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The Out of Africa hypothesis - humans are said to have migrated out of Africa around 60,000 years ago, has remained remarkably robust in spite

Chiefio has been looking at Dansgaard-Oeschger and Heinrich events during the last Ice Age - go to http://chiefio.wordpress.com/2012/12/15/d-o-ride-my-see-saw-mr-bond/ ... and in his conclusions says they

Whether it does challenge the evolutionary tree of life or not remains to be seen - that might be just hype. At www.cosmosmagazine.com/news/6264/fossil-find-challenges-tree-life ... what

At http://phys.org/print274439306.html ... is a story from a paper peddling scary doomsaying to the CAGW heartbeat. In the Eemian interglacial, 125,000 years or so ago,

Mike Parker-Pearson, on page 344 of his 2012 book, Stonehenge, says that when all sorts of things were going on, between 2470 and 2280BC, we

Now you know what a monster looks like. Meanwhile, one more item on black holes that might set the cat among the pigeons - go

Well, perhaps not so different as this paper might be nearly 20 years old, but interesting as Steve Mitchell in his 2004 SIS talk on

NASA let out some further news on its Van Allen probes - see http://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2012/12/07/nasas-van-allen-probes-reveal-... ... and it is only 3 months since their launch. They

Paul Simon's column in The Times, 'Weather Eye', is always worth a read. Commenting on the recent flooding, following a so called drought last winter

Mike Pitts has a timeline on the Richards, Darvill and Parker-Pearson revised chronology for Stonehenge - go to http://mikepitts.wordpress.com/2012/12/01/stonehenge-in-five-easy-stages... ... but he adds some uncertainty

At www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/11/121129093138.htm ... a study of the bacterium that causes bubonic plague has revealed an older outbreak probably occurred in the first millennium AD. It

At www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2012/12/nasa-announces-first-full-mars-soi... ... we learn the Curiosity Rover has taken samples and analysed some soil on Mars - see also www.nasa.gov/mars At http://phys.org/print274000788.html ... is

An excellent article on the Queen of Sheba appears in the Journal of Creation 24 (2) 2010, a somewhat surprising source in some respects as

This story can be found in a variety of science sources (paper and online) - but see for example www.cosmosmagazine.com/news/6230/voyager-discovers-magnetic-highway-edge... ... but see also www.thunderbolts.info/wp/2012/12/06/voyager-1-confirms-electric-heliosph...

One of the authors that wrote a paper debunking the Younger Dryas Boundary event has now switched attention to the Australian megafauna extinctions - see

Tall Bloke gives an airing to somebody who is sure that the greenhouse effect is real - see http://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2012/12/06/tim-folkerts-simple-argument-s... ... is worth reading - and

A wonderful post to catch the eye at http://frontiers-of-anthropology.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/owl-plaques-eye-... ... here we have some repeating motifs that look suspiciously like plasma pinch phenomena as illustrated

At www.minoanatlantis.com/Minoan_Spain.php ... the authors are suggesting Iberia was colonised by Early Minoans - by which I suppose they mean by people from the Aegean

This is a really interesting story - and more will follow, no doubt, as research continues. How much is genuine geology and how much is

Proof that tartans are not a modern myth, BBC News at www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-20579219 ... comes from a statue of the emperor Caracalla discovered in the Moroccan