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Excellent article by Marinus van der Sluijs at https://www.thunderbolts.info/2023/08/01/the-sun-man-3/ ... which concerns the squatting man image that crops up all over the place, especially in

An update on the Winchcombe meteor that landed on the driveway of a house in Winchcombe in Gloucestershire. It is currently housed in the Natural

William sent in the link https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/massive-solar-explosion-felt-earth-181455829.html ... On October 28th 2021, a huge burst of plasma and magnetised particles erupted from the Sun. The solar

The Chinese have never been keen on the Out of Africa theory, regarding it as region limited - as far as research. Most of the

The Evershed Effect is described at https://spaceweather.com ... of August 4th 2023. Sucking plasma out of sunspots, is one way to describe it. Material flying

At https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/07/31/what-nasa-and-the-european-space-agency-are-admitting-but-the-media-are-failing-to-report-about-our-current-heat-wave/ ... a wwarm July in some parts of the world, not only in eastern North America but in Australia and the southern hemisphere.

Robert sent in the link https://www.livescience.com/animals/whales/this-colossal-extinct-whale-was-the-heaviest-animal-to-ever-live ... which is more about eye capturing the reader than about reality. The weight is an estimate and the

Over at https://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2023/08/04/record-breaking-detection-of-solar-photons/ ... the Sun is more surprising than we hitherto knew. It has long been known that cosmic rays go up when solar

At https://spaceweather.com ... [see posts on August 3rd and 4th] ... a bright fireball was seen over the eastern side of the US. Sonic booms

It may well be fundamental to mainstream geological thinking but to the man in the street it doesn't mean very much is actualy different. Basically,

Robert sent in the link https://www.livescience.com/space/comets/city-size-comet-headed-toward-earth-grows-horns-after-massive-volcanic-eruption .... with the comment, a really poor description of what comets actually are and how they interact with their

At https://phys.org/news/2023-07-radiocarbon-dating-earth-environmental-glacial.html ... a floating tree ring chronology has been created by using 33 larch subfossil trees from Ravine, a site located in the Venetian

William sent in this link at https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/skyscraper-size-asteroid-flew-closer-212209206.html ... an asteroid the size of a 20 storey skyscraper flew close to the earth - at a

At https://www.thunderbolts.info/wp/2023/07/24/grose-valley-australia-2/ ... Garry Maxfield poses a problem that appears to represent a puzzle for mainstream geologists. It depends of course on how far you

See https://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2023/07/18/climate-change-fostered-the-rise-and-fall-of-the-tibetan-empire-from-600-to-800-ad-researchers-find/ ... and the story can also be found at https://phys.org/news/2023-07-climate-fostered-fall-tibetan-empire.html ... a study by scientists from the Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, the

William sent in the link https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/earth-tilted-31-5-inches-170000517.html ... It was always scientific dogma that the poles could not move yet here we have a story that

Interesting article at https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-physicist-who-bets-that-gravity-cant-be quantized-20230710/ ... Jonathan Oppenheim, a physicist at University College in London, suspects gravity cannot be understood via quantum mechanics. Theorists have

In the UK we had some nice summer weather in June, the month known in folklore as 'flaming June'. However, July has been mainly overcast,

Gary sent in the link https://www.sciencenews.org/article/viking-age-ancient-solar-flare-trade-archaeology ... trade from Ribe in Denmark has been dated as starting around 700AD. Glass beads, including beads manufactured in

At https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/07/23/ryan-maue-on-hunga-tonga-hunga-haapai-submarine-volcano/ ... new research on last year's vokcano off the coast of Tonga in the Pacific suggests 150 million metric tons, almost 40 trillion