In the News

At https://spaceweather.com (16th March 2020) ... Comet Atlas is brightening - see image below. It is currently as bright as an 8th or 9th magnitude

At www.miragenews.com/approaching-ancient-assyria-through-archaeology-leads... ... which is to do with the imperial nature of the Assyrian state. The author actually compares the Assyrian empire to the British

At https://spaceweather.com (15th March 2020) we have a view of the Sun by amateur astronomer Martin Wiose. Hundreds of orange 'fibers' are jumping up and

One of the basic building blocks of life is said to be nitrogen - in one form or another. Now we have the discovery of

Gary sent in this link - https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/mar/11/scientists-identify-rain... ... and the same story has been all through the media and blogosphere. Gary makes a connection with

At https://phys.org/news/2020-03-dinosaur-stomping-ground-scotland-reveals.... ... during the Jurassic period the Isle of Skye in Scotland was home to dinosaurs. Various fossil bones have been discovered and now

German Greens have got in a huff it seems - see https://notrickszone.com/2020/03/10/clashing-climate-kiddies-internal-st... ...a climate activist in Germany is getting a bad press over her flights

Robert sent in a link to the video at www.thunderbolts.info/wp/2020/03/10/special-feature-the-safire-sun/ .... and a link to Louis Hissink's web site at https://lhcrazyworld.wordpres.com/2020/03/11/radioactivity-and-safire/

At https://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2020/03/10/ancient-shell-shows-days-were... ... ancient mollusc shell shows days were half hour shorter 70 million years ago- slap bang in the end of Cretaceous impact event

At https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2020/02/long-ago-record-of-b... .... the problem is the mainstream theory to account for sudden drops or rises in sea historical sea levels. For instance, continental shelf

At https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2020/03/hydrogen-energy-at-r... ... researchers have focussed on hydrothermal vents under the oceans in their search for the origins of life on Earth. At least, over

At https://cosmictusk.com/breaking-from-the-crg- earliest-syrian-village-melted-by-cosmic-hell/ ... where crg stands for the Comet Research Group (https://cometresearchgroup.org ) .... Abu Hureyra in northern Syria is the site concerned, one

The Hammam excavations newsletter has revealed some interesting facts about the destruction of the MB city. For example, yesterday they were photographing the remains of

One for the scrap book. Snow mass, in the northern hemisphere, is greater than the 1982-2012 average (see https://electroverse.net/northern-hemisphere-snow-mass-300-gigatons-abov... ... which means it must be

As a result of changes in the jet stream there have been continuous downpours across Britain and Ireland - as well as Germany and Denmark

At https://phys.org/news/2020-03-molecules-curiosity-rover-early-life.html ... (see Astrobiology journal - https://doi.org/10.1089/ast.2019.2139 ) ... organic compounds known as thiophenes are found on earth resident in coal and crude oil,

Here we have several link sent in by Gary. At www.newscientist.com/article/2235312-chinas-rover-has-discovered-what-li... ... China's rover vehicle has been peering into the far side of the Moon

Who is making use of who. A fascinating post at https://cosmosmagazine.com/biology/the-co-evolution-of-plants-and-humans .... the co-evolution of plants and humans as an extension of co-evolution of plants

At https://www.gaia.com/article/turkish-archaeologists-find-site-much-older... ... excavations at Boncuklu Tarla (also in SE Turkey) have yielded 11,300 year old mini Gobekli Tepe like structures. It has three well

I was expecting the Thunderbolts site to cover this by the weekend - but may be next week. The story is one that has hit