In the News

Occurring in an offhand manner in the middle of an article, without any kind of follow-up or inquisitive turn of mind. In the Australian magazine,

Hannibal, with his elephants, crossed the Alps and descended on the plains of northern Italy and over the course of the next 12 years fought

At www.examiner.com/road-trip-travel-in-atlanta/has-an-1100-year-old-mayan-... ... in this instance, Georgia in SE North America, on the opposite of the Caribbean to the Maya peoples of Yucatan and Belize,

Yes, back to that interesting web site, www.themeaningofvedas.com which is an attempt to explain Indian mythology in the context of catastrophism. In chapter 18 the

The boundary between the Triassic and the Jurassic coincided with a major extinction of species - but what caused this to happen? Scientists are now

Dr Gerald Pollack, author of 'Cells, Gels, and the Engine of Life' (2001), the subject being the electrical substructure of Life, is the latest recruit

Some excellent posts on the rising differentials between real world temperatures and those of the climate models - the gap is growing by the week.

The discovery of 80 whales buried in the Atacama desert of northern Chile during the building of a highway has reappeared as a post at

It is recognised there is uncertainty on when the modern dating system kicked in and if AD1 has any connection with the Birth of Christ

This story, with a video to view, can be found at www.physorg.com/print243507433.html after various satellites witnessed Comet Lovejoy fly close to the surface of the

A fascinating piece of sleuthing that has uncovered reports of liquid co2 on the ocean bottom and these have an origin in 'white smokers' -

At www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2011/12/image-of-the-day-gamma-rays-flashi...

At http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/12/13/higgs-boson-announcement-expected-... cern/ is a piece with lots of comments on how the search for Higgs Boson is proceeding (see also www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-16158374/ we have the

Landsatt satellites used to track Yellowstone's geothermal heat - see www.physorg.com/print242540137.html. Yellowstone National Park sits on top of what is thought to be a huge

The under-sea volcano that has erupted deep on the sea-bed off the Canary island of El Hierro is now just 60m below the surface -

At http://archaeology.about.com/od/huntergatherers/ss/Gobekli-Tepe.htm there is a discussion of an article by EB Banning in Current Anthropology (2011) that suggests the T shaped pillars were used to

In the latest issue of Current Archaeology 262 Dec/Jan 2011/12 there are a couple of gems. The first of them concerns Kents cavern in the

At www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/dec/04/bronze-age-archaeology-fenland/ ... the Cambridgeshire fens have preserved some archaeology intact for 3000 years. Some six hollowed out oak trunks (boats), textile fragments, wicker baskets,

At www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2011/12/02/3381368.htm ... the Lapita culture has been found around the coastline of southern Papua New Guinea and it is thought Torres Strait Islanders may

At www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=japan-earthquake-moves-seafloor we learn that the Fukushima earthquake moved the sea floor as much as 50m laterally and 16m vertically. In addition, the crust as