In the News

At http://heritage-key.com/blogs/ann/silbury-hills-true-story-construction-process-was-more-important-than-design/ ... it seems the author of this piece has taken up the meme that it was the construction process that was important - not

At www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/ Oct 27th ... astronomers have discovered lots of buckyballs in space - small carbon spherules. The Spitzer Telescope has found them in association

Again, at www.livescience.com/animals/Insects-in-Amber-Reveal-Ancient-Tropical-Forest ... in this instance, amber found in India. The cache of insects is said to indicate India was not isolated for millions

We now have the 300/200BC event (see www.livescience.com/environment/asteroid-impact-possibly-caused-prehistoric-tsunami/ ... Dallas Abbot, a geologist based at Columbia University in New York, says an asteroid 183m wide

The following three articles all come from one day at www.dailygalaxy.com 26th October ... the first says robotic telescopes have turned attention to strange exploding

At www.physorg.com/print207197358.html ... the Java volcano, Merapi,  is about to blow, it seems, and the countryside is on high alert. Meanwhile an earthquake of the

At www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/10/101022113117.htm is a report on the space mission  scheduled to have a close encounter with Comet Hartley in November. However, even now observations indicate

At www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/How-the-Battle-of-Little-Big-Horn-Was-Won.html ... is an account of the story pieced together from later Indian memories. Adapted from The Killing of Crazy Horse Thomas Powers (2010).

At http://www.russia-ic.com/news/show/10889/ ... the Russian Information Centre has released news of archaeological findings in the South Urals where they have unearthed an ancient complex including

At http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenews/2010/10/a-setback-for-neanderthal-smarts.html ... it seems that archaeologists have new decided the major site at Aray-sur-Cure in central France, the so called reindeer cave, is so

At www.nature.com/news/2010/101018/full/news.2010.549.html there is a report on a paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (this week) (see doi.10.1073/pnas.1006993107 ) that claims

Another locked in consensus point of view might be about to start rocking at the hinges. I am referring to some of the abstract ideas

New Scientist 22nd May 2010 had a story on the Hulu cave system near Nanjing in China which contains some very useful stalagmites that have

New Scientist 17th April, 2010 ... had an interesting story on the so called Toba super volcano which blew its head on what is now Sumatra - 74,000

At http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/10/15/new-ideas-total-solar-irradiance-and-flares/ there is a post on a paper concerning solar flares - which are sudden releases of energy from the Sun. They are in

The Belfast Telegraph (see www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/northern-reland/maghera-tomb/ ) ... Portal Tombs, a form of dolmen, are only found in Ireland, Wales, and Cornwall, and there has been

At www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,druck-723310,0.html a German journalist reports on mainly German research that is now claiming that agriculturalists came to Europe during a wave of migration with

At http://heritage-key.com/blogs/owenjarus/oath-platform-2700-year0old-temple-tayinat/ we have an unusual take on the excavations being currently undertaken at Tayinat, an ancient city of the Amuq Plain, on the banks

Asteroid 3200 Phaethon sometimes acts just like a comet - it light up the night sky with meteor showers. However, most of the time it

Yes, and researchers at the University of Buffalo say they have found indirect proof of their existence. They studied 355 quasars - very bright galaxies