In the News

At www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/09/120917085535.htm ... eight well preserved spears have been found in Germany, 300,000 years of age. These are purported to be the world's oldest weaponry.

At www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=did-the-reign-of-dinosaur-begi... ... the end of Cretaceous, or K/T boundary event, is associated with an asteroid smashing into Yucatan, killing off the dinosaurs, and now

At http://cosmictusk.com/surovell-comet-asteroid-impactyounger-dryas-edward... ... however, the paper, lead author astrophysicist Malcolm LeCompte, stops short of saying there is positive evidence of a cosmic impact. What they

EM Smith is catching up on the discovery that cattle herders and pastoralists in the green Sahara, prior to 4000BC, led to lactose tolerance -

At http://phys.org/print267179257.html ... and see also www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/09/120918111320.htm ... and of course, http://cosmictusk.com/pnas-younger-drays-comet-paper-lecompte-s/ ... there is a new paper in PNAS that appears to exonerate the

A paper at http://arxiv.org/pdf/1204.5445v1.pdf ... appears to have used the swing between summer and winter to come up with the idead major changes were likely

The first one is www.electricuniverse.info/Introduction and the next is www.plasma-universe.com From Gary Gilligan we have two web sites on Isaac Newton's chronology of the ancient

At www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2012/09/-fireball-on-jupiter-so-large-and-... ... it was so bright and prominent that amateur astronomers spotted the flash and another filmed it (see also www.spaceweather.com). A video of

At www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2012-290&cid=release_2012-290 ... the NASA Opportunity rover, not to be confused with the Curiosity rover now being set loose on the surface of Mars, has

At http://phys.org/print266762185.html ... the events in the Arctic this year, although still impeding Shell's attempts to drill in the sea bed, have given birth to

At http://phys.org/print266649953.html ... research has found too many taus decay from bottom quarks to fit the Standard Model (of the universe). It also indicates problems

There has been a nice discussion on the whereabouts of Punt on the Eric Aitchison inspired chronology email link - which is always open to

At www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/09/2012/perthshire-stone-circl... ... is a piece on a stone circle in Perthshire beneath the backdrop of Schiehalion, the mountain associated by the fringe with the

Current Archaeology 271 (Oct 2012) (see also www.archaeology.co.uk) has an article on some recent excavations in Winchester by one of those big archaeological bodies, Oxford

The previous article only concerns Stonehenge in a peripheral manner and was perhaps used to garner some publicity as anything involving Stonehenge is hoisted higher

At www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/343984/title/Herders_not_farmers_bui... .... although the idea of growing crops had been introduced into Britain and Ireland before 4000BC it is being claimed that by the

At http://phys.org/print266134066.html ... the oather day is was a star that had too much lithium and now we have a dearth of lithium. Scientists think

At www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/sep/6/global-warming-fanatics-take-note/ ... the Chinese have kept detailed records of sun spots, it is claimed, and they noticed that more sun spots = warmer weather,

We are used to finding ammonites in various places in the UK, such as the collapsed cliffs at Charmouth in Dorset, dating back to the

At www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2012/09/ ... an image from the La Silla Observatory in the Andes (Chile) has picked out a globular star cluster, Menier 4, with an