In the News

While Bishop Hill and Climate Audit have this week been nitpicking over the police statement released after bringing the investigation into the hacking of the

At www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/07/120720103543.htm ... a bit of a dilemma. Rivers have been found on Saturn's moon Titan - but something is missing. Evidence of erosion by

At http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/prehistorc-tablet-c... ... the consensus view is that ancient Greeks came into possession of their alphabet by way of the Phoenicians - in around 800BC.

The News blurb on this appears to be a trifle exaggerated but the story can be found in www.cosmosmagazine.com/news/5795/seeing-a-new-direction ... it seems that Israeli scientists

At www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/07/120718192007.htm ... the unique arm morphology of Neanderthals, thought to be due to coming up close to their prey and thrusting with their spears,

This is the title of a new book by Justin Deering, The End of the World Delusion: How Doomsayers Endanger Society (available in hardback, paperback

Some interesting speculative biology going on - and NASA forced to retreat. The idea of a shadow biosphere, or a biosphere that has been crowded

CAGW seemed to be firmly entrenched, especially from a science angle - until a few retired people with an addiction to messing around on the

At www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/07/2012/300-000-year-old-flint... ... reports the discovery in Picardy of a site with five prehistoric levels ranging in date between 300,000 and 80,000 years ago, most

At http://phys.org/print261650980.html .... some basics of what the CERN experiment was all about, and what it found, in an easy to understand description by Cliff

This can be found at www.phenomenica.com/2012/07/african-elephants-are-picky-eaters/ ... which is interesting as the same may have applied to mammoths. Elephants don't eat just anything but selectively

To begin with, George Howard has set up a series of You Tube videos on his web site that will interest catastrophists in general. They

At www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/342218/title/BLOG_Humans_not_so_sing... ... it seems that neuroscience research and artificial intelligence are challenging the idea that humans are something special in the natural world, a

Lovely images of Mars - polar ice cliffs, gullies, craters, and dunes - go to http://phys.org/print261381810.html ... with links to HiRISE web site and more

At http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/07/12/important-new-paper-on-the-nocturn... ... this is the subject that put Anthony Watts on the blogging map, the weather station data and urbanisation (the urban heat island

At http://rhythmsoflife.ca/ ... there is a web site to publicise a new book on evolution, by Susan Crockford, Rhythms of Life. How did wolves become

At http://phys.org/print261121955.html ... we have one of those frustrating press releases from a university, a letter of intent - future plans. Scientists, it says, are

Buzzing around the blogosphere is news of a paper in Nature Climate Change that may have put the cats among the pigeons - although the

At www.thebunsenburner.com/news/an-impostor-particle-cern-scientists-may-no... and www.thebunsenburner.com/news/did-scientists-discover-the-higgs-boson-or-... ... CERN scientists were not willing to confirm the existence of the particle during their announcement last week but they did

In Shorter Science and Civilisation in China:2, an abridgement by Colin A Roman of Joseph Needham's original 1981 text, we have on page 84 ...