In the News

At https://oxbowdbbc.wordpress.com/2017/01/17/offas-dyke-the-brexit-dimension/ ... which is guest post by Keith Ray on plans to preserve Offa's Dyke (used as a recreation source by long distance walkers).

Claude Blot's ideas often appear at the New Concepts in Global Tectonics web site and online journals - see www.ncgt.org. He pops up at www.everythingselectric.com/claude-blot/

At www.spaceweather.com (March 25th) we are told a potent coronal hole is facing the earth and sending out a stream of solar wind that will

At https://phys.org/print409322936.html ... astronomers have developed a way to detect the ultra violet background of the universe. In so doing they hope to discover the

Finistere is best known from the UK shipping forecast. At https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.co.uk/2017/03/14000-years-old-en... ... some 40 prehistoric engravings have been found in Finistere in Britanny ...                                                                 

At https://phys.org/print409396981.html ... Cambridge University and the Natural History Museum in London have published new research which seems to show there is a need to

Robert sent in the links - http://crev.info/2017/03/water-theories-evaporate/ ... and https://theconversation.com/comets-or-volcanoes-scientists-are-changing-... ... which was featured in a post a while back. However, as Peter disagrees with

Jovan sent in this link a few weeks ago and I've only just got around to reading it - and that is only the Introduction

It seems Comet Churyumov Gerasimenko (or Comet 67P in shorthand), the target of the ESA Rosetta Mission that dominated the astronomy news in 2015 is

The book, 'Sun, Weather, and Climate' (2005) by John R Herman and Richard A Goldberg is a reprint of a book originally published in 1978.

Gary sent in the link, www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2017/mars-volcano-earths-dinosaurs-went-ext... ... the word 'about' is as big as you want to make it - and here may lie an

Grasses have an ability to conserve water in their leaves. They can also absorb carbon dioxide without losing any water. Grasses are well equipped to

   ... winding waterways - captured from space. This example comes from Egypt. Physics and river flow - and fractals. The subject of a new

The good side of midges is explored at www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/03/170317132648.htm ... ecologists have been studying midges in Wisconsin and Iceland. There are 15,000 lakes in Wisconsin

The headline should be - rethinking some aspects of human evolution. At https://cosmosmagazine.com/palaeontology/accidental-tool-makers ... and I suppose the problem can be laid at Uniformitarian principles,

The Daily Express, a UK newspaper with a beef as far as the BBC are concerned, as the Express supports Brexit and the BBC is still

At https://wattsupwiththat.com/2017/03/17/study-extensive-ice-cap-once-cove... ... South Georgia achieved fame in the 1970s when it became involved in the Falklands war. In this instance a paper in Nature

William sent in a link to a video of catastrophic moving water, some 2 million cubic metres spilling down towards the village of Chukhung in

Look at the links from the earlier post on Fossils (yesterday). At https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/03/170308145343.htm ... we find the ancient fish fossil found in southern China probably

Upsetting Einstein's 'theory of gravity' is the headline at www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2017/03/andromeda-once-flew-past-our-milky... ... This follows research at the University of St Andrews (and elsewhere in Europe as