having a look at asteroid 2012DA14 which is due to whizz past the Earth on 15th February - inside

At www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0042213 ... cylindrical objects of fired clay found in various parts of the Near East over the years, and going back to the early

This is an interesting scenario and is used by Pierre Gosselin at http://notrickszone.com/2013/02/07/monsoons-in-china-fluctuate-in-sync-w... ... as a discovery disputing co2 influenced warming - yet it is