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Horned altar from Gath
27 July 2011 > ArchaeologyAt www.haaretz.com/misc/article-print-page/3000-year-old-altar-uncovered-at... is a reference to a stone altar with horns found at Tel Tzafit - which is thought to be Biblical Gath. It is

Volcanoes on the Moon
27 July 2011 > GeologyAt www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2011/07/25/3274891.htm (and many other blogs around the world) there is a report on the discovery of a volcano hotspot on the far side of

Cycles
27 July 2011 > Climate changeThe idea of solar cycles or any kind of weather cycle is discussed at Judith Curry's web site Climate Etc, www.judithcurry.com/2011/07/27/cyclomania/ and at Tallbloke's Talkshop

A Twisted Tale of our Galaxy
20 July 2011 > AstronomyAt www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2011-216&cid+release2011-216 ... a press release from NASA on the discovery by the Herschel Space Observatory that the Milky Way is not quite like how

Historical sea level change on the opposite side of the North Sea
19 July 2011 > GeologyAt www.lancewadplan.org/Cultural%20atlas/WaddenSea/waddensea.htm we have a nice article on an area of the continent opposite East Anglia, bounded by the Frisian islands, the a few small

Frogs and bioelectricity
19 July 2011 > ElectromagnetismThis story is at www.physorg.com/print230207865.html where it seems bioelectrical signals for normal head and facial formation in an organism has been captured in a time

Earth's internal heat
19 July 2011 > GeologyAt http://geology.com/press-release/earths-internal-heat/ there is a nice three page read on current views regarding the source of earth's internal heat - using temperature measurements from 20,000

Vesta
18 July 2011 > AstronomyThe NASA Dawn spacecraft has returned images after starting its orbit around the asteroid Vesta - and various blogs and web sites have a picture

Changing levels of the sea
17 July 2011 > GeologyAt http://judithcurry.com/2011/07/12/historic-variations-in-sea-levels-part... is a guest post by Tony Brown at Judith Curry's web site Climate Etc - Brown has his own web site at www.climatereason.com.

The Consensus
17 July 2011 > Climate changeAt http://judithcurry.com/2011/07/16/manufacturing-consensus/ there is a post with hundreds of comments on the AGW consensus. Judith Curry is a published climate scientist whose aim is to

The 1300AD event
17 July 2011 > CatastrophismYes, a new timeline for a sudden change in climate - this time in the Pacific basin (see http://goliath.ecnext.com/coms2/gi_0199-7024384/The-A-D-1300-Event.html ). This is basically the transition

Ceres and Vesta - a foretaste to a visit by the Dawn spacecraft
15 July 2011 > AstronomyAstronomy and Astrophysics journal is publishing a study of the orbital evolution of minor planets, including asteroids such as Ceres and Vesta, in the lead-up

Jumping Genes
15 July 2011 > BiologyAt www.physorg.com/print229856609.html ... Murdoch University researchers have gathered evidence on jumping genes - why some species adapt and others fail. Jumping genes are sequences of

Growing glaciers, missing heat and ethanol
15 July 2011 > Climate changeAt www.physorg.com/print229770933.html we have a new study in Environmental Research Letters July 5th that claims it will get hotter even than the extravagant claims made

Hacked phones ... and Climategate
15 July 2011 > Climate changeIts beginning to look like the implosion by the press as a result of the News of the World 'dodgy practises' might in the end

Dinosaur fishing expedition
14 July 2011 > GeologyAt www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/07/110712211016.htm ... a paper in Biology Letters July 12th claims researchers from Yale University have found a dinosaur fossil buried just 5 inches below

Land beyond the bounds of Scotland
14 July 2011 > GeologyA paper in Nature Geoscience is featured at www.physorg.com/print229678808.html and has confirmed that the ocean floor off the northern coast of Scotland was at one

Black Holes
14 July 2011 > AstronomyAt www.physorg.com/print229767192.html there is some speculation about the origin of black holes. They were not formed by mergers between galaxies as hypothesised elsewhere, it says.

Nematodes
14 July 2011 > BiologyAt www.physorg.com/print229686718.html is a story about worms, or nematodes, living two and a half miles beneath the surface of the earth, according to a paper

The Sun ... dark fireworks
14 July 2011 > AstronomyThis story is at a variety of sites but www.physorg.com/print229686172.html is as good as most. On June 7th this year, 2011, a flash of X-rays