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This two links were sent in by Robert. At https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/preserved-mammoth-skeleton-f... ... where we are told that Russian scientists are in the process of retrieving a

Gary sent in this link to https://phys.org/news/2020-07-space-wasnt-dangerous-bacteria-deadly.html ... which is a piece that comes from The Conversation so is a question of opinion, validity unknown.

At https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2020/07/a-population-of-aste... ...  a population of asteroids with an interstellar origin inhabits our solar system. It seems the idea of interstellar objects captured by our

The Homeric Minimum is a postulated solar minimum event dated between 2800 and 2550 years ago, an inordinately long  time for the sun to remain

At https://phys.org/news/2020-07-humans-americas-years-earlier-previously.html ... humans in the Americas 15,000 years earlier than mainstream allowed. The findings are published in two Nature articles - see for example

At www.historyextra.com/period/ancient-history/geoffrey-monmouth-historia-r... ... which is an interview with Miles Russell, the author of a revised look at Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia (the History of the

Benny Peiser's newsletter on 24th July 2020 has the following post - https://www.thegwpf.com/roman-warm-period-was-2c-warmer-than-today-new-s... ... which is telling us all something that was very well known

Anthropology is a funny field of science. Lots of waffle. At https://popular-archaeology.com/article/the-shamans-world/ ... shamanism dates back to an early stage of humanity, we are told

At https://phys.org/news/2020-07-cosmic-magnetic-field-galaxy-ngc.html ... spiral galaxies have sprawling magnetic fields. The process of how they aquired them is not understood. However, a new study claims galaxy

At https://anthropology.net/2020/07/22/new-archaeological-evidence-of-the-f... ... the evidence comes from a cave in Mexico. New archaeological evidence of the first Amricans dated to 33,000 years ago. Two major

I thought  it was already recognised that volcanoes on Venus were a source of its anomalous heat. That heat was used by Velikovsky to suggest

At https://phys.org/news/2020-07-idea-earth-outer-shell-broke.html ... In this article we are told that it is well understood that volcanoes and earthquakes can be explained by the 50 year

Clarification on the recent piece from the Daily Mail. The actual study does not mention climate change at all and has been inserted by the

The word pluvial is usually associated with water - a watery environment. The Wranglia is a large igneous province that spewed out lots of greenhouse

A blast from a white dwarf star caused it to shoot itself out of its orbit in a 'partial' supernova event. It is now travelling

   ... Image of Comet Neowise taken by Jeff Dai of Ankong in China. The comet is becoming dimmer as it travels away from the

The final one of four sent in by Gary, William and Robert - see for example www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-8529237/ ... the claim is that new evidence has

At www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-8527523/ ... earthquakes could be triggered by streams of postively charged ions ejected by solar flares on the  solar surface - according to a

At www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02136-4 ... a photograph of the sun, at the closest point ever ...  ... the image was taken by the Solar Orbiter Mission (ESA).

Gary, William and Robert have been sending in links, often to the same stories. The next four posts are links sent in by them. For