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Bryn celli Dhu on Anglesey, is a prehistoric mound situated in the middle of a farm field, suitably fenced off from livestock and with a

A photo chop - or is it a photo shop. A splice photograph of a Copenhagen beauty spot ... The link to the tweet is

The idea of science being settled about anything is a bit of an oxymoron but never mind - that is what we have come to

Albedo is derived from Latin = whiteness - in this instance it is reflected sunlight. From albus = white is the diffuse reflectivity or reflecting

At http://phys.org/print305395954.html ... measurement of polarised light in the afterglow indicates the presence of a stable magnetic field associated with a young black hole -

Well, what caused it is a matter of debate - if you go to Piers Corbyn's web site he predicts earthquakes from solar and lunar

This story is at http://phys.org/print305488101.html ... scientists are still unsure how much of the comet may have survived its encounter with the Sun - if

SIS member William Thompson emails to say Robin Canup, a space scientist with the Southwest Research Institute in Colorado has published a piece in the

At http://westerndigs.org/long-hidden-sites-discovered-in-the-southwest-may... ... the Apache tribes were thought to be relatively recent arrivals to Arizona and New Mexico but it looks like they were there

At http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/12/05/giant-convection-cells-found-on-th... ... NASA solar scientist David Hathaway has published a new paper (see Dec 6th issue of Science journal) which says long lived convection

Robert Farrar sent in this link - which begins in 2005 and the discovery by Mary Sweitzer of fossilised soft tissue in a Tyrannosaurius skeleton

Peter Knight, in The Cerne Giant - Landscape, Gods, and the Stargate (2012) has made some interesting observations on the Cerne Giant, a Dorset hill

A fossilised pair of froghoppers have been found in the act of copulation - dating back to the Jurassic. The discovery, in Chinese Mongolia, indicates

For those wondering what all those electromagnetic and cosmic ray showers were doing Tim Cullen has the answer in his latest post - he says

At http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/12/03/a-new-look-at-greenlands-ice-sheet... ... I suppose the impetus for this article comes from climate change - is the ice melting in Greenland, can it happen rapidly,

At http://malagabay.wordpress.com/2013/12/02/cosmic-ray-blues-hadronic-shower/ .... Tim Cullen is surpassing himself this week as he sifts through a variety of sources on cosmic rays and hadronic showers, a

Apparently, research presented to the Royal Society  in London by scientists from the Institute of Evolutionary Biology in Barcelona, as reported by the Sunday Times,

A comment at 12.28pm on www.bishop-hill.net/blog/2013/12/2/green-fairies.html ... has the immortal line, '25 years ago Greens were chaining themselves to trees - now they are burning

The last post was about stellar wind directing material to or from a black hole but what is the connection between the two - one

This story is at various places, and for example at http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/fast-furious-refine... ... and black holes are associated with X-ray emissions - but one of them