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It might have been the coldest June weekend for over 80 years in Stockholm, see http://phys.org/print258002745.html but at http://phys.org/print258035163.html a giant black hole is being

Harking back to two days ago - giant insects. They seem to have reached their maximum size during the Late Carbiniferous - which is why

At www.nature.com/news/mysterious-radiation-burst-recorded-in-tree-rings/ ... a spike in C14 levels indicates a massive cosmic event of some kind - in AD774/5. The atmospheric level of C14 must

Staying on the same theme as yesterday, rock art, we see some interesting images from California at www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/05/2012/archaeology-and-the-ro... and as can be seen from the

At http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/06/02/so-dinosaurs-could-fly-part-i/ ... an unusual post as far as subject is concerned. Andi Cockroft wonders aloud about paleo-climate as it seems Theresa Cole (see ColeTheresaN2011MSc.pdf)

Without taking sides this is perhaps an illustration of how science consensus nails the mast down - against all comers. At http://users.indigo.net.au/don/nonsense/subass.html the title is

At http://sunnyokanagan.com/joshua/upsidedown.html ... Okanagan is not an Irish surname but a hot dry, and yes, sunny part of Canada very popular with tourists and pensioners.

At http://discovermagazine.com/2012/may/11-decoding-ancient-secrets-of-whit... ... the Lower Pecos is an arid expanse situated in SW Texasand somewhat remote from the beaten track. Some 4000 years ago it

At www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/05/2012/10000-year-old-orkney-... is a map of the Orkney - as it was in 8000BC. This is at a considerable time after the end of the

At http://phys.org/print257617231.html .. we have 'Electric Moon jolts the solar wind' according to the headline - so electricity in space is now recognised as fact.

Two thought provoking posts at Tall Bloke's Talk Shop - see http://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2012/05/30/is-the-earth-a-cosmic-feather-... and http://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2012/05/31/clive-best-the-real-cause-of-i.... These are at the cusp of science and climate research. In

As we approach June 6th the Venus Transit is getting attention - see for example www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2012-150&cid=release_2012-150 and the NASA web page at http://venustransit.nasa.gov/transitofvenus/ and we

At http://phys.org/print257697925.html a neutron detector at the University of Oulu in Finland captured solar particles originating from a solar flare on May 17th - travelling

At http://phys.org/print257320509.html ... it is being claimed it took 10 million years for the eco-system to recover after the end of the Permian mass extinction

At http://phys.org/print257415019.html ... a new study, archaeological and geological, says it has the evidence that climate change was a big ingredient in the collapse of

Over at Tall Bloke's Talk Shop, blogger Lucy Skywalker of Blackboard fame, has a post on thermal gradients, going back to a friendly discussion between

At http://phys.org/print256988782.html ... a zooarchaeological study indicates hominids (early humans) already practised sophisticated hunting techniques in China according to Chinese scientists in a paper in

World Current Archaeology 53 (June 2012) also has some other interesting articles. For example, some fascinating rock art has been found at el-Hosh, Qurta and

World Current Archaeology 53 (June 2012) has a nice piece on the Gobekli Tepe excavations with lots of colour pictures. The D shaped pillars are

Joan Feynman is the sister of the better known Richard Feynman and she works at NASA JPL, the space research centre - see http://chiefio.wordpress.com/2012/05/26/hope-for-nasa-climatology-joan-f.... EM