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An interesting post on communication - the difference between being a sceptic and an AGW true believer, on the one hand, and how each side

At www.perigeezero.org/treatise/index.htm there is an interesting catastrophist web site - or is it a blog. Once again it is the Taurid complex that gets the

At www.physorg.com/print238765711.html, it is junk DNA that defines the differences between humans and chimpanzees but at www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/10/111020122313.htm culture in humans and apes has the same

A site in the beautiful Shenandoah Valley, or so the song goes, has caught the eye of a Virginia archaeologist - see www.clarkedailynews.com/archaeologist-claims-12000-year-old-solstice-sit... - but

At www.physorg.com/print238753778.html we learn that NASAs Messenger spacecraft has discovered strange hollows on the surface of Mercury - at a variety of latitudes and longitudes.

At www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/10/111019172103.htm ... another misconception bites the dust - perhaps. It seems that the consensus view that Neanderthals had short legs in comparison to modern

The BEST debate is still in its infancy. Steve McIntyre has now joined in - see http://climateaudit.org/2011/10/22/first-thoughts-on-best/ where he begins in a positive tone by

David Morrison, a NASA senior scientist, is well known as a sceptic of fringe science. In particular, he is disparaging of Velikovsky. As a result

Lots of noise is being generated in the media, desperate to keep the gravy train in place, following a press release concerning the BEST research

Donna Laframboise, a prominent Canadian sceptic and investigative journalist, scourge of the various IPCC reports, has set the wags alight on the blogosphere with her

Two Mexican astronomers have uploaded a paper onto the prepress server arXiv concerning objects passing in front of the Sun in 1883, surrounded by a

At www.physorg.com/print238220272.html a PNAS paper has shown that electricity lies at the root of blue flashes, a kind of bioluminescence, visible at night in various

At www.sciencedaily.com/release/2011/10/111017111610.htm ... we learn that cutting tools, long blades prised from worked flints, were being used as early as 400,000 years ago as a

At www.physorg.com/print238063656.html ... it seems that in recent years cosmologists have discovered the universe is flat - or purportedly so. This is in spite of

At http://research.aerology.com/natural-processes/solar-system-dynamics/ ... the effects on climate are expanded to include the solar system and the universe which are linked in what is called a

At www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/10/2011/the-seaweed-trail-peop... there is a quite good overview of the currently acceptable alternative migration route into the Americas, the so called seaweed trail. A continuous

A beautiful piece with the title, 'Why Einstein was wrong about being wrong' is at www.physorg.com/print237818552.html and begins with the Theory of Relativity, a mathematical

The Thunderbolts World Conference on the Electric Universe: 2012 - you can now keep up to date at a web page devoted to what is

Two very interesting stories, one is geological and the other, physics. At www.physorg.com/print237552924.html - it seems that rocks and boulders rubbing against each other can

NASA has released further information about its DAWN mission to the asteroid Vesta - see www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2011-319&cid=release_2011-319 Vesta's surface has striking diversity in its composition, the