In the News

At www.bishop-hill.net/blog/2014/1/21/the-empty-set.html ... in the last few weeks one warmist paper used the models to prove its going to get a lot wetter during the

The discovery of a new Egyptian tomb at Abydos has been hitting the news this last week - see for example http://phys.org/print309008810.html. The discovery of

In Current World Archaeology 63 (www.world-archaeology.com) ... we learn the Buddha was born in an era prior to writing so the story relies on an

Euan MacKie was involved with the SIS from its very beginnings. However, his several articles in early journals mostly revolve around the issue of no

At http://cosmictusk.com/dutch-crutch-kloosterman-hits-field-with-pit-sticks/ ... Han Kloosterman contracted throat cancer quite some years ago and when he spoke at an SIS meeting at the Harlequin Theatre in

At http://sciencenordic.com/vikings-grew-barley-greenland ... at the bottom of a medieval rubbish pit on an abandoned farm on Greenland archaeologists found charred grains of cultivated barley seed.

Steven Collins, Let My People Go, TSU Press (2012) ISBN 9780615687940 .... who was the pharaoh of the Exodus? No one knows of course but

At http://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2014/01/19/just-hit-the-noaa-motherlode/ ... steven goodard announces that he was idly fiddling around yesterday evening, trying to make sense of the ISHCN V1 and V2 graph

At www.forteantimes.com/features/fla/6421/the_science_delusion.html ... describes how Rupert Sheldrake has dalt with mainstream criticism concerning his theory of Morphic Resonance. This attempts to explain how single organic

On the chalk and in a river valley. At www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-surrey-25720131 ... when Guildford fire station was been pulled down Stone Age tools were found dating

This is a story that appeared a couple of years ago, but Fortean Times and Paul Devereux raised the issue once again. At www.forteantimes.com/strangedays/archaeology/3748/spirals_underground ...

The Guardian has a somewhat belated tale at www.theguardian.com/science/2014/jan/19/mathematics-of-happiness-debunke... ... that has caused a bit of amusement. The comment section is somewhat muted and it

Probably picked up this link on Eric's email thread on ancient chronology too - go to http://pursiful.com/2007/03/ancient-chronology-the-goldberg-variations/ ... there is a post at this site

This comes from an article linked from Eric's email thread with the title, 'Jeroboam II and Osorkon II' which might be useful to interested parties.

I don't really see the point of repeating posts that appear at Thunderbolts as interested parties will visit the link on a regular basis anyhow.

At http://ancientworldblog.blogspot.com/2005_02_01_archive.html ... 'Origins of Writing: Danube scripts led to Egyptian hieroglyphs' (confirmation by pottery comparison). The case appears to be weak and the pottery

At http://phys.org/print308894505.html ... Spanish researchers have analysed apinting by Mesolithic hunters with those of the first farming communities, several thousand years later, and found they

A lovely dose of non-consensus thinking can be seen in the december issue of 'New Concepts in Global Tectonics Journal' (see www.ncgt.org) ... and choosing

Anyone bamboozled by mainstream media and CAGW blogs penning nonsense about the Russian cruise ship getting stuck in a calving ice berg can read the

At http://phys.org/print308905318.html ... we learn of a massive sub glacial trough, deeper than the Grand Canyon, in Antarctica. The British Antarctic Survey, based in the