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White Dwarfs
6 January 2014 > AstronomyAn alternate view of White Dwarfs - go to http://malagabay.wordpress.com/2014/01/06/the-embarrassed-white-dwarf/
Bio-fuels
5 January 2014 > BiologyThe development of small nuclear units (conventional and thorium) is subject to reams of environmentalist paperwork that is designed to slow down development and hinder
Brewers Tomb
5 January 2014 > ArchaeologyAt www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-25593526 ... Japanese archaeologists have discovered the tombe of a brewer in Egypt. His tomb is dated to dynasty 18 or 19 and the
Alfred de Grazia
5 January 2014 > ElectromagnetismAlfred de Grazia has been made a Chevalier de la Legion d'Honneur - a few days after his 94th birthday. The Legion of Honour is
Weather
5 January 2014 > Climate changePiers Corbyn at www.weatheraction.com/pages/pv.asp?p=wact39 (News, January 4th) tells us that the stormy weather of December and the wild behaviour of the Jet Stream was associated
The Red Hill in Urartu
1 January 2014 > ArchaeologyAt http://armenpress.am/eng/news/745086/summing-up-armenias-archaeological-... ... Karmir Blur, also known as Teishibaini, was the capital of Urartua, located near the modern city of Yerevan in Armenia. It was
Quadrantids
1 January 2014 > AstronomyAt http://phys.org/print307703213.html ... the Quadrantids meteor shower is due in January - from the 1st to the 10th. The parent source is unknown - probably
Velikovsky
31 December 2013 > VelikovskyAt www.haaretz.com/weekend/magazine/.premium-1.565559 ... there is a review by Dalia Karpel (Dec 28th, 2013) of a book on Velikovsky by Michael Gordin, a professor at Princetown
Lynn Rose and Halton Arp
31 December 2013 > Inside scienceLynn Rose and Bob Bass have recently died and now we have news that Halton Arp has also passed away. At the www.haltonarp.com/bio ... there
The Roof Lights are open on the Greenhouse
30 December 2013 > Climate changeIn January of 2013 co2 was at 395ppm, some 50 points higher than it was in 1985. However, in spite of rising co2 the Earth
Put some water in the oven, turn on the heat, and make ice cubes
30 December 2013 > Climate changeGlobal warming research ship in the firm grip of global warming sea ice - see www.joannenova.com.au/2013/12/antarctic-ice-swallows-boat-media-spin/ A couple of days prior to christmas the boat
The collective mind and the shuffling of feet
29 December 2013 > Inside scienceVelikovsky's 'Mankind in Amnesia' claimed that humans shut out facts they are not happy to dwell on and when it came to catastrophic events that
The short and the curlies
29 December 2013 > ArchaeologyAt www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lincolnshire-25345754 ... we have a perfect example of the BBC way of reporting - grabbing soundbites from universities, organisations, NGOs, and charities, and adding
Indus collapse ... was there an epidemic?
28 December 2013 > ArchaeologyAt www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/12/2013/disease-and-trauma-wit... ... raises an interesting question. Collapse, as a result of catastrophism of some kind, whether it was tectonic or otherwise, and the shifting
Indonesian tsunamis
28 December 2013 > Catastrophismthe province of Aceh in the west of Sumatra is indelibly stamped by the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami, a one hundred foot wave that raced
A megalithic town on a coral reef in the Pacific
28 December 2013 > ArchaeologyThis is posted as it is unusual and takes me back to my younger years and reading Thor Heyerdahl's 'Kon Tiki Expedition' - which was
Clouds and the Interplanetary Electric Field (IEF)
28 December 2013 > ElectromagnetismThis is worth reading. Recommended. Go to http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/12/26/new-paper-clouds-blown-by-the-sola... ... which claims there is a terrestrial impact on cloud cover due to the interplanetary electric field
Copper mines at Tankardstown and Knockmahon
28 December 2013 > ArchaeologyThe 19th century Temperance Movement is an interesting, if brief, piece of history. When I drive to my daughter's house we go through the old
Noctilucent clouds and meteor smoke
28 December 2013 > AstronomyWe have a couple of interesting posts on noctilucent clouds at the South Pole. At http://phys.org/print263633588.html ... astronauts on the International Space Station took some
Caesar Augustus and the god Apollo
28 December 2013 > AstronomyWe already know that Caesar Augustus was associated with a strange star in 44BC - or thereabouts. It seems that an 'archaeo-informacist' (don't ask) has