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Aurorae

24 September 2010 > Astronomy
At www.physorg.com/print204231105.html ... we are told the Canadian Space Agency have launched an online observatory streaming the aurora borealis live over the internet, at www.asc-csa.gc.ca/auroramax
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Vikings and Neanderthals

24 September 2010 > Archaeology
At http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2010/09/long-sought-viking-settlement-to.html Sept 23rd ... further information on the discovery of the Viking settlement of Linn Duchaill, near Annagassan, 70km north of Dublin. The excavations
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News from Russia

24 September 2010 > Archaeology
At  www.kyivpost.com/news/russia/detail/83349/print/ we learn that a Russian scientists has said that the first settlers on Sakhalin Island in the North Pacific have been dated between
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The Raised Waters of the Exodus

22 September 2010 > Archaeology
At www2.ucar.edu/news/parting-waters-computer-modelling-captures-physics-red-sea-escape-route/ is a story that appeared on BBC News broadcasts and at www.physorg.com and www.sciencedaily.com and generally in lots of places that have nothing to
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Out of Africa

22 September 2010 > Anthropology
At www.bbc.co.uk/news/science_environment-11327442?print=true Sept 2Ist ... geneticists have estimated the the Out of Africa human migration to SE Asia and Australia took place around 60,000 years ago.
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Anasazi violence

22 September 2010 > Archaeology
At http://news.discovery.com/archaeology/genocide-native-americans-ethnic-cleansing.html ... is I think a regurgitation of an old story by Discovery News which has a habit of catching up a few days
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Antarctica - when was it glaciated?

20 September 2010 > Geology
At www.thunderbolts.info?forum/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=3566&start=0 ... one of the forums at Thunderbolts this week is on the release of Peter Jupp's new video - the subject is Antarctica.
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Parallel universes and the Black Widow

20 September 2010 > Physics
Is gravity from a parallel universe creating dark energy? Casey Kazan at www.dailygalaxy.com has a different slant on a story that emerged a few weeks
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Big Conks and Curly Locks

20 September 2010 > Archaeology
The Peoples Daily in China (see http://english.peoplesdaily.com.cn/90001/90782/90873/7140112.html ) has a short story on a stone coffin from the Tang Dynasty (around AD800) which has a
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Records in Stone

20 September 2010 > Archaeology
At www.cambridge.org/9780521531306 ... is an abstract of a book edited by Clive Ruggles, Records in Stone: Papers in Memory of Alexander Thom. As well as
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Symbols from the Sky in Cave Art

18 September 2010 > Archaeology
See http://seedmagazine.com/content/print/symbols_fromthe_sky/ ... sent in by Gary Gilligan this is essentially about Rappengluck's novel interpretation of cave art - at sites such as Lascaux and
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Plants and evolution

17 September 2010 > Biology
Research done at the University of Calgary (see www.physorg.com/print203834230.html ) has come up with some new ideas on the diversity of flowering plants - and
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Galaxy super clusters and strings and things

17 September 2010 > Astronomy
At www.dailygalaxy.com September 17th ... there is a story on galaxy super clusters that may be related to the distribution of dark matter. Galaxies seem
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Aboriginal astronomy and other bits of archaeological news

17 September 2010 > Archaeology
At www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/sep/17/cave-paintings-found-in-somaliland/ is a report on the discovery of cave art at numerous sites in Somaliland. In the Irish Times (see www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2010/0917/1224279093813_pf.html ) there is
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X-rays in Space

17 September 2010 > Astronomy
A University of Leicester press release on the 8th of September (see www2.le.ac.uk/ebulletin/news/press-release/2010-2019/2010/09/nparticle.2010 ) claims that the source of powerful X-rays in a nearby galaxy
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Mysteries of the Moon

17 September 2010 > Astronomy
... or rather, mysteries of the Moon that really might not be as mysterious as this piece at www.disinfo.com/2010/09/who-parked-the-mooon/ would have its readers believe (sent
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Comet Halley Again

17 September 2010 > Astronomy
At http://io9.com/5637815/ there is another version of the Comet Halley appearance in 466BC - with a bit more history. It could have been visiting the
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A new way to produce electricity to power engines

14 September 2010 > Electromagnetism
At the Rumor Mill Robert Mason has posted details of a hydroelectrolytic turbine he has invented - go to www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?read=181024 which he hopes will be
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Comets in the Kuiper Belt

14 September 2010 > Astronomy
At http://calderup.wordpress.com/2010/09/13/kennelful-of-planet-puppies/ ... is about some images from the Hubble Space Telescope which show two remote objects in the Solar System slowly moving across the
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Some dating issues

13 September 2010 > Dating
The New Chronology Yahoo Group forum has had the big guns posting during September - David Rohl, Bernard Newgrosh and Bob Porter for example. The
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