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Marden Henge - what do we know?
6 August 2010 > ArchaeologyActually, we still know very little. The latest bit of archaeological investigation has now come to an end (see BBC News August 6th) and we know
Neanderthal Sleeping Quarters
6 August 2010 > AnthropologyAt http://news.discovery.com/archaeology/neanderthal-bedroom-house.html otherwise Discovery News, there is a description in juvenile terminology of the discovery of a separate space set aside in a cave in
Almagest Ephemeris Calculator
6 August 2010 > DatingAt www.phys.uu.nl/~vgent/astro/almagestephemeris_main.htm is a web page with Java Script calendar and ephemeris modules for calculating geocentric luni-solar and planetary positions for an arbitrary calendar date
Himalayan Odds
6 August 2010 > GeologyAt www.physorg.com/print200237328. html there is a report on a geological study into the formation of the Himalayas, the movement of the Indian plate into the
Demise of rainforests
6 August 2010 > Climate changewww.physorg.com/print200224571.html once again, and a paper in Conservation Letters says 45 per cent of plants and animals making up the rainforest habitat will remain intact
Strings and Things
6 August 2010 > PhysicsAt www.physorg.com/print200224981.html physicists use an offshoot of string theory to describe the puzzling behaviour of super conductors - material that conducts electricity without resistance. Published in
Kangaroos
5 August 2010 > BiologyAt www.physorg.com/print200126874.html there is a claim that the evolution of kangaroos was intricately tied to Australian climate change - but suitably confined to millions of
Painted Stones by Painted People
5 August 2010 > ArchaeologyThe story is reported in The Scotsman (but see also http://news.scotsman.com/news/Neolithic-stone-network-found-on.6454132.jp ) stones painted with patterns such as zigzags and chevrons have been found in
The auroral heartbeat of Saturn
5 August 2010 > ElectromagnetismAt www.physorg.com/print200123247.html ... a paper in Geophysical Research Letters (Aug 6th) claims that Saturn's aurora, a low ultraviolet glow which illuminates the upper atmosphere near
Lightning and Hurricanes
5 August 2010 > ElectromagnetismAt www.physorg.com/print200126122.html (see also www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/ ) is about a connection between lightning (electricity in the atmosphere) and hurricane intensification. NASA are now peering inside storms
The Spacecraft Fly-by Mystery
4 August 2010 > Astronomy'The Spacecraft fly-by mystery - is dark matter the culprit or is there new physics waiting to be discovered?' is another headline grabber from Casey
Cyrus and the Chinese
4 August 2010 > Archaeologywww.theartnewspaper.com/articles/Extracts-of-Cyrus-Cylinder-found-in-China/ (see News section if story unavailable) ... it seems a British Museum curator, Irving Finkel, has identified a cuneiform text inscribed on horse bones found
The Out of Taiwan human migration
4 August 2010 > AnthropologyAn article in Current Anthropology (April 2010) (see www.physorg.com/print190043379.html ) disputes the consensus model of human colonisation of the Philippines, Malaysia and islands of Indonesia
Ancient World Chronology and the Bible
4 August 2010 > DatingAncient World Chronology and the Bible is an article you can find at www.reformed-theology.org/ice/newslet/bc/bc98.09.html and the author has clearly been reading Donovan Courville's book, The
The Kings of the Ancient Britons
4 August 2010 > Ancient historyThe Kings of the Ancient Britons by Bill Cooper, can be found at www.biblebelievers.org.au/nation08.htm which is a rather peculiar document that shows a line of
Anatolia and Historical Concepts (another paper on Mitanni, the Hittites, and the Hurrians)
4 August 2010 > Ancient historyA document by Robert Hewson (which seems to have been written roughly 40 years ago but is still available online and quite close in nature
EU Presentation.
4 August 2010 > ElectromagnetismThe Thunderbolts newsletter has announced (August 4th) that Dave Smith, editor of the 'Thunderblog' at www.thunderbolts.info will make a prresentation of the Electric Universe hypothesis
Svensmark - an exoneration?
4 August 2010 > Climate changehttp://hockeyschtick.blogspot.com/2010/08/paper-cosmoclimatology-is-real.html is a report on a paper in the Journal of Geophysical Research 142 (2010) which comes out in support of Henrik Svenmark's hypothesis. The
Sea Levels and Sprott
3 August 2010 > Climate changeAt the same web address and the same piece Sprott says the barycentric orbit affecting the weather also effects sea levels. It is illogical to
A Sprott on the Landscape
3 August 2010 > Climate changeAt www.scoop.co.nz/stories/print.html?path=SC0811/S00028.htm ... a press release from the New Zealand Climate Science Coalition on November 11th 2008 can be found at this web address, with