In the News

At https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/01/12/academics-and-the-grid-part-i-I-dont-think-that-study-means-what-you-think-it-means/ ... and https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/01/13/academics-and-the-grid-part-ii-are-they-studying-the-right-things/ ... academics have the luxury of focussing on a limited number of problems at one time. The grid must operate

Think Poseidon, think earth movements under the sea, and tsunami waves. Strabo referred to a shrine of Poseidon on the west coast of the Peloponesse.

The boneyard is of course related to the Alaska muck deposits that appear in Velikovsky's 'Earth in Upheaval' and used as evidence of a catastrophic

At https://phys.org/news/2023-01-blocks-life-meteorite-gloucestershire.html ... the bulding blocks of life have been found in a meteorite that landed in a driveway at Winchcombe in Gloucestershire in 2021.

At https://phys.org/news/2023-01-scientists-evidence-magnetic-reconnection-ganymede.html ... in 2021 NASAs Juno spacecraft flew close to Ganymede, Jupiter's largest moon, and witnessed evidence of magnetic reconnection - or what has

At https://phys.org/news/2023-01-mass-production-stone-bladelets-cultural.html ... this is an intriguing one. Analysis fo stone tools attributed to the Ahmarian, the first Upper Palaeolithic culture of the Levant [dated

At https://technologyreview.com/2011/10/17/21387/ ... is a story going back to 1883. Jose Bonilla counted 450 objects, each surrounded by a sort of mist, passing across the

Two links sent in by Robert - both to a Creationist web site. Both of them can be described as catastrophic in nature. However, the

At https://phys.org/news/2023-01-cave-ice-age-hunter-gatherers-lunar.html ... an interesting article and theory. It is all do with Ice Age paintings at such sites as Lascaux and Chauvet. The study

Willia sent in a link to https://www.yahoo.com/news/paleontologist-accused-making-data-dinosaur-200800871.html ... a palaeontologist is accused by another of making up data on the K/Pg boundary event - the

At https://phys.org/news/2022-12-quasicrystal-accidental-electrical-discharge.html ... a quasicrystal formed during an accidental electrical discharge. A paper in PNAS refers to a quasicrystal found in a sand dune in

Robert sent in a couple of video links from Eric Lerner's web site [back in 2012]. See https://www.lppfusion.com/science/cosmic-connection/plasma-cosmology/ ... with the two videos he suggested

A new study at PNAS, December 2022, has revealed some fascinating information about the Bering Land Bridge. Does it support the idea of Woelfli and

Robert sent in this link too - https://phys.org/news/2022-12-year-mysterious-patterns-temperatures-jupiter.html ... and https://subarutelescope.org/en/results/2022/20/3212.html .... and the arXiv paper at https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.04398 ... the pre-publication web site. A 40

Robert sent in the link https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ac982a ... and  https://gleamoscope.icrar.org/gleamoscope/trunk/src/ ... and https://www.sarao.ac.za/media-releases/new-meerkat-radio-image-reveals-complex-heart-of-the-milky-way/ ... which Robert relates to magnetic filaments in the galactic centre - or

At https://phys.org/news/2022-12-hunter-gatherer-social-pottery-making-wide.html ... an exciting new idea, pottery making reached eastern and northern Europe via Siberia and East Asia, around 8000 years ago. It is

At https://spaceweather.com ... on December 19th and 20th, and again on December 23rd, we have the story of  a shock wave created by the solar

A story that swept across various media this week - drought lay behind Attila the Hun's war on Rome - see for example https://phys.org/news/2022-12-drought-attila-huns-roman-empire.html ...

Robert sent in two links. The first one is intriguing - see https://scienceandstuff.com/china-just-discovered-a-new-mineral-and-it-could-power-nuclear-fusion-devices/ ... but it involves mining the moon. His other link is https://scienceandstuff.com/the-universe-may-not-be-homogeneous-after-all/

The Hubble telescope detected a ghostly glow overriding our solar  system. This arose as a result of the SKYSURF project. Some 200,000 Hubble archived images