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Easter Island
19 November 2011 > ArchaeologyAt www.robertschoch.com there is a link to a pdf of an article he had published elsewhere, The Mysteries of Easter Island. Robert Schoch, wearing a

The Schoch Effect
19 November 2011 > ElectromagnetismA recent Thunderbolts email update on the January 2012 conference in Las Vegas indulged in a spot of Doomsaying - was the Sun about to

Compromise at K/T boundary
18 November 2011 > GeologyGeoscientist Gerta Keller is extraordinarily consistent and has been a long time critic of the asteroid strike that killed the dinosaurs - based on geological

Neanderthals, too clever by half
18 November 2011 > AnthropologyA computer programme has come to the rescue of the reputation of Neanderthals - otherwise described as dull-witted and rather unpretty, with great big conks.

Little Rascals
18 November 2011 > PhysicsNeutrinos are rascally little devils according to Ask a Physicist at http://io9.com/5859576/whats-the-strangest-thing-about-neutrinos/ in reply to a query on why neutrino oscillations occur. At www.thunderbolts.info the

Loess ... coming from the wrong direction, and that sinking feeling
17 November 2011 > GeologyThe consensus view is that loess, the fine grains of silt that have accumulated in different parts of the world but especially in great big

Robert Schoch
16 November 2011 > ElectromagnetismAccording to the Thunderbolts web site Robert Schoch is a recent recruit to the Electric Universe theory and the idea of plasma playing a destructive

Eskimo migrations and Egyptian petroglyphs
16 November 2011 > ArchaeologyAt www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/11/111114112314.htm ... archaeologists have found a bronze buckle made from a cast, in Alaska, in an eskimo house dating back 1000 years. It originated

Timo Niroma
14 November 2011 > CatastrophismThe catastrophist blog of Timo Niroma of Helsinki may have reached its conclusion. News is that he has recently died of cancer - so who

A new island is forming in the Atlantic
14 November 2011 > GeologyNews that the volcano growing on the seabed near the Canaries is about to break the surface of the sea is at www.volcanodiscovery.com/volcano_news.html (see also

Mesolithic people under the sea
14 November 2011 > ArchaeologyAt www.dredgingtoday.com/2011/11/08/the-netherlands-archaeologists-find-hab... ... during construction of new deep water port facilities in Rotterdam Dutch archaeologists have found Mesolithic remains - at a depth of 20m.

Hannibal and his elephants
11 November 2011 > Ancient historyI make no comment on this inclusion, sent in by Gary Gilligan, a link to a piece that asks if Hannibal really crossed the Alps

Solar Magnetic Polarity Reversal
11 November 2011 > ElectromagnetismMichael Armstrong on the www.thunderbolts.info/tpod/2010/arch10/100401polarity.htm .... wrote a piece last year on the solar magnetic reversal every 11 years and corresponding with sun spot cycles,

Records of Aurorae and Climate Change
11 November 2011 > ElectromagnetismA paper by Nicola Scafetta in the Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-terrestrial Physics is reviewed at http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/11/10/aurora-borealis-and-surface-temper... .. is set to expand the climate debate

Cooking up a nice dinner
10 November 2011 > BiologyAt www.physorg.com/print239895904.html we learn that cooking meat played a key role in driving the evolution of man from apes. The study is in PNAS and

Caves and Archaeology
10 November 2011 > ArchaeologyAt www.physorg.com/print239895836.html there is a report on a paper in PNAS on the colour and markings of prehistoric horses as painted on the walls of

Looking at the universe - with different eyes
10 November 2011 > ElectromagnetismAt www.thunderbolts.info/wp/2011/10/31/windy-galaxies/ ... Stephen Smith has a look at the way astronomers describe features of the universe. For example, plasma behaves in unusual ways and

Fossils in Amber
7 November 2011 > GeologyWe all know about insects in amber, preserved as fossils and highly prized by our ancestors. The trade in Baltic amber during the past is

Doomsaying and prophecies of End Times
7 November 2011 > CatastrophismAt www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/11/111103143255.htm ... as 2012 approaches the doomsayers and mongers of disaster are abroad and barking in the dark. On the 11th day of the

Arctic Warming
7 November 2011 > Climate changeOne of the big scaremongering stories in recent years has revolved around the warming summer waters of the Arctic Ocean - as a result of