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Kents Cavern in Torquay in SW England is famous for the discovery of numerous Ice Age mammals. Mixed in with these bones was the jawbone

At 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

The 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, the wheel of giants, is a huge heap of stones in the form of a cairn on the Golan Heights, 65m in diameter

Although 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

More 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

On a weekend in October in which snow fell out of the sky, described by one journalist 'as sort of like a blizzard' on parts

At 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

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