In the News

Over at http://cosmictusk.com/alaska-big-wave-at-12900/ there is the claim of a huge tsunami wave at the YD boundary - or thereabouts, with some nice Native American artwork

There has been some speculation on sailing ships traversing the Arctic Ocean in the late 18th/early 19th centuries - see http://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2012/02/18/the-arctic-voyages-of-william-... which is a stir

At www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/02/120215143001.htm .. anthropologists have said the cradle of language could, or it that 'should', be traced back to Africa. A recent paper that received

At www.physorg.com/print248597825.html ... we learn that a paper in Nature claims the extraordinarily high energy emissions at the heart of the Crab Nebula come not

At www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-english-hampshire-17046338/ ... there is a video of the stone age boatyard found on the bottom of the Solent - since flooded by rising sea

It seems too recent but it was only in 1976 that JA Eddy had an article published in Science 192 (no 4245) that established the

At www.physorg.com/print248347427.html ... tells us that a NASA JPL research team in league with French scientists have written a paper for the Geophysical Review Letters

At www.newgeology.us/presentation36.html there is an article by a scientists who has worked at the US Geological Survey for over 40 years and is the author

At www.physorg.com/print248086305.html ... clams have been found at hydro-thermal vents in the deep ocean - in the Mariana Trench. This is located in the western

At  http://en.wikipedi.org/w/index.php?title=Solar_cycle&oIdid=476364656 the Wikipedia entry on the solar cycle is interesting - it looks at the history of the subject and notes that as long

One suspects that many things have been factored into the uniformitarian scientific model not because they are inherently more likely than alternative ideas that are

An unusual story can be found at www.esa.int/export/esaSC/SEM0TLSXXXG_index_0.html (hat tipped towards member Gary Gilligan) from the European Space Agency web site, 10th February 2012. ESAs

A new paper has suggested the Siberian Traps caused a long drawn out mass extinction at the Permian/Triassic boundary - described as a 'mass dying

This story is at www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/02/120208133039.htm and apparently the giant black hole at the centre of our galaxy may be devouring asteroids and comets, or anything

There is surprisingly a lot a sites out there that picked up on Richard Mackey's article in 2007. For instance, at http://climatechange.thinkaboutit.eu/think4/post/climate_change_caused_b... ... it seems

In the grander picture the galaxy rotates at a roughly constant velocity and relative to this the Sun and its planetary system move around the

At http://cosmictusk.com news of a new paper, 'Framboidal iron oxide: chondrite like material from the black mat, Murray Springs, Arizona' where it is argued they

Deep ocean sediment cores, drawn from the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific oceans, are said to show a heartbeat of the Earth's ecosystem, a 100,000 year

Another example of scientists driven by dogmatism  - defending the consensus at all costs and attacking new discoveries without bothering to pause and think, stop

Bob Forrest wrote a couple of articles published by SIS and it seems he was in regular communication with Rene Gallant, author of Bombarded Earth