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At www.livescience.com/mitochondrial-eve-first-human-homeland.html ... and https://phys.org/news/2019-10-homeland-modern-humans.html ... the San (otherwise known as the Bushmen) of southern Africa carry one of the oldest maternal DNA lineages on

This story is at https://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2019/10/27/close-encounter-with-a-gigant... ... on October 15th pilot Chris Holmes encountered lightning crackling around his aircraft - 35,000 feet over the Gulf of

At www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/10/191016153642.htm ... on the island of Naxos in the Aegean evidence has been found of Neanderthals - going back 200,000 years. The findings challenge

Robert sent in a link to https://phys.org/news/2019-10-jupiter-cradle-comets.html ... but see https://www.sis-group.org.uk/news/centaurs.htm ... where the same subject has already been on the News. The study concerns

Robert sent in the links below and once again, a good one as far as catastrophism is concerned - go to https://dornsife.usc.edu/news/stories/3095/sediments-sequester-carbon-fr... and https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2019/10/15/1913714116/tab-figures-data ...

This one is quite good and has even been picked up by Clark Whelton (on his email list). At https://phys.org/news/2019-10-fossil-trove-life-fast-recovery.html ... and concerns a fascinating

This is a peculiar one - and comes courtesy of https://phys.org/news/2019-10-shelf-life-pyrite.html ... where we are informed the glacial cycles of the last couple of million

Robert sent in this link https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2019/10/new-seismic-phenomeno... ... and surprisingly the quakes are said to never occur between May and August. Some storm quakes also do

It seems the ozone hole has shrunk to a smaller size than it has been for many a day - or at least since scientists

Not sure what to make of this one. Is hype involved? It seems that Earth does not comply with the idea of a base temperature

Melanesians such as the Solomon Islanders, have an interesting history - even during WWII. However, when it comes to genetics, Melanesians appear to have genetic

Gary sent in the link to the  video - go to https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=uflfUwrNx2k&app=desktop... ... if you are a bit rusty on Velikovsky's book, Earth in Upheaval,

William sent in this link. A Japanese research team claims the Ancient Assyrians referred to a solar storm even between 679 and 655BC as a

Another good one from https://notrickszone.com/2019/10/10/during-the-last-ice-age-190-ppm-co2-... ... during the Late Glacial Maximum horses grazed in a forested landscape somewhat warmer than today's Arctic Alaska. In modern

An interesting study by Luigi Bragato and Hanspeter Holzhauser - on volcanism and cooling temperatures which create conditions for pandemics (plague, cholera and influenza), in

Not the sort of metropolis of the modern world but a town, or city if you like, with around 6000 inhabitants - dating back to

We've heard a lot about the Golden Ratio in cosmic terms but now we have the golden ratio in human skulls - see https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2019/10/golden-ratio-observe... ...

Young children, especially small boys, are fascinated by the likes of Tyrannosaurus Rex and here we have a new species of giant predatory dinosaur found

At https://cosmictusk.com/uncharted-x-younger-dryas-religious-myth/ ... which is of course a fascinating subject that attracted a good deal of people to the ideas of Velikovsky. What role does

At https://spaceweather.com (October 14th 2019) ... we have been told that Comet Borisov is an interloper - from another solar system. However, it is behaving