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It didn't take long for the consensus to shoot down in flames the idea that 4 per cent of Neanderthal genes have survived in modern

Dr Martin Hoerling of NOAA, not at all a sceptic organisation, has formulated an on the button response to recent doomsaying by James Hansen -

A marvellous forum debate going on at www.thunderbolts.info/forum/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=6369 ... lots of ideas floating around

This is a story which will run - see www.phenomenica.com/2012/08/plate-tectonics-like-on-earth-also-exist-on-... ... a Chinese scientists, An Yin, analysing images from the THEMIS spacecraft and the HIRISE

At http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/15-million-years-of... ... in spite of the claim one wonders if it is really the right title. It begins on the assumption the consensus model

At http://phys.org/print263800587.html ... an underwater volcano 600 miles offshore of New Zealand has erupted and there is a huge cluster of white pumice floating on

Greenpeace founder, or one of them, Patrick Moore, was interviewed by the Washington Times recently - see www.bishop-hill.net/blog/2012/8/11/moore-realist.html ... and had some interesting things to

What wiped out the Neanderthals continues to fascinate anthropologists and others but unfortunately they do not wish to embrace the idea of catastrophism - in

This story is at various places and in various newspapers, such as The Guardian and at http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/mass-grave-in-londo... ... but has an ultimate origin in an

At http://phys.org/print263543815.html ... where there is an image of a huge solar filament across the face of the Sun (early August) that is estimated to

Incredibly, it seems that 'castle scholars' or historians that study castles in England (Scotland and Wales are not implicated) have in the main  rejected the

At http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/mountains-seaway-tr... ... have a look at the two maps here and see what you think. Large parts of North America was underwater - as

Elephants, it seems, emit low rumbles in much the same way as a human might sing, blowing air through the larynx, or voice box. It

at http://heritageofjapan.wordpress.com there is a good article on pottery finds in China dating back to 20,000 years ago, and another on a 5th century ad

Physics at the Edge - the edge of what? Playing to the fanfare on the Higgs Boson release a paper in Physical Review Letters (see

We've had tropical weather in the Arctic and it follows the same must have occurred in the Antarctic. Now, a rock core on the sea

At http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2012/07/giant-claw-in-desert-... ... An Aboriginal stockman found crocodile teeth and shards of bone in the desert, 160km north of Alice Springs, some years ago. For

At www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/jul/31/silchester-iron-age-roman-britain?INTC... ... excavations at Silchester have revealed the Atrebates tribe were living a fairly Roman like kind of lifestyle and diet 50 odd years

At www.thunderbolts.info/wp/2012/07/22/on-the-shoulders-of-suppressed-giant... ... Rens van der Sluijs wonders why Velikovsky cites some early catastrophists but fails to mention others - even where there is a

At www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-07/uot-aue073012.php ... archaeologists have unearthed a human sculpture at Tell Tayinat. It had originally been about 3m in height but had been destroyed and