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Robert also sent in this link - https://phys.org/news/2024-01-coal-miners-north-dakota-unearth.html ... coal miners in North Dakota unearth a mammoth tusk that had been buried for thousands of

An interesting post at https://spaceweather.com .... archive, January 9th, 2023 ... the polar vortex wobbled in December. This caused a giant band of polar stratospheric

A new article on the Younger Dryas is at https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-50074-8 ... an anomalous peak in platinum and Fe rich microspherules together with high temperature minerals

You pick up little things by reading lots of stuff, most of which is not out of the ordinary. In the SEPP newsletter of December

More about the Ice Age mammoth bone structures built around 25,000 years ago. Go to https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/60-mammoths-house-russian-180974426/ ... where we can see what excited the Guardian

Still on the same or a similar theme. At https://www.livescience.com/10340-lost-civilization-existed-beneath-persian-gulf.html ... the key word here is beneath - as in beneath the waters of the

This 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

At 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.

At 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

Robert has sent in a couple of links to a Creationist web site - one of which concerns the bird tracks story that was posted

With Etna showing signs of life once again, and the Iceland volcano springing to life, subsiding, and springing to life again on several occasions, the

Gary 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

Geology throws up some odd data. A lot of it is an interpretation based on theory - or geological gradualism. Plate Tectonics theory is at

At 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

At 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

At 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

William 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

At 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

At 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

At 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