In the News

At http://popular-archaeology.com/issue/march-2013/article/the-egyptian-for... ... it seems the archaeology does not fit the monuments and the history. This is a fairly long read and concerns the ancient

This story was at www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130226135241.htm ... and concerns so called refuges from the cold blasts of the Ice Age - where humans and animals, and

WISSARD, short for Whillans Ice Stream Subglacial Access Research Drilling project, and is the exploration of a lake found beneath the Antarctic ice sheet. At

NASAs mission to probe the Van Allen belts has found a third ring of high energy 12,000 miles above the surface of the Earth. It

Phil Plait at his Bad Astronomy blog brings his effortless 'astronomically correct' version of PC to the table adding a  new dimension to the Younger

Current Archaeology 276 (March 2013) in its World News section, reports on the discovery that Ramesses III was murdered by cutting his throat, thereby solving

George Howard is on best behaviour at http://cosmictusk.com/live-link-comet-and-asteroid-impacts-and-human-soc... ... as he provides a link to the full pdf of a very expensive book to buy

At http://phys.org/print280693945.html ... scientists are looking further into the solar wind, the stream of particles and electro-magnetic waves that originate in the Sun and are

If you think it has been cold in the UK, or in the Mid West, over the last week or so, and then grab a

The La Brea tar pits are well known for the animals ensnared in them but there are also trees, bits of trees, branches, and various

At http://phys.org/print280669880.html ... asteroids aren't supposed to have tails. Comets do. We now have ten exceptions to the rule. Spanish astronomers have observed another one

At www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2013/02/saturns-shockwaves-reach-supernova... ... the Cassini spacecraft is said to have struck a strong blast of solar wind as it orbited the planet Saturn - and

Catastrophism ... www.pibburns.com/catastro.html (Philip Burns) Cosmopier ... http://sites.google.com/site/cosmopier/ .. which has some interesting ideas on End of Pleistocene and environmental change www.catastrophism.com ... Ian Tresman's

Phew! Saved by the bell. The consensus model of crystal formation lives to fight another day - see http://phys.org/print280505766.html Exactly how a crystal forms from

Interesting post up at Tall Bloke's Talk Shop who reckons he can discern a Fibonacci series and the Golden Ratio in the way the solar

Shlomo Sand, in The Invention of the Jewish People, was somewhat more minimal than other minimalists, as the rewriting of history continues unabated. Minimalists are

Two posts at Cosmic Tusk turn the Bos paper upside down - basically it argues against a 2007 paper by Firestone et al but ignores

At http://phys.org/print280132683.html ... and again at http://phys.org/print280123324.html ... we have further on the Russian meteor. Phys Org are making a meal of it today and

The space rock 2012DA14 has passed by without anything out of the ordinary happening -safe to look out of the window. However, it wasn't for

At http://phys.org/print279904761.html ... farting cows are the target of a cattle feed company hoping to make a few pennies from CAGW. Carbon credits to punish