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Panspermia - some cold water

25 August 2010 Biology
At http://lifeunbounded.blogspot.com/2010/08/panspermis-paradox.html is a post on panspermia, 'The Panspermia Paradox' (August 19th) ... the notion of panspermia, the transfer of viable organisms between planets and

A Sun Spot

24 August 2010 Astronomy
At http://www.cieletespace.fr/node/5752 the website of Ciel et l'Espace, a French astronomy magazine, has published a picture of a sun spote (below) It is the most detailed

Jupiter smacked again

24 August 2010 Astronomy
At www.dailygalaxy.com August 23rd ... we have a story that is repeated at many other internet sources but I like this one as it includes further

Mush

24 August 2010 Archaeology
At www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/08/100823131743.htm there is a piece on archaeology in Utah some 10,000 years ago (early Holocene) which shows a distinct change in diet that may

Solar Flare and radio-active elements on earth

24 August 2010 Physics
At www.physorg.com/print201795438.html ... researchers at Stanford have discovered a link between solar flares and the inner life of radio-aactive elements on earth, which sparked a

Another henge found ... near Letchworth

24 August 2010 Archaeology
BBC News August 24th ... archaeologists have discovered a henge near Letchworth in Hertfordshire. It would have been visible from another henge on what is

Some further catastrophic web sites

23 August 2010 Geology
At http://craterhunter.wordpress.com/2010/08/17/infernignite/ ... Dennis Cox suggests naming post impact plasma vortice of large airburst impact events which are commonly mistaken as ignimbrite, or volcanic tuff,

Sea Level around the coast of Britain in the Holocene

23 August 2010 Geology
Ian Shennan of the Sea Level Research Unit at Durham University has written and co-authored a number of books and articles on the subject but

Nebra Speculation

23 August 2010 Archaeology
At www.monstersandcritics.com/science/news/articl_1579505.php/Nebra-sky-disk-discarded-because-of-volcanic-ash-scientists-say/  August 23rd ... German scientists think a volcano was responsible for the burial of the Nebra sky disc at roughly 3600 years ago.

Numbers

23 August 2010 Archaeology
At http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1548-1433.2010.01245.x/full there is a longish piece about a lost language and the discovery of a numbering system from coastal Peru that was lost after

Anti-matter going bang

23 August 2010 Physics
At www.dailygalaxy.com August 21st (see also BBC News) .... anti-matter can create huge explosions is an accurate statement but anti-matter meeting matter isn't actually an

Magnetic fields of stars - a breakthrough?

21 August 2010 Electromagnetism
At www.physorg.com/print201526370.html ... a University of Dundee press release claims a breakthrough in the study of magnetic fields - which will add to what we

What makes a Black Hole?

20 August 2010 Physics
This is one of those uncomfortable pieces of emerging evidence that might result in an upset. At www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/08/100818085938.htm is a story that is being widely

The moon may have shrunk

20 August 2010 Astronomy
At www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/62406/title/Moon_shrink/ it is alleged the moon has shrunk - over the last I billion years. The evidence is lobate scarps and the hypothesisi s

Ancient Creation Myths - one kind of interpretation

20 August 2010 Electromagnetism
At www.thunderbolts.info August 20th ... 'What on Earth ... ' is a post by Rens van der Sluijs and along the vein of his auroral

A Chinese Pompeii ?

20 August 2010 Archaeology
http://english.peopledaily.com.ch/90001/90782/7112363.html provides information about a Chinese catastrophe from ancient history in Hunan province. As Pompeii was destroyed by a volcano and the city preserved beneath

Plasma Images

20 August 2010 Archaeology
www.rupestre.net/field/ is all about rock art in Italy, at Valcamonica. The Footsteps of Man Archaeological Cooperative Society is based in Valcamonica, an Alpine valley where

Mud volcanoes on Mars

20 August 2010 Geology
At www.physorg.com/print201452152.html ... in the August issue of Icarus there is a paper claiming some 18,000 circular mounts have been mapped on Mars in a

Galactic volcanoes

20 August 2010 Physics
At www.physorg.com/print201424073.html we have an image of a galactic volcano - erupting. Of course, it isn't a real volcano but it is likened to one

Secrets of the vanished landscape

19 August 2010 Archaeology
The story is at www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/08/100817143818.htm and concerns a five thousand year old fossilised landscape beneath the Fens of what is now Cambridgeshire, Lincolnshire and the