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Another TED talk takes a pounding

26 March 2013 > Climate change
I posted a link to a TED talk video on 9th March that appeared to delight some people and cause others to grimace. It was
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Egypt Under the Sea

26 March 2013 > Archaeology
At www.ox.ac.uk/media/news_stories/2013/130314_1.html ... Egypt in the first millennium BC, including the Ptolemaic era, has thrown up some surprises. A port city known  as Thonis to
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A few bits that may interest people

24 March 2013 > Archaeology
At www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/03/2013/astronomical-alignment... ... an attempt to catalogue astronomical alignments at temples in Mesoamerica, 70 per cent of which seem to be focussed on the Sun.
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A forest on the Caribbean sea floor

24 March 2013 > Geology
At http://blog.al.com/wire/2013/03/ancient_underwater_forest_off.html ... an underwater forest has been found ten miles off shore of Alabama - and scuba divers have come up with pieces of
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Manhattan Fireball

24 March 2013 > Catastrophism
Keeping the Russian meteor story alive and kicking - another big fireball has been seen, along the east coast of North America - see http://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2013/03/23/another-big-meteor-this-time-o...
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Rupert Sheldrake

24 March 2013 > Inside science
The peculiar decision by TED to take down the video talk given by Rupert Sheldrake, apparently due to a faction ganging up on them and
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Sea water as drinking water

23 March 2013 > Inside science
Roger the Tall One, at http://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2013/03/20/inventors-geim-and-novoselov-h... ... Geim and Novoselov of the University of Manchester were awarded the 2010 Nobel Prize for Physics for their
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Farming ... when did it begin?

23 March 2013 > Archaeology
According to New Scientist - see www.newscientist.com/article/dn23290-farming-has-deep-roots-in-chinese-i... ... it seems three grinding stones have been found in China with traces of plant material that seem
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Chelyabinsk Meteor

23 March 2013 > Catastrophism
Already up in Wiki ... didn't take long. 13 pages on the February 15th Russian meteor, with lots of mainstream information - see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_Russian_meteor_event. The
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The Big story this week ...

23 March 2013 > Astronomy
The big story this week is undoubtedly the two reports issued by NASA on the Planck images of the universe - see www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2013-109&cid=release_2013-109 which concerns
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Censored ... Rupert Sheldrake falls foul of the righteous faithful

23 March 2013 > Inside science
You definitely get some whacky talks at TED ... there was some guy the other day that reckoned temperatures on the earth by AD2300 would
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Like or Loathe

22 March 2013 > Climate change
Interesting piece at www.express.co.uk/comment/columnists/ann-widdecombe/385446/Even-scientis... ... and see also http://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2013/03/22/ann-widdecombe-climate-orthodo...
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Hound Tor

20 March 2013 > Climate change
Hound Tor on Dartmoor is supposed to have inspired Arthur Conan Doyle's 'The Hound of the Baskervilles'. It is a bleak and lonely place, a
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Saltier than the Dead Sea

20 March 2013 > Geology
The Weather Eye column in The Times informed its readers of a shallow pond basin, 3300 feet by 1300 feet, in a valley between steep
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Geological Oddity

20 March 2013 > Geology
At http://phys.org.print282845516.html ... we learn that a chunk of continental plate is lodged underneath central California and is responsible for the so call Isabell Anomaly.
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Pan-STARRS

20 March 2013 > Astronomy
Comet Pan-STARRS has emerged from it passage around the back of the Sun intact - see http://phys.org/print282814278.html ... but it is glowing brighter than a
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The Bishop on the Plate

19 March 2013 > Climate change
Phil Plait, the ultra conformist blogger at Bad Astronomy, is diagnosed at the Bishop's quarters. It seems he objected to an article in the Mail
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Holocene Hockey Stick - how is it progressing?

18 March 2013 > Climate change
The best place to visit as the Marcott and Shakun hockey stick is getting the full blast of fresh air as Steve McIntyre slowly unravels
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Clovis Before

16 March 2013 > Archaeology
At www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/348953/Disputed_finds_put_humans_in_... ... Clovis before - a long time before. Stone tools from a rock shelter have been dated 22,000 years ago - and possibly
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CME and Pan-STARRS

16 March 2013 > Electromagnetism
At http://spaceweather.com March 15th, news of a geomagnetic storm warning, a CME on the Sun that is earth facing. Direct hit expected, on sunday the
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