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At www.dummies.com/how-to/content/string-theory-hundreds-of-physicists-cant... ... this is a somewhat amusing review that begins by saying one of the major criticisms of string theory is not to do

A paper published in Nature Geoscience claims the Arctic Ocean was 1 to 2 degrees Centigrade warmer between 50,000 and 11,000 years ago - see

At http://phys.org/print265280725.html ... there is a video of a coronal mass ejection on the Sun captured as it bursts forth in the shape of a

At http://portuguese-american-journal.com/archeology-prehistoric-rock-art-f... ... rock art has been found that may go back to the Bronze Age - but is yet to be dated. However, there

At http://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2012/08/29/noaa-showing-18-more-ice-t... ... is a story of two methods of measuring the ice at the Arctic. NOAA is the traditional methodology and it shows ice

The roundness of the Sun, mentioned a couple of weeks ago in passing, is the subject of a forum on Thunderbolts - worth looking at

Last week we had a paper saying that Neanderthal genes present in modern humans was due not to interbreeding but were a residue going back

In one of those news flash episodes, we are told by the mass media, the heavy brigade with the big floppy pages, and the BBC

This is really basic geology but I'm placing it under the catastrophism banner as it has a bearing on the recent hypothesis of a comet

At http://geology.gsapubs.org/content/early/2012/08/08/G33279.1.abstract ... is an abstract of a paper published August 2012 in Geology journal, 'Seasonal Laurentide Ice Sheet melting during the Mystery Interval, 17.5-14.5ka'

At www.minoanatlantis.com/LM_IB_Destruction.php ... some interesting information. LMIA and LMIB represent the zenith of Minoan civilisation, we are informed, with trade contacts to Egypt and the

The intrepid Weather Eye in The Times has caught the 'volcanoes cause cold weather' bug - volcanoes causing bad weather here in the UK. A

The Dead Sea sediment core project is beginning to throw up some interesting data - see http://phys.org/print264850489.html ... or www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/08/2012/researchers-study-dead... ... pollen analysis at different

We had the Big Bang - now we have the Big Wimper - see http://phys.org/print264654433.html

At http://phys.org/print264668408.html ... the archaeological record of Europe and Asia between 45,000 and 25,000 years ago shows a lot of changes - and movements. The

Another interesting forum going on atg Thunderbolts. Has plasma red shift been see in a laboratory? See what you think at www.thunderbolts.info/forum/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=6305 The argument is

It seems the Jet Stream was first discovered in the 1920s by a Japanese scientist. He sent weather balloons high into the atmosphere but found

Venice is built on a former lagoon. That means a lot of silt and mud which is why it is sinking. However, according to The

At http://phys.org/print264414605.html ... Dr Kareem Osman from Warwick University is looking at why solar wind is hotter than it should be - or why does

Looking around for some data as a note for some research I had a look through some old copies of Current Archaeology in my attic.