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Mount Pleasant was a popular street and place name once upon a time. There is also a Neolithic henge known as Mount Pleasant. In British

Another historical solar storm - this one from 1582. According to a Portuguese scribe a great fire appeared in the sky, to the north. It

Sent in by William who makes the point, mainstream have no problem with catastrophism nowadays - as long as it happened a very long time

Comet 21/Borisov, an interstellar object it is thought, is uniquely pristine we are told - see https://phys.org/news/2021-03-interstellar-comet-pristine.html ... Discovered by amateur comet searcher Gennady Borisov,

At https://phys.org/news/2021-03-australasian-genetic-wider-south-america.html ... Australasian genetic influence was widespread in South America, much more than previously thought. That is the claim. Not only is it apparent

At https://phys.org/news/2021-03-fearnew-meat-eating-predator.html ... a new dinosaur discovered in Patagonia. Akin to tyrannosaurus with some significant differences in structure, Llukulkan roamed what is now Argentian in

William sent in this rendition of Psalm 29, with the comment, an example of Biblical catastrophism. Reads like a Tunguska like explosion ... 4. The

It's a bit cold this spring. Lots of heavy clouds in the sky. At https://phys.org/news/2021-03-iceland-volcanic-eruption-hauler.html ... the long haul we are told. The volcanic eruption

This piece is sort of accusatory, critical of the reader, shall we say. If you thought the bang in the big bang was a bang

This story appeared in the News a few years ago. It may still be out there somewhere. It has now been regurgitated by the Daily

David was the  first to bring it to our attention - the discovery of a Jewish text of Deuteronomy that differs from the Biblical version.

At https://phys.org/news/2021-03-long-accepted-theory-vertebrate-upended-fo... ... the long accepted theory of mainstream vertebrate origins is taking a bashing by some paleontologists it would seem. This comes after the

William sent in this fascinating linke - www.yahoo.com/news/man-discovered-worlds-only-prehistoric-170923922.html ... a French diver, back in 1991, found a submerged entrance into a cave near Marseille. He

Hunter gatherers living beside Eagle Lake in Wisconsin manufactured 10cm long projectile points [otherwise known as arrow heads] out of pure copper. They were probably

Robert sent in the link ... www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Mars_Express/Mars_Express_... ... and the full paper is at https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.03919 [which is the abstract but when there click on the

At https://phys.org/news/2021-03-world-oldest-crater-meteorite-isnt.html ... in 2012 University of Waterloo scientists claimed to have discovered an impact crater. Zircon crystals in rocks are thought to preserve ancient

Scientists stunned to discover plants beneath a mile deep of ice on Greenland - the big story of last week. Sent in by William and

Sent in by Gary - www.naturettl.com/nasa-makes-their-entire-image-library-copyright-free-f... ... NASA make their entire image library copyright free for public use, a marvellous resource. Meanwhile, Russia is also

Robert sent in the link to https://phys.org/news/2021-03-antarctica-magnetic-link-ancient-neighbors... ... researchers have magnetically linked Antarctica to its former status as part of Gondwanaland. The eivdence is derived,

Another big story this past week, picked up by Robert, William, and Gary. See for example www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2021/serendipitous-juno-spacecraft-detectio... ...which led both Robert and Gary to think