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This should actually be, 'the birth of the modern Sahara' as apparently the desert has come and gone on a number of occasions. At http://phys.org/print303380174.html

At http://phys.org/print303390618.html ... we have a piece on sea floor methane hydrates, a potential energy source - but also a potential source of global warming

Arthur Custance, 'The Seed of the Woman', Joshua Press, Ontario:2001 (reprint of a 1980 book) (see also www.custance.org and www.joshuapress.com) This book comes recommended by

At www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-11/uoy-ruo110713.php ... it seems cattle were domesticated in China around the same time as in Western Asia - at the beginning of the Holocene

I was having a few dark ales at a beer festival at the weekend when one of my brother in laws said to me, quite

At http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/17th-century-landma... ... researchers at North Carolina State University have recreated the courtyard of St Paul's Cathedral in London as it was in 1622 -

It is well known that early Christianity appealed to women but less is known about how those women were influential in the spread of the

A similar misconception was applied to the native peoples of the Pacific North West, the fisher folk and food producers (and processors) that also actively

This story is at http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/first-farmers.html ... once again shows that the notion of hunter gatherers in the Darwinian concept is somewhat flawed and bears no

This story was at www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/11/041118104010.htm ... this is an old story going back to 2004 but repeated here because it doesn't seem to have had

The media have been feasting on supertyphoon Haiyan but the Bishop is a little sceptical of a link with CAGW - go to www.bishop-hill.net/blog/2013/11/9/storms-and-global-warming.html ...

A paper by Fabien Locher and Jean-Baptiste Fressoz, 'Modernity's Frail Climate: A Climate History of Environmental Reflexivity' published in Critical Inquiry (2012) is discussed at

Tim Cullen has a post on the Ring Nebula (Messier 57) which provides an example of the fluorescence produced by gases when they are irradiated

The name is derived from tal or thal = a valley, and Neander = a river, where the first specimen was unearthed, a chap that

At http://phys.org/print303060859.html ... we have a paper published in Environmental Research Letters by two British professors that profess in all sincerity that neither changes in

At http://phys.org/print303045944.html ... the Hubble Space Telescope has found an asteroid sporting six comet like tails arching from an object in the Asteroid Belt (P/2013P5).

At www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2013/11/mystery-of-supermassive-black-hole... ... it sounds a bit like a hypothetical mystery created by a hypothetical model. The growth of black holes to supermassive scales in

This story can be seen at http://bionews-tx.com/news/2013/11/01/texas-prof-says-discovery-alaska-s... ... basically, do the dates of Clovis points in Alaska and Canada suggest a migration across the Bering

At www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/11/131106164150.htm ... there is a report on research done of the airburst event on February 15th 2013 and it claims to have revolutionised scientists'

D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson, 'On Growth and Form' (1917) was critical of Darwin and thought that biologists of the day over emphasized evolution as the fundamental