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Great Apes - as smart as some of us?

3 November 2010 > Biology
Not a big deal, you might say, I know that already. At www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/10/101006085450.htm ... a University of Portsmouth research scientist studying great apes and their
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Volcanoes

3 November 2010 > Geology
At www.physorg.com/print207817646.html we learn that some 22 volcanoes in Indonesia are displaying evidence of increased activity. Mount Merapi is periodically belching hot gas and debris
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Tall Bloke

2 November 2010 > Electromagnetism
The Tall Bloke blog is worth looking at as it ties in with ideas about the EU and those of Rhodes Fairbridge. As he is
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Saturn's rings oscillate ... and more tales of salmon numbers

2 November 2010 > Astronomy
At http://jpl.nasa.gov/news/ November 1st .... images captured by the Cassini spacecraft and published in the Astronomical Journal (November) indicate the rings of Saturn behave in
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Temple of the Winds

30 October 2010 > Archaeology
New Scientist August 21st ... Thomas Hardy's temple of the winds, Stonehenge, might have been constructed to take into account sound effects - from voices
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The Plasma Universe

29 October 2010 > Electromagnetism
At www.physorg.com/print207563537.html ... Princetown Plasma Physics Laboratory has released information on a Plasma Physics workshop - the fourth state of matter. It is a hot
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Rising seas around the shores of Holland in the late Roman period

28 October 2010 > Archaeology
Member Dick Gagel has written several articles on Albert Delahaye and his claim that a large part of what is now the Netherlands was under
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Water on the Moon and active Venus

28 October 2010 > Astronomy
NASA have released a couple of interesting stories at www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/ ... and in the first of these it is said Mars Rover Spirit became stuck
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Mounds in North America

28 October 2010 > Archaeology
At http://archaeology.about.com ... at Watson Brake in NE Louisiana there are eleven earth mounds with interconnecting earth ridges in the Quachita River valley - dating
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The Scutum

27 October 2010 > Astronomy
The Scutum is a constellation at the throbbing heart of the Milky Way. At www.dailygalaxy.com Oct 27th Casey Kazan reports that at the core of
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A new theory on Silbury Hill

27 October 2010 > Archaeology
At http://heritage-key.com/blogs/ann/silbury-hills-true-story-construction-process-was-more-important-than-design/ ... it seems the author of this piece has taken up the meme that it was the construction process that was important - not
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Buckyballs

27 October 2010 > Astronomy
At www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/ Oct 27th ... astronomers have discovered lots of buckyballs in space - small carbon spherules. The Spitzer Telescope has found them in association
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Insects in Amber pose a few problems for geochronology

26 October 2010 > Geology
Again, at www.livescience.com/animals/Insects-in-Amber-Reveal-Ancient-Tropical-Forest ... in this instance, amber found in India. The cache of insects is said to indicate India was not isolated for millions
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The 300/200BC event

26 October 2010 > Catastrophism
We now have the 300/200BC event (see www.livescience.com/environment/asteroid-impact-possibly-caused-prehistoric-tsunami/ ... Dallas Abbot, a geologist based at Columbia University in New York, says an asteroid 183m wide
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Strange Supernovae, Water on the Moon, and an asteroid that struck Australia

25 October 2010 > Astronomy
The following three articles all come from one day at www.dailygalaxy.com 26th October ... the first says robotic telescopes have turned attention to strange exploding
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A volcano, tropics under the ice, and Ice Age vegetation - under the sea

25 October 2010 > Climate change
At www.physorg.com/print207197358.html ... the Java volcano, Merapi,  is about to blow, it seems, and the countryside is on high alert. Meanwhile an earthquake of the
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Comet Hartley - fast approaching meeting

23 October 2010 > Astronomy
At www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/10/101022113117.htm is a report on the space mission  scheduled to have a close encounter with Comet Hartley in November. However, even now observations indicate
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Little Big Horn

23 October 2010 > Archaeology
At www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/How-the-Battle-of-Little-Big-Horn-Was-Won.html ... is an account of the story pieced together from later Indian memories. Adapted from The Killing of Crazy Horse Thomas Powers (2010).
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The Menhirs, Cyprus in the Neolithic, Ancient Writing, and a wooden door that was made 5000 years ago

21 October 2010 > Archaeology
At http://www.russia-ic.com/news/show/10889/ ... the Russian Information Centre has released news of archaeological findings in the South Urals where they have unearthed an ancient complex including
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Keeping Neandertals brutish

21 October 2010 > Anthropology
At http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenews/2010/10/a-setback-for-neanderthal-smarts.html ... it seems that archaeologists have new decided the major site at Aray-sur-Cure in central France, the so called reindeer cave, is so
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