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Boats and Pinch Points
25 March 2024 > ArchaeologyAt https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/03/240320160445.htm ... boats were used by Neolithic people to colonise the Mediterranean. By necessity, boats must have been used to explore the southern shores
Spinning Backwards
25 March 2024 > Astronomy, cosmologyAt https://spaceweather.com ... archive, March 20th 2024 - the polar vortex is spinning backwards - in the stratosphere above the Arctic. The vortex changed direction
Asteroids and Supernovae
23 March 2024 > Astronomy, cosmologyAt https://spaceweather.com ... March 18th 2024 [see archive dates] - we have a canyon of fire eruption on the face of the Sun whilst Comet
Sleeping Subduction Zone
23 March 2024 > Geology, Plate TectonicsAt https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/rivers-oceans/sleeping-subduction-zone-could-awaken-and-form-a-new-ring-of-fire-that-swallows-the-atlantic-ocean ... note the use of the word, 'could' - and why not. It is a model. We begin with a sleeping subduction zone
Dark Matter Absent
23 March 2024 > Astronomy, cosmologyGary sent in a link to https://www.earth.com/news/dark-matter-does-not-exist-universe-27-billion-years-old-study ... upsetting one mainstream consensus view but then adding another one, the age of the universe, is stimulating,
Did the Big Bang really happen
23 March 2024 > Astronomy, cosmology, PalaeontologySent in by Robert with the remark - if the Big Bang didn't happen, what did? For the answer, or one possibility, go to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBdNn7Wv_J8&ab_channel=LPPFusion
Climate the Movie
21 March 2024 > Climate changeWatch Martin Durkin's latest film exposing climate alarmism and the dodgy dealing .. . at https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/03/20/climate-the-movie-watch-here/ ... or you can go to https://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2024/03/20/climate-the-movie-is-here/ ... which
Another variation on Sekhmet
20 March 2024 > Ancient history, MythologyAfter passing over some part of Nicholas Costa's view of Sekhmet I received a response from Eric. He had already sent me one of his
What was Sekhmet
17 March 2024 > Ancient history, Catastrophism, MythologyNicholas Costa has a piece on the goddess Sekhmet, sent to me after asking a question about Akhnaton and his religious revolution after witnessing something
Hittite Tablet
17 March 2024 > Ancient history, ArchaeologyI got excited when I first started reading the link but that subsided quite quickly. The title dates the tablet at 3300 years ago -
Alaska Dinosaur Tracks
17 March 2024 > Catastrophism, Geology, PalaeontologyAt https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/03/240312221007.htm .... the discovery of dinosaur tracks and fossilised plants, which include tree stumps, in what is now NW Alaska, provides information on the
Tim Berners-Leer
17 March 2024 > Inside science, UncategorisedAt https://www.livescience.com/technology/communications/35-years-after-first-proposing-the-world-wide-web-what-does-its-creator-tim-berners-lee-have-in-mind-next-inrupt .... Tim Berner-Lee, the founder of the World Wide Web, appears to be unhappy that the balance of power has drifted to large
Indian Migration Influx
17 March 2024 > Anthropology, Archaeology, Catastrophism, GeneticsAt https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/indias-evolutionary-past-tied-to-huge-migration-50000-years-ago-and-to-now-extinct-human-relatives .... Genetic research in India has come up with an interesting observation. Modern Indians have inherited genes from what is now Tajikistan as
Great Blue Spot
16 March 2024 > Astronomy, Biology, Electromagnetism, EvolutionRobert sent in some interesting links to share amongst readers. At https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTNkZjqRwPw&ab_channel=LPPFusion ... which is a presentation by Eric Lerner on the so called 'Big
Sand Ripples
16 March 2024 > Astronomy, GeologyAt https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/03/240312133825.htm ... scientists propose a new theory that explains sand ripples on Earth by comparing them to sand ripples on Mars. Sand ripples are
Mars Tugging on Earth
16 March 2024 > Astronomy, Dating, GeologyThis was also sent in by Gary - https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/rivers-oceans/every-24-million-years-mars-tugs-on-earth-so-hard-it-changes-the-ocean-floor ... After a few days William sent in an alternative link - https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/every-2-4-million -years-205045105.html ... and
Giant Volcano Mars
16 March 2024 > Astronomy, GeologySent in by Gary - gaint volcano 280 miles wide discovered on the planet Mars. He provided a link to GB News science section -
Erosion and Gobekli Tepe
14 March 2024 > Archaeology, GeologyAnother interesting research paper at https://doi.org/10.31015/jaefs.2021.3.17 ... this one got people at Ancient Origins excited. Published in the 'International Journal of Agriculture, Environment and Food
Pacific Ocean Plate
14 March 2024 > Geology, Plate TectonicsAt https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2023GL105452 ... the consensus view on Plate Tectonics may not be all it is cracked up to be. It is assumed the Pacific plate
Spiral Core of Comet 12P
14 March 2024 > AstronomyAs Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks is due for its April rendevous around the Sun - see https://spaceweather.com ... which has two posts, slightly different, on the 12th