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At http://phys.org/print297525077.html ... the West Antarctic ice sheet existed 20 million years earlier than previously thought runs the headline but how do scientists arrive at

We seem to have had a spate of papers favourable to the idea of a Yonger Dryas boundary event that involved bombardment by meteors or

Keeping climate science at bay with a very long pole Nature also has an article on sulphur in the Mantle which might be important -

At http://phys.org/print297607227.html ... the Tamu Massif lies one thousand miles east of Japan and it is a giant volcano that has left its innards spread

At http://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2013/09/04/doug-proctor-dowsing-and-divin... ... is a bit on the light side and not at the cutting edge of science. Dowsers are of course regularly accused of

At http://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2013/09/01/oldbrew-and-tallbloke-why-phi-... ... and http://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2013/09/06/oldbrew-and-tallbloke-why-phi-... ... lots to think about here, a continuing investigation that began with http://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2013/02/20/a-remarkable-discovery-all-sol... The Tall Bloke hypothesis that Phi connects

Ceres is the biggest object in the Asteroid Belt and has a perfectly rounded shape. This is supposed to imply it formed during the early

Returning to the theme of Miles Mathis on the Golden Ratio, at http://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2013/08/27/miles-mathis-more-on-the-golde... ... he claims there is often too much math and not enough

This story can be found at various places such as www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-23947820 A new timeline for the beginnings of Egyptian history has been announced - and

Your average medieval robber baron has generally earned a bit of a poor reputation amongst the liberal elite, the trade unions, the politcal left and

A fascinating post at http://heritageofjapan.wordpress.com/2013/08/25/the-japanese-rain-doctor... ... the rain doctor was a shaman, a rain sorcerer used to bring bountiful harvests and intercede with the gods

At http://heritageofjapan.wordpress.com/2013/08/25/origins-of-dragon-blood-... ... Cinnabar, a powdered mineral pigment, is also known as 'Dragon's Blood'. Now, if dragons were seen to emit red dust, as in

Something to chew on here. See for example http://malagabay.wordpress.com/2013/08/03/black-and-white-bloch/ and http://malagabay.wordpress.com/2013/08/06/geomagnetism-virtual-reality-v... Tim Cullen is not a fan of mainstream geomagnetic science, one of the main

At www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/352848/description/News_in_Brief_Big... ... J Bamber of Bristol University and chums have uncovered a large canyon while mapping Greenland's sub glacial terrain with ice penetrating radar.

Lots of fuss surrounding the new paper concerning the role of the ocean in the recent cooling of global temperatures - all blamed on La

At www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2013/08/big-bang-simulation-of-380000-year... .. not sure if they have found the Big Bang - but they've found something (which may be profound, important, or inconsequential). Physicists

At www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-08/plos-hsm082313.php ... new research has found some previously unknown archaeological sites in the Bolivian Amazon. Hundreds of small forested mounds of earth, considered to

At http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/08/29/a-new-understanding-of-the-solar-d... ... the story was sent in by Leif Svalgaard, solar scientist. He is unimpressed by the Electric Universe and consistently rejects various ideas

Interaction between the first farmers and the pre-existing population of Europe has always been thought to be unlikely. Farmers tended to set down roots and

At http://phys.org/print296907712.html ... we've had Mars chocolate bars and claims it is made of cheese, canals on Mars and little green men, and 'Journey into