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At www.physorg.com/print248086305.html ... clams have been found at hydro-thermal vents in the deep ocean - in the Mariana Trench. This is located in the western

At  http://en.wikipedi.org/w/index.php?title=Solar_cycle&oIdid=476364656 the Wikipedia entry on the solar cycle is interesting - it looks at the history of the subject and notes that as long

One suspects that many things have been factored into the uniformitarian scientific model not because they are inherently more likely than alternative ideas that are

An unusual story can be found at www.esa.int/export/esaSC/SEM0TLSXXXG_index_0.html (hat tipped towards member Gary Gilligan) from the European Space Agency web site, 10th February 2012. ESAs

A new paper has suggested the Siberian Traps caused a long drawn out mass extinction at the Permian/Triassic boundary - described as a 'mass dying

This story is at www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/02/120208133039.htm and apparently the giant black hole at the centre of our galaxy may be devouring asteroids and comets, or anything

There is surprisingly a lot a sites out there that picked up on Richard Mackey's article in 2007. For instance, at http://climatechange.thinkaboutit.eu/think4/post/climate_change_caused_b... ... it seems

In the grander picture the galaxy rotates at a roughly constant velocity and relative to this the Sun and its planetary system move around the

At http://cosmictusk.com news of a new paper, 'Framboidal iron oxide: chondrite like material from the black mat, Murray Springs, Arizona' where it is argued they

Deep ocean sediment cores, drawn from the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific oceans, are said to show a heartbeat of the Earth's ecosystem, a 100,000 year

Another example of scientists driven by dogmatism  - defending the consensus at all costs and attacking new discoveries without bothering to pause and think, stop

Bob Forrest wrote a couple of articles published by SIS and it seems he was in regular communication with Rene Gallant, author of Bombarded Earth

Nature 217 (March 9th, 1968) had a paper that said that back in the Cretaceous (final era of the dinosaur age) there were some 370

Former SIS member and long time deceased, Eric Crew, in a paper published in Speculations in Science and Technology volume 5:1 (1982) page 67-75 (is

At www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/02/120201181220.htm we learn that global jelly fish populations might not be exploding after all - another doom saying proved to be a shallow piece

At www.icenews.is/index.php/2012/01/28/evidence-suggests-vikings-grew-grain... we learn that the Medieval Warm Period must have been somewhat warmer than the present day temperatures of Greenland as researchers from the

There has been a lot of speculation recently on what black holes actually do and the consensus seems to be moving towards the idea the

Phil Plait, the know it all defender of the faithful at Bad Astronomy is getting a bashing at www.bishop-hill.net/blog/2012/2/1/awful-astronomer-astray.html and at http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/02/01/briggs-schools-the-bad-astronomer-... and of course

See www.physorg.com/print247133863.html ... scientists have found that arteries react curiously to external electric fields, according to a new paper in the forthcoming Physical Review Letters.

The idea of God becoming involved in climate change is not new as the CAGW public relations propaganda people have attempted to embrace every sector