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For centuries, a consensus theory ruled the roost, as science (a generalisation) had known that a piece of glass could be made to produce a

In MJ Harper's book, The History of Britain Revealed:the shocking truth about the English language, Icon Books:2006, the author makes some funny but very irreverent

At www.space.com/19537-venus-comet-atmosphere.html ... it seems Venus sometimes has the appearance of a comet rather than a planet according to a European Space Agency source. Part

At http://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2013/07/01/2013-chelyabinsk-meteor-larges... ... the 2013 Russian meteor, or fireball, is the largest ever recorded by CTBTO seismic monitoring (infrasound sensors) and a paper on the

This is all a bit speculative but interesting nonetheless. At the 76th Annual Meteoritical Society Meeting (2013) the Chelyabinsk (Russian) meteor will be discussed and

On a day that a video has been published of a beheading of three Christian monks or Catholic priests in Syria by the very people

At http://phys.org/print291565822.html ... this story comes from NASA and the Voyager 1 spacecraft and speculation surrounding what is actually there at the edge of the

This story can be found at www.livescience.com/37812-cave-art-reveals-ancient-view-of-cosmos.html ... which once again is all in the head, and ignores alternative interpretations. The paper seems to imply

At http://phys.org/print291614362.html ... this is all part of CAGW hype so may be complete waffle without much substance - but interesting in the context of

Problems regarding the amount of oxygen in the solar system in comparison with space at large - see www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2013/06/did-our-solar-system-evolve-in-a-m... At www.space.com/21758-comet-ison-summer-brightness.html ... the size of

The Times (June 21st, 2013) also had a piece on the Greek scholar Eratosthenes, going back to the BC period. In the Egyptian city of

With the closure of some coal and nuclear power stations the fear of power cuts is getting some politicos worried - civils disorder in prospect.

At http://phys.org/print291361534.html ... news of a new book on the discovery of evolution, John Wyhe, Dispelling the Darkness: Voyages in the Malay Archipelago. Alfred Wallace

At http://phys.org/print291396902.html ... we learn that more than ten thousand asteroids and comets that can pass near the Earth have now been discovered. They range

David Keys, author of Catastrophe: An Investigation into the Origins of the Modern World, Random House:1999, is the archaeology and history correspondent for The Independent

I picked up a book in a hospital second hand shop (proceeds used to finance the bits and pieces around the wards) by Allan Chapman.

At www.geneticarchaeology.com/research/Chalking_up_a_marine_blooming_alga_G... ... chalk deposits are formed from the white shells that envelop single celled photosynthetic alga known as Ehux, a coccolithopare with an exo

Four interesting posts on astronomy - at http://phys.org/print290928922.html ... ESOs Very Large Telescope Interferometer has observed dust around a huge black hole which seems to

The Tanana River appears in Velikovsky's Earth in Upheaval, associated with the Alaskan muck deposits (and underlying gold in the river gravels). He claimed human

We get different coloured flint in Britain. For example, in the Vale of Aylesbury you can pick up pieces of orange and brown flints from