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Great Apes - as smart as some of us?
3 November 2010 > BiologyNot 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

Volcanoes
3 November 2010 > GeologyAt 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

Tall Bloke
2 November 2010 > ElectromagnetismThe Tall Bloke blog is worth looking at as it ties in with ideas about the EU and those of Rhodes Fairbridge. As he is

Saturn's rings oscillate ... and more tales of salmon numbers
2 November 2010 > AstronomyAt 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

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

The Plasma Universe
29 October 2010 > ElectromagnetismAt 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

Rising seas around the shores of Holland in the late Roman period
28 October 2010 > ArchaeologyMember Dick Gagel has written several articles on Albert Delahaye and his claim that a large part of what is now the Netherlands was under

Water on the Moon and active Venus
28 October 2010 > AstronomyNASA 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

Mounds in North America
28 October 2010 > ArchaeologyAt 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

The Scutum
27 October 2010 > AstronomyThe 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

A new theory on Silbury Hill
27 October 2010 > ArchaeologyAt 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

Buckyballs
27 October 2010 > AstronomyAt 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

Insects in Amber pose a few problems for geochronology
26 October 2010 > GeologyAgain, 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

The 300/200BC event
26 October 2010 > CatastrophismWe 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

Strange Supernovae, Water on the Moon, and an asteroid that struck Australia
25 October 2010 > AstronomyThe 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

A volcano, tropics under the ice, and Ice Age vegetation - under the sea
25 October 2010 > Climate changeAt 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

Comet Hartley - fast approaching meeting
23 October 2010 > AstronomyAt 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

Little Big Horn
23 October 2010 > ArchaeologyAt 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).

The Menhirs, Cyprus in the Neolithic, Ancient Writing, and a wooden door that was made 5000 years ago
21 October 2010 > ArchaeologyAt 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

Keeping Neandertals brutish
21 October 2010 > AnthropologyAt 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