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An interesting piece at http://arxivblog.com/?p=596 'Do nuclear decay rates depend on our distance from the Sun?' ... is a question that came up in a

It has been common knowledge that the pudding shaped mound in the grounds of Marlborough College was probably a smaller version of Silbury Hill. It

This story is at http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/05/30/kill-it-with-fire/ is by Willis Eschenbach. It homes in on the hockey stick climate model which seems to have a life of

This story with the same title is at www.physorg.com/print225970694.html comes from Universe Today - which is a touch sceptical. A chap called Gough has suggested

This story is at www.physorg.com/news/2011-05-tesla-lady-gaga.html ... and the artificial production of lightning via Tesla coils - on stage. The Open Spark project produces music out

At www.dnaindia.com/mumbai/report_a-civilisation-as-old-as-indus-valley_154... ... is a rather garbled report of the discovery of what looks like a wall that is submerged off the coast of India.

The Los Angeles Times in 1979 quoted two scientists ( a professor of engineering and a research scientist in geochemistry) that had taken an interest

On Monday 30th May, 8.30-10.00pm BBC One will show 'Egypt's Lost Cities' ... archaeologist Sarah Parak says that just a few per cent of the

Len Saunders, SIS member and contributor (see www.stonehenge-info.org ) thought Silbury Hill was constructed in response to heavy rainfall and abnormal flooding of the Kennet

At http://craterhunter.wordpress.com/2011/05/16/if-not-by-impact-then-what/ ... Dennis Cox has a new post on craters - this time espied in New Mexico and western Texas - by using the

At www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/05/110518121227.htm 'Young Graphite in Old Rocks challenges the Earliest signs of Life' ... (the same story can be found at www.geology.com May 24th) and

At http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/05/23/study-on-paleo-rainfall-records-cl... ... this post is based on a paper published last week in PNAS on research in South America and appears to show, and

On May 15th Piers Corbyn of www.weatheraction.com predicted an earthquake 'somewhere' in the world between 19th and 21st of May. On May 21st an earthquake

News of an event on The Plasma Universe, 7pm to 8.30 at 27-29 South Lambeth Road, Vauxhall, London SW8 1SZ (for details go to http://bis-space.com/2011/02/17/1338/the-plasma-universe

At www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/74605/title/News_in_Brief_Earthenvir... we have news from a German team that have been checking the thickness of ice in the Beaufort Sea (in the Arctic) and

The story is at www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/05/110520160607.htm ... researchers using radio telescopes throughout the southern hemisphere think they have an image (pictured) of particle jets erupting from

This story is at www.sciencenews.org/view/feature/id/74449/title/Stellar_oddballs.html ... the Kepler spacecraft has found a mystery - described as a treasury of wonders, even a freak show of

This story occurs at http://notrickszone.com May 20th and Pierre Gosselin is faintly sarcastic in his description of a new study just published by Nature that

Now anyone can listen to a transcript of the Wal Thornhill and Dave Talbot radio talk on Coast to Coast by simply going to www.coasttocoastam.com/shows/2011/05/18/

A new instrument was installed on the International Space Station (see www.physorg.com/print225114293.html ) designed to sift and detect cosmic rays to discover how they originate