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Wikinfo
5 January 2011 > ArchaeologyAt www.wikinfo.org/index.php/Troy_at_Bergamo_by_John_Lascelles/ we have a post on John Lascelles whose book was reviewed by SIS a couple of years ago. Wikinfo was launched in 2003,

NASA puzzled by Sun activity
5 January 2011 > AstronomyThere is a lovely post at WattsUpWithThat today that I will write up tomorrow and add to this post - but looking at www.suite101.com/content/vast-solar-eruption-shocks-nasa-and-raises-doubts-on-sun-theory-a327330 John

A Rapid spread of Polynesians
5 January 2011 > ArchaeologyAt www.hawaii.edu/news/article.php?ald=4097 ... is a news release of a reappraisal of the timescale of Polynesian migration across the eastern Pacific via a study of 1400
The Grand Bahamas Bank
4 January 2011 > GeologyAt hgttp://geology.com/nasa/great-bahamas-bank/ .... there is a NASA image of the Great Bahama Bank as seen from space. It stretches from near the N American land

The Quelccaya Glacier
4 January 2011 > Climate changeAt http://chiefio.wordpress.com/ January 3rd ... we learn that freezing weather is also affecting the tropics - in this instance, the high mountain zones of the

Human evolution - the spats
1 January 2011 > AnthropologyAt www.pasthorizons.com/index.php/archives/12/2010/neanderthal-face-is-not-cold-adapted/ ... is based on a paper in the Journal of Human Evolution that contradicts the long held belief that the noses of Neanderthals

Index of Postings in November and December 2010
31 December 2010 > Inside scienceNovember 2010 November 4th ... Approaching Comet Hartley2 November 4th ... Mars - asteroid strike? ... gamma ray bubbles and a newly found neutrino November

Massive Comet Break-up and NASA on Solar Max
31 December 2010 > AstronomyThe ESA and NASA mission SOHO (Solar and Heliospheric Observatory) has found its 2000th comet (see www.physorg.com/print212806556.html). SOHO was designed to monitor the Sun and

Early Human Revisions
29 December 2010 > AnthropologyAt www.pasthorizons.com/index.php/archives/12/2010/new-work-casts-doubt-on-out-of-africa-theory/ ... there is a report on the recent discovery of the remains of humans found at Qesem Cave near Rosh Ha'ayin in modern

Tel Qudadi
29 December 2010 > DatingAt www.aftau.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=13609 ... we learn that Tel Qudadi, a fortress on the mouth of the Yarkon River (now part of modern Tel Aviv) was not a fortified

Christmas Trees
28 December 2010 > ElectromagnetismAt www.thunderbolts.info/tpod/2010/arch10/101224candles.htm ... an interesting article by Rens van der Sluijs on illuminated christmas trees - and plasmoids.

Woolly Mammoths in the Arctic Circle
24 December 2010 > BiologyAt www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101221114807.htm ... a paper in the journal Palaeography, Palaeoclimatology and Palaeoecology claims that woolly mammoths living north of the Arctic Circle in the Pleistocene

A tale of a finger bone and a tooth
24 December 2010 > AnthropologyThis story has been on BBC News and you can read about it at a variety of blogs, including www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101222131119.htm which is a report on

The YD boundary event splutters once again
23 December 2010 > CatastrophismThe big news at http://cosmictusk.com this week is that a former critic of the YD boundary event has, out of nowhere, changed his mind -

Dolmens in the Jordan Valley
23 December 2010 > ArchaeologyAt www.archnews.co.uk/world-archaeology/asia-archaeology/4403 and www.pasthorizons.com/index.php/archives/12//2010/hundreds-of-jordanian-dolmens-saved/ ... dolmens going back to the 4th millennium BC in the Jordan Valley were in danger of being destroyed by mining operations

The Drying up of the Sahara
22 December 2010 > GeologyAt www.physorg.com/print212152097.html ... a study of lake sediments from a dried up lake in northern Chad in the Sahara has shown evidence that the lake

A comet coming back into life?
22 December 2010 > AstronomyAt www.physorg.com/print212167881.html ... an asteroid with an orbit within, or crossing, the main asteroid belt, appears to be showing signs of revived life - leading

Cosmic Microwave Background - what is going on?
22 December 2010 > AstronomyA post at www.dailygalaxy.com December 20th has the title, 'Epic Discovery Update: We are One of Many Universes', a story taken from a paper available

Oz and the weather
22 December 2010 > Climate changeAt www.physorg.com/print2120041103.html ... we have some nice pictures of snow in Australia - in December. It's supposed to be summer down under but some icy gusts

Ice Ages
22 December 2010 > GeologyThe New York Times (see www.nytimes.com/2010/12/18/world/middleeast/18deadsea.html ) has picked up on the story of the Dead Sea sediment cores that are currently being drilled out