In the News

At http://phys.org/print296373520.html ... which is taken from www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2013-257&cid=release_2013-257 ... where NASA report WISE is being taken out of mothballs and reactivated, in order to seek

At http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/08/130822-santorini-atlanti... ... ignoring the equation of the Thera eruption with the Atlantis legend what we seem to have here is a new C14 date

At www.sfgate.com/science/article/Ancient-redwoods-in-growth-spurt-of-a-lif... ... very often we hear negative stories about the Californian giant redwood tree - they are on the verge of dying, global warming

At http://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2013/08/22/fred-banks-remembering-the-ste... ... is actually more to do with a new book by Ferdinand Banks, 'Energy and Economic Theory' (2013) World Scientific: London, New York

I don't know how George Howard does it but he has come up trumps again with another downloadable 10 page article - see http://cosmictusk.com/the-eyes-have-it-clovis-peck-out-ydb-event-in americas-oldest-petroglyphs

At www.aftau.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=19035 ... Tel Aviv University archaeologists have uncovered huge fortifications dating to the Iron Age - at Ashdod-Yam. A mud brick wall 12 feet

It was thought the Faeroes were first settled by the Vikings but it now seems they were colonised as early as the 4th to 6th

Bearing in mind some of the things blogged at Malaga Bay the following is interesting - see http://phys.org/print296117095.html (the same story is at Science News

The background behind the Anglo Saxon poem Beowulf has just been brought to life by excavations in Denmark - BBC History magazine Sept 2013 (see

At www.newsobserver.com/2013/08/19/3116729/corps-archaeologists-study-misso... ... the Missourie River carves a slice off one of its banks every now and again and these reveal flint scrapers and knives,

A comment on page 16 at www.bishop-hill.net/blog/2013/8/20/more-kahya.html makes the point that practically all oil and gas that has ever been drilled had bituminous shales as

Tony Haynes, in an email, and continuing his research into alternative energy such as plasma and cold fusion, has found another twist in the story,

This climate change malarkey has now migrated to the Pliocene period, and it is said to lie at the root of canyons formed on the

The Daily Mail has picked up on a story I meant to post but never did. Gary Gilligan has forwarded the links at www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2389820/Planktonic-foraminifera-... ...

At www.nature.com/news/ancient-art-fills-in-egypt-s-ecological-history-1.13528 ... concerns the use of Egyptian dynastic art and inscriptions to show how much wildlife once abounded in the region, a survival from

At www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/08/130812154225.htm ... Neanderthals again found to be not so backward. Four bone tools found at Pech de l'Aze were used to work hides. Modern

George Howard provides a link to an unusual web site - see http://cosmictusk.com/beautiful-blog-naturalis-historia-unpacks-the-ydb-... ... and it begins with the Chelyabinsk meteor that exploded over Russia

The Daily Telegraph, August 13th (2013) under Science, has Michael Hanlon telling us that a colossal solar flare hit the Earth in the Dark Ages

At www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2013/08/beyond-the-higgs-boson-worlds-phys... ... which begins of the assumption the LHC actually found the Higgs Boson. I didn't realise it was a certainty - when did

At www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2013/08/-origin-of-magellanic-ribbon-that-... ... meteor dust is not the only thing that forms streams of material in space. So too does the gas involved in the