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Here is a bit of humour from the pen of a journalist in India - go to www.bishop-hill.net/blog/2013/1/28/its-cold-in-india.html ... and comes from Jug Suraiya writing

The Earth in an electric solar system is a paper by Louis Hissink in the New Concepts in Global Tectonics Newsletter, a link forwarded by

At http://phys.org/print277964429.html ... we learn that the recently visited asteroid Vesta might have had a very active inner life (but early in the history of

Tall Bloke's Talk Shop has an interesting series by Tim Cullen (retired and living in Malaga) - go to http://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2013/01/24/tim-cullen-planetary-rotation-... and http://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2013/01/23/tim-cullen-planetary-rotation-... ... in which

At www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2013/01/gravitinos-will-they-unlock-the-my... .... is a post on the ongoing search to discover what exactly dark matter is (if it is anything) and why it is

This is a story that has intrigued lots of people over lots of time - and is constantly regurgitated. It is the archaeological problem of

In 1913 there was a grand procession of over a hundred meteors, all following each other in a well regimented manner, that blazed its way

The AD775/6 event was a Thunderbolts feature a week or so ago - go to www.thunderbolts.info/wp/2013.01/16/caught-in-the-crossfire/ ... and Rens Van Der Sluijs mentions both the

At http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/01/24/of-doric-columns-and-climate-change/ ... the thoughts of Moncton on Doric columns and their relationship with climate change should not be missed if you like a touch

Lawrence sent me a link on this and it has been around several blogs and web sites as well as mainstream sources. The full article

Tall Bloke is suggesting we shove global warming somewhere on the dark side of the establishment. At http://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2013/01/18/inaugural-conference-2013-the-... ... anyone interested in the connection between

One of our favourite scientists has claimed extraterrestrial life has been found in a meteorite - see www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/18/extraterrestrial-life-exists-chandra-w... and predictably not everyone is happy about

A new web site for people into electro-magnetic effects, ionised atmospheres, and plasma physics - go to http://hozturner.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/towards-natural-plasma-explanati... .... which begins with UFOs and the

At www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2013/01/black-holes-of-the-universe-growin... ... scientists have assumed black holes in the hearts of galaxies increase mass in step with the growth of the host system. New

The Russian Academy of Sciences has produced evidence to show porcupines occupied the Ural Mountains, a generally cool location, during the last major interglacial event.

The 'Hittites United' is a paper presented by John Crowe to an archaeological conference at Cambridge University on January 5th 2013 - see http://troy.kriskemist.com/supporting-papers/the-hitties-united ..

At http://arstechnica.com/science/2013/01/the-clouds-are-alive-as-microbes-... ... it all sounds a bit like the theory of Wickramasinghe and Hoyle a few years ago but it seems microbes have been

As we continue to enter the cool 30 year part of the 60 year cycle the debate is hotting up. Here is a video that

At www.shef.ac.uk/news/nr/war-central-minoans-ancient-crete-1.235205 ... it seems the Bible might be right about the Cretan bodyguard of King David. Since the discovery of Minoan Crete there has

At www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-01/m-gf011413.php ... the story compares gene flow between India and Australia on at least two occasions. However, bearing in mind Aborigines and the peoples