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Jill Eyers on Roman brothel in a des res village in the Thames Valley
25 June 2010 > ArchaeologyHambledon village, between Henley and Marlow, a short distance from the Thames Long Distance footpath, is an upmarket village with a nearby winery and toff
Megaliths, Roman Cornwall, Caral ... and those darn Neanderthals again ...
24 June 2010 > ArchaeologyAt www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2010-06/uog-sbn062310.php we have an article that suggests Neanderthals separated from other Homo sapiens as early as one million years ago - going by DNA analysis. Once
Venus, Mars ...
24 June 2010 > Astronomywww.physorg.com/print196587370.html asks, Was Venus once a habitable planet? Did it once have an ocean? This is an exercise in computer modellingt - read with a
Betelgeuse
18 June 2010 > ElectromagnetismAt www.physorg.com/print196085867.html June 18th ... coming up to our July meeting on Wal Thornhill's theory of electricity in the universe we may note a paper published
C02 and the Oceans
18 June 2010 > Climate changeAt www.physorg.com/print196059921.html June 18th ... in looking at ice cores from up to 800,000 years ago scientists have found a link between ice melt and
Earthquake synchrony
18 June 2010 > GeologyAt www.physorg.com/print196090397.html we are informed that in nature random signals often fall mysteriously in step, one after the other. Fireflies flashing sporadically in the early
Egyptian C14 dates are right according to new analysis
18 June 2010 > ArchaeologyBBC News Thursday June 17th ... experts have used scientific dating techniques to show the chronology of ancient Egypt is largely right. C14 was used to
YD impact debate update
17 June 2010 > CatastrophismAt http://cosmictusk.com we have a couple of stories on what is an ongoing debate - have scientists found evidence of a cosmic connection with the
Panspermia and meteorites
16 June 2010 > AstronomyAt Daily Galaxy we have an interesting story on June 15th (www.dailygalaxy.com) .... on meteorites and panspermia. This might be a bad example of scientists
Update on Jupiter hit
16 June 2010 > AstronomyThe recent Jupiter impact, a week or so ago, has left behind a mystery. It produced a flash of light so bright it was visible
Studies of Fossils
16 June 2010 > Biologywww.physorg.com/print195831471.html June 15th ... reports on attempts to extract further information from fossilised creatures - the behaviour of ancient life forms. I don't know if
Skulls and Immigrants
15 June 2010 > Archaeologywww.plosone.org ... the online journal PLoS One has an article on the differences between palaeo-americans and amerindians, a huge morphological dissimilarity involving crania shape and
Rare Earth Elements
14 June 2010 > GeologyAt www.livescience.com/technology/Rare-Earth-Elements-100614.html June 15th ... mentions the recently discovered mineral wealth of Afghanistan, worth an estimated one trillion dollars. These include rare earth elements such
Shimmering Butterflies
14 June 2010 > BiologyI was watching BBCs 'Springwatch' a couple of days ago and Chris Packham mentioned that the colours of butterflies are produced not by pigments but
Neutrinos ... and clouds ...
14 June 2010 > PhysicsMeanwhile, at http://calderup.wordpress.com June 14th we have two interesting posts. The first one is on the topic of aeroplanes accidentally making holes in clouds and
Dark matter does not exist?
14 June 2010 > PhysicsAt www.science.daily.com/releases/2010/06/100613212708.htm June 11th ... scientists at Durham University's Physics department used satellite data to study the remnant heat of the Big Bang - via
Ra, the red sun disc
14 June 2010 > ArchaeologyA web site that might interest SIS members, http://gks.uk.com which is run by Gary Gilligan, a contributor to the www.thunderbolts.info web site and a member of SIS
Thunderstones
14 June 2010 > ArchaeologyAt www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/06/100614101724.htm we have a story about an Iron Age grave in Norway that dates somewhere between 600 and 1000AD which contained a prehistoric stone
Romanian caves
14 June 2010 > Archaeologywww.physorg.com/print195668903.html June 13th ... Romanian archaeologists have found ancient cave paintings aged between 23,000 and 35,000 years ago. They are drawings of buffalo, horse, and
Tutankhamun Funeral
14 June 2010 > ArchaeologyThe Times May 29th .... archaeology correspondent Norman Hammond reported on an exhibition in New York, at the Metropolitan, 'Tutankhamun's Funeral'. A decade before the