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Cooking up a nice dinner
10 November 2011 > BiologyAt www.physorg.com/print239895904.html we learn that cooking meat played a key role in driving the evolution of man from apes. The study is in PNAS and
Caves and Archaeology
10 November 2011 > ArchaeologyAt www.physorg.com/print239895836.html there is a report on a paper in PNAS on the colour and markings of prehistoric horses as painted on the walls of
Looking at the universe - with different eyes
10 November 2011 > ElectromagnetismAt www.thunderbolts.info/wp/2011/10/31/windy-galaxies/ ... Stephen Smith has a look at the way astronomers describe features of the universe. For example, plasma behaves in unusual ways and
Fossils in Amber
7 November 2011 > GeologyWe all know about insects in amber, preserved as fossils and highly prized by our ancestors. The trade in Baltic amber during the past is
Doomsaying and prophecies of End Times
7 November 2011 > CatastrophismAt www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/11/111103143255.htm ... as 2012 approaches the doomsayers and mongers of disaster are abroad and barking in the dark. On the 11th day of the
Arctic Warming
7 November 2011 > Climate changeOne of the big scaremongering stories in recent years has revolved around the warming summer waters of the Arctic Ocean - as a result of
An Electric Universe query - can anyone help?
7 November 2011 > ElectromagnetismTodd has emailed the SIS contacts link with an Electric Universe query. People who might wish to get in reciprocal contact with him can do
Who might be pressing the SIS button - comets and catastrophe
6 November 2011 > CatastrophismAt www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/04/100401101527.htm ... 13,000 years ago Earth may have been struck by multiple Tunguska sized cometary fragments over the course of about an hour, according
Woodworking Neanderthals
6 November 2011 > AnthropologyAt http://averyremoteperiodindeed.blogspot.com/2011/09/mousterian-wooden-sp... ... the Mousterian refers to Neanderthal stone culture - or stone tools found in the ground. A Neanderthal site in France has preserved
The dark one, the bright one, and a volcano that has popped up on the sea bed off the Canaries
5 November 2011 > Inside scienceA huge asteroid will fly past the earth on Tuesday November 8th, some 400m in girth. It is very dark - the colour of charcoal.
Egyptian statuary
5 November 2011 > Ancient historyAt http://popular-archaeology/com/issue/september-2011/article/royal-statua... (if link does not work go to http://popular-archaeology.com and scroll down for the article) ... is a nice subject that illustrates the differences
'The Troy Deception'
4 November 2011 > Ancient historyIn the book, 'The Troy Deception, volume One: Finding the Plain of Troy', John Crowe has mustered some 300 pages of text that are easy
The jawbone in a cave
3 November 2011 > AnthropologyKents Cavern in Torquay in SW England is famous for the discovery of numerous Ice Age mammals. Mixed in with these bones was the jawbone
Sun verses Saturn - who was Ra?
2 November 2011 > MythologyAt www.thunderbolts.info/forum/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=4988 there was a bit of a splat between Gary Gilligan and the Saturnists in which some basic problems endemic to the Saturn theory
Dark Matter - fact or fiction
2 November 2011 > AstronomyThe science of dark matter - or the theory that such a thing as dark matter is a real life fact is in the news
Gilgal Refa'im
2 November 2011 > ArchaeologyGilgal Refa'im, the wheel of giants, is a huge heap of stones in the form of a cairn on the Golan Heights, 65m in diameter
Ice Cores
2 November 2011 > DatingAlthough this piece can be found at http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/10/31/little-bubbles-part-1/ and therefore classifiable as climate change it also has a bearing on dating and chronology. Ice cores
BEST on the fizzle
2 November 2011 > Climate changeMore on BEST and how it was collated, see http://climateaudit.org/2011/11/01/closing-thoughts-on-best/ with a hint there is a calibration problem in the methodology. The same subject is
Global Warming on New York and BEST is not best after all
29 October 2011 > Climate changeOn a weekend in October in which snow fell out of the sky, described by one journalist 'as sort of like a blizzard' on parts
A cold blast of air at the end of the Old Kingdom
28 October 2011 > CatastrophismAt dear auntie, www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/egyptians/apocalypse_egypt_01.shtml there is an excellent and well thought out article on the collapse of Egypt at the end of dynasty 6. People