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It seems we can be assured that plate tectonics can explain the peculiar geology of Tibet - which must mean some other geologists disagree. The

At www.startribune.com/world/117655908.html is a story on the discovery of prehistoric stone tools found high in the mountains of northern Greece and thought to be Neanderthal.

More on the tale of Egyptian MK expeditions into the western desert (see www.unreportedheritagenews.com/2011/03/ancient-egyptians-made-arduous-trek-to-Chad-new-research-suggests/ ... The Dakhla Oasis lies 300km west of the Nile Valley and

An interesting post at http://colinmcinnes.blogspot.com/2011/03/dimming-light-of-human-ingenuity.html is all about the history of lighting houses over the last couple of hundred years. It progresses from candles to

At http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/03/10/sol-is-finally-waking-up/ is a reference to the present X-flare and unsettled geomagnetic conditions (details derived from www.spaceweather.com). A flare on March 9th, following on from

Gary Gilligan's web site www.gks.uk.com/Horus-falcon-god/ has an update on the Egyptian god Horus - and he disassociates it from the Sun. Horus is generally depicted

At www.bbc.co.uk/science-environment-12665643 we learn that 'modern humans' may have originated in southern Africa according to a genetic study and a paper in PNAS. It seems

At www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/03/cosmic-ray-origins/ ... it is thought cosmic rays have an origin in distant supernova events - but is this true? An Italian physicist, at the

At http://adhominin.com/index.php?id=9102845726448426623 ... most textbooks and internet sources such as Wikipedia or Britannica define the Aurignacians as the first Homo sapiens to enter Europe, appearing

At www.jpl.nasa.gov/news March 7th ... heat from the south polar region of Saturn's moon Enceladus has been found to be much greater than previously deduced.

Redefining the entry into North Africa by pastoralists from Asia, via Sinai, Mathilda (at http://mathildasanthropologyblog.wordpress.com/2010/05/15/eurasian-y-chromosome-R1b-in-africa/) we find they migrated there some 8000 years ago. In

Another interesting article I picked up from Mathilda (see http://mathildasanthropologyblog/2010/05/16/bayesian-phylogenetic-analysing-of-semitic-languages-identifies-an-early-bronze-age-origin-of-semitic-in-the-near-east/ which may also interest SIS members - who were the semites and where did they

Any subject such as this spawns all kinds of strange ideas and web sites. However, at http://mathildasanthropologyblog.wordpress.com/2008/05/06/stone-age-star-chart-of-orion/ the subject is dealt with in a sober

At www.physorg.com/print218294599.html (and see also http://wattsupwiththat.com March 3rd for the same story but with lots of comments). Scientists think they have solved how the Sun

The story is at www.physorg.com/print218218067.html and no doubt at the NASA web site too. NASA are saying that every day 100 tons of meteoroids -

A joint UK/US study of ocean sediments off the coast of the Bahamas has come up with some surprising facts. See www.physorg.com/print218289668.html .. published by

At www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/02/110204092149.htm ... a paper in Geophysical Research Letters 2011: 38 claims that recovery mechanisms of Arctic summer sea ice shows that no tipping point

A book published by Harvard University Press in 1999, by JL Heibron, The Sun in the Church: Cathedrals as Solar Observatories, is quite interesting as

Peter James, in a review of a book edited by Amihai Mazar, Excavations at Tell Beth Shean, Palestine Exploration Quarterly 142 has suggested the fall

No, not the mustang horse of the Old West, or a racy motor car. Mustang is a province of Nepal in the Himalayas where scientists