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Another city under the sea

2 September 2010 Archaeology
At www.theartnewspaper.com September 2nd ... BP aims to drill some exploratory oil wells off the Libyan coast and this has alarmed French archaeologists who are

Near Earth Update - NASA report

2 September 2010 Astronomy
This story from NASA (see www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/ September 2nd) has popped up all over the blogosphere, with various angles to the headlines. NASAs Spitzer Space Telescope

Bronze Age surgeons

1 September 2010 Archaeology
New Scientist 2775 August 31st ... the discovery of what looks like a scalpel at an Early Bronze Age settlement at Ikiztepe in Anatolia (dating

Moab

1 September 2010 Archaeology
Associated Press September Ist ... archaeologists have found an Iron Age temple in Jordan believed to date back to the Kingdom of Moab. Figurines and

.. and a red comet ...

1 September 2010 Astronomy
There is an image of a red comet at www.dailygalaxy.com September 1st, being Comet Sidling Spring, which is named after the Australian observatory where it

... and after the diamonds we have red rain ...

1 September 2010 Astronomy
At http://arxiv4.library.cornell.edu/abs/1008.4960v1 - an interesting post sent in by Gary Gilligan that moves seamlessly into juxtaposition  to the extraterrestrial impact debate - and red rain

The Antarctic of the Past

31 August 2010 Geology
At http://io9.com/5626068/new-evidence-that-it-was-once-possible-to-sail-across-antarctica/ is a strange title as it gives the impression a paper with a lead author from the British Antarctic Survey was referring to

Jupiter's radio emissions and dark energy?

31 August 2010 Physics
An interesting post by Casey Kazan who continues to rattle the cage at www.dailygalaxy.com and posted on August 31st 'Do Jupiter's radio emissions hint that

A funny looking crater on Mars

31 August 2010 Astronomy
At www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/08/100827082326.htm .... Orcus Patera is a mysterious elliptical depression near the equator of Mars, some 380km by 140km in a NNE - SSW direction.

... yes, there are nano diamonds at the YD boundary event, preserved in ice on Greenland.

31 August 2010 Catastrophism
This is a paper by Kurbatov, Mayewski, Steffensen, West, the Kennetts, Bunch, and others which can be downloaded free in full text from http://cosmictusk.com August

No nano diamonds at YD boundary ....

31 August 2010 Catastrophism
Embedded resistance to the YD boundary event is evident in the post at www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/08/100830152530.htm (see also www.physorg.com ), a report on a paper published in

Index of Postings in August 2010

30 August 2010 Inside science
August 2010 August 2nd ... Science and the Brotherhood of Silence August 2nd ... Cooking the Data to warm it up August 2nd ... What

Other Worlds

30 August 2010 Anthropology
The Journal of the British Interplanetary Society published a letter in 1986 that has obviously intrigued Paul Gilster for a long while - see his

Nasca Lines ... and water

30 August 2010 Archaeology
At www.andina.com.pe/Ingles/NoticialImprimir.aspx?id=313896 August 27th ... we have a Peruvian account of American research that has previously appeared in book form. The theory was advanced that

YD event update

30 August 2010 Catastrophism
Bill Napier reports that a Canadian radar meteor team has confirmed and modelled the predominance of Comet Enck/progenitor in the Zodiacal Cloud (a catastrophist model).

San Andreas Fault ... tremblors going back 700 years

30 August 2010 Geology
At http://geology.com/press-release/san-andreas-earthquakes-frequency/ earthquakes have been a regular feature along the San Andreas fault system for a long time and a series of tremblors have been

K/T boundary event - a compromise?

30 August 2010 Geology
BBC News August 30th ... the K/T boundary event, it seems, involved more than one meteorite, or asteroid strike, according to a new study in the

The henge in Herts again

30 August 2010 Archaeology
See www.culture24.org/ August 30th ... (subsection, history and heritage - some pictures of the dig). The bank surrounding the ploughed out henge has managed to

sun spots ... can stretch the sky ...

30 August 2010 Physics
New Scientist August 27th ... sun spots may play a role in small fluctuations in the time it takes the earth to rotate on it's

Alternative Science on the Web

29 August 2010 Inside science
At www.thunderbolts.info there is a forum posting, Links to Related Alternative Science Web Pages. It is very useful as it provides some different takes on