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At www.ancientdestructions.com ... Peter Jupp's web site has an excellent article on fossils - from petrified trees (that become agate or chalcedony) complete with beetles

At www.news-press.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID-2011110117060 'Ancient plant matter found beneath Pine Island changes Florida history' is about some recently discovered ancient plant remains beneath Pine Island, actually a

This amazing story can be found at http://scienceblogs.com/channel/life-science/ and scroll down list of articles to January 19th where it is the fourth post of that

The Sun is coming alive once again as a huge sun spot region is developing lots of dots and signs of activity. According to a

At www.artdaily.org January 22nd ... Mexican archaeologists have discovered three Clovis projectile heads associated with the remains of a gomphotheres in Sonora. The animal is

Oliver Manuel has a paper, The Sun's Origin at www.omatumr.com/abstracts2008/The_Suns_Origin.pdf which can be downloaded or read online. He visualises the Sun as a giant plasma

This fascinating post can be found at http://chiefio.wordpress.com/2011/01/22/can-the-earth-crust-slip/ the blog of EM Smith, 'Musings from the Chiefio' and posted on January 22nd. He ponders for

At www.physorg.com/news/2011-01-students-flock-legendary-physicist-stephen.html there is a story of students flocking to hear Stephen Hawking speak at Caltech in California. He can still draw a large crowd.

NASAs Stardust NExT spacecraft is nearing a rendevous with Comet Tempel on February 14th (see http://stardustnext.jpl.nasa.gov/ ). The mission is designed to look for changes

William Burroughs in Climate Change in Prehistory (Cambridge University Press: 2005) describes some cave paintings at Chauvet drawn with charcoal and of unusually clear draughtsmanship.

At www.physorg.com/print214406296.html ... scientists aim to use mammoth skin and muscle tissue excaated from the Siberian permafrost to bring a mammoth back to life -

At http://thegwpf.org/science-news/2225-benny-peiser-climate-change-is-civilisation-collapse/ is an interesting piece worth reading that attacks the environmentalist idea of civilisation collapse as a result of human exploitation of old mother

At www.nytimes.com/2011/01/16/weekinreview/16chang.html?ref=kennethchang there is a story sent in by member Gary Gilligan. It begins with the theme of plate tectonics and earthquakes and proceeds to

At www.thunderbolts.info ... see the Forum section and a discussion of some of Peter Jupp's ideas (he is a member of SIS, and his DVDs

At www.usatoday.com/tech/science/columnist/vergano/2011-01-16-bog-bodies_N.htm it seems that some 560 bog bodies have been found just in Denmark as a result of wetland drainage schemes. Acids found in

At www.bishop-hill.net/blog/2011/1/14/new-tree-ring-paper.html there is a post on an article in New Scientist of January 14th commenting on a paper by Buntgen et al that was

At www.archnews.co.uk/featured/4616-did-famine-destroy-camelot/ there is an interesting piece on South Cadbury Castle (hereafter assumed to be Camelot) where excavators have shown it was re-occupied in the

At the Modern Survival blog it is being suggested the Katla volcano on Iceland, the really big one, is displaying signs of activity. A ring

At www.sciencebits.com/ice-ages there is an article by Nir Shaviv, a youngish scientist, if his picture is up to date, that has been making waves the

This story was sent in by two members, Gary and Lawrence, having picked it up from two different sources, being www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/11/01/lightning-antimatter-physics/ and http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/ January 11th.