In the News

At www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/63888/description/Ancient_New_Guinea/ ... it seems that people in what is now New Guinea nearly 50,000 years ago fashioned stone tools known as 'waisted axes' which

At  http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/10/01/ there is a post with the title '2 Degrees' - the amount our Canute like EU and US leaders think they are able

At www.gks.uk.com Gary Gilligan has the second book of his series, the God King Scenario, available - with a link to Amazon. There is a

At www.physorg.com/print204957530.html an analysis of what has been happening at the Large Hadron Collider in the last couple of months has been submitted to the

SIS member Gary Gilligan sent this link in - www.gks.uk.com/gks18/ which might not be everyone's cup of tea but is worth taking a look at. I

The BBC Horizon television series (www.bbc.co.uk/science/horizon/2002/columbus.html ) on the 24th November of 2004 asked - who were the first people in North America? Where did they

At www.physorg.com/print204991757.html (and variously at www.sciencedaily.com and http://geology.com ) at first reflection we seem to have another example of scientists rejecting a new theory without

At www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/articel/ALerqM5gX5SVZzbhOKV we learn that Greek archaeologists have announced the discovery of a skeleton covered in gold foil in a grave on Mount Ida in

An interesting web site is at http://journalofcosmology.com/AncientAstronomy102.html 'Finding Our Place in the Cosmos: The Role of Astronomy in Ancient culture' and as yet I have not

A conference on archaeoastronomy at Tartu in Estonia in 2002 had a paper by Goran Henriksson on the 'absolute chronology' of the ancient near east

At www.physorg.com/print204826766.html we learn that the Panoramic Survey Telescope has discovered an asteroid that will come within 4 million miles of the Earth in mid-October

This is another post from Casey Kazan at www.dailygalaxy.com 27th Sept ... a paper available at arxiv.org/abs/1007.0587 'Cosmology in Torsion - an Alternative to Cosmic

Magnetised regions on the far side of the Moon have been found to deflect the solar wind, shielding the Moon's surface (presented last Friday, 24th

At www.thunderbolts.info we have on Sept 24th 'More Martian Enigmas'  which concerns, among other things, those strange hematite spherules nicknamed blueberries by some wag at

George Howard, at http://cosmictusk.com September 26th ... has posted an article by Bob Kobres that acknowledges it is based on an artilce published by SIS

At www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2010-313&cid=release_2010-313 for a NASA story, images, and a video clip of Saturn's shimmering aurora over a two day period (www.nasa.gov/cassini and http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov ) At

In a scientific article published in May 2010, The Nordic Journal of Architectural Research, an architect claims to have unlocked how the Egyptians constructed the

David Keys, in the Smithsonian magazine (see www.smithsonian.com Sept 24th), the October issue, has a report on the archaeology discovered beneath an Oxford College when

This story comes from the Irish Times Sept 23rd ... an archaeologist happened to be out walking and came across some weirs and dams constructed

At http://calderup.wordpress.com Sept 24th ... there is a post on General Relativity and Einstein which is a favourite theme of Nigel Calder. In the current