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X-Galaxies

24 July 2010 Astronomy
'The X-Galaxy: A Cosmic Radio Mystery Solved' is a post on July 22nd at www.dailygalaxy.com in which radio images from the X Galaxy (how it

A Dark Secret

22 July 2010 Astronomy
www.physorg.com/print198949672.html ... is another story that might be a repeat, 'Does the Sun hold a dark secret?' - perhaps dark matter is at the centre

Water on the Moon

22 July 2010 Astronomy
www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2010-07/uota-urd072010.php this story, sent in by Garry Gilligan, is all about water on the moon - and how new research is turning what scientists thought

Han Kloosterman and Velikovsky; part 2

21 July 2010 Catastrophism
George Howard's web site http://cosmictusk.com/deep-time-impact-induced-volcanism-a-collaquy/ is basically a discussion between Hermann Burchard and Han Kloosterman on catastrophism - or that is how it begins. Once

The Younger Dryas event pops up again

21 July 2010 Catastrophism
http://cosmictusk.com/guest-blog-rodney-chilton-author-of-sudden-cold-an-examination-of-the-younger-dryas-cold-reversal/ - this post is actually a reposte to NASAs David Morrison who wrote a piece in Skeptical Enquirer that criticised the Younger Dryas cometary

A Bulgarian Loch Ness Monster thingummybob

21 July 2010 Mythology
A report from the Sofia News Agency at www.novinite.com/newsletter/print.php?id=113906 the Water Bull of Rubisha Lake in the NW of the country is set to become

News: archaeological stories hot from the press

21 July 2010 Archaeology
At www.novinite.com/newsletter/print.php?id=118366 we learn that Bulgarian archaeologists have discovered the palace of the ruler of the Odysian federation of Thracian tribes in the 5th and

What is pulling our universe apart?

20 July 2010 Physics
  The Daily Galaxy newsletter at www.dailygalaxy.com July 19th has another Casey Kazan headline which reads, 'What is pushing our universe apart, faster and faster,

A virtual Stonehenge

20 July 2010 Archaeology
BBC News July 19th ... archaeologists intend to 'virtually' excavate Stonehenge and its surrounding environs in a mult-million poun mapping of the terrain and what may

Peru - monumental architecture

19 July 2010 Archaeology
At www.peruviantimes.com/history-of-peru-part-3-monumental-architecture/ which is part three of a series on the archaeology of Peru - between 3000 and 500BC.

Woodhenge in North America

19 July 2010 Archaeology
www.dispatch.com/live/content/local_news July 11th ... 'Diggers unearth mysteries of Fort Ancient's Woodhenge' - Fort Ancient is a massive earthwork of the Hopewell culture which flourished contemporarily

What is the Sun made of?

19 July 2010 Astronomy
http://dcoda.amplify.on/2010/07/17/scientists-cant-agree-on-what-the-sun-is-made-of/ is an interesting web site details supplied by Gary Gilligan. Behind its blazing facade the sun is reluctant to give up its secrets. Over

The Golden Warrior

19 July 2010 Archaeology
At www.eurekalert.org/print/61549 - the grave of a Scythian warrior whose torso was covered in gold has been found in Kazakhstan - dating from some time

Marden Henge

19 July 2010 Archaeology
BBC News July 19th (accessible on their website at www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-10684042/ ) reports on a Neolithic building found at Marden Henge near Devizes. The excavations were also

Han Kloosterman

19 July 2010 Catastrophism
At George Howard's web site http://cosmictusk.com/guest-blog-a-catastrophist-manifesto-from-johan-bert-kloosterman/ ... this was originally written for an American Geophysical Union meeting at Acapulco in Mexico in May, 2007. It

Grooved Ware

17 July 2010 Archaeology
At www.physorg.com/print198495505.html there is a story on the discovery of a hand sized piece of rock found in a quarry near the village of Over

Archaeology and Politics

17 July 2010 Archaeology
AOL News July 15th asks the question, 'Is Holy Land archaeology being hyped by politics?' is a piece on the propaganda going on between Israelis and

Supernovae - version three

17 July 2010 Astronomy
www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2010/07/mistery-supernova-may-point-to-unknown-laws-of-physics/ July 16th ... Casey Kazan has been upsetting the readers at Daily Galaxy newsletter once again. He, or she, is being accused of tabloid headlines,

Land and Water, heat and not so heated

17 July 2010 Climate change
http://joannenova.com.au/2010/07/did-giss-discover-30-more-land-in-the-northern-hemishphere/ Frank Lansner has been tinkering with the NASA GISS dataset - trying to understand how it works, or rather, how arch AGW adherent James

Earth's collapsing atmosphere

16 July 2010 Physics
At www.physorg.com/print198429352.html there is a report on a paper at Geophysical Research Letters June 19th which says there was a contraction of the  thermosphere during