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Great Paper: The case for significant numbers of extraterrestrial impacts through the late Holocene

I love this paper.  It’s in a great journal, chock full of well-sourced, multidisciplinary information, and written by a rock-solid expert in an immensely important field: Dendrochronology.  While other Dendrochronologists signed-up for the terribly political job of attempting to document slow and incremental temperature change over the ages, Mike Baillie became an expert in the…
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2021 Tall el-Hammam study makes final Jeopardy! question

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False Alarm: Cornell site still protecting Napier paper

Unfortunately my tip regarding the Cornell site does not seem to work until (perhaps) the article is  actually published.  Working to find out more… “You can’t claim ownership of 1003.0744.  We do not allow people other than the authors of an article to claim ownership of an article before it has been publicly announced. Historically, some authors have given the article…
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2021 Tall el-Hammam study makes final Jeopardy! question

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Public Access: Napier's Royal Astronomical Society paper now available on web

I just heard the Napier pap(i)er providing an astronomical context for the YD event can be had on the public access site here: Cornell University Library.  I plugged in my name and am waiting for the verification code to be sent by email. I’ll try to put the paper up on Scribed — if that is within the rules.  Then you can flip through it right here at The Tusk without signing in.
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Charles Appleton Day

2021 Tall el-Hammam study makes final Jeopardy! question