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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

At http://phys.org/print277374125.html ... we are informed a giant sun spot is slowly turning towards the Earth, like a cannon revolving around to point its barrel

At www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-01/uoy-nsr011113.php ... scientists at the universities of York and Leeds have made a significant discovery about what might be involved in the destruction of

Shiloh was an ancient capital of the Israelites. It was where the Tabernacle, or Mishkan, resided during Judges. It was the spiritual centre of Israel

At www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2013/01/when-alligators-roamed-the-arctic-... ... foraminifera plankton live and die around the world in virtually every part of the oceans. Immense blooms of marine plankton can actually

There aren't a lot of posts under 'Dating' here but for a change we have one - go to http://smithsonianscience.org/2012/08/fossil-pollen-used-to-augment-clim... ... ancient pollen and charcoal

John Gibson sent in a nice link via www.sis-group.org.uk/contact after reading a post on January 4th concerning solar activity and high magnetised earthquakes. He makes

Euan MacKie at file://E:cdrompubsjournalspenseeivr036quant.htm (this is not an external link but a link to the Catastrophism CD - but see also Ian Tresman's web site,

Robert Van de Noort, in his book North Sea Archaeologies, says that archaeologists too often ignore the role of the sea in the history of

A NASA telescope has yielded evidence of an asteroid belt around the star Vega - see www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2013-012&cid=release_2012-012

At http://phys.org/print276852542.html .... comment on a paper in the journal Paleobiology is somewhat interesting as it seems to contradict some basic consensus science. This is

A snake goddess paintedon terracotta and found in Athens appears to be Demeter, it is alleged, the Greek goddess of the harvest (among other things).

Quoting somebody who visualised humans as living beneath an ocean of air, the atmosphere, Gabrielle Walker has the opposite point of view - fully committed

In Sun, Weather and the Climate, John Herman and Richard Goldberg, the two authors, explore meteorological variations related to solar activity and the physical linking