In the News

Dennis Cox at 'A Catastrophe of Comets' - http://craterhunter.wordpress.com/2012/05/06/a-core-project-to-watch/ is all about the hypothetical Younger Dryas boundary event - in this instance, in Mexico and

Cold Fusion was a feature of the talk by Anthony Haynes at the SIS Spring Meeting in Luton on May 5th. Thunderbolts are advertising the

Mention this place and one is immediately reminded of Eric Von Daniken, if one is old enough of course, and ideas of gods in spaceships,

Steve McIntyre has been off-colour as well as concentrating on business issues and all has been quiet - but today his web site is alight

At http://geology.utah.gov/surveynotes/gladasked/gladage.htm ... Mark Milligan tells us the why and wherefore in an easy to understand style. Relative Dating is the easy part as it

Some interesting pieces on the time lag between cool water in the Pacific, with an origin in the Southern Ocean, and its appearance in the

It seems blonde hair is not confined to Scandinavia and Europe as up to ten per cent of Melanesians, who are somewhat black in skin

Now, there is some interesting speculation here, at http://chiefio.wordpress.com/2012/05/03/dinosaurs-liquid-stone-and-radio... ... a three pronged assault. EM Smith, as one might do, was watching the History Channel

At www.nature.com/news/archaeology-date-with-history-1.10573 is a post on problems encountered with C14 dating in the early Holocene and Palaeolithic periods, including a redating of the 'Red Lady

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