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Poetry and climate science pragmatism ... see www.bishop-hill.net/blog/2012/3/31/scaring-the-proles.html is the piece that comes from Sleepalot, the pseudonym of one of the commenters at the site.

At http://chiefio.wordpress.com/2012/03/31/1866-odd-coincidence/ ... in 1866 the winter solstice coincided with a Full Moon and the Moon was also at perigree - its closest point to

At http://io9.com/5897169/dna-reveals-that-cows-were-almost-impossible-to-d... ... there are over a billion cows in the world today but a paper in Molecular Biology and Evolution claims there were just

At Pierre Gosselin's blog http://notrickszone.com/2012/03/29/coral-reef-growth-found-to-be-in-sync... ... scientists from Japan's Okayama Univerity claim the Sun influences coral reefs while at http://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2012.03/29/the-gulf-stream-today/ ... claims that low activity

The unlikely web site, Small Business Newswire, www.sbwire.com/press-releases/print/133733 ... has a Harvard archaeologist say that he had obsered during excavations in the Levant many foot

At http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/PRN-archaeologist-sets-out-to-validate-2...    the legend of Naymlap, founder of a dynasty in ancient Peru, begins with his arrival in a fleet of balse rafts. He

The Sun is still active and that large sunspot cluster will rotate towards the Earth later during April. It is still spitting CMEs apparently -

At www.physorg.com/print252078480.html ... Cassini looks at Saturn's nightside aurora and its electric current system (with images) while at www.physorg.com/print252074030.html ... news that the West Antarctic

At www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/03/120327093532.htm ... it seems researchers at Nottingham Trent University have been looking at the Gardom's Edge standing stone, a 4000 year old slab of

At http://chiefio.wordpress.com/2012/03/27/cue-oliver-m-lightning-makes-fre... ... after a quarter of a century of denying Russian research, scientists in the West have at last acknowledged lightning can cause free

At www.physorg.com/print252088815.html ... is Comet Wild2 subject to space weathering, is the question being asked, but it is a reference to a rusty red colouration

At www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-17537147 ... at a cave on Skye a small burnt and broken piece of wood is exciting archaeologists. It is part of the bridge

A paper in Nature Geoscience, March 26th - see www.physorg.com/print251966832.html - claims the composition of the Moon is much like that of the Earth for

Gary has sent in a couple of links that people may find stimulating - Sahara sand under the microscope. See http://vixra.org/pdf/1102.0022v1.pdf and www.myspace.com/jonlarsenguitar/photos/51836900 The mystery

At www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/9162459/Mystery-solved-Turin-Shroud-li... ... is an interview by Peter Stanford of Thomas de Wesselow, a Cambridge academic who has been fascinated by the Turin Shroud since

A paper by Nicola Scafetta in the Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics is bound to get alarmists in a tangle - see http://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2012/03/21/nicola-scafetta-major-new-pape... ...

It's all starting to spill out as the Clovis theory takes another stumble. A Canadian scientist analysed animal remains found in Ohio and claims a

At http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2012/03/graveyard-of-prehisto... ... Indian sources report the discovery of a fossil graveyard of repltiles embedded in a layer of mudstone in central India. There are

NASA sicentists have been looking at how continents wander and plate tectonics in general - see www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/03/120322161938.htm. A layer of partially molten rock deep underground

Mercury is throwing up some surprises according to a paper in Science - see www.physorg.com/print251643931.html. For example, it has an iron core that comprises approximately