In the News

At www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2011/jun/10/archaeology-mystery-keros-is... is a story about fragments of beautiful but deliberately smashed bronze age figurines and marble bowls found in shallow pits on a small

At http://popular-archaeology.com/issue/april-2011/article/archaeologists-r... is a story about the start of a new season at copper mines SE of the Dead Sea in what was ancient Edom.

At www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2011/06/jupiter-was-once-where-mars-is-tod... ... NASA has a new model, as in a computer simulation, of how the early solar system may have formed in which the

Piers Corbyn, at www.weatheraction.com/displayarticle.asp?a=351&c=5 is now saying it's effects were negligible as it was not a face-on event (it was not facing towards the earth)

At http://heritage.scotsman.com/news/The-axeman-cometh-450000-years.6781421.jp ... there is a report on an amateur archaeologist discovering a Palaeolithic stone axe on a beach in Orkney. It was so old

This story can be seen at http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/06/09/lindzen-on-getting-the-special-tre... .... (see also http://climateaudit.org/ June 10th) ... Professor Richard Lindzen is not flavour of the month with AGW

At www.thunderbolts.info there is a page now on the NPA conference and details of what is hoped to be the agenda. Wal Thornhill will address

George Howard, at http://cosmictusk.com June 8th has been investigating the smeer against Allen West, the geologist at the centre of a controversy over his ability,

At http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv June 8th, there is a post on Dark Matter - the invisible stuff that is thought to fill the universe. It refuses to

At http://joannenova.com.au/2011/06/study-finds-global-warming-over-past-40... which is a post that leans heavily on a paper in the Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics. It claims current global warming

At www.physorg.com/print226660412.html ... a paper published by PNAS by two Japanese scientists has traced back the domestication of rice to around 10,000 years ago -

At http://bishophill.squarespace.com/blog/2011/6/6/koutsoyiannis-2011.html (or at simply www.bishop-hill.net June 6th) there is an interesting post by Doug Keenan on a paper by Koutsoyiannis which seems to show

It seems solar flares are in the news as Paul La Violette, in the journal Radiocarbon (June 2011, 53:2 page 303-323) claims a super solar

At www.physorg.com/print226459407.html there is a report on a volcano in Chile that erupted on June 4th. A rift, 6 miles by 3 was torn out

At www.physorg.com/print226319418.html is a report on a paper in the journal Science (June, 2011) that focuses on the Antarctic Circumpolar Current as a cause of

At www.livescience.com/14420-ancient-egyptian-mummies-lung-disease-pollutio... ... a study of the lungs of aancient Egyptian mummies shows that particulates in the air were very little different to what they

In Earth in Upheaval , page 139-141, Velikovsky says, that Lake Agassiz, a large glacial lake that once covered the region at present occupied by

Willis Eschenbach at http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/06/01/common-sense-added-to-endangered-s... raises an interesting point. Extinction events in the past have involved lots of dead bodies and fossils in rocks - but

Thiss story can be seen at www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/06/110601134253.htm and is based on a paper in Nature just out. It is also featured, with comments, at http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/06/01/radar-mapping-reveals-ancient-anta...

At www.colorado.edu/philosophy/vstenger/Cosmo/bang.txt is a review of Eric Lerner's book, The Big Bang Never Happened - a refutation of the Dominant Theory of the Origins of