In the News

At www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1337890/ ... it's all gone quiet on the geophysical survey around Stonehenge  which just a couple of months ago was all over the media.

At www.wired.com/wiredscience/2-1-/12/magnetic-copper-slag/ .... it seems that copper slag from Iron Age smelting activities at Khirbet es/Nahu in NE Jordan and from Timna in what is

At http://specialpaper.gsapubs.org/content/470/115.abstract 'Is Tharsis, Mars, a spreading volcano?' - it is thought Tharsis Rise on Mars is spreading outwards and that has produced rifting at

NASA has another story to delight - the Cassini spacecraft took images of enormous clouds of plasma periodically blooming around Saturn, moving the planet 'like

At http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2010/13dec_globaleruption/ we have a video clip and a story on a sunspot eruption way back in August (see also www.dailygalaxy.com december 14th). What prompted the

There are two articles so far in what will be a three part series on Aztec blood rituals - sacrifice. See www.archnews.co.uk/featured/3722-the-purpose-of-aztec-blood-rituals.htm and www.archnews.co.uk/featured/4282-the-purpose-of-aztec-blood-rituals-part-2.htm ...

The footprints are said to date back some 5000 to 6000 years ago, see www.archnews.co.uk/world-archaeology/uk-archaeology/4216-prehistoric-human-footprints.html and it seems a lot of amateurs have been scouring

For those interested in Biblical archaeology - or revisions with a slant towards the archaeology of the Levant, you may be interested to learn the

At www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2010/12/14/3092679.html ... apparently, scientists have found evidence that 40 per cent of the canopy forest in the South Island of New Zealand was incinerated

The talk is available for download from http://www.2010-q-conference.com/globalwarmingand/index.html ... the talk has the title, 'Global Warming and the Disallowed Protestant Calendar' but has nothing to

At www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101210094416.htm ... a paper in the Journal of Vertebrae Paleontology 30 (December 8th) has come up with some interesting biological differences, as it seems

At http://johnosullivan.livejournal.com/26669.html ... Kevin Trenberth, IPCC lead author and matey boy with Phil Jones of UEA notoriety, has rushed to defend a peculiar study that

At www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101209141130.htm .... worlds in collision - actually bashing up against each other - is one hypothesis of the early solar system now being floated. An

At http://cosmictusk.com there is suddenly a flurry of posts after a long period of inactivity - on meteorites and fireballs. For example, a fireball train

At www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101208151609.htm ... a paper in Current Anthropology speculates that the Persian Gulf was an oasis during the last Ice Age - and even in

At www.dailygalaxy.com December 7th there are a couple of further baiting posts to stir up conventional thinking. A super massive black hole is thought to

At www.physorg.com/print210942979.html ... the Gemenid annual meteor showers peaks on December 13th and 14th and is quite intense. It lasts for days, is rich in

This paper by Peter van der Veen, well known to SIS, with co-authors C Thies and Manfred Gorg, was published in the Journal of Egyptian

At http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/print/2010/12/david-and-solomon/draper-text/ ... Robert Draper in the December 2010 issue of National Geographic has an article on the controversy around David and Solomon - was

At www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,732654,00.html 'Egyptian dog bones could help solve canine conundrum'. Scientists are trying to work out how the wolf evolved into 400 breeds of dog