Changes in handedness of DNA (triggered by a magnetic reversal) would lead to gene activation or deactivation,
Burgess Shale provides evidence of evolutionary leaps
“The Burgess Shale adds to evidence that evolution proceeded with bouts of rapid diversification interspersed with extinctions,” says this article in the Smithsonian, thus bolstering my contention that evolution does take leaps.
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Raining methane on Titan
Astronomers are now able to forecast rain – methane rain – on Saturn’s biggest moon Titan.
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Solar wind weakens Mercury’s magnetic field
More proof of an electromagnetic universe
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Methane on Mars produced and destroyed far faster than on Earth
The origin of methane on Mars “could either be life or geological activity – including volcanism,”
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Hoping to clone a woolly mammoth within five years
After finding well-preserved bone marrow in a thigh bone of a woolly mammoth found in Siberia, scientists believe it may be possible to clone the giant mammal within five years.
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Darwin got it wrong, says Australian archeologist – Video
Archeologist Peter Mungo Jupp insists that catastrophic evolution occurs at magnetic reversals
Answers questions I’ve held for years about coal & oil formation
I have just finished reading “Magnetic Reversals and Evolutionary Leaps” and enjoyed it very much. I found it fascinating. I have long doubted that coal was simply compressed vegetable matter. Answers questions I’ve held for years about coal & oil … Continue reading
Hydrocarbons rain from Titan’s sky
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Reader asks, “What exploded?”
I’ve just finished reading your new book (Magnetic Reversals and Evolutionary Leaps) and find it fascinating. It’s written to a very non-technical audience. Yet this is surely one of its great strengths. Your compilation of extinction events and the subsequent … Continue reading
Did South Atlantic Magnetic Anomaly cause Air France disaster?
Reader Jane Lawson wonders if the South Atlantic Magnetic Anomaly could have had anything to do with the recent Air France disaster.
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‘I felt like I’d been electrocuted,’ says sole survivor of Airbus crash
3 Jul 09 – Bahai Bakari, the child survivor of the Yemenia jet crash that killed 152, spoke of her ordeal as she flew back to France. ‘She says instructions were given to passengers and that then she felt something … Continue reading
NASA – The Truth about 2012 Solar Storms – Video
Should we be concerned about solar storms in 2012?
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Russians order Flight Changes after Huge Magnetic Shift downs Airliners
Excerpts from a report by the Macedonian International News Agency. I don’t trust its accuracy, but it’s still interesting.
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Far side activity on the sun
22 Jun 09 – “Late near midnight on June 21st, something behind the sun’s eastern limb exploded and hurled a coronal mass ejection into space.
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Creation of oil linked to mass extinction
5 Jun 09 – “Undersea volcanic activity triggered a mass extinction of marine life and buried a thick mat of organic matter on the sea floor about 93 million years ago, which became a major source of oil,” says a … Continue reading
Matt Ridley: When ideas have sex
Burt Rutan sent this video to me last night, along with the following note:
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Huge Breach in Earth’s Magnetic Field – four times wider than Earth itself
NASA’s five THEMIS spacecraft have discovered a breach in Earth’s magnetic field ten times larger than anything previously thought to exist.
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You deserve a Nobel prize
Indonesian supervolcano caused genetic bottleneck in human evolution
When it erupted about 74,000 years ago, Indonesia’s Toba supervolcano may have triggered a 1,000-year episode of ice sheet advance, and a short-lived “volcanic winter” that drastically reduced the human population at the time.
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Fist of an angry God?
9 Aug 09 – Something – no one knows what – has punched through Saturn’s narrow F ring.
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Crack opens in the earth’s magnetic field
It began when a seemingly minor solar wind stream hit Earth’s magnetic field. Then whoosh! The minor hit turned into a not-so-minor display when a crack opened in the earth’s magnetic field, allowing the solar wind to pour through the … Continue reading
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Scientists create non-organic hydrocarbons – could they also be formed in the sky?
Explosions in the sky – magnetic reconnection
“They laughed when I sat down to play the piano.” Remember that old ad? And they laughed when I wrote that explosions wracked the skies above the mammoth’s heads during the Gothenburg magnetic reversal
Sun buffets Earth with streams of energy even during sunspot minimums
Challenging conventional wisdom, a new study finds that the earth was bombarded last year with high levels of solar energy at a time when the Sun was unusually quiet and sunspots had virtually disappeared,
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New species? Weird video
19 Sep 09 – Reader Michael Bokmiller wonders if this could be proof of my theory on how new species are formed.
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Do dead dinosaurs fuel our cars? No, say the Russians
The assumption that oil and other “fossil fuels” come from dead dinosaurs and other dead matter has been an article of faith for centuries, says Financial Post writer Lawrence Solomon. But many Russians and Ukrainians insist that oil is formed … Continue reading
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No magnetic reconnection?
“This Magnetic Reconnection confusion has gone far enough,” says reader Dennis Cowdrick, who steered me to a paper by electrical engineer Donald E. Scott.
Geomagnetic super-storm sets telegraph papers on fire
On September 2, a billion-ton coronal mass ejection slammed into the earth’s magnetic field. The glow awoke campers in the Rockies in the middle of the night, who thought the sun was rising. But no, it was the Northern Lights.
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Giant Ribbon Discovered at Edge of Solar System
NASA’s IBEX (Interstellar Boundary Explorer) spacecraft has made the first all-sky maps of the heliosphere and the results have taken researchers by surprise. The maps are bisected by a bright, winding ribbon of unknown origin.
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Human baby born with a tail?
Don’t laugh. At birth some human babies have a short “tail-like” growth called a “caudal appendage;’ located near the inferior end of the spinal column.
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Magnetic fields trigger solar wind
Solar wind generated by the sun is probably driven by a process involving powerful magnetic fields, says this article in Science Daily.
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Cosmic Rays Hit Space Age High
28 Sep 09 – Planning a trip to Mars? Take plenty of shielding. According to sensors on NASA’s ACE (Advanced Composition Explorer) spacecraft, galactic cosmic rays have just hit a Space Age high.
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More akin to the Biblical sense of Creation
21 Jul 09 – Reader J.T. Tregidga wonders what I think of Dr. Paul LaViolette’s Galactic Core Explosion theory.
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Surprise method of transferring energy from solar wind to Earth’s magnetosphere
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Perhaps Toba super-eruption didn’t create genetic bottleneck
This interpretation is contrary to other research suggesting significant animal extinctions and genetic bottlenecks.
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How exactly do ‘fossils’ create ‘fuel’?
“Methane is also commonly found on planets such as Saturn (and its moon Titan) where science has never recorded the presence of living plants or animals. How exactly do ‘fossils’ create ‘fuel’? By Jerome R. Corsi 17 Nov 05 – … Continue reading
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