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At http://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2013/08/09/newly-discovered-asteroid-2013... ... astronomers expected one space rock to come by but they got a second one, tracking the first asteroid. The first one passed

Tim Cullen has tuned his attention away from chalk, sand, and silica, and has four posts on magnetism - and how it is dealt with

At http://phys.org/print295092645.html ... a report on a paper researching ball lightning, 'Further Insight into the Nature of Ball Lightning' in the Journal of Physics and

At http://phys.org/print295079728.html and www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0009254113002696 ... iron ore deposits in the Pilbara region of Australia are between 26 and 2 million years of age - much

A press release on a new paper on global warming associated with ozone levels in the atmosphere appeared on Phys Org but the effect was

Han Kloosterman, who has been researching what he calls the Ussello Horizon for too many years to count, has a problem. The Ussello Horizon is

At http://phys.org/print295101717.html ... mainstream say that Ice Ages and warm interglacials have alternated regularly, almost like clockwork, for millions of years. Earth's climate, the theory

At http://phys.org/print295014415.html ... there is a nice graph here to start the ball rolling, using five cores that show, with the aid of a blue

At http://phys.org/print295018965.html ... the Big Bear Observatory NST telescope has discovered new features on the face of the Sun - and the link has some

At http://johnhawks.net/weblog/reviews/archaeology/upper/india/mishra-micro... ... is a discussion of a paper by Sheila Mishra et al which centres on the introduction of micro blade tool assemblages in

The Tall (or tell) el-Hammam Excavation Project (see www.tallelhammam.com and www.trinitysouthwest.com) has already resulted in a book being published - and is recommended reading for

'The Lost Star of Myth and Time' by Walter Cruttenden, St Lynn's Press, Pittsburgh:2006 ... is based on the idea there is a binary system

At http://phys.org/print294651259.html ... a comet graveyard is in effect, the Asteroid Belt - although comets are not necessarily out like a snuffed light for keeps,

At http://phys.org/print294650860.html ... in 2008 Norwegian scientists discovered Loki's Castle, a field of five active hydrothermal vents on the Mid Atlantic Ridge between Norway and

American bloggers tend to think the EPA and other federal agencies are swamped by an environmentalist soup and yet fracking has taken off big time

At www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/08/2013/neolithic-engraved-sto... ... since 2010 some 80 decorated pieces of stone have been unearthed, and altogether some 450 inscribed pieces. Now, a discovery in Structure

In Current Archaeology 282 (Sept 2013) - www.archaeology.co.uk - there is an interesting article on Star Carr (a longer but similar article appeared in Antiquity

Rens van der Sluijs at his best - go to www.thunderbolts.info/wp/2013/08/01/polar-wondering-2/ It begins with the recent movements of the geomagnetic pole - and estimated movement

At www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/352058/description/Y_chromosome_anal... ... which is basically telling us the male line is as old as the female mitochondrial line - but what does it mean

Catching up ... the end of Permian extinction is now being blamed on a comet or asteroid strike, 252 million years ago (see http://phys.org/print294567573.html). The