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Pyramids and small robotic explorers

16 August 2010 Archaeology
At www.csmonitor.com August 16th there is news of a robot developed at Leeds University which is designed to penetrate deeper into the Great Pyramid at
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Parts of South America may once have been under the sea - as recently as 10,000 years ago?

16 August 2010 Archaeology
Parts of South America may once have been below sea level, as recently as 10,000 years ago. There is a possibility of course that it
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Solar Cycle - How is it doing?

16 August 2010 Climate change
At http://notrickszone.com/2010/08/16/lebedev-physics- August 16th is a post gleaned from Ria Novosti the Russian news agency, which reported there were five clusters of sunspots on the
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Neolithic House in Yorkshire

14 August 2010 Archaeology
The Independent August 11th ... archaeologoists have found a house dating back 11,000 years ago, at Star Carr in North Yorkshire, constructed by Mesolithic hunter gatherers.
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Novas emitting huge gamma ray bursts

14 August 2010 Physics
At www.dailygalaxy.com August 14th ... gamma rays were thought only to come from supernovae but amateur astronomers in Japan have changed that view. They imaged
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No One Has Ever Been Here - where?

14 August 2010 Geology
http://cosmictusk.com August 13th ... George Howard has a couple of pictures of craters on the Gilf Kahir plateau in the Egyptian Sahara, near the border
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electron fractionalisation

14 August 2010 Physics
At www.physorg.com/print200828132.html there is a report on a paper in Physical Review Letters 105, 057201 (2010) concerning the puzzle of electrons as they fractionalise into
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Big Bang

13 August 2010 Physics
At www.dailygalaxy.com August 11th ... Casey Kazan wonders why the prevailing Big Bang theory predicts all galaxies should be evenly distributed on the outer rims
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An Indonesian glacier

13 August 2010 Geology
At www.physorg.com/print200656127.html we have an interesting story about a shrinking glacier on a 16,000 feet high Indonesian mountain ridge that is disappearing - rapidly. The
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Space Time may be just a mirage?

13 August 2010 Physics
At www.dailygalaxy.com August 10th ... Casey Kazan is winding people up again by questioning space time. Quoting a scientist from Berkely University in California, Peter
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Life influenced by cosmic rays (?)

13 August 2010 Electromagnetism
At www.dailygalaxy.com August 12th ... palaeontologist Bruce Leiberman suggests we should think about extraterrestrial events leading to higher rates of mutations in organisms and damage
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Giant loops of ultraviolet light in deep space

13 August 2010 Astronomy
At www.jpl.nasa.gov/news August 11th ... astronomers have found giant loops of ultraviolet light in old galaxies which seem to have a second lease of life.
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Mountains on Titan

13 August 2010 Geology
At www.jpl.nasa.gov/news August 12th .... Titan, a moon of Saturn, ripples with mountains - but how did they form? On earth mountains form at plate
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A Solar Tsunami (?)

13 August 2010 Astronomy
At www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article_1302449/Spectacular-northern-lights-dance-over-lakes-in-wake-of-solar-tsunami/ ... it seems the journalist is describing a solar flare, and presumably his analogy with a tsunami wave comes from the rapid advance
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Gondwanaland - massive shift at the beginning of the Cambrian!

13 August 2010 Geology
At www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/08/100810163456.htm a study published in Geology 2010: 38 (8), and a press release from Yale University, says the Gondwanaland supercontinent underwent a 60 degree
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Skellig Michael

13 August 2010 Archaeology
Some intriguing discoveries on Skellig Michael, the lump of rock in the Atlantic Ocean offshore of Kerry on which was built an early Christian monastery
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Megalithic tombs - new dating throws up a paradox

13 August 2010 Archaeology
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/sciencefair/post/2010/08/barrow-tombs-of-prehistoric-europe-built-in-bursts/1 ... it seems new dating evidence suggests the megalithic long barrows and passage tombs were built in a burst of activity over a few
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Roman Wales

13 August 2010 Archaeology
At www.redorbit.com August 12th ... there is a news release from Cardiff University saying that archaeologists may have to revise some of the details regarding
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The Medes

13 August 2010 Ancient history
Median dynasty architectural remains have been found in Azerbaijan (see www.cais-soas.com/news/ August 11th) ... a joint US/ Azerbaijani team of archaeologists have found remains  dating to the
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'Censorinus, the Sothic Cycle, and Calendar Year One in Ancient Egypt: the epistemological problem'

13 August 2010 Ancient history
This was sent in by member Eric Aitchison after he had received the link from Bergen, one of the Chronology members. Bergen posted it in
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