In the News

At www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2012-309&cid=release_2012-309 ... astronomers using NASAs Spitzer Space Telescope have accomplished a more accurate and precise measurement of the Hubble Constant. This is the rate

At http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/10/02/241427.html ... Al Arabiya News has a report on archaeologists in northern Iraq discovering a new Assyrian site, in Arbil, a Kurdish province. The

In the latest issue of Current Archaeology 272 (Oct/Nov 2012) there is an article that gathers the story together of the discovery of a body

At http://phys.org/print268301197.html ... an interesting story dating back to the Late Glacial Maximum - when the northern ice sheet reached down to the Great Lakes

At http://phys.org/print267984703.html ... we learn that Curiosity Rover has found an old streambed on the surface of Mars. This story, recommended by Lawrence Dixon from

William Thompson, SIS member, in an email of February 2012, said he was at the University of Colorado at the same time as John Eddy

At http://blogs.nature.com/news/2012/09/buddhist-iron-man-found-by-nazis-is... ... is all about a 24cm high sculpture thought to be the god Vasravana that was made out of a meteorite. The meteorite

At http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Scientists_Shed_Light_on_Riddle_of_Sun... ... is a report on a paper in Nature on CMEs. At www.livescience.com/23586-solar-system-planet-formation-shockwaves.html ... (see also www.space.com) - our solar system's planets may

Hosted by Alfred de Grazia the annual Quantavolution conference can be accessed at www.2012-q-conference-naxos.grazian-archive.com and a transcript of the various speakers, which include Trevor Palmer,

Two major strike and slip earthquakes struck off the coast of Sumatra in April (2012) - see www.cosmosmagazine.com/news/6015/record-breaking-earthquakes-push-new-bo... ... and they are thought to have

The Guardian at www.guardian.co.uk/news/2012/sep/23/weatherwatch-climate-ghengis-khan-mo... ... eager to publish anthing about warm weather the Guardian informs us that tree rings in the early 13th century Mongolia

Margaret Gelling says that the main Anglo Saxon settlement was not where the village of Cookham now sits, which is on fairly low ground, but

At http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/09/21/looking-into-solar-coronal-promine... ... is a fascinating post, scientists are eager to understand what causes coronal mass ejections as they are seen as a threat to

At http://cosmictusk.com/unfiltered-unsorted-surovell-holiday-et-al-in-pnas... ... George Howard decribes the nature of the resistance to the Younger Dryas boundary event hypothesis and what he witnessed at the AMQA

We all speak Egyptian, it seems, not the Arab variety introduced by a colonialist invaders around 1400 hundred years ago, but the real Egyptian language

At http://phys.org/print267377704.html ... the bankrupt EU is to payroll super economy China - and a picture shows them smiling, and no wonder. The great and

At http://phys.org/print267336872.html ... is an interesting snippet of information from a paper in the Journal of Geophysical Research (doi:10.1029/2012JF002366) and this is that red iron

It's getting fashionable to hypothesize about meteor, asteroid or comet impacts. At http://phys.org/print267255104.html ... a new study is claiming a cosmic body plunged into the

At http://phys.org/print267290115.html (and now at www.geneticarchaeology.com from today, the 21st Sept) ... new research is suggesting genetic mutation explains how early humans were able to

After watching Neil Oliver on BBC television on Tuesday night, 18th September, talk about the Vikings and their impact on Ireland, Britain, and Russia etc,