In the News

At www.nature.com/news/mysterious-radiation-burst-recorded-in-tree-rings/ ... a spike in C14 levels indicates a massive cosmic event of some kind - in AD774/5. The atmospheric level of C14 must

Staying on the same theme as yesterday, rock art, we see some interesting images from California at www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/05/2012/archaeology-and-the-ro... and as can be seen from the

At http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/06/02/so-dinosaurs-could-fly-part-i/ ... an unusual post as far as subject is concerned. Andi Cockroft wonders aloud about paleo-climate as it seems Theresa Cole (see ColeTheresaN2011MSc.pdf)

Without taking sides this is perhaps an illustration of how science consensus nails the mast down - against all comers. At http://users.indigo.net.au/don/nonsense/subass.html the title is

At http://sunnyokanagan.com/joshua/upsidedown.html ... Okanagan is not an Irish surname but a hot dry, and yes, sunny part of Canada very popular with tourists and pensioners.

At http://discovermagazine.com/2012/may/11-decoding-ancient-secrets-of-whit... ... the Lower Pecos is an arid expanse situated in SW Texasand somewhat remote from the beaten track. Some 4000 years ago it

At www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/05/2012/10000-year-old-orkney-... is a map of the Orkney - as it was in 8000BC. This is at a considerable time after the end of the

At http://phys.org/print257617231.html .. we have 'Electric Moon jolts the solar wind' according to the headline - so electricity in space is now recognised as fact.

Two thought provoking posts at Tall Bloke's Talk Shop - see http://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2012/05/30/is-the-earth-a-cosmic-feather-... and http://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2012/05/31/clive-best-the-real-cause-of-i.... These are at the cusp of science and climate research. In

As we approach June 6th the Venus Transit is getting attention - see for example www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2012-150&cid=release_2012-150 and the NASA web page at http://venustransit.nasa.gov/transitofvenus/ and we

At http://phys.org/print257697925.html a neutron detector at the University of Oulu in Finland captured solar particles originating from a solar flare on May 17th - travelling

At http://phys.org/print257320509.html ... it is being claimed it took 10 million years for the eco-system to recover after the end of the Permian mass extinction

At http://phys.org/print257415019.html ... a new study, archaeological and geological, says it has the evidence that climate change was a big ingredient in the collapse of

Over at Tall Bloke's Talk Shop, blogger Lucy Skywalker of Blackboard fame, has a post on thermal gradients, going back to a friendly discussion between

At http://phys.org/print256988782.html ... a zooarchaeological study indicates hominids (early humans) already practised sophisticated hunting techniques in China according to Chinese scientists in a paper in

World Current Archaeology 53 (June 2012) also has some other interesting articles. For example, some fascinating rock art has been found at el-Hosh, Qurta and

World Current Archaeology 53 (June 2012) has a nice piece on the Gobekli Tepe excavations with lots of colour pictures. The D shaped pillars are

Joan Feynman is the sister of the better known Richard Feynman and she works at NASA JPL, the space research centre - see http://chiefio.wordpress.com/2012/05/26/hope-for-nasa-climatology-joan-f.... EM

At http://chiefio.wordpress.com/2012/05/26/spawar-space-and-naval-warfare-l... EM Smith has been doing some musing on cold fusion after he discovered the US Space and Naval Warfare Command became interested in

As global warming is stalled and is clearly not happening at the moment but instead the world is getting quite a bit of snow in