In the News

Aurorae

24 September 2010 Astronomy
At www.physorg.com/print204231105.html ... we are told the Canadian Space Agency have launched an online observatory streaming the aurora borealis live over the internet, at www.asc-csa.gc.ca/auroramax

Vikings and Neanderthals

24 September 2010 Archaeology
At http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2010/09/long-sought-viking-settlement-to.html Sept 23rd ... further information on the discovery of the Viking settlement of Linn Duchaill, near Annagassan, 70km north of Dublin. The excavations

News from Russia

24 September 2010 Archaeology
At  www.kyivpost.com/news/russia/detail/83349/print/ we learn that a Russian scientists has said that the first settlers on Sakhalin Island in the North Pacific have been dated between

The Raised Waters of the Exodus

22 September 2010 Archaeology
At www2.ucar.edu/news/parting-waters-computer-modelling-captures-physics-red-sea-escape-route/ is a story that appeared on BBC News broadcasts and at www.physorg.com and www.sciencedaily.com and generally in lots of places that have nothing to

Out of Africa

22 September 2010 Anthropology
At www.bbc.co.uk/news/science_environment-11327442?print=true Sept 2Ist ... geneticists have estimated the the Out of Africa human migration to SE Asia and Australia took place around 60,000 years ago.

Anasazi violence

22 September 2010 Archaeology
At http://news.discovery.com/archaeology/genocide-native-americans-ethnic-cleansing.html ... is I think a regurgitation of an old story by Discovery News which has a habit of catching up a few days

Antarctica - when was it glaciated?

20 September 2010 Geology
At www.thunderbolts.info?forum/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=3566&start=0 ... one of the forums at Thunderbolts this week is on the release of Peter Jupp's new video - the subject is Antarctica.

Parallel universes and the Black Widow

20 September 2010 Physics
Is gravity from a parallel universe creating dark energy? Casey Kazan at www.dailygalaxy.com has a different slant on a story that emerged a few weeks

Big Conks and Curly Locks

20 September 2010 Archaeology
The Peoples Daily in China (see http://english.peoplesdaily.com.cn/90001/90782/90873/7140112.html ) has a short story on a stone coffin from the Tang Dynasty (around AD800) which has a

Records in Stone

20 September 2010 Archaeology
At www.cambridge.org/9780521531306 ... is an abstract of a book edited by Clive Ruggles, Records in Stone: Papers in Memory of Alexander Thom. As well as

Symbols from the Sky in Cave Art

18 September 2010 Archaeology
See http://seedmagazine.com/content/print/symbols_fromthe_sky/ ... sent in by Gary Gilligan this is essentially about Rappengluck's novel interpretation of cave art - at sites such as Lascaux and

Plants and evolution

17 September 2010 Biology
Research done at the University of Calgary (see www.physorg.com/print203834230.html ) has come up with some new ideas on the diversity of flowering plants - and

Galaxy super clusters and strings and things

17 September 2010 Astronomy
At www.dailygalaxy.com September 17th ... there is a story on galaxy super clusters that may be related to the distribution of dark matter. Galaxies seem

Aboriginal astronomy and other bits of archaeological news

17 September 2010 Archaeology
At www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/sep/17/cave-paintings-found-in-somaliland/ is a report on the discovery of cave art at numerous sites in Somaliland. In the Irish Times (see www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2010/0917/1224279093813_pf.html ) there is

X-rays in Space

17 September 2010 Astronomy
A University of Leicester press release on the 8th of September (see www2.le.ac.uk/ebulletin/news/press-release/2010-2019/2010/09/nparticle.2010 ) claims that the source of powerful X-rays in a nearby galaxy

Mysteries of the Moon

17 September 2010 Astronomy
... or rather, mysteries of the Moon that really might not be as mysterious as this piece at www.disinfo.com/2010/09/who-parked-the-mooon/ would have its readers believe (sent

Comet Halley Again

17 September 2010 Astronomy
At http://io9.com/5637815/ there is another version of the Comet Halley appearance in 466BC - with a bit more history. It could have been visiting the

A new way to produce electricity to power engines

14 September 2010 Electromagnetism
At the Rumor Mill Robert Mason has posted details of a hydroelectrolytic turbine he has invented - go to www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?read=181024 which he hopes will be

Comets in the Kuiper Belt

14 September 2010 Astronomy
At http://calderup.wordpress.com/2010/09/13/kennelful-of-planet-puppies/ ... is about some images from the Hubble Space Telescope which show two remote objects in the Solar System slowly moving across the

Some dating issues

13 September 2010 Dating
The New Chronology Yahoo Group forum has had the big guns posting during September - David Rohl, Bernard Newgrosh and Bob Porter for example. The