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The subject pops up at www.physorg.com/print236017754.html as it threatens Einstein's 'Relativity Theory' - but as we heard at the last SIS member meeting in Luton,

At www.physorg.com/print235836980.html ... archaeologists from the University of Liverpool have been out in boats with marine archeologists from Southampton University, poking around a few island

At www.physorg.com/print235809985.html it begins by saying the universe would not be the same without the Higgs Boson. The search for this elusive particle would help

At http://news.ku.dk/all_news/2011/2011.9/aboriginals-get-new-history/  ... the human genome of Australian Aborigines has been collated and the results published in the journal Science - which will have repercussions

At www.physorg.com/print235629106.html ... Chinese researchers at Nanking University have found some unknown effects from eating plants and herbs. The plant miRNAs may get into the

Now you can see what is thought to be a black hole on video - or bright flaring activity (see www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2011-298&cid=release_2010-298 ). Whatever it is

At www.thunderbolts.info/wp/2011/09/12/mythology-at-stake/ ... mythology is interpreted in many ways especially when societies and cultures seem to record almost the same phenomena but live many miles

At www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/09/2011/understanding-the-myst... there is a piece on the Plain of Jars, otherwise the Xieng Khouang Plain in Laos, where there are hundreds of gaint stone

At the topnotch web site www.pasthorizons.com/index.php/archives/09/2011/bluestone-henge-twin ... if you remember, from the TV series on the 2007 excavations, a former bluestone circle was found on

A video of NASAs Dawn spacecraft flying past the giant asteroid, Vesta, is available online to view (see www.jpl.nasa.gov/video/index.cfm?id=1020). Vesta has seasons just like the

At www.news.ualberta.ca/article.aspx?id=7F2465DE563B40C9882377C4C08E0F52 ... University of Alberta scientists have found feathers preserved in amber, from the Late Cretaceous era (towards the end of the dinosaur age).

News of a book just released - on the location of the Plain of Troy. According to author John Crowe, former SIS stalwart, the area

Gary Gilligan sent in this link to a story about NASAs Grail mission which is set to blast off in an attempt to unravel some

In a comment at www.drroyspencer.com/2011/09/a-primer-on-our-claim-that-clouds-cause-tem... ... Richard Courtney outlines some research on climate models he did ten years ago and some follow-up papers by others,

At www.physorg.com/print234443910.html ... as a result of the expanding universe, or the belief in an accelerating expansion of the universe, cosmologists have come up with

There is a fun post at http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/09/07/frozen-global-warming-research/ a post by Willis Eschenbach, in a dry style. It seems that because of faith in AGW the

At http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/09/05/cet-vs-meto-a-problem-with-tempera... is a bit of a cheeky pieces that asks why the Met Office temperatures for the peripheries of Britain are somewhat warmer than

At http://meetings.aps.org/Meeting/APR05/Event/29058 there is a short abstract by CJ Ransom and Wal Thornhill that claimed z-pinch simulations in the laboratory actually produced spherules (in an

At http://in.news.yahoo.com/study-suggests-earliest-humans-were-not-very-di... there is a report on a study from an American university by archaeologist John Shea which claims early humans were variants of Homo

At http://thegwpf.org/the-observatory/3779-henrik-svensmark-the-cosmic-rayc... ... Henrik Svensmark, co-author of The Chilling Stars, answers some questions posed to him by GWPF. It seems that solar flares send out