In the News

At www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2011/06/heading-into-the-cosmos-voyager-yi... ... NASAs two Voyager spacecraft are nearing the edge of the solar system, and surprise, the models scientists had developed of the solar

It seems the Vostok ice core extracted from the Antarctic ice sheet goes back around 700,000 years - and even this is a calculation based

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