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Bill Napier responds to the Bos
15 February 2013 > CatastrophismMark Boslough, sometimes known as the Bos, claimed comets make up only one per cent of the population of earth crossing objects - and exist
Huehueteotl
15 February 2013 > ArchaeologyAt www.latimes.com/news/world/worldnow/la-fg-wn-mexico-firegod-pyramid-2013... ... we find that the largest pyramid at Teotihuacon had a respresentation of the fire god, Huehueteotl, on the apex - yet the
Claude Schaeffer
10 February 2013 > CatastrophismAn interesting update on Claude Schaeffer can be found at https://lirias.kuleuven.be/bitstream/123456789/373607/1/SRL2013-Jusseret... and the authors have even consulted the Velikovsky Archives. It seems the ideas of
Fishes, Birds, and Magnetic Fields
9 February 2013 > BiologyAt http://phys.org/print279447975.html ... anyone that has been fishing for salmon, or just walking the river bank in somewhere like Vancouver Island, will have wondered why
Volcanoes and cold weather
9 February 2013 > Climate changeAt http://phys.org/print279440535.html ... volcanoes may be a key to the Ice Ages, is being suggested in a new paper in the journal Geosphere. Actually, they
A wee rock skits between the satellites
9 February 2013 > AstronomyAt http://chiefio.wordpress.com/2013/02/08/2012-da14-a-week-17200-miles/ .... EM Smith is having a look at asteroid 2012DA14 which is due to whizz past the Earth on 15th February - inside
Fire drills
8 February 2013 > ArchaeologyAt www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0042213 ... cylindrical objects of fired clay found in various parts of the Near East over the years, and going back to the early
Monsoons in China fluctuate with Solar Activity
8 February 2013 > ElectromagnetismThis is an interesting scenario and is used by Pierre Gosselin at http://notrickszone.com/2013/02/07/monsoons-in-china-fluctuate-in-sync-w... ... as a discovery disputing co2 influenced warming - yet it is
York Minster
8 February 2013 > ArchaeologyAt http://m.yorkpress.co.uk/news/10212660.Remarkable_new_finds_below_York-M... ... is a story that the Guardian briefly toyed with so we may assume a press release and an announcement regarding the discovery
Tales of archaeologists ignoring finds that don't fit the preconceived assumption
7 February 2013 > ArchaeologyAt www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/When-Did-Humans-Come-to-the-Americ... ... after the discovery of a carved mastadon tusk and stone flakes in a sinkhole of the Aucilla River in northern Florida, some
Fifty Million Cosmic Rays
7 February 2013 > ElectromagnetismAt http://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2013/02/04/nasa-balloon-mission-detects-5... ... the balloon mission over the Antarctic has discovered large numbers of cosmic rays according to a press release - some 50 million
Richard III
6 February 2013 > ArchaeologyI suppose I should comment on the Richard III DNA results that were hyped by press release and treated with emotive glee by the BBC,
You've heard of mad scientists - how about mad ... (well, have a look for yourself)
6 February 2013 > Climate changeOver at http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/02/06/well-worth-a-read-self-damning-wor... ... we have the wise words of CAGW adherents; mainly Malthusians, politicians and environmentalists - and the good chappie Sir John Houghton
Beenstock and the giant in the ointment
6 February 2013 > Climate changeA paper a few weeks ago has rattled the troughers as George the Man and fellow sharp cronies have funded a sharp rebuke - not
The Sun's magnetic loops in action
5 February 2013 > ElectromagnetismMagnetic loop structures on the Sun seen in action by NASAs Solar Dynamic Observatory. How to unlock the mystery of why the outer edge of
George responds to Mark
5 February 2013 > CatastrophismGeorge Howard has responded to the Mark Boslough press release - see posting a couple of days ago (Feb 2nd), and more or less enscapulates
Drumlins
4 February 2013 > CatastrophismC Warren Hunt, of http://eearthk.com fame, has a book that you can buy at www.polarpublishing.com, 'The Environment of Violence: readings of cataclysms cast in stone'
Continental Drift
4 February 2013 > GeologyAlfred Wegener, looking around for some process in order to move the continents, thought drift was perhaps due to tidal forces from the Moon -
Windy Weather
3 February 2013 > PhysicsAt http://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2013/01/26/makarieva-et-al-finally-get-th... and http://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2013/02/02/makarieva-et-al-make-the-headl... which is being presented on sceptic sites as another blow to CAGW science - and see also www.thegwpf.org/research-blows-climate-science-wide-open/ and http://tallbloke.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/douglas-sheil.jpg Where
Aurora experiment
3 February 2013 > ElectromagnetismAt http://phys.org/print278935705.html ... an experiment is described that involves firing a rocket into the sky above Alaska in order to study auroral wind - a