In the News

Ignoring the fact the weather is far from hot, global warming is still the chosen field for throwing money at - and one of the

At www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2013-182&cid=release_2013-182 ... asteroid 1998 QE2 passed 15 lunar distances from the Earth in the last few days. It was 1.7 miles in diameter and

An interesting post at http://malagabay.wordpress.com/2013/04/15/why-the-sky-is-blue/ ... which according to Wikipedia, and various others, the sky is blue because air scatters short wavelength light more than

This story is at www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2013-179&cid=release_2013-179 ... the WISE mission is still coming up with information and in this study of the data there was an

At http://phys.org/print289030328.html ... in the International Journal of Low Radiation, Russian researchers say the seriousness of the Chernobyl nuclear accident has been highly exaggerated by

At http://phys.org/print289048472.html ... new evidence suggests the Arctic Ocean was circulating much the same as it is now during the last Ice Age - how

At http://phys.org/print289048035.html ... pigeons pecking the ground in search of seeds or crumbs may appear to be acting randomly as a scavenger but the birds

This story is at http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/russian-scientists-... ... in this instance, a female mammoth, on Lyatchovsky Islands (off Novasibirsk archipelago). The tissue of the animal was in

At www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2013/05/the-human-neocortex-more-complex-t... ... a blog post with an interesting video to watch, Carl Sagan and Roger Penrose discussing the neocortex and the make-up of the

A revised edition of the Secret History of Twin Planet Earth by Errol Hawkins (2007) - see http://malagabay.wordpress.com/2013/04/29/secret-history-of-twin-planet-... ... and www.secrethistoryoftwinplanetearth.net/ ... which is an

At http://malagabay.wordpress.com/2013/05/30/the-tale-of-the-tektites/ ... Tim Cullen looks at tektite fields and their distribution. He then looks at them in the context of the Inflating Earth model

This is a term picked up from Tim Cullen and it epitomises the subject somewhat better than the 'expanding earth'. It is better by far

At www.space.com/21306-moon-craters-asteroid-impacts.html ... a quarter of the Moon's impact craters may retain substantial remnants of the asteroids and meteors that made them. In other words,

At http://phys.org/print287936452.html ... a Russian expedition has driven across the Arctic Ocean in buses fitted with bloated tyres that make them capable of crossing watery

At http://phys.org/print288877504.html ... Prior to the ice cap Antarctica had a tropical, or a near tropical environment - or was it just temperate? - which

Aha. The green economic miracle in genuine full blown working order. For a sample, go to www.bishop-hill.net/blog/2013/5/28/environmentalism-brings-you-forest-cl... which was predicted somewhat earlier - see http://sunshinehours.wordpress.com/2012/09/26/save-the-coal-burn-a-forest/

I was going to have a weekend of rest from  posting to catch up on a few jobs and socialising but here we are, 10.00pm

A paper in Nature by Tobias and Cettaneo is discussed at http://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2013/05/steve-tobias-rediscovering-the-so... ... which claims researchers at Leeds and Chicago universities have discovered a mechanism

An article in Science magazine, May 24th 2013, by Simon Fisher and Matt Ridley, Culture, Genes and Human Revolution - see http://popular-archaeology.com/issue/march-2013/article/are-human-evolut... ... which argues

At www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2013/05/giant-mysterious-blobs-powered-by-... ... Blobs in the Universe - discovered a few years ago, are fuzzy galactic holes thought to consist of hot hydrogen gas. Asatronomers