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Time Dilation
11 April 2010 > AstronomyAt www.physorg.com/print190027752.html there is a story with the title, 'Discovery that quasars don't show time dilation mystifies astronomers' ... which sounds like a question mark
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Venus in the Sky
10 April 2010 > AstronomyAt www.physorg.com/print189959182.html is an article to warm the cockles of old time SIS stalwarts. It has the title, 'Venus is Alive - geologically speaking' and
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This Week in Science
9 April 2010 > AnthropologyThis Week in Science April 8th (Science volume 328 issue 5975) ... our genus Homo is thought to have evolved a little more than 2
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Out of Africa - new episode
9 April 2010 > AnthropologyAt www.english.globalarabnetwork.com April 9th ... a British archaeologist, Jeremy Rose, has found evidence of human settlement in Oman at 125,000 years ago. However, there is
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New Megalithic site on Dartmoor
9 April 2010 > ArchaeologyDiscovery News April 9th (http://news.discovery.com ) ... nine large stones found on a remote moorland exposure on Dartmoor, a two hour yomp from the nearest
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Supervolcanoes under the sea
9 April 2010 > GeologyAt www.redorbit.com id1847871 April 8th ... scientists have been looking at a 145 million years old supervolcano on the ocean floor east of Japan. Known
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India
9 April 2010 > ArchaeologyThe Hindu April 8th www.thehindu.com/2010/04/08/stories/2010040856602200.htm Indus like inscriptions have been found on South Indian pottery from Thailand (dated between the 2nd century BC and the
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commercial archaeology
9 April 2010 > ArchaeologyNature 464 p826-7 (2010) April 8th ... an explosion in commercial archaeology in Britain, ahead of construction projects, has led to a wealth of information
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Morrison locking horns on the Tusk
8 April 2010 > CatastrophismOver at George Howard's site, www.cosmictusk.com April 8th there is a response by Burchard to NASA scientist David Morrison who is critical of the YD
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Tell Zeidan
8 April 2010 > ArchaeologyScience Daily April 6th (www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/04/100406133712.htm ) is all about the mound of Tell Zeidan near Raqqa in Syria, close to where the Euphrates branches into
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Tails of a Recent Comet
8 April 2010 > GeologyAt http://arxiv.org/abs/1004.0416 there is a reference to an SIS article, 'Tails of a Recent Comet' by Milton Zysman and Frank Wallace, in which they describe
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Solar flares and climate
8 April 2010 > Climate changeAt www.physorg.com/print189845962.html a new study has debunked a previous hypothesis suggesting the existence of a link between solar flares and changes in the earth's global
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Glaciers
8 April 2010 > GeologyAt http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/greenmelt.htm has a story on Greenland glaciers - and what lies beneath them. The research is of course AGW orientated, but useful - the
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Aurorae
7 April 2010 > ElectromagnetismAurorae (see www.thunderbolts.info March 29th) has an interesting article on the recognition that aurorae had electro-magnetic properties. In 1740 Anders Celsius, the inventor of the
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Cows Milk
7 April 2010 > ArchaeologyThe Observer April 4th (see www.guardian.co.uk/) has a story about cows being the key to human success in Europe. A study of the remains of
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Green Axe
7 April 2010 > ArchaeologyThe New York Times (www.nytimes.com March 29th ) has a story taken from the BBC Radio 4 series, 'A History of the World in 100
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Indus Valley
7 April 2010 > ArchaeologyAt www.telegraphindia.com?100406/jsp/others/print.html The Telegraph of India says a study of 100s of Indus Valley civilisation towns and cities have revealed factors previously unsuspected - growth
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Lava, climate change, and amber
7 April 2010 > GeologyScience Daily April 7th (www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/04/100406142602.html ) new research suggests the Columbia Plateau in the NW of the US was formed by a series of lava
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Bill Napier paper on the YD boundary event
3 April 2010 > AstronomyThe Bill Napier paper pops up at http://arxiv.org/abs/1003.0744 and is provided by the Royal Astronomical Society (see earlier post and link to pdf). Basically, Bill
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Mammoths on Wrangel Island in the Arctic Ocean
2 April 2010 > EvolutionAt http://news.yahoo.com March 30th (science and archaeology section) ... reports on a paper published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B on what might