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Another TED talk takes a pounding
26 March 2013 > Climate changeI posted a link to a TED talk video on 9th March that appeared to delight some people and cause others to grimace. It was
Egypt Under the Sea
26 March 2013 > ArchaeologyAt 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
A few bits that may interest people
24 March 2013 > ArchaeologyAt 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.
A forest on the Caribbean sea floor
24 March 2013 > GeologyAt 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
Manhattan Fireball
24 March 2013 > CatastrophismKeeping 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...
Rupert Sheldrake
24 March 2013 > Inside scienceThe peculiar decision by TED to take down the video talk given by Rupert Sheldrake, apparently due to a faction ganging up on them and
Sea water as drinking water
23 March 2013 > Inside scienceRoger 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
Farming ... when did it begin?
23 March 2013 > ArchaeologyAccording 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
Chelyabinsk Meteor
23 March 2013 > CatastrophismAlready 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
The Big story this week ...
23 March 2013 > AstronomyThe 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
Censored ... Rupert Sheldrake falls foul of the righteous faithful
23 March 2013 > Inside scienceYou definitely get some whacky talks at TED ... there was some guy the other day that reckoned temperatures on the earth by AD2300 would
Like or Loathe
22 March 2013 > Climate changeInteresting 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...
Hound Tor
20 March 2013 > Climate changeHound 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
Saltier than the Dead Sea
20 March 2013 > GeologyThe Weather Eye column in The Times informed its readers of a shallow pond basin, 3300 feet by 1300 feet, in a valley between steep
Geological Oddity
20 March 2013 > GeologyAt 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.
Pan-STARRS
20 March 2013 > AstronomyComet 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
The Bishop on the Plate
19 March 2013 > Climate changePhil 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
Holocene Hockey Stick - how is it progressing?
18 March 2013 > Climate changeThe best place to visit as the Marcott and Shakun hockey stick is getting the full blast of fresh air as Steve McIntyre slowly unravels
Clovis Before
16 March 2013 > ArchaeologyAt 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
CME and Pan-STARRS
16 March 2013 > ElectromagnetismAt 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