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The Boston Herald had an interesting story, possibly a rehash of something from last year, on Homo erectus and discovery of stone tools on Crete,

NASAs Goddard Space Flight Centre spokesman Tony Phillips says the STEREO spacecraft in combination with new data processing techniques has succeeded in tracking a solar

A paper in Nature August 17th - see www.physorg.com/print232805174.html - is suggesting the Moon is somewhat younger than previously alleged, created by a giant impact

This time it emanates from a paper by Lindzen and Choi - see http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/08/16/new-paper-from-lindzen-and-choi-im... and claims c02 influences global temperature on a much lower scale

At www.thunderbolts.info/forum/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=3107&start=0 ... at Thunderbolts forums a member comments on the current cycle of low sun spot activity and wonders what this might mean -

Gary Gilligan has sent in another link, this time to an article and on-line book on flint mythology (go to http://swansea.academia.edu/CarolynGravesBrown/Papers/847861/The_Ideolog... where there is an

Gary Gilligan informs an update to his web site, the subject aurorae and the Egyptian ram-headed god, Amun. He is often depicted as a human

At www.physorg.com/print190569543.html (April 15th 2010) is a piece on the dust between planets that scatters sunlight. Its origins are in comets according to Nesvorny and

There is another interesting post at Cosmic Tusk (http://cosmictusk.com) which dates back to April 2010, a guest blog by Rodney Chilton, a Canadian climate scientist

At a variety of blogs, for example at www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2023778/Planets-survive-stars-su... , we have this story that is basically a paper that purports to explain the discovery

At www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/08/110809104309.htm ... we are back to the ongoing excavations at Tell Tayinat and the discovery of a monumental city gate that incorporated, among other

At www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/08/110808220659.htm ... the headline reads, 'DNA building blocks can be made in space, NASA evidence suggests' while at www.physorg.com/print232030474.html it is 'Meteorites Tool kits

Sceptic blogs have been gnawing away at the discovery that some of the leading phone hackers from the mainstream media were hired by the University

See www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/08/110804081850.htm - scientists at the University of York have developed a new dating technology for geological deposits of the Quaternary Period (the last 3

At http://cosmictusk.com/layer-after-layer-dallas-abbott-finds-cosmic-tsuna... ... not just in 1014AD but on a number of occasions in the first millennium BC and beyond. Dallas Abbott's co-authors included Simon

Velikovsky in Earth in Upheaval, at the very beginning of the book and therefore in order to draw the reader's attention, chose to quote Hibben

NASA News at www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2011-242&cid=release_2011-242 claims they have discovered water on Mars - briny water that flows in spring but disappears in the winter. However, the

At www.physorg.com/print231687171.html ... a paper in Science (August 5th) by Danish researchers from the University of Copenhagen has looked at summer sea ice in the

The domino effect predicted that once the CAGW hypothesis began to unwind  new papers would come thick and fast and bury the idea in a

At www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2011/08/could-mirror-matter-be-the-hidden-... (Augusts 4th) ... begins with, if dark matter exists it may take the form of mirror planets, mirror stars, and mirror galaxies (a