In the News

This 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 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 -

At 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

At 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

At 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

A 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

At 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

The 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

At http://geology.com/noaa/sulawesi-sea/ .... this is an interesting piece of reseach as the Sulwesi Sea even during the Ice Age was a water-way and a barrier

At www.physorg.com/print211983845.html ... the large hadron collider has found no signature of microscopic black holes produced in high energy proton-proton collisions. They are predicted to

The Plasma Universe Wikipedia-like Encyclopedia has some interesting entries (see www.plasma-universe.com/Dusty_plasma/ ). This one, with the title 'dusty plasma', sets out to describe precisely what this

At www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1337890/ ... it's all gone quiet on the geophysical survey around Stonehenge  which just a couple of months ago was all over the media.

At www.wired.com/wiredscience/2-1-/12/magnetic-copper-slag/ .... it seems that copper slag from Iron Age smelting activities at Khirbet es/Nahu in NE Jordan and from Timna in what is

At http://specialpaper.gsapubs.org/content/470/115.abstract 'Is Tharsis, Mars, a spreading volcano?' - it is thought Tharsis Rise on Mars is spreading outwards and that has produced rifting at

NASA has another story to delight - the Cassini spacecraft took images of enormous clouds of plasma periodically blooming around Saturn, moving the planet 'like

At http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2010/13dec_globaleruption/ we have a video clip and a story on a sunspot eruption way back in August (see also www.dailygalaxy.com december 14th). What prompted the

There are two articles so far in what will be a three part series on Aztec blood rituals - sacrifice. See www.archnews.co.uk/featured/3722-the-purpose-of-aztec-blood-rituals.htm and www.archnews.co.uk/featured/4282-the-purpose-of-aztec-blood-rituals-part-2.htm ...

The footprints are said to date back some 5000 to 6000 years ago, see www.archnews.co.uk/world-archaeology/uk-archaeology/4216-prehistoric-human-footprints.html and it seems a lot of amateurs have been scouring

For those interested in Biblical archaeology - or revisions with a slant towards the archaeology of the Levant, you may be interested to learn the

At www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2010/12/14/3092679.html ... apparently, scientists have found evidence that 40 per cent of the canopy forest in the South Island of New Zealand was incinerated