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Interesting web site to browse ... www.geneticarchaeology.com, while at www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-14630012, BBC News reports on a DNA study that overturns earlier genetic research which claimed farmers

theComments on the CLOUD experiment results and a paper in Nature this week, August 25th, are somewhat revealing. Andrew Mountford, author of The Hockey Stick

Previous upbeat press releases from the CERN laboratory near Geneva have now been superceded by a hint of pessimism - see www.physorg.com/print233217858.html and www.physorg.com/print233249414.html. However,

At www.semioticon.com/frontline/bednarik.htm there is another article by Robert Bednarik, on beads and symbolism and the fact that Homo erectus in all likelihood had the capability

In a follow-up to the story of a few days ago on Homo erectus reaching Crete by using boats (see for instance www.physorg.com/print232812463.html). I have

At http://mc2.vicnet.net.au/home/epistem/web/crisis.html there is a revealing article on dating rock art. In Europe it is the Late Pleistocene cave art of Iberia and southern France

There are some interesting posts over at Thunderbolts. For example, www.thunderbolts.info/tpod/2011/arch11/110819.flood.html is about water on Mars - was the erosion caused by water or some

A paper in Earth and Planetary Science Letters ( see www.physorg.com/print232953705.html) has found evidence of a lava plume on now widely distributed pieces of the

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