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Solomon's Pools

2 August 2010 > Archaeology
The story of the discovery of a Roman period aqueduct built to transport water from underground sources - such as Solomon's Pool, the Pool of
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Carausius

2 August 2010 > Archaeology
The Independent July 30th ... harks back to the story of a hoard of 52,000 Roman coins found in a field near Frome. Almost 800
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Stratigraphy and a Revision

1 August 2010 > Dating
Looking at the index to In the News it is noticable that chronological matters have been in short supply - and yet SIS has over
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What the Large Hadron Collider is doing - in a nutshell

1 August 2010 > Physics
At www.physorg.com?print199730102.html the experiment at the Large Hadron Collider is described - and the objectives. This actually appears in an earlier posting but is not described in
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Lots of dark matter in a recently discovered galaxy

31 July 2010 > Astronomy
www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/61683/title/Dark-matter-eldorado/ a report online at arXiv.org that claims that a galaxy discovered in 2007, known as Segue's Galaxy, is composed almost entirely of dark matter (because very little can
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July Sea Ice Melt

31 July 2010 > Climate change
At http://pgosselin.wordpress.com July 2010 ... is this the slowest melting July since AMSR-E satellite data was recorded (referring to summer ice melt). It has stopped
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YD Boundary event - critics thick and fast

31 July 2010 > Catastrophism
George Howard at http://cosmictusk.com/space-com-zoe-macintosh-and-the-delusory-dr-pinter-another-confusing-half-truth-botch-job-on-the-YDB-hypothesis/ on a mounting number of critics who purposely skew the evidence to make it look awry. Sounds just like AGW resistance
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Index of earlier postings - Part Two

31 July 2010 > Dating
2010 May 3rd ... The Science of Doom (new web site devoted to explaining the inner workings of the Greenhouse Gas Theory of Global Warming).
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Index of earlier postings

31 July 2010 > Dating
2009 December 8th ... Has the Tilt of Uranus been solved? December 8th ... Charge separation in space Decembeer 8th ... On the Perils and
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Mitanni and Nuzi

30 July 2010 > Ancient history
Revision of history is rarely mentioned on In the News, mainly as it is a speculative subject. In addition, it is very often a personal
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Elevation in the Andes

30 July 2010 > Geology
Along the coastline of South America there are a series of well known stranded beaches which indicate changes in sea level - or seismic shifts.
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Chile EQ aftermath

30 July 2010 > Geology
Another link to www.physorg.com/print199692636.html comments on geology in South America investigating the February 2010 earthquake in Chile. It ruptured a very long fault that follows
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Fossil Coral Reef Systems

30 July 2010 > Dating
Apparently, samples can be extracted from fossil coral reef systems which can be used to assess sea levels and climate in the past. The process
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A trawl of recent archaeology - small in themselves but fatter in the round.

29 July 2010 > Archaeology
Trevor Palmer has provided the response by Bob Porter on the Yahoo New Chronology Forum to the Science article on Bayesian C14 dating and its
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Dunes on Titan

29 July 2010 > Astronomy
NASAs newsletter, at www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/ July 29th says the mystery of dune patterns on Titan might have been solved. Dune patterns flow in the opposite direction
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A 25 Year Theory bears fruition

29 July 2010 > Astronomy
At www.physorg.com/print199363299.html ... in 1984 space pioneer Dr Robert Forward proposed a way of improving satellite telecommunications using a new family of orbits. His critics
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A New Greenland Ice Core in the offing

29 July 2010 > Geology
At www.physorg.com/print199550264.html we learn that a drilling team has reached bedrock in Greenland after 5 years of boring through 2.5km of solid ice. What they
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No big bang ... no beginning ... and no end.

29 July 2010 > Physics
At www.physorg.com/print199591806.html July 29th (see www.dailygalaxy.com July 30th) ... Wan-Yi Shu has proposed a new class of cosmological model that may bit observations of the
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Swarms of black holes and small rock earth like planets in the Milky Way galaxy

28 July 2010 > Astronomy
At www.dailygalaxy.com July 28th there are two interesting stories. The first concerns the claim the Milky Way is rich in small rocky earth like planets (with
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The Dead Sea Scrolls

28 July 2010 > Ancient history
Is this another important discovery - or rather, interpretation (see http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/07/100727-who-wrote-dead-sea-scrolls/ July 27th. The mystery is solved according to the headline - but is it?
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