In the News

At http://phys.org/print304851254.html ... the December Geminids are a regular meteor shower emerging out of that part of the sky defined as the constellation of Gemini,

At www.universetoday.com/106832/zombie-ison-behaving-like-a-comet-stunned-a... ... well, something came out of the back end of the Sun - but was it the nucleus. It certainly blazed with light

At http://phys.org/print304868667.html ... it seems we have a post by somebody not entirely convinced of cold fusion. However, it seems that ECAT portable cold fusion

At www.spaceweather.com ... we learn that Comet ISON has re-emerged on the other side of the Sun. Whether the nucleus is whole or severely reduced

Consensus theories are often kept on board long after their sell by date. People become attached to them - a sort of comfort zone. Should

Damerham is located between Cranbourne and Fordingbridge, on the Wiltshire uplands (the Downs) at the very edge of Cranbourne Chase - and not that far

The Irish Elk was in fact a giant deer - part of the Pleistocene megafauna - found in Britain, Ireland, and across northern Europe into

At http://phys.org/print304594532.html ... some new discoveries on foraminifera, the tiny shells of sea creatures such as plankton that are an important prop of Ice Age

At http://phys.org/print304596241.html ... (the same story is at http://wattsupwiththat.com and has hundreds of comments to wade through) but basically we learn that methane is bubbling

I've just heard there was a solar flare on the Sun, and it is heading in the direction of Comet ISON. In order to keep

Changing sea levels, or a reconfiguration of the oceans, are sometimes to be found in the most surprising of places. Anyone holidaying in Shropshire, about

At http://malagabay.wordpress.com/2013/11/22/methane-myopia-7-miles-mathis/ ... we have a link to somebody also criticising mainstream's treatment of methane - go to http://milesmathis.com/meth.pdf Tim Cullen notes that within ice

At http://phys.org/print304333656.html ... a dust ring in the orbit of Venus has been confirmed. This appears to be related to the cloud of dust we

We know it was smaller in the Medieval Warm Period otherwise Scandinavian farmers would not have colonised the edges of the ice sheet and therefore

Are the politicos getting cold toes and hopping around on one leg - which way to put the foot down, backwards or forwards. This comes

I've just watched a Channel 4 TV documentary on the Hanging Gardens of Nineveh, Sunday 24th of November, in which an Oxford University researcher has

At http://phys.org/news/2013-11-ancient-giant-sloth-bones-humans.html ... a paper in 'Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences' concerns an investigation in Uruguay at a bone bed. Humans are

At http://phys.org/print304250664.html ... a fascinating piece on ocean life cycles and sampling a cup full of sea water. A glass of water from the oceans

The Ice Cube laboratory is a neutrino observatory where the detectors are buried a mile under the surface of Antarctica. They claim to have found

Tim Cullen turns his attention to the Leonids - go to http://malagabay.wordpress.com/2013/11/24/astral-karma-the-leonids/ ... and the source of this meteor shower is Comet Tempel Tuttle (which