In the News

At www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,518,830958,00.html ... folding chairs, of skilfil construct, have been found in graves from Bronze Age northern Europe. They have striking parallels to Egyptian examples

Member Gary has wrote in to say that the image of Earth's magnetotail on page 21 of http://tallbloke.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/the-mystery-of-the-missing-... is very similar to Horus Behdety, the

The first story is at www.dailygalaxy.com of May 1st (direct link does not work so go to site and trawl down menu) ... satellite images

At http://phys.org/print255061090.html ... NASA is preparing a new mission, the Magnetospheric Multiscale mission - planned to launc in 2014. The 'Fast Plasma Instrument' is 100

At http://notrickszone.com (May 2nd) we had the news a few days ago that the medieval warm period has been found in southern Europe and climate

At http://phys.org/print255086031.html ... the solar system, it is thought, is over 4 billion years of age - but its formation may have occurred much quicker

At http://phys.org/print254991216.html ... 'The Mystery of Venus' ashen light' - it seems May is the right time of the year to see the faint glow

At www.thunderbolts.info/wp/2012/04/24/cosmic-ions/ there ios a post and a nice picture from the Icecube neutrino laboratory, on the fact that the origins of cosmic rays do

At Tall Bloke's Talk Shop, http://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2012/04/24/the-connection-to-evolution-is... .. is a post by Tim Channon and begins by going through the basics of the paper, Earth bombarded

The invisible ingredient of the universe is taking a pounding this week. At http://phys.org/print254566203.html ... German astronomers have discovered vast structures of satellite galaxies and

We are assured by the US Geological Society that spherules in black mats have nothing to do with impacts at the Younger Dryas Boundary but

At ftp://ftp2.space.dtu.dk/pub/Svensmark/MNRAS_Svensmark2012.pdf 'Evidence of nearby supernovae affecting life on earth' can be found at various sites including Benny Peiser's CCNet, via www.thegwpf.org and at www.ras.org.uk/news-and-press/219-news-2012/2117-did-exploding-stars-hel...

At http://phys.org/print254405062.html ... when did the desertification as a result of the uplift of the Tibetan plateau happen. Geologists are divided. One view is that

At http://phys.org/print254421869.html ... a new study, by the US Geological Survey, claims it has found evidence that elevated levels or iridium, magnetic spherules and titanomagnetic

At www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2012-111&cid=releases_2012-111 images from the Cassini spacecraft show strange half mile wide objects pushing through Saturn's F ring with glittering trails following them (composed of

At http://phys.org/print254201605.html ... a paper in Physical Review Letters asks the question, can light bend into an arc? The answer it appears is in Maxwell's

At http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transit_of_Venus ... in order to make a little more sense of yesterday's post on what is due to come about in June, Wikipedia describes

At www.livescience.com/19747-stonehenge-ales-stenar-astronomical-calendar.html ... Scandinavians dragged 59 boulders to a cliff top overlooking the Baltic Sea and arranged the megaliths in the outline of a 220

At http://enthusiasmscepticismscience.wordpress.com/2012/04/21/madrid-1995-... .. Peter Warlow's bogeyman features heavily in this post on where might the focus have shifted from proper science to political hype -

At http://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2012/04/20/tim-cullen-the-secret-astronom... ... is a post by Tim Cullen, The Secret Astronomers Other Ball, April 20th. On the 5th and 6th of June this year