In the News

At www.thunderbolts.info/wp/2011/09/12/mythology-at-stake/ ... mythology is interpreted in many ways especially when societies and cultures seem to record almost the same phenomena but live many miles

At www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/09/2011/understanding-the-myst... there is a piece on the Plain of Jars, otherwise the Xieng Khouang Plain in Laos, where there are hundreds of gaint stone

At the topnotch web site www.pasthorizons.com/index.php/archives/09/2011/bluestone-henge-twin ... if you remember, from the TV series on the 2007 excavations, a former bluestone circle was found on

A video of NASAs Dawn spacecraft flying past the giant asteroid, Vesta, is available online to view (see www.jpl.nasa.gov/video/index.cfm?id=1020). Vesta has seasons just like the

At www.news.ualberta.ca/article.aspx?id=7F2465DE563B40C9882377C4C08E0F52 ... University of Alberta scientists have found feathers preserved in amber, from the Late Cretaceous era (towards the end of the dinosaur age).

News of a book just released - on the location of the Plain of Troy. According to author John Crowe, former SIS stalwart, the area

Gary Gilligan sent in this link to a story about NASAs Grail mission which is set to blast off in an attempt to unravel some

In a comment at www.drroyspencer.com/2011/09/a-primer-on-our-claim-that-clouds-cause-tem... ... Richard Courtney outlines some research on climate models he did ten years ago and some follow-up papers by others,

At www.physorg.com/print234443910.html ... as a result of the expanding universe, or the belief in an accelerating expansion of the universe, cosmologists have come up with

There is a fun post at http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/09/07/frozen-global-warming-research/ a post by Willis Eschenbach, in a dry style. It seems that because of faith in AGW the

At http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/09/05/cet-vs-meto-a-problem-with-tempera... is a bit of a cheeky pieces that asks why the Met Office temperatures for the peripheries of Britain are somewhat warmer than

At http://meetings.aps.org/Meeting/APR05/Event/29058 there is a short abstract by CJ Ransom and Wal Thornhill that claimed z-pinch simulations in the laboratory actually produced spherules (in an

At http://in.news.yahoo.com/study-suggests-earliest-humans-were-not-very-di... there is a report on a study from an American university by archaeologist John Shea which claims early humans were variants of Homo

At http://thegwpf.org/the-observatory/3779-henrik-svensmark-the-cosmic-rayc... ... Henrik Svensmark, co-author of The Chilling Stars, answers some questions posed to him by GWPF. It seems that solar flares send out

At www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id//333948/description/Woolly_rhinos_ca... ... is a report on a paper published in Science (Sept 2nd) and is all about the discovery of a new cache of

This story is at www.physorg.com/print157735263.html - giant cats roamed Europe and North America as recently as the warm period between the end of the Ice

Simon Haslett of the University of Wales, Newport, in coalition with Ted Bryant (see story a few days ago on 1014AD tsunami) had there research

The Guardian (see www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/sep/01/iron-age-hill-fort-excavation/ ) has a report on excavations at the large Iron Age hill fort of Ham Hill in Somerset - some 80

This story can be found at an interesting site with a nice name, http://averyremoteperiodindeed.blogspot.com/2011/08/170000-year-old-huma...  is all about a human skull, described by one of the

In response to Gary Gilligan's ideas about flint (see his web site, www.gks.uk.com) and the significance of the study at http://swansea.academia.edu/CarolynGravesBrown/Papers/847861/The_Biologi... ... a rather interesting