In the News

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 ...

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