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At http://i-squared.blogspot.com/2009/12/green-snake-in-grass.html ... is a rant about Post Normal Science and its role in AGW doomsaying. Not sure if it is relevant as it has

At www.miller-mccane.com/science/comet-claim-comes-crashing-to-earth-31180/ ... it seems that Allen West, one of the co-authors of The Cycle of Cosmic Catstrophe and various articles on the YD impact

Velikovsky, on the first page of his book, Earth in Upheaval (Victor Gollancz:1956) made some extraordinary claims of the so called Alaskan 'muck' deposits in

NASA has created an interactive web based tool that incorporates observations from the past and present lunar missions that can be used to explore the

Also at www.space.com/11642-dark-matter-dark-energy-4-percent-universe-panek.html 'What is 96 per cent of the Universe made of? Astronomers don't know' ... Richard Panek says that all the stars, planets,

At www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/GLAST/news/crab-flare.html ... the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has detected a powerful series of flares coming from somewhere within the Crab Nebula - and provides

In the far north of Eurasia, at Byzovaya in the Ural Mountains, some kind of a Neanderthal mystery has emerged- and an explanation is hampered

At www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-13359242 11th May - the story says that a relook at pottery from excavations at the site of Glastonbury Abbey in the 1950s has

At www.physorg.com/print224335841.html - it seems the Big Bang did not produce carbon yet life is carbon based. Where did it come from? A supercomputer simulation

In a similar vein, at http://archaeology.about.com/od/aterms/a/Aztlan.htm?nl=1 the semi mythical homeland of the Aztecs, known as Aztlan, has been sought far and wide with the most

An interesting article at http://thecostaricanews.com/ancient-cultures-and-prehistoric-in-casta-ri... the Costa Rica News reports on some archaeological discoveries in their country, on the slopes of volcanoes - presumably being

The Daily Mail - see www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1385290/North-America-populated-70-peop... claims that new genetic research suggests only about 70 humans crossed the Bering Strait at the end of the

For example, at http://popular-archaeology.com/issue/april-2011/article/caves-in-spain-y... there is a fascinating story about a Spanish cave that at some point during the Pleistocene became filled with soil, rocks,

Tree rings, including bristlecone pines, have been used by climate scientists as a useful took, claiming they show past temperatures. Mike Baillie, a dendrochronologist begs

Doomsaying is a noteable feature of the medical world - report after report telling us for instance that cholesterol was a bad thing as it

Alternative sky serpents include enhanced aurorae (as advocated by Rens van der Sliujs on www.mythopedia.com ) or comets (Clube and Napier used this idea in

At www.gks.uk.com/Apophis-Apep-Serpent/ there are some new images. Scroll down to near the bottom and you will see photographs of the Jet Stream overhead from a

This is a bit of a fanciful story but is based on a series of hard facts - interspersed with some speculation. For starters the

At www.themeaningofvedas.com is a web site set up by Ravindra Godbole after he wrote a book with the same name. This is excellent and falls

NASA (see www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2011-135?cid=release_2011-135 ) has issued a news release on Comet Elenin - and its progress from the outer reaches of space on its journey