In the News

William sent in the link to www.yahoo.com/news/researchers-didnt-think-humans-attacked-175224059.html ... which concentrates on the fact that scientists, until now, didn't think humans targeted mammoths as a food

At https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2019/11/results-of-recent-ex... ... excavations at Gla in Boeotia are ongoing. The prime stage of occupation dates back to the Mycenaean era (LB age) and it

At https://phys.org/news/2019-11-newly-motifs-art-tumlehed-seafaring.html ... newly discovered motifs in rock art in Sweden show stone age seafaring was a fact. We know that Mesolithic people used boats

I quite like this one. At https://phys.org/news/2019-11-planck-space-observatory-universe-sphere.html ... researchers from the universities of Manchester, Rome and Paris have sparked a debate amongst cosmologists by claiming

This seems a strained theory as they do not actually have evidence of this happening but reason it might have happened - and anything can

At https://phys.org/news/2019-11-voyager-interstellar-space-scientists-plas... ... interstellar space - scientists detect plasma density jump as Voyager 2 moved from the solar system to beyond. The inference is that

At https://judithcurry.com/2019/10/29/escape-from-model-land/ ... letting go of the phantastical mathematical objects and achievables of model land can lead to more relevant information  in the real world

At https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/37061/the-bahamas/ ... from NASA Eareth Observatory - east of Florida large swathes of the ocean glow peacock blue. They are this irridesence due to

In the thick of it inside the Forest of Dean, lots of tall grass and trees and wild pigs, a LiDAR survey has turned up

The solar puzzle is of course how the Sun works. At https://phys.org/news/2019-10-overlooked-piece-solar-dynamo-puzzle.html ... where the earth model is still a dynamo, it would seem. This

Sent in by William - go to https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2019/10/did-extraterrestrial... ... did an extraterrestrial impact trigger the extinction of Ice Age animals? Which is a revival of

Louis A Frank was a scientist at the University of Iowa who theorised that small comets made of ice and water crashed into Earth's atmosphere

At https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2019/10/jurassic-dinosaurs-t... ... Jurassic dinosaurs trotted between Europe and Africa. Dinosaur footprints in Europe and Morocco bear similarities which suggests either the two continents were

At www.livescience.com/mitochondrial-eve-first-human-homeland.html ... and https://phys.org/news/2019-10-homeland-modern-humans.html ... the San (otherwise known as the Bushmen) of southern Africa carry one of the oldest maternal DNA lineages on

This story is at https://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2019/10/27/close-encounter-with-a-gigant... ... on October 15th pilot Chris Holmes encountered lightning crackling around his aircraft - 35,000 feet over the Gulf of

At www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/10/191016153642.htm ... on the island of Naxos in the Aegean evidence has been found of Neanderthals - going back 200,000 years. The findings challenge

Robert sent in a link to https://phys.org/news/2019-10-jupiter-cradle-comets.html ... but see https://www.sis-group.org.uk/news/centaurs.htm ... where the same subject has already been on the News. The study concerns

Robert sent in the links below and once again, a good one as far as catastrophism is concerned - go to https://dornsife.usc.edu/news/stories/3095/sediments-sequester-carbon-fr... and https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2019/10/15/1913714116/tab-figures-data ...

This one is quite good and has even been picked up by Clark Whelton (on his email list). At https://phys.org/news/2019-10-fossil-trove-life-fast-recovery.html ... and concerns a fascinating

This is a peculiar one - and comes courtesy of https://phys.org/news/2019-10-shelf-life-pyrite.html ... where we are informed the glacial cycles of the last couple of million