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Unfreezing the Ice Age
31 December 2023 Archaeology, CatastrophismThis interesting article comes from The Guardian newspaper - see https://www.theguardian.com/news/2021/oct/19/unfreezing-the-ice-age-the-truth-about-humanitys-deep-past ... during the height of the Covid panic. Probably why I missed it as
Geomagnetic Excursions
31 December 2023 Ancient history, Dating, ElectromagnetismAt https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2313361120 .. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2313361120 ... we have an interesting research paper. The authors describe geomagnetic excursions as 'geomagnetic variations' which is presumably the same thing.
Cosmic Rays and Ice Ages
23 December 2023 Astronomy, Climate change, Environmentalism, EvolutionAt https://physicsworld.com/a/did-cosmic-rays-cause-ice-ages/ ... we have a new idea, resting on the shoulders of an older idea, that change in the flux of cosmic rays hitting
Bird Tracks Again
23 December 2023 Biology, EvolutionRobert has sent in a couple of links to a Creationist web site - one of which concerns the bird tracks story that was posted
Volcanoes in the News
23 December 2023 Geology, Plate TectonicsWith Etna showing signs of life once again, and the Iceland volcano springing to life, subsiding, and springing to life again on several occasions, the
Scars of Flooding
23 December 2023 Catastrophism, GeologyGary sent in this cracker - https://www.iflscience.com/giant-scars-of-ice-age-floods-can-be-seen-in-the-us-from-space-72037 ... satellite images from a location around 75 miles from Spokane in Washington State show the scars left
Himalayan Oceans
23 December 2023 Catastrophism, GeologyGeology throws up some odd data. A lot of it is an interpretation based on theory - or geological gradualism. Plate Tectonics theory is at
Pythagorean Theorem
23 December 2023 Ancient history, DatingAt https://www.iflscience.com/pythaorean-theorem-found-on-clay-tablet-1000-years-older-than-pythagoras-72091... over the years various claims have been made that the Pythagoras Theorem was known earlier than the Iron Age Greeks. Even the builders
Problems Dating Old Skulls
23 December 2023 Dating, EvolutionAt https://iflscience.com/a-new-look-at-some-old-fossils-has-just-rewritten-the-story-of-human-evolution-72092 ... we are told there are problems in dating fossil skulls and human bone. A new study by the Australian National University in
Far Side of the Moon
23 December 2023 AstronomyAt https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-04005-2 ... the mission to the far side of the Moon by South Korea has thrown up some interesting information. It measured bursts of
The Moon and Theia
16 December 2023 Astronomy, CatastrophismWilliam sent in the link https://www.nationalgeographic.com/premium/article/moon-forming-collision-theia-left-chunks-deep-within-earth-mantle ... 4.5 billion years ago another planet, the size of Mars, crashed into the Earth - leading to the
Humans and Animal Extinctions
16 December 2023 Biology, Catastrophism, Climate change, Environmentalism, GeologyAt https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/12/231214132524.htm ... we are told that 100,000 years ago, humans migrated Out of Africa - the latest piece of consensus science. We are told
Wirtana, Ryugu, and Bennu
15 December 2023 AstronomyAt https://www.livescience.com/space/meteoroids/brand-new-meteor-shower-from-christmas-comet-may-appear-over-earth-for-1st-time-this-week ... the so called Christmas Comet, 46P Wirtanen, may have given birth to a new meteor stream - arriving about the same time
Black Holes as batteries
15 December 2023 Astronomy, cosmology, ElectromagnetismAt https://www.livescience.com/space/black-holes/future-humans-could-use-black-holes-as-batteries-physics-paper-claims-heres-how ... Just like that. Black holes could be harnessed and their power used as an energy source. It is called a theoretical study
Vanishing Galaxy
15 December 2023 Astronomy, cosmologyAt https://www.livescience.com/space/astronomy/james-webb-telescope-finds-vanishing-galaxy-from-the-dawn-of-the-universe ... the James Webb Space Telescope finds a vanishing galaxy from the dawn of the universe. It kept disappearing from observations - but
Atacama Lagoons
15 December 2023 Biology, GeologyThis is an interesting story as normally, when the Ataama desert is mentioned, it is usually the part that exists in Chile. In this post
Eric Lerner Update
14 December 2023 Astronomy, cosmology, ElectromagnetismRobert sent in a couple of interesting links worth a look. The Asia Times is running a series of articles by Eric Lerner. The first
3200 Phaethon
14 December 2023 AstronomyAt https://spaceweather.com ..... archive, December 13th, 2023. This post concerns the Geminid meteor stream. Earth is currentlyt passing through this annual meteor shower, and the
Nursery in the Milky Way
10 December 2023 Astronomy, cosmologyAt https://phys.org/news/2023-11-astronomers-supernova-remnants-meerkat.html ... the MeerKAT radio telescope has been used to look at a region of the sky where a supernova was observed breaking up.
Maize
10 December 2023 Archaeology, GeneticsAt https://phys.org/news/2023-11-modern-maize-hybrid-years-mexico.html ... For some time the consensus has been that maize was domesticated from a single wild grass - teosinte. This is thought to