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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

At http://wattsupwiththat.com there are two more separate pages added to the blog. Go to top of Menu bar and click on Reference Pages and a

At www.physorg.com/news/2011-02-ancient-cities-spring-marshes.html is a new theory on the Sumerian cities - presumably on the basis they did not originally require an irrigation system but that

This is the reconstructed face of Oetzi, the body that came to light as an Alpine glacier shrank. He lived around 3200BC (see http://news.discovery.com/archeology/otzi-face-reconstruction-110225.html )

At www.pasthorizons.com/indexx.php/archives/02/2010/archaeology-and-the-rock-art-of-the-california-interior/ all about the rock of the Chumash See below

NASA has released a video which can be seen at www.physorg.com/print217766695.html of the recent, Feb 14th/15th flyby of Comet Tempel1 by the Stardust spacecraft.

At www.physorg.com/print217764133.html .... huge blobs of plasma known as coronal mass ejections cause probems when they collide with the magnetosphere of the earth. They produce

At www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41721082/ns/technology_and_science-science/ .... scientists digging at the Grotto of Smoke in North Italy have found some intriguing evidence. There are a lot of Neanderthal bones

At www.culture24.org.uk Feb 22nd ... a report on a team of geologists searching for the origin of the blue stones at Stonehenge. The dolerite is

At http://judithcurry.com/2011/02/22/hiding-the-decline/ ... if you never understood what the fuss was about in 'hiding the decline' in the Climategate emails read this piece by a

At http://cosmictusk.com/repeat-grondine-essay-on-collapse-of-roman-empire/ the url says it all, the end of the Roman Empire and the descent into a cold wet phase of northern European climate

At www.archnews.co.uk/feature/5322-researchers-map-out-ice-sheets-shrinking-during-ice-age/ ... the University of Sheffield has created a series of virtual maps to show how the ice sheet shrank at the end of

National Geographic News Feb 18th had a piece on exploration of underwater caves on the Yucatan peninsular where they have found some interesting objects (http://blogs.nationalgeographic.com