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NatGeo TV Rerun: Holocene Working Group and the Thunder Down Under - March 25, 10:00 pm

Here is a good looking television show I missed the first time around.  I watched several substantial clips on the the webpage and it appears well done (if a tad bit overwrought like most science TV). I have long cheered the work of Ted Bryant, Dallas Abbott,  Slava Gusiakov, Marie-Agnes Courty, Dee Berger, Bruce Masse and the rest.  As many readers will know, their efforts dovetail neatly with…
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Charles Appleton Day

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Bang: NatGeo covers new evidence from the Holocene Working Group

You gotta love the Yellow Rectangle. Richard Lovett writes for National Geographic that the The Holocene Working Group (HWG), as ably led by Dallas Abbott of Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, has new work out. [Giant Meteorites Slammed Earth Around AD 500:  Double impact may hvae caused tsunami, global cooling]. It seems the HWG has confirmed the presence of…
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Charles Appleton Day

2021 Tall el-Hammam study makes final Jeopardy! question