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Mountains on Titan

13 August 2010 > Geology
At www.jpl.nasa.gov/news August 12th .... Titan, a moon of Saturn, ripples with mountains - but how did they form? On earth mountains form at plate
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A Solar Tsunami (?)

13 August 2010 > Astronomy
At www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article_1302449/Spectacular-northern-lights-dance-over-lakes-in-wake-of-solar-tsunami/ ... it seems the journalist is describing a solar flare, and presumably his analogy with a tsunami wave comes from the rapid advance
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Gondwanaland - massive shift at the beginning of the Cambrian!

13 August 2010 > Geology
At www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/08/100810163456.htm a study published in Geology 2010: 38 (8), and a press release from Yale University, says the Gondwanaland supercontinent underwent a 60 degree
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Skellig Michael

13 August 2010 > Archaeology
Some intriguing discoveries on Skellig Michael, the lump of rock in the Atlantic Ocean offshore of Kerry on which was built an early Christian monastery
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Megalithic tombs - new dating throws up a paradox

13 August 2010 > Archaeology
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/sciencefair/post/2010/08/barrow-tombs-of-prehistoric-europe-built-in-bursts/1 ... it seems new dating evidence suggests the megalithic long barrows and passage tombs were built in a burst of activity over a few
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Roman Wales

13 August 2010 > Archaeology
At www.redorbit.com August 12th ... there is a news release from Cardiff University saying that archaeologists may have to revise some of the details regarding
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The Medes

13 August 2010 > Ancient history
Median dynasty architectural remains have been found in Azerbaijan (see www.cais-soas.com/news/ August 11th) ... a joint US/ Azerbaijani team of archaeologists have found remains  dating to the
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'Censorinus, the Sothic Cycle, and Calendar Year One in Ancient Egypt: the epistemological problem'

13 August 2010 > Ancient history
This was sent in by member Eric Aitchison after he had received the link from Bergen, one of the Chronology members. Bergen posted it in
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Are physicists making up dark energy?

13 August 2010 > Physics
This story was sent in by Gary Gilligan and is interesting as it represents the problem from an astro-physicist that believes dark energy is real
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Nefertiti in Colour

13 August 2010 > Archaeology
Archaeologists are examining a cache of talatat blocks stored in Luxor, some 62,000 of them. They have been locked away for some years and only
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Back to Kola

7 August 2010 > Climate change
Pierre Gosselin, on his blog http://pgosselin.wordpress.com August 7th ... discusses a series of tree ring proxies near the Arctic shores of Euroasia which includes the
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Marden Henge - what do we know?

6 August 2010 > Archaeology
Actually, 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
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Neanderthal Sleeping Quarters

6 August 2010 > Anthropology
At 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
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Almagest Ephemeris Calculator

6 August 2010 > Dating
At 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
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Himalayan Odds

6 August 2010 > Geology
At 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
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Demise of rainforests

6 August 2010 > Climate change
www.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
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Strings and Things

6 August 2010 > Physics
At 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
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Kangaroos

5 August 2010 > Biology
At 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
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Painted Stones by Painted People

5 August 2010 > Archaeology
The 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
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The auroral heartbeat of Saturn

5 August 2010 > Electromagnetism
At 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
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