In the News

At www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2010-10/uol-str_1100610.php we have news of some remarkable research at Olduvai Gorge on the edge of the Serengeti Plain. It famous for its hominid remains.

At www.physorg.com/print205403448.html  an underwater coral reef just 40km off the coast from Tel Aviv and some 700m belong the surface has been found. At www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10/04/AR20101004057

At www.jpl/nasa.gov/news/ October 5th (see also Science Daily and www.physorg.com/print205433228.html ) ... as the WISE mission approaches the end of its life NASA announces that so

At http://calderup.wordpress.com/2010/10/05/with-graphene-carbon-scores-again/ was prompted by the award of the Physics Nobel Prize this year to Geim and Novoselov for their work on graphene. Nigel Calder

Casey Kazan at www.dailygalaxy.com October 5th has a longish post. A huge volume of space that includes the Milky Way and super clusters of galaxies

At http://heritage-key.com/blogs/ann/project-troia-bronze-age-troy-just-keeps-growing/ ... excavations at Hissarlik, the consensus location for the ancient city of Troy, have confirmed Troy VI and VII were much larger than

Current World Archaeology 43 October 2010 issue ... in the World News section there is a report on rock art found in Arnhem Land which

Current World Archaeology October issue, has a news report on the subject of megalithic stones being transported by boat - coracles in fact. Franscesco Benozza

At http://craterhunter.wordpress.com/2010/09/28/clouds-of-fire/ we have a new post that outlines the nature of Plinian volcanic eruptions and their relationship to ignimbrites. Once again the comments are

Another very good archaeological story turned up today, a house that was buried by sand in around 3500BC (calibrated date) - see www.newsinenglish.no/2010.10.01/archaeologists-find-mini-pompeii/ and assumed

The Daily Mail and the Sunday Times and various other papers have printed a story about the discovery of swastikas and Aryans with the implication,

Spiegel Online at www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,518,720513,00.html says researchers have cracked Ptolemy's map of Germania and that settlements existed at a surprising number of towns some 2000 years

The next day, October 2nd, George Howard posted the Holliday and Meltzer paper at http://cosmictusk.com fully and completely, including an extensive discussion in which a

At NASA's Space Weather.com (see link at http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/10/02/watching-lightning-jets-hit-the-atmosphere/ ) there is a video clip of huge lightning discharges that are striking the ionosphere from thunderstorms below. It

BBC News 'online science editor' Dr David Whitehouse, in 2000, reported on the Ice Age prehistoric map of the night sky on the walls of Lascaux, as

The University of Arizona at http://uanews.org/node/34499 has issued a news report on the 'cold water on the comet hypothesis' paper. They begin by saying the

The Wall Street Journal, of all things, has this story at http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704644404575482342261278092.html ... in the early Holocene (or even during the Younger Dryas) humans migrated

September 2010. August 31st ... Other Worlds August 31st ... Nasca Lines ... and water. August 31st ... YD event update August 31st ... K/T

This is a story that has popped up in a variety of media sources and on the blogosphere - including Science Daily. This version of

The holes concerned were formerly an Ice Age limestone cave system - much like the Yorkshire holes that cavers like to explore on rope and