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How to test the dating system
10 October 2021 > Ancient historyRevisionists have issues with C14 as it contradicts their ideas on revising downwards, ancient history. In the November issue of Current Archaeology 380, we have

Ghada Chehade
10 October 2021 > ElectromagnetismWriter, social critic, and performance poet are amongst her accomplishments. Ghada has been a political analyst, specialising in geopolitics and socio-political changes in the modern

Lumps in Taurids
10 October 2021 > CatastrophismAt https://phys.org/news/2021-10-prior-swarm-large-asteroids-hidden.html ... we were told over a year ago, problem two of three years ago, that NASA was actively looking for big lumps of

Earth's magnetosphere
9 October 2021 > ElectromagnetismAt www.sciencealert.com/standing-waves-have-been-found-at-the-edges-of-eart... ... the earth is constantly buffeted by a stream of charged particles, the solar wind. However, the earth does have a mechanism to

Lakes on Mars
9 October 2021 > AstronomyGary also sent in this link - www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-10069819/ ... Mars Jezero crater was a lake - estimated 3.7 billion years ago. Until a flash flood

Mass Extinction Africa
9 October 2021 > CatastrophismGary sent in this link - www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-10070379/ ... a mass extinction in Africa and Arabia - 30 million years ago. According to the Daily Mail,

Feathered Dinosaaurs
7 October 2021 > BiologyAt https://phys.org/news/2021-10-cool-oasis-cretaceous-feathered-dinosaurs.... ... dinosaur fossils have been popping up galore in parts of China in recent years. The Jehol Biota, in particular, in NE China,

Mangroves on the Yucatan
7 October 2021 > GeologyAt https://phys.org/news/2021-10-hidden-mangrove-forest-yucatan-peninsula.html ... this story is all about the vagaries of computer modeling and how conclusions can be reached by not factoring in all the

Caves
2 October 2021 > ArchaeologyAt https://phys.org/news/2021-09-hidden-chamber-vanguard-cave-gorham.html ... Gorham's Cave complex on Gibraltar. A new cave has been found, branching off from Vanguard cave - but at a higher level.

Isle of Wight of Monsters
2 October 2021 > GeologyAt https://phys.org/news/2021-09-species-large-predatory-dinosaur-isle.html ... the Isle of Wight has been a good hunting ground for dinosaur fossil bones over the years. The Wight is derived from

Sunlight and Clouds
2 October 2021 > AstronomyAt https://phys.org/news/2021-09-sunlight-filtering-venus-clouds-earth-like... ... sunlight filtering through the Venus thick atmosphere could support earth like photosynthesis in the cloud layers. Chemical conditions are potentially amenable to

Tipping on Mars
2 October 2021 > AstronomyGary sent in the link www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-10041411/ ... Mars surface was carved by fast and furious floods from overflowing craters - with enough water released in

Roman Tiles Carlisle
2 October 2021 > ArchaeologySent in by William via a Smithsonian link that would not print out. The story can be found at the local level - see https://cumbriaguide.co.uk/excavation-of-carlisle-roman-bathhouse-uncove...

The Absurd
27 September 2021 > Climate changeThe Week That Was newsletter of September 25th 2021 - see www.sepp.org ... and provides some news from the UN before plunging into a recent

Gigantic Plasma Jet
27 September 2021 > AstronomyAt https://spaceweather.com [25th September 2021] we have a short video clip by a photographer in Puerto Rica using a Sony A7 camera. He shows

TeHEP update
23 September 2021 > ArchaeologyIn the TeHEP newsletter of 24th September 2021 [go to www.tallelhammam.com to sign up for the newletter] we learn from Stee Collins, the lead archaeologist

White Sands New Mexico
23 September 2021 > ArchaeologyWilliam sent in the link to this story - www.yahoo.com/news/oldest-human-footprints-north-america-225106590.html ... according to a report published in the journal Science [23rd September 2021] footprints found

An Exercise in Smoke and Mirrors
23 September 2021 > Climate changeThe Week That Was, the weekly newsletter of www.sepp.org ... has a piece by Ken Haapala, president of SEPP, that some may find rather revealing

Water Water Everywhere
23 September 2021 > GeologyRobert sent in the link to https://phys.org/news/2021-09-groundwater-ice-sheets-largest-reservoir.html ... with the comment that deep hot water was found at the Kola super deep bore hold, casting

Super Volcanoes on Mars
23 September 2021 > GeologySent in by Gary- www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-10009433/ ... ancient Mars was dotted with thousands of massive super volcanoes discovered after scientists mistook their extinct calderas as craters