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At www.thunderbolts.info there is a page now on the NPA conference and details of what is hoped to be the agenda. Wal Thornhill will address

George Howard, at http://cosmictusk.com June 8th has been investigating the smeer against Allen West, the geologist at the centre of a controversy over his ability,

At http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv June 8th, there is a post on Dark Matter - the invisible stuff that is thought to fill the universe. It refuses to

At http://joannenova.com.au/2011/06/study-finds-global-warming-over-past-40... which is a post that leans heavily on a paper in the Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics. It claims current global warming

At www.physorg.com/print226660412.html ... a paper published by PNAS by two Japanese scientists has traced back the domestication of rice to around 10,000 years ago -

At http://bishophill.squarespace.com/blog/2011/6/6/koutsoyiannis-2011.html (or at simply www.bishop-hill.net June 6th) there is an interesting post by Doug Keenan on a paper by Koutsoyiannis which seems to show

It seems solar flares are in the news as Paul La Violette, in the journal Radiocarbon (June 2011, 53:2 page 303-323) claims a super solar

At www.physorg.com/print226459407.html there is a report on a volcano in Chile that erupted on June 4th. A rift, 6 miles by 3 was torn out

At www.physorg.com/print226319418.html is a report on a paper in the journal Science (June, 2011) that focuses on the Antarctic Circumpolar Current as a cause of

At www.livescience.com/14420-ancient-egyptian-mummies-lung-disease-pollutio... ... a study of the lungs of aancient Egyptian mummies shows that particulates in the air were very little different to what they

In Earth in Upheaval , page 139-141, Velikovsky says, that Lake Agassiz, a large glacial lake that once covered the region at present occupied by

Willis Eschenbach at http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/06/01/common-sense-added-to-endangered-s... raises an interesting point. Extinction events in the past have involved lots of dead bodies and fossils in rocks - but

Thiss story can be seen at www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/06/110601134253.htm and is based on a paper in Nature just out. It is also featured, with comments, at http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/06/01/radar-mapping-reveals-ancient-anta...

At www.colorado.edu/philosophy/vstenger/Cosmo/bang.txt is a review of Eric Lerner's book, The Big Bang Never Happened - a refutation of the Dominant Theory of the Origins of

An interesting piece at http://arxivblog.com/?p=596 'Do nuclear decay rates depend on our distance from the Sun?' ... is a question that came up in a

It has been common knowledge that the pudding shaped mound in the grounds of Marlborough College was probably a smaller version of Silbury Hill. It

This story is at http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/05/30/kill-it-with-fire/ is by Willis Eschenbach. It homes in on the hockey stick climate model which seems to have a life of

This story with the same title is at www.physorg.com/print225970694.html comes from Universe Today - which is a touch sceptical. A chap called Gough has suggested

This story is at www.physorg.com/news/2011-05-tesla-lady-gaga.html ... and the artificial production of lightning via Tesla coils - on stage. The Open Spark project produces music out

At www.dnaindia.com/mumbai/report_a-civilisation-as-old-as-indus-valley_154... ... is a rather garbled report of the discovery of what looks like a wall that is submerged off the coast of India.