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Lightning in space ... interesting post at www.physorg.com/print241098252.html which suggests the ESA/ NASA spacecraft orbitting around Saturn, the Cassini mission, should swing its cameras away

Are pulsars giant permanent magnets? is the question being asked at www.physorg.com/print241178052.html with an image of a jet of plasma being ejected from on of

David de Hilster, in 'The Neutrinos: Doomed from Inception'  published in the Proceedings of the NPA, College Park, MD 2011, begins by saying some scientists

Apart from skirmishing with a few subjects most of the session was taken up by Tony Haynes talking about the promising areas of research that

At http://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2011/11/17/andrea-rossi-e-cat-megawatt-co... there is a post that covers a good deal of the ground e discussed at our recent Study Group get together in Willesden,

At www.robertschoch.com there is a pdf of an article on Gobekli Tepe he had published in the magazine, New Dawn (September 2010) - see www.newdawnmagazine.com.

At www.robertschoch.com there is a link to a pdf of an article he had published elsewhere, The Mysteries of Easter Island. Robert Schoch, wearing a

A recent Thunderbolts email update on the January 2012 conference in Las Vegas indulged in a spot of Doomsaying - was the Sun about to

Geoscientist Gerta Keller is extraordinarily consistent and has been a long time critic of the asteroid strike that killed the dinosaurs - based on geological

A computer programme has come to the rescue of the reputation of Neanderthals - otherwise described as dull-witted and rather unpretty, with great big conks.

Neutrinos are rascally little devils according to Ask a Physicist at http://io9.com/5859576/whats-the-strangest-thing-about-neutrinos/ in reply to a query on why neutrino oscillations occur. At www.thunderbolts.info the

The consensus view is that loess, the fine grains of silt that have accumulated in different parts of the world but especially in great big

According to the Thunderbolts web site Robert Schoch is a recent recruit to the Electric Universe theory and the idea of plasma playing a destructive

At www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/11/111114112314.htm ... archaeologists have found a bronze buckle made from a cast, in Alaska, in an eskimo house dating back 1000 years. It originated

The catastrophist blog of Timo Niroma of Helsinki may have reached its conclusion. News is that he has recently died of cancer - so who

News that the volcano growing on the seabed near the Canaries is about to break the surface of the sea is at www.volcanodiscovery.com/volcano_news.html (see also

At www.dredgingtoday.com/2011/11/08/the-netherlands-archaeologists-find-hab... ... during construction of new deep water port facilities in Rotterdam Dutch archaeologists have found Mesolithic remains - at a depth of 20m.

I make no comment on this inclusion, sent in by Gary Gilligan, a link to a piece that asks if Hannibal really crossed the Alps

Michael Armstrong on the www.thunderbolts.info/tpod/2010/arch10/100401polarity.htm .... wrote a piece last year on the solar magnetic reversal every 11 years and corresponding with sun spot cycles,

A paper by Nicola Scafetta in the Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-terrestrial Physics is reviewed at http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/11/10/aurora-borealis-and-surface-temper... .. is set to expand the climate debate