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At www.physorg.com/print251310652.html ... University of Chicago physicists have experimentally demonstrated that atoms chilled to temperatures near absolute zero may behave like seemingly unrelated natural systems

At www.novinite.com/newsletter/print.php?id=137665 ... the Sofia News Agency is reporting on the discovery of a monastery in Bulgaria that was founded in AD344 b y St

Fascinating piece at www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/03/120316145802.htm ... a paper in Geophysical Research Letters, 'Holocene Aridification of India' is based on a sediment core extracted from the Bay

Following on from yesterday (Bill Napier email from 2005) the YD impact hypothesis is revisited at http://craterhunter.wordpress.com/2012/03/16/the-younger-dryas-impact-hy... in which the author begins by saying the

Bill Napier, in an email to the Benny Peiser Cambridge Conference Network in 2005 (in reply to criticism of the Clube and Napier model) said,

At www.physorg.com/print251143024.html ... namely, the Solar Probe Plus mission and a piece of electronic wizardry being assembled by Justin Kasper - eyes across 100 million

At www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/final-resting-place-british-archaeol... and www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-17378845 is another discovery, this time in Cambridgeshire, of a grave with rich trappings that indicates the dark age was not really

At http://en.naukawpolsce.pl/palio/htm ... Polish researchers have redated burials at Meidum that were formerly restricted to dynasty 4. It seems burials continued at the necropolis all

At www.physorg.com/print251104689.html .... we learn that the asteroid that came close to earth earlier in the year will do the same thing next year. Known

An excellent piece by guest poster William McClenney at http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/03/16/the-end-holocene-or-how-to-make-ou... which is an update on an earlier posting. His argument is that CAGW people are

At www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-mid-wales-17353470 ... animal and human fossil footprints found in peat and covered by sand at Borth beach in Ceredigion have been dated between four

At www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/03/120313163921.htm ... 'flying through a geomagnetic storm' is an astronaut onboard the International Space Station commenting on what he can see as he flies

At www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/03/120313103853.htm ... news that the Thera volcano (Santorini) is filling up with fresh magma - is it about to blow? At www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/03/120313140434.htm ... a

In a book picked up from a charity shop, Art and History of Egypt by Alberto Carlo Carpiceci, it begins with some extraordinary geological information

The Mariana Trench in the Pacific has been mapped (mentioned in an earlier piece) with ultrabeam sounding technology and scientists, subsequently, have measured the depth

Various attempts to equate the low growth tree ring event of 1628-5BC with the Thera volcano are not supported by acidity peaks in ice cores.

This story is a year old but Ive fished it out as it offers an alternative explanation for the Younger Dryas event - see http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2011/06/was-pleistocene-mass-...

The police received a number of calls concerning a huge fireball that crossed the sky from Scotland to Devon around 21.40 on March 3rd, escribed

The Ohio Archaeology Blog, another excellent site - see http://ohio-archaeology.blogspot.com/2012/03/ancient-american-pilgrimage... comments on a paper in the Journal of Anthropological Archaeology that claims that 'religiously motivated

Al-Ahram (published in Cairo - see http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2012/1087/he2.htm) has been running some nice pieces on the Greek period in Egypt which will interest members coming from