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Himalayan Odds

6 August 2010 Geology
At www.physorg.com/print200237328. html there is a report on a geological study into the formation of the Himalayas, the movement of the Indian plate into the

Demise of rainforests

6 August 2010 Climate change
www.physorg.com/print200224571.html once again, and a paper in Conservation Letters says 45 per cent of plants and animals making up the rainforest habitat will remain intact

Strings and Things

6 August 2010 Physics
At www.physorg.com/print200224981.html physicists use an offshoot of string theory to describe the puzzling behaviour of super conductors - material that conducts electricity without resistance. Published in

Kangaroos

5 August 2010 Biology
At www.physorg.com/print200126874.html there is a claim that the evolution of kangaroos was intricately tied to Australian climate change - but suitably confined to millions of

Painted Stones by Painted People

5 August 2010 Archaeology
The story is reported in The Scotsman (but see also http://news.scotsman.com/news/Neolithic-stone-network-found-on.6454132.jp ) stones painted with patterns such as zigzags and chevrons have been found in

The auroral heartbeat of Saturn

5 August 2010 Electromagnetism
At www.physorg.com/print200123247.html ... a paper in Geophysical Research Letters (Aug 6th) claims that Saturn's aurora, a low ultraviolet glow which illuminates the upper atmosphere near

Lightning and Hurricanes

5 August 2010 Electromagnetism
At www.physorg.com/print200126122.html (see also www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/ ) is about a connection between lightning (electricity in the atmosphere) and hurricane intensification. NASA are now peering inside storms

The Spacecraft Fly-by Mystery

4 August 2010 Astronomy
'The Spacecraft fly-by mystery - is dark matter the culprit or is there new physics waiting to be discovered?' is another headline grabber from Casey

Cyrus and the Chinese

4 August 2010 Archaeology
www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/Extracts-of-Cyrus-Cylinder-found-in-China/ (see News section if story unavailable) ... it seems a British Museum curator, Irving Finkel, has identified a cuneiform text inscribed on horse bones found

The Out of Taiwan human migration

4 August 2010 Anthropology
An article in Current Anthropology (April 2010) (see www.physorg.com/print190043379.html ) disputes the consensus model of human colonisation of the Philippines, Malaysia and islands of Indonesia

Ancient World Chronology and the Bible

4 August 2010 Dating
Ancient World Chronology and the Bible is an article you can find at www.reformed-theology.org/ice/newslet/bc/bc98.09.html and the author has clearly been reading Donovan Courville's book, The

The Kings of the Ancient Britons

4 August 2010 Ancient history
The Kings of the Ancient Britons by Bill Cooper, can be found at www.biblebelievers.org.au/nation08.htm which is a rather peculiar document that shows a line of

Anatolia and Historical Concepts (another paper on Mitanni, the Hittites, and the Hurrians)

4 August 2010 Ancient history
A document by Robert Hewson (which seems to have been written roughly 40 years ago but is still available online and quite close in nature

EU Presentation.

4 August 2010 Electromagnetism
The Thunderbolts newsletter has announced (August 4th) that Dave Smith, editor of the 'Thunderblog' at www.thunderbolts.info will make a prresentation of the Electric Universe hypothesis

Svensmark - an exoneration?

4 August 2010 Climate change
http://hockeyschtick.blogspot.com/2010/08/paper-cosmoclimatology-is-real.html is a report on a paper in the Journal of Geophysical Research 142 (2010) which comes out in support of Henrik Svenmark's hypothesis. The

Sea Levels and Sprott

3 August 2010 Climate change
At the same web address and the same piece Sprott says the barycentric orbit affecting the weather also effects sea levels. It is illogical to

A Sprott on the Landscape

3 August 2010 Climate change
At www.scoop.co.nz/stories/print.html?path=SC0811/S00028.htm ... a press release from the New Zealand Climate Science Coalition on November 11th 2008 can be found at this web address, with

The Sun is waking up

3 August 2010 Astronomy
The Sun is waking up according to NASA - see www.physorg.com/print199985777.html which  has an image of a filament of plasma blasted from the surface (plus

Icy Centaurs

3 August 2010 Astronomy
Are icy centaurs between the orbits of Jupiter and Neptune a threat to the earth? is the headline of a piece by Casey Kazan at

Geoglyphs from the Atacama Desert in Chile

2 August 2010 Electromagnetism
At http://archaeology.about.com/od/artandarchitecture/a/atacama_glyph.htm there is a post on geoglyphs from the Atacama Desert in Chile, and how they were made. Geometric shapes are common, such as