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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

It seems cosmic alignments are still in vogue in Germany. They have not been stifled in the same manner as in the UK - or

It seems some scientists are worried the general public are not up to understanding what science is all about - and fearful of the way

Tony Hood is the author of a book, 'Kalopin's Legacy, 1811: A comet and a Quake' which is an interesting theory connecting the devastating 1811

At www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2011/10/ecoalert-nasa-see-fewer-big-astero... which is the same story post last week - with a twist. Elsewhere, at www.thunderbolts.info/wp/2011/10/06/comet-elenin-the-debate-that-never-h... brings us back to Comet Elenin - out

Two papers on clouds - make what you will. See http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/10/09/spencer-finds-the-big-picture-on-c... and on the same web site, a new post by Willis Eschenbach - http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/10/08/estimating-cloud-feedback-from-obs...

Leroy is a bit late to the plate. He is currently pushing the Ravindra Godbole web site www.themeaningofvedas.com, something that SIS did some months ago

Two weeks since the CERN experiment on neutrinos and some 30 papers in response to the claim they move faster than light have been lodged

The old idea that water from comets replenished the water on Earth has had a bit of a revival after NASA scientists discovered a comet

A new paper purportedly debunking the Svensmark hypotheiss, published in the Journal of Climate, follows a similar pattern to other critiques - by apparently ignoring

The Salisbury Journal 4th October 2011 claims that archaeologists from the Open University have unearthed artifacts from 700bc, 1400bc, and incredibly, from 6250bc - in

For the story in brief go to www.physorg.com/print236854397.html (however, www.dailygalaxy.com October 5th also has the story in lighter format). The research was done at the

Sediment cores off the coast of Oregon have revealed that the NW Pacific was not a huge reservoir of co2 during the last Ice Age