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An Electric Universe query - can anyone help?
7 November 2011 > ElectromagnetismTodd has emailed the SIS contacts link with an Electric Universe query. People who might wish to get in reciprocal contact with him can do

Who might be pressing the SIS button - comets and catastrophe
6 November 2011 > CatastrophismAt www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/04/100401101527.htm ... 13,000 years ago Earth may have been struck by multiple Tunguska sized cometary fragments over the course of about an hour, according

Woodworking Neanderthals
6 November 2011 > AnthropologyAt http://averyremoteperiodindeed.blogspot.com/2011/09/mousterian-wooden-sp... ... the Mousterian refers to Neanderthal stone culture - or stone tools found in the ground. A Neanderthal site in France has preserved

The dark one, the bright one, and a volcano that has popped up on the sea bed off the Canaries
5 November 2011 > Inside scienceA huge asteroid will fly past the earth on Tuesday November 8th, some 400m in girth. It is very dark - the colour of charcoal.

Egyptian statuary
5 November 2011 > Ancient historyAt http://popular-archaeology/com/issue/september-2011/article/royal-statua... (if link does not work go to http://popular-archaeology.com and scroll down for the article) ... is a nice subject that illustrates the differences

'The Troy Deception'
4 November 2011 > Ancient historyIn the book, 'The Troy Deception, volume One: Finding the Plain of Troy', John Crowe has mustered some 300 pages of text that are easy

The jawbone in a cave
3 November 2011 > AnthropologyKents Cavern in Torquay in SW England is famous for the discovery of numerous Ice Age mammals. Mixed in with these bones was the jawbone

Sun verses Saturn - who was Ra?
2 November 2011 > MythologyAt www.thunderbolts.info/forum/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=4988 there was a bit of a splat between Gary Gilligan and the Saturnists in which some basic problems endemic to the Saturn theory

Dark Matter - fact or fiction
2 November 2011 > AstronomyThe science of dark matter - or the theory that such a thing as dark matter is a real life fact is in the news

Gilgal Refa'im
2 November 2011 > ArchaeologyGilgal Refa'im, the wheel of giants, is a huge heap of stones in the form of a cairn on the Golan Heights, 65m in diameter

Ice Cores
2 November 2011 > DatingAlthough this piece can be found at http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/10/31/little-bubbles-part-1/ and therefore classifiable as climate change it also has a bearing on dating and chronology. Ice cores

BEST on the fizzle
2 November 2011 > Climate changeMore on BEST and how it was collated, see http://climateaudit.org/2011/11/01/closing-thoughts-on-best/ with a hint there is a calibration problem in the methodology. The same subject is

Global Warming on New York and BEST is not best after all
29 October 2011 > Climate changeOn a weekend in October in which snow fell out of the sky, described by one journalist 'as sort of like a blizzard' on parts

A cold blast of air at the end of the Old Kingdom
28 October 2011 > CatastrophismAt dear auntie, www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/egyptians/apocalypse_egypt_01.shtml there is an excellent and well thought out article on the collapse of Egypt at the end of dynasty 6. People

A soothing sort of sceptic rather than a contankerous one
28 October 2011 > Climate changeAn interesting post on communication - the difference between being a sceptic and an AGW true believer, on the one hand, and how each side

perigee:zero
28 October 2011 > CatastrophismAt www.perigeezero.org/treatise/index.htm there is an interesting catastrophist web site - or is it a blog. Once again it is the Taurid complex that gets the

Humans and Apes
26 October 2011 > BiologyAt www.physorg.com/print238765711.html, it is junk DNA that defines the differences between humans and chimpanzees but at www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/10/111020122313.htm culture in humans and apes has the same

An astronomical alignment in North America
26 October 2011 > ArchaeologyA site in the beautiful Shenandoah Valley, or so the song goes, has caught the eye of a Virginia archaeologist - see www.clarkedailynews.com/archaeologist-claims-12000-year-old-solstice-sit... - but

Pock marked Mercury
26 October 2011 > AstronomyAt www.physorg.com/print238753778.html we learn that NASAs Messenger spacecraft has discovered strange hollows on the surface of Mercury - at a variety of latitudes and longitudes.

Short legs ... for walking up hills or because of the cold draught?
26 October 2011 > AnthropologyAt www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/10/111019172103.htm ... another misconception bites the dust - perhaps. It seems that the consensus view that Neanderthals had short legs in comparison to modern