In the News

At http://phys.org/print265992535.html ... the ESA satellite Planck, which changes direction every hour as well as rotating once a minute on its axis, may have found

At www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/09/2012/land-near-petra-was-a-... .... a system of underground canals cut out of the limestone bedrock took water from reservoirs to terraced fields in the land of

Some interesting ideas by Rens Van Der Sluijs on thunderstones at www.thunderbolts.info/wp/2012/08/28/theories-on-the-rocks-in-a-flash/ (in several parts) as a feature of the Picture of the Day series.

More speculation on black holes - see www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2012/09/the-first-supermassive-black-holes/ ... these were, it says, formed shortly after the Big Bang according to a research group from

At www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/09/2012/surveying-romes-forgot... ... the Gask Ridge frontier is associated with a line of Roman forts and watchtowers first picked out by aerial photography, stretching from

At www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/343399/title/DNA_unveils_enigmatic_D... ... is a piece of research on the DNA as revealed from a single finger bons and a two teeth found in Siberia

At http://plasmauniverse.info/NearEarth.html ... there is a list of articles on Z pinch instabilities and aurora, including number 15 and 18, 'Characteristics for the Occurrence of

At www.cosmosmagazine.com/news/5940/sugar-found-near-two-star-system/ ... sugar molecules have been discovered in the gas surrounding a binary star system 400 light years from the Earth, according to Danish

At www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2012-265&cid=release_2012-265 ... we learn that the WISE mission, which ended last year, discovered what they say are millions of black holes. Millions of them,

At www.dummies.com/how-to/content/string-theory-hundreds-of-physicists-cant... ... this is a somewhat amusing review that begins by saying one of the major criticisms of string theory is not to do

A paper published in Nature Geoscience claims the Arctic Ocean was 1 to 2 degrees Centigrade warmer between 50,000 and 11,000 years ago - see

At http://phys.org/print265280725.html ... there is a video of a coronal mass ejection on the Sun captured as it bursts forth in the shape of a

At http://portuguese-american-journal.com/archeology-prehistoric-rock-art-f... ... rock art has been found that may go back to the Bronze Age - but is yet to be dated. However, there

At http://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2012/08/29/noaa-showing-18-more-ice-t... ... is a story of two methods of measuring the ice at the Arctic. NOAA is the traditional methodology and it shows ice

The roundness of the Sun, mentioned a couple of weeks ago in passing, is the subject of a forum on Thunderbolts - worth looking at

Last week we had a paper saying that Neanderthal genes present in modern humans was due not to interbreeding but were a residue going back

In one of those news flash episodes, we are told by the mass media, the heavy brigade with the big floppy pages, and the BBC

This is really basic geology but I'm placing it under the catastrophism banner as it has a bearing on the recent hypothesis of a comet

At http://geology.gsapubs.org/content/early/2012/08/08/G33279.1.abstract ... is an abstract of a paper published August 2012 in Geology journal, 'Seasonal Laurentide Ice Sheet melting during the Mystery Interval, 17.5-14.5ka'

At www.minoanatlantis.com/LM_IB_Destruction.php ... some interesting information. LMIA and LMIB represent the zenith of Minoan civilisation, we are informed, with trade contacts to Egypt and the