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Extraordinary or ordinary?: West responds to CBS about latest paper

We agree with them that glass could be formed a lot of different ways. We don’t have a problem with that,” said Allen West, a retired oil and gas executive who is one of the leading proponents of the theory. “You can get them from grass fires but you also get melt glass from lightning, volcanic eruptions and you also get it from cosmic impacts. The trick is being…
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Charles Appleton Day

2021 Tall el-Hammam study makes final Jeopardy! question

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Calling All Crickets: Knight Science Journalism Tracker Shouts-Out the YDB Hypothesis

Crickets…. Watts Up? Big Media again tend to ignore PNAS report that comet blast – or blasts – renewed Ice Age, canceled Clovis culture, mammoths, giant beavers… — KSJT The authors worked mainly under grants from the NSF. It doesn’t give money to just anybody. — KSJT From the Knight Science Journalism Tracker A quite perfectly delightful hypothesis holds that air bursts…
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Charles Appleton Day

2021 Tall el-Hammam study makes final Jeopardy! question