In the News

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

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

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...

One of the authors that wrote a paper debunking the Younger Dryas Boundary event has now switched attention to the Australian megafauna extinctions - see

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

A wonderful post to catch the eye at http://frontiers-of-anthropology.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/owl-plaques-eye-... ... here we have some repeating motifs that look suspiciously like plasma pinch phenomena as illustrated

At www.minoanatlantis.com/Minoan_Spain.php ... the authors are suggesting Iberia was colonised by Early Minoans - by which I suppose they mean by people from the Aegean

This is a really interesting story - and more will follow, no doubt, as research continues. How much is genuine geology and how much is

Proof that tartans are not a modern myth, BBC News at www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-20579219 ... comes from a statue of the emperor Caracalla discovered in the Moroccan

This comes from an unusual site that is linked to George Howard's Cosmic Tusk site and appears to be into Atlantis and various forms of

There were Green inspired planetary scares long before the CAGW meme kicked in, fanned by doomsayers that appear to have taken on the mantle formerly

At www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2012/12/live-volcanoes-detected-on-venus-n... ... a bit of the old Velikovsky predictions here, and the idea Venus is a young planet and is still cooling down. Gary

At www.sci-news.com/archaeology/article00715.html ... the first human settlers to arrive on Tonga, a South Sea island group in the Pacific, is now set between 840 and

This story has a direct correlation with the previous one as it provides the means for human migration into North America quite a bit earlier

This story pops up at www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/11/121130151606.htm ... and at http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2012/11/native-americans-and-... (and various other sites). To a certain extent this amounts to a recycling of old

This is an important one, I think, but not necessarily the last word on the subject. At www.livescience.com/25157-stonehenge-megaliths-timeline-enigma.html ... Robert Ixer and Timothy Darvill are

At www.sci-news.com/othersciences/paleoclimatology/article00417.html ... not so long ago, just a mere 15 to 20 million years ago, temperatures were some eleven degrees celsius warmer than today.

At www.sci-news.com/othersciences/paleoclimatology/article00384.html ... researchers in Pennsylvania and South Carolina, and now as far away as Syria, are said to have found a thin layer of

Bringing the Canterbury Tales up to date, with a touch of humour and a smidgeon of Chaucer, Dr Tim Ball compares carbon credits to church

It seems a land bridge may have existed between Italy and two small islands off the west coast of Sicily until well into the Holocene,