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Mars does not have much in the way of an atmosphere - or a magnetic field. It is being suggested its protective shield was switched

The mountains of Colorado are not recognised as a haunt of mammoth or mastodon - but they are digging them up at a reservoir near a

BBC News November 1st (see www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-11669904 ) has a video of the Egyptian Book of the Dead - a sequence of pages of papyri that

Not a big deal, you might say, I know that already. At www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/10/101006085450.htm ... a University of Portsmouth research scientist studying great apes and their

At www.physorg.com/print207817646.html we learn that some 22 volcanoes in Indonesia are displaying evidence of increased activity. Mount Merapi is periodically belching hot gas and debris

The Tall Bloke blog is worth looking at as it ties in with ideas about the EU and those of Rhodes Fairbridge. As he is

At http://jpl.nasa.gov/news/ November 1st .... images captured by the Cassini spacecraft and published in the Astronomical Journal (November) indicate the rings of Saturn behave in

New Scientist August 21st ... Thomas Hardy's temple of the winds, Stonehenge, might have been constructed to take into account sound effects - from voices

At www.physorg.com/print207563537.html ... Princetown Plasma Physics Laboratory has released information on a Plasma Physics workshop - the fourth state of matter. It is a hot

Member Dick Gagel has written several articles on Albert Delahaye and his claim that a large part of what is now the Netherlands was under

NASA have released a couple of interesting stories at www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/ ... and in the first of these it is said Mars Rover Spirit became stuck

At http://archaeology.about.com ... at Watson Brake in NE Louisiana there are eleven earth mounds with interconnecting earth ridges in the Quachita River valley - dating

The Scutum is a constellation at the throbbing heart of the Milky Way. At www.dailygalaxy.com Oct 27th Casey Kazan reports that at the core of

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