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Mike Parker-Pearson, on page 344 of his 2012 book, Stonehenge, says that when all sorts of things were going on, between 2470 and 2280BC, we

Now you know what a monster looks like. Meanwhile, one more item on black holes that might set the cat among the pigeons - go

Well, perhaps not so different as this paper might be nearly 20 years old, but interesting as Steve Mitchell in his 2004 SIS talk on

NASA let out some further news on its Van Allen probes - see http://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2012/12/07/nasas-van-allen-probes-reveal-... ... and it is only 3 months since their launch. They

Paul Simon's column in The Times, 'Weather Eye', is always worth a read. Commenting on the recent flooding, following a so called drought last winter

Mike Pitts has a timeline on the Richards, Darvill and Parker-Pearson revised chronology for Stonehenge - go to http://mikepitts.wordpress.com/2012/12/01/stonehenge-in-five-easy-stages... ... but he adds some uncertainty

At www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/11/121129093138.htm ... a study of the bacterium that causes bubonic plague has revealed an older outbreak probably occurred in the first millennium AD. It

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