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Fleet Marston
10 February 2022 > ArchaeologyHaving already been aired on Clark Whelton's email list it would be interesting to note what is already known about Fleet Marston, a Roman settlement

Comets Past Future
10 February 2022 > AstronomyAt www.sci-news.com/archaeology/hopewell-comet-10515.html ... another link to the Hopewell comet paper exploding over North America. Sent in by Gary. At https://phys.org/news/2022-02-comet-un271-largest.html ... which is another link

Roaming Black Hole
9 February 2022 > AstronomyWe've had all kinds of black holes over the last few years - see earlier posts. Now we have a free floating black hole roaming

Magnetic Reconnection and Black Holes
5 February 2022 > AstronomyAt https://phys.org/news/2022-02-supermassive-black-hole-flares-simulations... ... black holes, it seems, aren't always dark places, or invisible. Astronomers have seen intense light shows, or flares. Using computer simulation physicists

Ice Age Devon
4 February 2022 > GeologyDevon is famous for its red soil and its Cambrian period red rocks which colour that earth. However, fossils of extinct Ice Age animals such

Hopewell Meteor
4 February 2022 > CatastrophismAt https://phys.org/news/2022-02-comet-fiery-destruction-downfall-ancient.html ... the Hopewell culture in North America fell into decline 1500 years ago, which is not unlike the setbacks faced by the Romans

Humans in Arabia
4 February 2022 > ArchaeologyAt https://phys.org/news/2022-02-early-human-settlement-arabian-peninsula.html .... evidence that Palaeolithic people repeatedly occupied a rock shelter in southern Arabia has been found, dating back 210,000 to 120,000 years ago.

Moon and Earthquakes
4 February 2022 > GeologyWilliam sent in the link, https://yahoo.com/entertainment/sun-moon-could-unleashing-earthquakes-00... ... It begins - what causes lava to gush from volcanoes in plumes of liquid fire? Plate tectoncs. What

Caught by its Tail
3 February 2022 > AstronomyAt https://phys.org/news/2022-01-solar-orbiter-comet-tail.html ... the Solar Orbiter spacecraft has flown through the tail of Comet Leonard. In the process data was collected that now awaits analysis.

Coal and Velikovsky
3 February 2022 > CatastrophismNot everything about Velikovsky had anything to do with errant planetary orbits, although that is of course the most obvious point of criticism. He also

Solar Flares
30 January 2022 > ElectromagnetismInteresting subject as we await a solar storm next week. At https://phys.org/news/2022-01-scientists-mysterious-finger-like-features... ... but see also www.nature.com/articles/s41550-021-01570-2 ... where we learn that back in 2019,

Horse Genetics and the Blue Stones
30 January 2022 > Ancient historyHorses have been entwined with human history for at least 5000 years. At https://phys.org/news/2022-01-quest-uncover-horse-rewriting-picture.html ... we learn that horses enabled rapid transport and played a

Jupiter's Dance
26 January 2022 > AstronomyRhodes Fairbridge, a prolific science author in his day, noted that DG King-Hele had in the 1960s, point out a pattern of solar planetary behaviour,

Lightning and Volcanoes and Tonga
20 January 2022 > ElectromagnetismAt https://phys.org/news/2022-01-volcanic-eruption-hours-long-thunderstorm.... ... a study by the US Geological Survey, with input from NOAA, looked at the Taal eruption in the Philippines, which took place

Novae flares
20 January 2022 > AstronomyAt https://phys.org/news/2022-01-frequent-extreme-superflares-nova-v2487.html ... photometric observations of a recurrent nova event, V2487ph, is displaying interesting behaviour. Superflares have been identified from the sources, occurring on a

Fomenko
20 January 2022 > Ancient historyGary sent in a link to Fomenko at www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sdw9s-_mY20 which is basically a summary of Fomenko's ideas in regards AD chronology. There are several other

Tonga Update
19 January 2022 > GeologyWilliam sent in the link https://www.yahoo.com/news/heres-scientists-know-tonga-volcano-124800517... ... while residents of the Tonga islands struggle to recover from a massive volcanic explosion and tsunami wave that

Tonga Eruption
18 January 2022 > CatastrophismAs news is emerging that several of the smaller islands in the Tonga group were swamped with the likelihood of a quite high death toll

Roman Carved Wooden Figure
18 January 2022 > ArchaeologyIn the Bucks Free Press of January 14th 2022, and the Bucks Herald [see for example www.bucksfreepress.co.uk/news/national/19843461.rare-roman-wooden-figure... ] we learn that a remarkably well preserved

Waves, crust, and dust
18 January 2022 > AstronomyGary sent in the link to www.dailymail.co.uk/scienctech/article-10403571/ ... the moon.s crust may have formed from a slushy magma ocean that froze over hundreds of millions