In the News

At www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-east-wales-18423528 ... archaeologists have discovered the remains of a large prehistoric building that appears to be Neolithic in concept - if not in date.

At http://phys.org/print258659797.html ... astronomers have uncovered a clue about how our galaxy emerged from the Dark Ages - by looking at nearby galaxies. During the

Chris Stringer of the Natural History Museum in Kensington is at loggerheads with Spanish fellow palaeontologists over the dating of human fossils at Atapuerco in

At http://phys.org/print258278534.html ... change in the axis of rotation is Out of Bounds on Earth but strangely not so on Mars. The ESA Mars Express

At http://helian.net/blog/2012/04/human-nature/e-o-wilsons-group-selection-... apparently, some proponents of 'evolutionary psychology' are opposed to the idea of the Selfish Gene and the God Delusion. Group selection is back

Some interesting links for thorium energy - another ten years at the earliest. Go to http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/06/07/book-review-of-super-fuel/#more-65191 which is about a book focussing on green energy

An article in the Australian science magazine, Cosmos - see www.cosmosmagazine.com/news/5651/early-primates-originated-asia-migrated... is a funny kind of piece that has been published in the journal PNAS.

Andrew Montford outlines what some recent activity at Climate Audit might mean - see www.bishop-hill.net/blog/2012/6/7/another-hockey-stick-broken.html (and the comments to these kind of posts are just

It may be the coldest June weekend for 80 + years as far as Sweden is concerned (see yesterday) but it's getting warmer on the

At www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/06/2012/excavation-of-a-solutr... ... prior to construction work archaeologists did a survey and came across a Solutreean hunting camp - buried 2m deep. The Palaeolithic site,

A video of the Dawn mission to the asteroid Vesta can be seen at www.jpl.nasa.gov/video/index.cfm?id=1085 and see the image of a multi-coloured asteroid Vesta at

The video of the transit is available at http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/06/06/time-lapse-video-of-venus-transit-... and at http://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2012/06/06/transit-of-venus-first-pics/#m... This follows a spate of articles over the last couple of days leading

It might have been the coldest June weekend for over 80 years in Stockholm, see http://phys.org/print258002745.html but at http://phys.org/print258035163.html a giant black hole is being

Harking back to two days ago - giant insects. They seem to have reached their maximum size during the Late Carbiniferous - which is why

At www.nature.com/news/mysterious-radiation-burst-recorded-in-tree-rings/ ... a spike in C14 levels indicates a massive cosmic event of some kind - in AD774/5. The atmospheric level of C14 must

Staying on the same theme as yesterday, rock art, we see some interesting images from California at www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/05/2012/archaeology-and-the-ro... and as can be seen from the

At http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/06/02/so-dinosaurs-could-fly-part-i/ ... an unusual post as far as subject is concerned. Andi Cockroft wonders aloud about paleo-climate as it seems Theresa Cole (see ColeTheresaN2011MSc.pdf)

Without taking sides this is perhaps an illustration of how science consensus nails the mast down - against all comers. At http://users.indigo.net.au/don/nonsense/subass.html the title is

At http://sunnyokanagan.com/joshua/upsidedown.html ... Okanagan is not an Irish surname but a hot dry, and yes, sunny part of Canada very popular with tourists and pensioners.

At http://discovermagazine.com/2012/may/11-decoding-ancient-secrets-of-whit... ... the Lower Pecos is an arid expanse situated in SW Texasand somewhat remote from the beaten track. Some 4000 years ago it