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The Neolithic period in Taiwan (formerly the island of Formosa) lasted from about 3000BC to 500BC. During that period there developed a remarkable jade industry

At a recent SIS study group meeting the Eskimo claim they could hear aurora was discussed, which has recently been verified by scientists. They said

At http://chiefio.wordpress.com/2013/06/21/the-fallacy-of-trapped-heat/ ... this post is reminiscent of a talk Peter Warlow gave to the SIS at the Harlequin Theatre in Redhill in April 2009,

At http://phys.org/news/2013-06-meteorologists-mull-weird-british-weather.html ... climate scientists and meteorologists from the Met Office had a meeting a couple of days ago. They were somewhat bemused by all

At http://phys.org/print290759007.html ... we learn that Treezilla is a monster map of trees launched by the Open University (or at tax payers expense to be

At http://phys.org/print290764261.html ... Crantor, a large asteroid with a diameter of 70km, has an orbit similar to that of Uranus, which it tracks. It takes

His book, 'On Growth and Form' appears on page 101 of Trevor Palmer's 'The Perilous Planet Earth; Catastrophes and Catastrophism Through the Ages' Cambidge University

Well, that is the headline at http://phys.org/print290673740.html .... but it emerges that what has been found is an active tectonic zone to the west of

The last of the three posts goes where it naturally weaves a path - http://malagabay.wordpress.com/2013/06/16/the-inflating-earth-4-gravity/ .... and leads from the equatorial bulge to the question

In the next of his posts on the Inflating Earth model, Tim Cullen turns to the equatorial bulge - how does this feature fit into

I seem to have got stuck on this theme of the Expanding Earth theory but here are another three pieces to look at by those

Maps presented as a video provide a three dimensional representation of the universe through the use of rotation, panning, and zooming facilities. The Cosmic Flows

The David Pratt article at www.ncgt.org ended in a bit of a drizzly fizzle as part of the Expanding Earth hypothesis includes polar wander -

For an evaluation of Plate Tectonics and various expanding earth models go to www.geologynet.com/tectonics1.htm We also have an interesting book that widens the expanding earth

In Current Archaeology 280 (June/July, 2013) (www.archaeology.co.uk ... look in different categories. In 'news' you will find the following /articles/news/walbrook-channel-mystery-panel.html while in the features section

The Expanding Earth theory must have been getting under somebody's skin as the debate at www.skepticblog.org/2009/11/23/no-growing-earth-but-a-growing-problem-wi... ... appears to resort to the current fashion of

At http://phys.org/print290325427.html ... there is a lovely image of the Sinai peninsular overlain with the drainage network of Wadi el-Arish. According to a new study

The Chandra X-ray Observatory, says, that over the last 13 years, it has identified 26 black holes in the Andromeda galaxy - sister to the

A survey of Antarctic ice shelves has discovered that ice dissolving from underneath accounted for 55 per cent of shelf loss from 2003 to 2008.

The mad scientist is active and kicking at the boundaries of reason. Dr Strangelove is interferring in nature - for the human good. Of course.