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Now for the big scruncher. A bit of old hat perhaps but it paints a catastrophic picture in the period when the Neanderthals disappeared. See

At https://anthropology.net/2020/07/08/polynesians-contacted-native-america... ... lots of speculation on the part of Polynesian contact with the Americas has been the norm for a number of years. It

At https://phys.org/news/2020-07-plate-tectonics-rewrites-history-earth.html ... plate tectonics research rewrites the history of earth's continents, we are told. Or is it a bit of jiggery pokery with the

Comet Neo wise is just some 5 km across. No wonder it is naked eye visible. It has also survived its journey around the Sun

Seems like mainstream might be waking up to electro-magnetism in space. Gary sent in a link to www.quantamagazine.org/the-hidden-magnetic-universe-begins-to-come-into-... ... which concerns magnetic fields in space.

Sent in by Gary - see www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-8483763/ ... it seems the moon's crust is richer in metals than the crust of the earth. That is

A more interesting idea is at https://phys.org/news/2020-06-spacecraft-solar-patterns-expose-moon.html ... data from serveral NASA mission spacecraft show that wind created by high speed particles, the solar wind,

A bounty of new papers on black holes has struck this month for some reason. At https://phys.org/news/2020-06-giant-black-holes-jupiter.html ... to find a black hole start with

At www.jpost.com/international/archaeologists-find-underwater-sites-belongi... ... two underwater sites containing Aboriginal artefacts such as stone tools have been discovered on the bottom of the Australian continental shelf system,

Amazing grace saves a wretch. I have seen the light and changed my mind. See for example https://wattsupwiththat.com/2020/06/30/amazing-grace-saves-a-wretch/ ... which is about someone changing their

William sent in a link to www.yahoo.com/news/study-finds-asteroid-impact-not-190949370.html ...but see also https://phys.org/news/2020-06-asteroid-impact-volcanoes-earth-uninhabita... ... this concerns the conflict of interest between geologists over the K/T event. Was

Not strictly globalism, as in the modern world, which is corporatist, but something like that - according to https://sciencenorway.no/archaeology-bronze-age-ships/was-there-a-viking... ... was there a viking age

It is assumed by cosmologists that matter falling into a black hole is accelerated and compressed until it is virtually destroyed inside the so called

William sent in this link - https://sciencenorway.no/archaeology-history-stone-age/archaeologists-ha... ... archaeologists in Norway claim to have found well preserved gear from fishermen that lived 5000 years ago

Tall Bloke again. At https://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2020/06/27/motions-in-the-sun-reveal-inn... ... motions in the Sun are said to reveal the inner workings of the sunspot cycle. We are told ionised

Interesting  post at https://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2020/06/28/mysterious-lights-seen-geomag... ... mysterious lights may be a geomagnetic link to earthquakes. Paul Devereux wrote a couple of books a few decades ago

Never heard of Dr Plot? Neither had I until I stumbled on this at www.mikeoates.org/mas/leek/sunset.htm ... this is an amateur astronomy web site and therefore

Another mysterous extinction event where one set of animals is replaced by a different set of animals. Giant wolverines and otters the size of wolves

A new interactive map of the lost continent of Zealandia has been produced - see www.heritagedaily.com/2020/06/new-interactive-map-reveals-the-lost-conti... ... the map allows viewers to explore the geoscience

At https://spaceweather.com (June 26th 2020) as we are still in solar minima, in transit between two solar cycles, earth's magnetic field has been relatively quiet.