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Anthony's blog is sceptical of global warming and the whole climate change merry go round but it is not necessarily sceptical of the other sciences,

At https://horizon-magazine.eu/article/how-stone-age-humans-unlocked-glucos... ... grinding stones were an evolutionary success story. They allowed people to unlock the energy in plants by making flours. Plants rich in

At https://phys.org/news/2020-03-powerful-ion-nasa-dart-mission.html ... we have a report on NASAs DART mission which is designed to intercept a possible asteroid strike on Earth at an ill

The image below is a hill in South Africa with exposed strata from before and after the Permian extinction event (in geological terminology, a Member

This story is at various blogs and web sites as well as media outlets. Mind you it has got buried underneath the wall to wall

According to the post at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallstatt_plateau ... the Hallstatt Plateau is a term used in archaeology that refers to a flat area in radiocarbon dating

A research study found fossilised rodent matter in the La Brea Tar Pits in California. In fact, hundreds of fossilised pellets which were C14 dated

At https://spaceweather.com/ (24th March 2020) ... the size of comet Atlas - nobody knows how big the icy core of the comet is but its

An article in Science Advances (March 18th 2020) is interesting - see https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/12/eaaz1096 .. and https://phys.org/news/2020-03-fine-tuning-radiocarbon-dating-rewrite-anc... ... which promises much but delivers little. Radiocarbon dating

This seems to have been published in the journal Antiquity but various media outlets have spread the news. For example www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/51930545 ... and www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-03/uoe-mbc031220.php ...

Robert sent in  this link - see image below ...    ... Robert makes the comment, 'in the aerial photgraph do you see a faint

At https://phys.org/news/2020-03-shifts-deep-geologic-magnified-great.html .... reference to the earthquake and tsunani that struck Japan back in 2011. It was the 4th most powerful sisnce modern record keeping

A key symbol in Electric Universe and Plasma studies has popped up again ... At https://phys.org/news/2020-03-ancient-mantis-man-petroglyph-iran.html ... see also https://doi.org/10.3897/jor.29.39400 ... a rock carving, or

At https://spaceweather.com (16th March 2020) ... Comet Atlas is brightening - see image below. It is currently as bright as an 8th or 9th magnitude

At www.miragenews.com/approaching-ancient-assyria-through-archaeology-leads... ... which is to do with the imperial nature of the Assyrian state. The author actually compares the Assyrian empire to the British

At https://spaceweather.com (15th March 2020) we have a view of the Sun by amateur astronomer Martin Wiose. Hundreds of orange 'fibers' are jumping up and

One of the basic building blocks of life is said to be nitrogen - in one form or another. Now we have the discovery of

Gary sent in this link - https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/mar/11/scientists-identify-rain... ... and the same story has been all through the media and blogosphere. Gary makes a connection with

At https://phys.org/news/2020-03-dinosaur-stomping-ground-scotland-reveals.... ... during the Jurassic period the Isle of Skye in Scotland was home to dinosaurs. Various fossil bones have been discovered and now

German Greens have got in a huff it seems - see https://notrickszone.com/2020/03/10/clashing-climate-kiddies-internal-st... ...a climate activist in Germany is getting a bad press over her flights