In the News

At www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/revealed-early-bronze-age... ... is another bit of whacko journalism. It is well known how some of the stones at Stonehenge have small carvings on them

At http://phys.org/print269077571.html ... a paper in the journal Solar Physics is based on data gleaned from the Hinude telescope, which is proving to be such

At http://phys.org/print268990338.html ... Voyager One may finally have left the solar system - NASA has yet to report and confirm this. There was a huge

At http://phys.org/print268989752.html ... a meteoroid seen over the UK on September 21st 2012 (there is a short video film) which was very bright for just

Climate scientists or their self appointed spokesmen and political close allies have come out with the absolute in arogance - anyone accepting Hubert Lamb's extensive

Long before the Egyptians thought of building pyramids a vast temple complex was built at the top of Scotland - in what is now the

On a similar theme a post at Tall Bloke's Talkshop - go to http://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2012/10/08/some-volcanoes-are-triggered-b... ... goes back to a 2011 paper at www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1342937X10001966 from the

This is one of those papers where you don't know whether to take it seriously or tongue in cheek. At http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/10/08/a-paper-unifying-cosmic-ray-intera... ... there is a

This is the question being asked by an Italian solar researcher - go to Tall Bloke's Talkshop at http://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2012/10/06/michele-casati-can-anyone-expl... ... and if you are interested

At www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2012/10/05/mexico--mayan-ball-court-w... ...Mexican archaeologists say the Maya built watchtowers on top of a ceremonial ball court at Chichen Itza in order to align with celestial

In the news today (www.space.com for example) we have a star rotating around what is thought to be a black hole at the heart of

At www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2012-309&cid=release_2012-309 ... astronomers using NASAs Spitzer Space Telescope have accomplished a more accurate and precise measurement of the Hubble Constant. This is the rate

At http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/10/02/241427.html ... Al Arabiya News has a report on archaeologists in northern Iraq discovering a new Assyrian site, in Arbil, a Kurdish province. The

In the latest issue of Current Archaeology 272 (Oct/Nov 2012) there is an article that gathers the story together of the discovery of a body

At http://phys.org/print268301197.html ... an interesting story dating back to the Late Glacial Maximum - when the northern ice sheet reached down to the Great Lakes

At http://phys.org/print267984703.html ... we learn that Curiosity Rover has found an old streambed on the surface of Mars. This story, recommended by Lawrence Dixon from

William Thompson, SIS member, in an email of February 2012, said he was at the University of Colorado at the same time as John Eddy

At http://blogs.nature.com/news/2012/09/buddhist-iron-man-found-by-nazis-is... ... is all about a 24cm high sculpture thought to be the god Vasravana that was made out of a meteorite. The meteorite

At http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Scientists_Shed_Light_on_Riddle_of_Sun... ... is a report on a paper in Nature on CMEs. At www.livescience.com/23586-solar-system-planet-formation-shockwaves.html ... (see also www.space.com) - our solar system's planets may

Hosted by Alfred de Grazia the annual Quantavolution conference can be accessed at www.2012-q-conference-naxos.grazian-archive.com and a transcript of the various speakers, which include Trevor Palmer,