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This is meant to be tongue in cheek as it seems those dratted windmills don't like it too windy. Generally, they are switched off when

Contrary to some reports in the media the situation regards the bluestones is not cut and dried as far as human transportation is concerned. This

At www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/01/120110114434.htm there is a piece on deep sea vents in the Caribbean - with a difference (published in Nature Communications, January 10th). The vents,

A post at http://chiefio.wordpress.com January 15th 'Outgoing vs Land vs Water Vapour' makes you wonder if it is all a hall of mirrors and the

HH Lamb on the Ice Age, from chapter 6 of 'Climate History and the Modern World' made some interesting points on the landscape and the

A rock from a mineral collection donated to a museum in Florence has an origin in the Koryan mountains in the Kamchatka peninsular. It was

This story can be found at a variety of places, and was also sent in by member Gary Gilligan ( www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/337517/title/Planets_as_common_as_st...) but can also be

The actual idea of continental drift has never been accepted - what we have in the consensus theory of Plate Tectonics is something more subtle.

On January 7th Anthony Watts passed a significant milestone, the number of visits to his site reached 100,000,000 - yes, that was 100 million hits

You can now pick up a video or image of theSun on a weekly basis, just to see what it has been doing in the

Velikovsky gets a mention in a climate change post at www.bishop-hill.net/blog/2012/1/6/cosmos-and-consensus.html (see also the comments) not so much for his hypothesis but for the way

At www.physorg.com/print244918262.html ... there is a piece that describes how modern Plate Tectonics has migrated from the idea originally proposed by Alfred Wegener in the

At http://heritageofjapan.wordpress.com/just-what-is-so-amazing-about-jomon... ... the Jomon, as well as the people of Okinawa, and the Ainu (thought to be descended from the Jomon) all have a

Human endeavour, in Europe during and immediately after the Late Glacial Maximum may have been quite different to what it was in East Asia. For

If Peter Warlow's interpretation of the Late Glacial Maximum at the 2007 SIS Cambridge Conference has any substance to it then it follows that climate

We have already seen that an undersea volcano is in the process of creating a new island in the Atlantic - adding it to the

Gary Gilligan sent in a link on this story a few days ago (www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45779867/ns/technology_and_science-space/ - and here it is again at www.physorg.com/print244271763.html. Since 2006 astronomers

The phoney CAGW alarmism has given us all an upfront view of group behaviour. It is not so much something that has bitten the legs

Occurring in an offhand manner in the middle of an article, without any kind of follow-up or inquisitive turn of mind. In the Australian magazine,

Hannibal, with his elephants, crossed the Alps and descended on the plains of northern Italy and over the course of the next 12 years fought