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At https://phys.org/news/2022-09-mexico-earthquake-triggers-tsunami-miles.html ... a 7.6 magnitude earthquake in Mexico triggered a seiche 1500 miles away, in a cave. A wave up to four feet in

I can remember my father talking about fossil plants he had seen as a teenager and young man working in a South Wales coal mine.

At https://spaceweather.com on Thursday the 15th September we learned that during a minor geomagnetic storm on February 4th, dozens of Starlink satellites fell out of

William sent in the link to https://www.yahoo.com/news/dinosaur-mummy-researchers-believe-found-214041437.html ... researchers in Canada have found what they believe to be a full dinosaur mummy, lodged in a

In the same issue of Current Archaeology 391 [October 2022], on page 12. 'Science Notes', we have a one page report on radiocarbon dating. See

In Current Archaeology 391 [October 2022] [see https://www.archaeology.co.uk ] there is an interesting piece on a new book, in Chris Gatling's Sherds column. In 'A

Strange that this should turn up on a German climate blog but then the UK media don't report facts contrary to the climate change propaganda.

at https://cosmictusk.com/william-mahaney-younger-dryas-impact-2022/ ... a soil scientist, William Mahaney, claims to have discovered evidence of the Youger Dryas impact, in the Alps. Mount Viso carries not

Unusual post from The Conversation - see https://phys.org/news/2022-09-highlights-primordial-human-ritual.html ... which concerns people getting together in Nevada to dress up in colourful costumes, ride carnival like

This story is said to shine a torch on the 66 million year old wild fire mystery surrounding the K/Pg impactor, asteroid, or comet. Curiously,

This news release is at https://phys.org/news/2022-09-unearths-ancient-reef-high-nullarbor.html ... the Nullarbor Plain in southern Australia was once under the ocean. Just as in the Pleistocene a large

At https://phys.org/news/2022-09-scientists-reveal-magnetic-reconnection-trigger.html ... the mainstream view is that magnetic reconnection drives the production of solar filaments that produce coronal mass ejections. Not necessarily so it

At https://phys.org/news/2022-09-radiocarbon-dating-solution.html ... we are informed of a problem with the C14 dating methodology. It only works half the time. However, scrolling down we learn

This was always going to happen. When C14 methodology first burst on the scene archaeologists took the results as gospel, and overturned lots of long

William sent in the two links. At https://www.yahoo.com/news/nasa-crash-spacecraft-525-foot-152401255.html ... NASA has plans to crash a spacecraft into a 525 foot wide asteroid this September -

At https://phys.org/news/2022-08-crucial-evidence-anomalously-fast-convergence.html ... another admittance by mainstream of a problem not aired to Joe Public. As usual in a research paper that alleges it has

Sent in by William, two links to the same story - see https://www.yahoo.com/gma/dinosaur-tracks-113m-years-ago-200947210.html ... and https://www.yahoo.com/news/huge-dinosaur-tracks-uncovered-river-184956425.html ... a long hot summer has revealed relics in

Sir David King, Tony Blair's government scientist, has popped himself out of his box after a long period out of the earshot of normal people.

At https://www.science.org/content/article/phenomenal-ancient-dna-data-set-provides-clues-origin-farming-and-early-languages ... this is another genetic study that creeps outside of genetics and claims to identify language changes, or introductions, something entirely independent of

Gary sent in the link to https://www.bbc.co.uk/travel/article/20220727-the-iberian-civilisation-that-vanished ... which concerns Tartessos in SW Spain. The port of Tartessos has long been known and has been