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This story is at http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/06/16/black-hole-eats-star-producing... is actually what was drawn from the appearance of a bright flash of light observed on March 25th by a

At www,cell.com/current-biology/abstract/S0960-9822(08)0075-3 there is an abstract of an article in Current Biology on bat fatalities near wind turbines, and one of the causes is called

The Roman Warm Period that began in around 200BC and lasted until the 3rd century AD seems to have had an effect on tropical Africa

It seems the sceptic blogosphere is doing a bit of doomsaying of it's own over the last few days - latching on to a controversial

George Mason University scientists have discovered that giant magnetic ropes are the cause of solar storms. Jie Zheng and Xin Cheng used images from the

Recent AGW prognostications attempt to link every extreme weather event, volcano, or heat-wave - even out of season snow pack in North American mountains and

At www.weatheraction.com/displayarticle.asp?a=354&c=5 Piers Corbyn has a new set of dates for EQ or volcanic activity - between the 16th and 19th of June. Meanwhile, at

More information on the upcoming Electric Universe conference on July 6-9th in Maryland, the US of A. On the evening of the 7th it is

At http://davidpratt.info/sunken.htm there is a provocative article on continental drift which questions some of the assumptions basic to Plate Tectonics theory. We forget that it

Ravindra Godbole's book, accessible at www.themeaningofvedas.com is some 340 pages long - a very big download. However, it is an extremely useful addition to the

Ravindra Godbole was inspired to write about the Birth of Indra after reading Uriel's Machine by Knight and Lomas, two writers rather than scientists (Arrow

The Lindzen paper, it seems, found that climate models are routinely exagerating climate sensitivity. It was accepted for publication on May 22nd and was written

At www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2011/06/heading-into-the-cosmos-voyager-yi... ... NASAs two Voyager spacecraft are nearing the edge of the solar system, and surprise, the models scientists had developed of the solar

It seems the Vostok ice core extracted from the Antarctic ice sheet goes back around 700,000 years - and even this is a calculation based

At www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2011/jun/10/archaeology-mystery-keros-is... is a story about fragments of beautiful but deliberately smashed bronze age figurines and marble bowls found in shallow pits on a small

At http://popular-archaeology.com/issue/april-2011/article/archaeologists-r... is a story about the start of a new season at copper mines SE of the Dead Sea in what was ancient Edom.

At www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2011/06/jupiter-was-once-where-mars-is-tod... ... NASA has a new model, as in a computer simulation, of how the early solar system may have formed in which the

Piers Corbyn, at www.weatheraction.com/displayarticle.asp?a=351&c=5 is now saying it's effects were negligible as it was not a face-on event (it was not facing towards the earth)

At http://heritage.scotsman.com/news/The-axeman-cometh-450000-years.6781421.jp ... there is a report on an amateur archaeologist discovering a Palaeolithic stone axe on a beach in Orkney. It was so old

This story can be seen at http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/06/09/lindzen-on-getting-the-special-tre... .... (see also http://climateaudit.org/ June 10th) ... Professor Richard Lindzen is not flavour of the month with AGW