SOCIETY NEWS: AGM and Members’ afternoon Spring Meeting – with speakers: Bob
Porter on: ‘Shortening the TIP’ and Tony Haynes on: ‘Energy
Innovations’ * Reports on Study Group Meetings of the 4th of August
and 17th of November 2011 …………………………………………………………………………….. 1
IN MEMORIAM: Peter Warlow ……………………………………………………………………………………………………. 3
LETTERS: J. Barlow * Laurence Dixon * Emmet Sweeney * Ravindra Godbole
* John Plaxton ………………………………………………………………………………………………… 4
ARTICLES: ‘Venus: Problem Solving’, by Peter Warlow ……………………………………………….. 7
‘The Neo-Hittites – a case of déjà vu? Empire Hittites v Neo-Hittites
– Nine Points of Comparison’, by P. J. Crowe and B. S. Curnock … 10
FOCUS: On George Syncellus – Laurence Dixon ……………………………………………………….. 13
MONITOR: Inside Science * Astronomy * Electromagnetism * Geology
* Climate Change * Catastrophism * Evolution * Dating
* Anthropology * Archaeology * Mythology ……………………………… 15
BOOKSHELF: Iron Age Myth and Materiality: an archaeology of Scandanavia AD 400
– 1000 * The Death of Archaeological Theory? * Mohammed
and Charlemagne Revisited: the history of a controversy …………………………… 20
DVD REVIEW: ‘ANTARCTICA-Once a Tropical Paradise’, reviewed by Laurence Dixon … 21
FROM THE ‘The Sands of Mars: a Speculation’ * ‘Where Do Asteroids Come
INTERNET: From?’ * ‘As Below, So Above’ * ‘Novus Ratio’ * ‘That One
Story Again’ * ‘Which Came First?’ * Peer-review of Plasma
Cosmology’ * ‘Introducing the Essential Guide to the Electric
Universe’ …………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 22
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