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How can the Arctic get flushed with warmer latitude water every 18 years or so? This appears to have happened recently - so what mechanism

Donald W Patten, a geographer by training, was born in 1929 in Montana, not far from Glacier National Park. He died recently and will be

Sand, from Namibia ... courtesy of Gary Gilligan How would a lump of sand like that, dumped in a catastrophe, look like in a geological

In the UK we have had sink holes swallowing a car parked outside a house in a former brick works (and clay pit) and another

This is an interesting discovery. At www.geneticarchaeology.com/research/Revolutionary_new_view_on_heritabili... ... complex heritable traits can affect flowering times and plant architecture - and these, are passed on to

At www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2014-051 ... the mysterious rock that caused a fuss a week or so back - it looked like a jelly donut/jam doughnut, turns out

The big news this week is that it has now been established there was a co-regency between Amenophis III and Akhenaten. This lasted around 10

At www.newscientist.com/article/dn25046-the-reptile-labour-that-lasted-248-... ... is a classic case of uniformitarianism glossing over the discovery of an uncomfortable fossil, a reptile in the act of giving birth

This year has been very cold in N America and very mild in parts of Europe. In Britain and Ireland we have had persistent and

At http://anthropology.net/2014/02/07/oldest-hominin-footprints-found-outsi... ... is a report on the discovery of human footprints at Happisburg in Norfolk, going back, it is believed, to 850,000 years ago.     

                                                                    

Welkl, we've had Hawking's 'Black Hole that don't exist' - go to www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2014/02/dark-gravity-dark-matter-might-not... ... which involves Hongcheng Zhae of St Andrews University, and a team

Not perhaps fading as moving away - go to http://phys.org/print310978191.html ... the Apollo astronauts and Soviet Russian'Moon Rovers' left various things behind on the visits

At http://phys.org/print311010604.html ... you haven't heard of Homo antecessor? Well, he lived a very long time ago. The oldest hominim in Europe apparently, going back

At http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/Print/5368.aspx ... the lost pharaoh of dynasty 16 (update). It seems there was an independent dynasty at Abydos contemporary with the Hyksos, and the

Provoked by the recent claim that camels are first known in the southern Levant in the Iron Age a New Chronology Yahoo Group commenter claims

At www.bishop-hill.net/blog/2014/2/10/follow-the-money.html and www.bishop-hill.net/blog/2014/2/10/alas-smith.html we get a flavour of the argument - and its a perfect environmentalist driven train crash, but the politicos are squirming

At http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/ancient-iron-workin... ... this story caught my eye because a friend of mine has discovered several bloomeries in what is nowadays an isolated woodland environment

One of the big problems uniformitarians have is the diet of Ice Age mammals. We've all heard of those mammoths that were found with grasses,

At www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140205103701.htm ... research by a student at the University of Otago in New Zealand took him to California, to a geological formation in San