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At http://anthropology.net/2012/06/14/were-paleolithic-european-cave-painti... is an argument that revolves around the viability of dating techniques and whether methodologies different to C14 are singing from the same hymn

At www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/06/120614130944.htm ... the last interglacial episode, known as the Eemian after a river in the Netherlands, differed in unusual ways from the present interglacial,

As the Met Office got it wrong again - twice as much rain fell as they predicted (a day or two prior to the flooding)

At http://cosmictusk.com/ there is a report on a story from Knight Science Journalism Tracker - big media has ignored a PNAS paper on a comet

The New Chronology forum was having a debate on Thera last week - and tree rings, ice cores and C14 are mentioned in passing. It

A post at www.thunderbolts.info/wp/2012/06/08/serious-issues-with-plate-tectonics/ harks back to David Pratt who outlined some of the problems he thought affected the theory of Plate Tectonics and sea-floor

At www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-east-wales-18423528 ... archaeologists have discovered the remains of a large prehistoric building that appears to be Neolithic in concept - if not in date.

At http://phys.org/print258659797.html ... astronomers have uncovered a clue about how our galaxy emerged from the Dark Ages - by looking at nearby galaxies. During the

Chris Stringer of the Natural History Museum in Kensington is at loggerheads with Spanish fellow palaeontologists over the dating of human fossils at Atapuerco in

At http://phys.org/print258278534.html ... change in the axis of rotation is Out of Bounds on Earth but strangely not so on Mars. The ESA Mars Express

At http://helian.net/blog/2012/04/human-nature/e-o-wilsons-group-selection-... apparently, some proponents of 'evolutionary psychology' are opposed to the idea of the Selfish Gene and the God Delusion. Group selection is back

Some interesting links for thorium energy - another ten years at the earliest. Go to http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/06/07/book-review-of-super-fuel/#more-65191 which is about a book focussing on green energy

An article in the Australian science magazine, Cosmos - see www.cosmosmagazine.com/news/5651/early-primates-originated-asia-migrated... is a funny kind of piece that has been published in the journal PNAS.

Andrew Montford outlines what some recent activity at Climate Audit might mean - see www.bishop-hill.net/blog/2012/6/7/another-hockey-stick-broken.html (and the comments to these kind of posts are just

It may be the coldest June weekend for 80 + years as far as Sweden is concerned (see yesterday) but it's getting warmer on the

At www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/06/2012/excavation-of-a-solutr... ... prior to construction work archaeologists did a survey and came across a Solutreean hunting camp - buried 2m deep. The Palaeolithic site,

A video of the Dawn mission to the asteroid Vesta can be seen at www.jpl.nasa.gov/video/index.cfm?id=1085 and see the image of a multi-coloured asteroid Vesta at

The video of the transit is available at http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/06/06/time-lapse-video-of-venus-transit-... and at http://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2012/06/06/transit-of-venus-first-pics/#m... This follows a spate of articles over the last couple of days leading

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