In the News

www.physorg.com March 3rd ... the Earth Institute at Columbia University has posted evidence of hydrothermal vents on the seafloor near Antarctica. These vents spew volcanically

www.jpl.nasa.gov March 4th ... planetary scientists have been puzzled for years about the honeycomb patterns and flat valleys with squiggly edges evident from radar images

www.physorg.com id186830615 March 3rd ... free will is apparently an illusion. We are simply conscious machines controlled by a combination of our chemistry and external

www.thunderbolts.info February 25th ... Mel Acheson claims that during the Ice Age the ice occurred in a ring around the North Pole, quoting Dwardu Cardona

Science Daily March 1st (www.sciencedaily.com id100301102805) an asteroid strike at the K/T boundary may account for geographic uneveness of the extinctions and recovery according to

www.dailygalaxy.com March 2nd ... Daily Galaxy often have an 'image of the day' - on this post it is volcanic lightning (from a volcano that

Science Daily March 2nd http://www.sciencedaily.com id100301182106 ... fossil coral a half a million years of age seems to show reefs are quite capable of withstanding

News from the Valley of the Kings (see http://kv64.info ) March 2nd ... a week or so ago Zahi Hawass claimed the mummy in Kv55

The Herholz Centre for Environmental Research (see http://www.alphagalileo.org ) March 3rd ... the Eemian Interglacial between 126,000 and 115,000 years ago is named after the

New Scientist 204-2734 November 14th 2009 page 10 ... Kate Revilous claimed a mud core from the bottom of Lough Monreagh in western Ireland shows

Science News March 2nd (www.sciencenews.org id 56807) ... a cache of ostrich shells have been found in South Africa with geometric designs engraved on them.

The Independent March 1st (same website but the article is nearer the top of archive - click science and click archaeology) ... in the Syrian

The Independent January 15th - go to http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology ... and you will find an archive of article. This one is on page 2 of the (current)

www.thunderbolts.info February 12th ... a contribution by Rens Van der Sluijs has a heading with a depiction of an aurora seen in January 1570 in

For an in-depth look at the Beaker Culture and it's geographical spread go to http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Beaker_culture (ffor some reason the links doesn't take you there directly.

The Vancouver Sun, February 26th (http://www.vancouversun.com id2615220 ... two US scientists have published a new theory about when and how humans may have entered the

http://www.washingtonpost.com AR20100226018 February 26th (Associated Press) ... according to sources in Beijing, China and Kenya are to corroborate in looking for Chinese ship wrecks from

  Discovery News at http://news.discovery.com archive February 15th, 'Meteorite crammed with millions of organic compounds' ... One of the Carbonaceous chondrites that Bill Napier alludes to

This is a newsflash to let members know that Eric Aitchison, who has published a number of articles in SIS journals, has an E Book which

Palaeolithic Extinctions and the Taurid Complex, WM Napier, Cardiff Centre for Astrobiology, Cardiff University, available in PDF format for download to the general public but pending