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Chiefio is playing around with ideas concerning lunar cycles at http://chiefio.wordpress.com/2013/01/04/lunar-cycles-more-than-one/ .... and suggests they affect the weather ... and various other things. He describes

The discovery of human skulls and bones amongst a lot of animal bones in a cave near Zhoukoudian (formerly known as Choukutien) near Beijing (formerly

At www.CartRuts.com/pages/prehistoricshoreline.html ... there is a nice map of Malta with the shoreline as it was at various times during the Holocene, and showing that

Some years ago I purchased a slim volume, Reversals of the Earth's Magnetic Field, expecting some information that might bear on the subject Peter Warlow

Robert Farrar sent in this link to the Journal of the New Concepts in Global Tectonics - go to www.ncgt.org and click on 'issues' and

Chris Phillips has found an interesting web site at www.CartRuts.com and another one which explores the possibility the Egyptians used artificial stone on the pyramids

At http://chiefio.wordpress.com/interesting-cosmic-rays-paper/ .... EM Smith is addressing his version of atmospheric science, the Water World. In doing so he expands by quoting Nur Shaviv at

An article in the Observatory 125 (2005) pages 319-122, 'Earth in the Cosmic Shooting Gallery' by DJ Asher, Mark Bailey, V Emil'yanenkar abd Bill Napier

Not sure what category to file this post under but Ancient History will do as not many of them come up. The subject is actually

The title sounds a bit like a Dwardu Cardona book but this story is at www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2012/12/the-primordial-star-at-the-edge-of... ... this subject, has I think, already been posted

Chiefio has been dipping his fingers around Sirius - is it a binary star? Go to http://chiefio.wordpress.com/2012/12/29/siriusly-pondering/ ... I like the bit where he says,

George Howard at http://cosmictusk.com/comet-ison-solar-flares-and-the-775-ad-eichler-event/ ... says he has just learnt about the discovery of Comet Ison which has been exciting astronomers over the last couple

Leading on from the previous posting this story comes from www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2012/12/-december-27-2004-the-day-planet-e... ... which sounds a bit over the top - and probably is. You may

At http://phys.org/print275845800.html ... cosmic rays are thought to originate in massive stars somewhere out in the universe, tiny particles that rain incessantly down from space.

At http://phys.org/print275843816.html ... NASAs Pioneer Venus orbiter, as long ago as 1978, suggested the ionosphere of Venus had a magnetised state with a large horizontal

At the German site of www.spiegel.de/international/world/buried-christian-empire-in-yemen-cast... ... some fascinating archaeology in Yemen sheds some light on the little known period between the end of the

I noticed this at www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-20795347 ... In a look back at 2012 archaeology we read that the beer loving Vikings that settled on Greenland in

At www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/History/Early+History+-+Archaeology/Temple_vessels_Bi...    ... finds, said to date from the Early Monarchy, have been excavated from Tel Motza, not far from Jerusalem. They are thought

Having avoided the Mayan calendar doomsaying it is now worth taking a look at what it all might mean - and Bob Johnson has done

At http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/age-of-worlds-oldes... ... we find that the Early Neolithic in central Europe was not just about farming or husbandry but also involved sophisticated carpentry. The