In the News

Two stories of interest at Anthony Watts blog. At http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/07/09/weak-solar-convection-approximatel... ... solar researchers have been trying to understand how the Sun transfers heat from its

As discussed at a recent meeting, there is a theory our solar system is part of a binary system that involves the star Sirius -

There are some interesting facts about polar bears and brown bears on the sceptic blog http://notrickszone.com/2012/07/07/arthur-c-smith-iii-polar-bear-extinct... ... and really, it is all about the Ice

At http://www.popular-archaeology/issue/june-2012/article/classic-maya-coll... ... the collapse of Classic Maya civilisation is an idea that has been replicated so many times that it has become a factoid.

A paper published in Nature July 5th claims planets may form much faster than consensus theory currently allows - see http://phys.org/print260625944.html. This idea comes after

Environmental lobbyists and Green whack jobs seem to have the ear of our politicians, a somewhat startling situation when you think about it. Why not

At http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/07/05/putting-piers-corbyn-to-the-test/ ... this has come about as Piers Corbyn of www.weatheraction.com fame has made a couple of 'public' forecasts- they are usually available only

At www.geneticarchaeology.com/research/A_group_of_fungi_marked_the_end-of_t... ... is a strange article but that might be as a result this site is about archaeology and the subject matter is geology

Expectation preceding the wednesday announcement led to a raft of online pieces - for example see http://phys.org/print260590156.html ... where, it seems, finding the Higgs Boson

At http://sciencenordic.com/legendary-viking-town-unearthed/ ... is about the reported discovery and excavation of a town of over 200 houses and still counting near the Danish border. It

At www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/341948/title/All_dinosaurs_may_have_... which is a surprising development but not so unlikely after it had been established they were in all likelihood warm blooded (see last

The New York Times at www.nytimes.com/2012/07/03/science/oldest-known-pottery-found-in-china.html ... comes several days after others have reported the same thing, and even then they got it wrong and

The big news is the 'near' discovery of the Higgs Bosun particle by scientists at CERN. More will come through the grape vine over the

At the New Chronology Yahoo group C14 dating at Tell el-Dab'a is being discussed this past week. A 2010 story was that it was consistently

At www.cosmosmagazine.com/news/5735/tornadoes-magnetism-may-superheat-sun's... ... this is another paper in Nature this week, headed by a Norwegian scientist. It suggests the Sun's outer atmosphere may be heated

At www.cosmosmagazine.com/features/online/5725/the-long-hunt-australian-din... ... dinosaur remains have been found on every continent and it is known they dominated the planet around 140 million years ago, and

At http://blog.mysciencework.com/en/2012/06/19/new-evidence-for-climate-cha... .... is an overview of the YDB event hypothesis and its detractors - and the nature of the dispute between those who favour

At www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2012-187&cid=release_2012-187 ... astronomers using the Hubble Space Telscope have discovered an arc of light behind a very large cluster of galaxies 10 billion light

Jennifer Marohasy (see http://jennifermarohasy.com) reports on Rio and says the West and Western science was largely ignored at the United Nations talkfest in Rio -

At www.cosmosmagazine.com/features/online/5152/mammoths ... did you know there were mammoths in North Africa - and they evolved to live in warm tropical forests? The Columbian mammoth