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Was Mercury once a moon of Venus. It seems Tom Van Flandern posed this question quite some years ago - but is there anything to

How a new hockey stick was created to coincide with the next IPCC Report - and still on cue to be an icon. Another piece

In the Zagros mountains of Iran salt domes, a quite common geological oddity, break the surface - see http://geology.com/stories/13/salt-glacier/ As the region is arid there

At http://phys.org/print283951814.html ... computer simulation models are predicting trees are going to start growing on what is now tundra in the next 40 years. The

Laurence Dixon responded to the In the News piece on barycentric orbits on March 29th by making the point that under Newton's laws of gravity

Three cracking videos from Piers Corbyn discussing the role of the Sun, and the Moon, on the climate, and how they cause changes in the

Gary Gilligan sent in some further information about the goddess Sekhmet - who embodied the 'flaming' sky and 'flame of heaven' (see also his web

At http://phys.org/print282764868.html ... the question is what kick started life on Earth. It recognises the possibility of panspermia but on this occasion its interest is

The Smithsonian has a fascinating article about Viking ritual killing - did it happen, as some historians obviously wallow in the gore, or did it

Prof. Trevor Palmer sent in the following piece, gleaned from the New Scientist 'special issue' of 2nd March. The headline on the cover asks, 'We've

Change, not in the way the warm is causing the cold, but has it changed from warm to cold. We don't know but the Economist

At Hossein Turner's place, http://hozturner.blogspot.co.uk/feeds/posts/default ... a link to a video of electrictiy in the sky is at www.circuitsinourskies.com/index.html Over at http://io9.com/volcanic-lightning-how-does-it-work-459806533?utm ... lightning from

A post at www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/03/2013/fish-based-diets-cause... ... describes how fish can cause problems with C14 dating methodology, even in pottery where fish have been cooked - and

Tall Bloke is enthusiastic about barycentric orbits - but do they exist? I had visualised the 90,000 plus years cycle of the Sun around its

The backdrop of the Trojan War is fascinating as in the Iliad we are told the fleeing Trojans reached the head of the river Xanthus

This crops up every year somewhere - this time at http://frontiers-of-anthropology.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/the-story-of-eas... ... Easter is supposed to be derived from the goddess of spring, Oestra. She

No, this is not out of a catastrophist book or part of the Younger Dryas debate but comes straight from the horses mouth at the

The Heritage Journal, see http://frontiers-of-anthropology.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/the-mysterious-m... ... begins with a reference taken from Geoffrey of Monmouth and the giants of old that brought megaliths to Ireland

At http://phys.org/print283451358.html ... some suprising ideas on the Moon. Apparently, the so called 'lunar cataclysm' began when the gas giants repositioned themselves in the solar

There is a nice post at www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/03/2013/afterlife-of-early-neo... ... with some pictures and diagrams of layout. One can see the trapezoidal design so reminiscent of Early