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Brian Sherwood Jones sent in this link on the Maya calendar - go to http://cryptome.org/2013/03/nsa-mayan-astronomy.pdf

Interesting post at www.bishop-hill.net/blog/2013/4/11/crop-yields-and-dumb-farmers.html ... where it is assumed in an academic paper that rising co2 levels would have an adverse effect on crop yields

At www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-04/ps-mlc041113.php ... the Maya long count calendar has been linked directly into the European calendar by C14 dating methodology. The idea of this arose

Yes, one thousand black holes have been seen. In reality, beams of light have been captured and these are assumed to mark black holes -

At www.ncgt.org/newsletter.php (March issue) there is also a letter by Peter M James of Tasmania, and he updates some of the information and data pertaining

This story is at www.space.com/20580-black-hole-eats-giant-planet.html ... so what was actually seen, a feasting event, some munching and consuming, or what? Not a great deal it

In a letter to the NCGT journal of March 2013, see www.ncgt.org, Karsten Storetvedt describes his experiences trying to get geology articles published that do

This story has already featured on Eric's email thread so we are a bit late coming to the party. This version can be found at

At www.geneticarchaeology.com/research/Environmental_change_triggers_rapid_... ... is a University of Leeds study published in the journal, Ecology Letters, and provides evidence of rapid evolution as a result of

At www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2013/04/saturns-ring-system-rains-water-in... ... a 'rain' of charged water particles falls over large areas of Saturn according to NASA funded research at the University of Leicester.

In the latest issue of the New Concepts in Global Tectonics journal which can be accessed at www.ncgt.org and the articles are well worth browsing.

At http://phys.org/print284724127.html .... research in Belize at a smaller Mayan community has provided evidence on how they conserved water during the rainy season to sustain

Prior to 3000BC the Sahara was a verdant landscape, a rich grassland with a typical African fauna - see http://phys.org/print284364895.html ... and went back through

The Djehuty Project (Spanish) has said it has discovered, near Luxor, four burials from dynasty 17 - see http://phys.org/print284379880.html See also www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-04/snrc-dpd040513.php Akhenaton (Egypt) and

At http://phys.org/print284290227.html ... researchers from the University of Leeds think they may have solved how objects from space gave rise to life on Earth. Some

Excitement about the release of an 1800 year old ice core from the Peruvian Andes, which will be used to compare with other ice cores

Keeping our feet on the ground and trying not to get hyped up by the cold weather this Easter, and snow in April, it is

Getting a handle on how cold it has been this March means looking back down through the Central England Temperature record, the oldest in the

We had the Higgs bosun discovery and now it looks like we might have the vaunted dark matter nailed down - see http://phys.org/print284206733.html The Alpha

A note for all revisionists, from Emmet to Eric and anyone else researching chronology, and the role of Babylon - just 2 per cent of