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Some interesting speculative biology going on - and NASA forced to retreat. The idea of a shadow biosphere, or a biosphere that has been crowded

CAGW seemed to be firmly entrenched, especially from a science angle - until a few retired people with an addiction to messing around on the

At www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/07/2012/300-000-year-old-flint... ... reports the discovery in Picardy of a site with five prehistoric levels ranging in date between 300,000 and 80,000 years ago, most

At http://phys.org/print261650980.html .... some basics of what the CERN experiment was all about, and what it found, in an easy to understand description by Cliff

This can be found at www.phenomenica.com/2012/07/african-elephants-are-picky-eaters/ ... which is interesting as the same may have applied to mammoths. Elephants don't eat just anything but selectively

To begin with, George Howard has set up a series of You Tube videos on his web site that will interest catastrophists in general. They

At www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/342218/title/BLOG_Humans_not_so_sing... ... it seems that neuroscience research and artificial intelligence are challenging the idea that humans are something special in the natural world, a

Lovely images of Mars - polar ice cliffs, gullies, craters, and dunes - go to http://phys.org/print261381810.html ... with links to HiRISE web site and more

At http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/07/12/important-new-paper-on-the-nocturn... ... this is the subject that put Anthony Watts on the blogging map, the weather station data and urbanisation (the urban heat island

At http://rhythmsoflife.ca/ ... there is a web site to publicise a new book on evolution, by Susan Crockford, Rhythms of Life. How did wolves become

At http://phys.org/print261121955.html ... we have one of those frustrating press releases from a university, a letter of intent - future plans. Scientists, it says, are

Buzzing around the blogosphere is news of a paper in Nature Climate Change that may have put the cats among the pigeons - although the

At www.thebunsenburner.com/news/an-impostor-particle-cern-scientists-may-no... and www.thebunsenburner.com/news/did-scientists-discover-the-higgs-boson-or-... ... CERN scientists were not willing to confirm the existence of the particle during their announcement last week but they did

In Shorter Science and Civilisation in China:2, an abridgement by Colin A Roman of Joseph Needham's original 1981 text, we have on page 84 ...

Two stories of interest at Anthony Watts blog. At http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/07/09/weak-solar-convection-approximatel... ... solar researchers have been trying to understand how the Sun transfers heat from its

As discussed at a recent meeting, there is a theory our solar system is part of a binary system that involves the star Sirius -

There are some interesting facts about polar bears and brown bears on the sceptic blog http://notrickszone.com/2012/07/07/arthur-c-smith-iii-polar-bear-extinct... ... and really, it is all about the Ice

At http://www.popular-archaeology/issue/june-2012/article/classic-maya-coll... ... the collapse of Classic Maya civilisation is an idea that has been replicated so many times that it has become a factoid.

A paper published in Nature July 5th claims planets may form much faster than consensus theory currently allows - see http://phys.org/print260625944.html. This idea comes after

Environmental lobbyists and Green whack jobs seem to have the ear of our politicians, a somewhat startling situation when you think about it. Why not