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Puzzling
21 September 2017 > ArchaeologyAt www.theguardian.com/science/2017/sep/19/medieval-porpoise-grave-on-chann... ... archaeologists digging on Chapelle Dom Hue off the coast of Guernsey found a grave - of a porpoise. The island was used
Human Origins
21 September 2017 > AnthropologyAn article in New Scientist (26th August 2017) by Colin Barras, p 22-33. said, 'the story of human origins is being re-written. The past 15
Easter Island Population
21 September 2017 > ArchaeologyAt https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.co.uk/2017/09/solving-easter-isl... ... Easter Island, or Rapa Nui, have been a mystery ever since Europeans first landed there in 1722. Early visitors estimated the p[opulation
Bennu
21 September 2017 > AstronomyAt http://spaceweather.com September 21st 2017 we learn that NASA OSIRIS REx spacecraft is due to fly past Earth on the 22nd, sling shotting itself towards
Ice Sheet Yukon
21 September 2017 > GeologyAt https://phys.org/print425033494.html ... in the first paragraph we learn the Mackenzie Trough westwards, including the Yukon part of the continental shelf system, is being researched
Easter Island Script
20 September 2017 > ArchaeologyThis is the first of two posts on Easter Island. At http://www.scienceinpoland.pap.pl/en/news/news,459670,polish-researcher-... ... the rongorongo writing on Easter Island is thought to be a fairly
Hershel Space Observatory
20 September 2017 > AstronomyAt https://phys.org/print425034601.html ... the Hershel Space Observatory has traced the present of water in space. The water molecule is present in star forming molecular clouds
Zirconia
20 September 2017 > CatastrophismThis link has been sent in by both William and Gary. At https://phys.org/print424941552.html ... a paper published in the journal Earth and Planetary Science Letters
Great Oxidation Event
20 September 2017 > GeologyGary sent in this link to www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4895642/Crust-change-billions-ye... ... changesin Earth's crust 2.4 billion years ago increased oxygen levels in the atmosphere and triggered an explosion
Autumn Meeting 2017
17 September 2017 > Inside scienceWe have a great line up of speakers at the 2017 Autumn Meeting in Watford (venue is the Quaker Meeting House in Church Road, a
Planet Amnesia
17 September 2017 > CatastrophismAt www.planetamnesia.com/mankind-in-amnesia-eu-2017-talk-by-andrew-fitts/ ... begins by saying, those of use who followed the work of Velikovsky know that as a Freudian psychoanalyst he had a life
New Guinea
16 September 2017 > AnthropologyAt http://popular-archaeology.com/issue/fall-2017/article/huge-genetic-dive... ... a huge amount of genetic diversity has been found between different groups and tribes in New Guinea which seems to reflect the
The Facts
15 September 2017 > Climate change'Climate Change; the Facts' is now available via Amazon and other online book stores. It is edited by Jennifer Marohasy and includes articles by Bjorn
Denisova Australia
15 September 2017 > ArchaeologyRobert sent in this link - go to www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4883302/DNA-rewrite-story-Austra... .... where we have the idea that Australian Aborigines are descendants of Denisovans. I can't see
Night Side Venus
15 September 2017 > AstronomyAt https://phys.org/print424674665/html ... ESAs Venus Express has been looking at wind and cloud patterns on the night side of Venus. Apparently it behave differently to
A Pinkie
15 September 2017 > AstronomyA pink aurora over Yellowknife in the North West Territories of Canada ... ... taken by Yakchi Takasaka (see www.spaceweather.com Sept 15th). The pink
Norwegian Iron
13 September 2017 > ArchaeologyAt https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2017/09/the-enigma-of-early-... ... Norwegians made top quality iron products but where did they get the knowhow? For centuries people in the middle of Norway made
Greek EQs
13 September 2017 > ArchaeologyAt http://phys.org/print424426063.html ... we hear that the ancient Greeks may have built sacred and treasured sites deliberately on land previously affected by earthquake activity. This
Catastrophic Origins for Asteroids and Rings of Saturn
12 September 2017 > AstronomyWilliam Thompson had the paper published in the Creation Research Society Quarterly some years ago. The paper, 'Catastrophic Origins for the Asteroids and Rings of
Jennifer Marohasy
12 September 2017 > Climate changeJennifer Marohasy, at www.climatelab.com.au ... says there is evidence to suggest the last 20 years of temperature readings by the Australian Bureau of Meteorology, from