March 2012

March 31, 2012

YDB impact researchers cite confirmations in recent PNAS paper

The PNAS paper has a helpful bibliography of recent publications supportive of the hypothesis. It’s worth a separate block quote below. Nice how the links take you to the cites themselves at the PNAS website. “Some independent workers have been unable to reproduce earlier YDB results for MSp, CSp, and NDs (6⇓–8), as summarized in a “News Focus” piece in Science (9)…

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March 29, 2012

Davias Presents to Geological Society of America on Carolina Bays

I am trying to get the Powerpoint from Michael Davias, which I will post. I am sure it is very, very cool. His website is here: http://cintos.org/ Goldsboro Ridge: How does a lake form on a hill? SURFICIAL QUARTZ SAND DEPOSITS ON THE ATLANTIC COASTAL PLAIN: EOLIAN, FLUVIAL OR MARINE? THE CASE FOR A CATASTROPHIC DELIVERY MECHANISM DAVIAS, Michael, Cintos Research, 1381 Hope…

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March 24, 2012

Mars impact plume?

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March 18, 2012

Beeb Radio: Boslough and Kennett discuss new evidence from Mexico

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March 17, 2012

No Bull: Wall Street Journal's Matt Ridley Covers Clovis Comet

I’m at home struggling with the flu, but this certainly perked me up. I have read every edition of the Journal since 1989. What a thrill. Saturday, March 17, 2012 A Global-Cooling Theory Gets a Second Chance By MATT RIDLEY Scientists, it’s said, behave more like lawyers than philosophers. They do not so much test their theories as prosecute their cases, seeking supportive evidence…

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March 16, 2012

Reading Material from Sunken Civ at Free Republic

Sunken Civ, The moderator of the Gods, Graves and Glyphs board at Free Republic, keeps a nice list of articles on hand concerning our subject and related matters, and reprints it each time there is some news. He has done such a good job keeping it up I am going to make a ‘stand-alone” page of it. But in the meantime, here is a look back at some of the press Sunken Civ has…

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March 15, 2012

YDB Co-Author Profile: Paul S. DeCarli

Paul DeCarli Nick Pinter claims here that diamonds were misidentified in earlier YDB studies. The paper this month was Paul DeCarli’s first formal appearance with the YDB team but his presence as a co-author undermines Pinter’s accusation. DeCarli is a diamond pro. And more importantly he is an eager scientist more given to discovery than criticism. I have seen the old fellow out…

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March 15, 2012

Unattributed Silly Cartoon

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March 6, 2012

UCSB Press Release

From a University of California – Santa Barbara Press Release: “In the entire geologic record, there are only two known continent-wide layers with abundance peaks in nanodiamonds, impact spherules, and aciniform soot. These are in the 65-million-year-old Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary layer that coincided with major extinctions, including the dinosaurs and ammonites; and the Younger…

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March 5, 2012

Tree falls in forest and one hand claps: Science press picks up Mexican Black Mat study

This just in from Popular Science, link here. Massive Extraterrestrial Rock Hit Earth 13 Millennia Ago, According to Nano-Evidence About 13,000 years ago, a chunk of a comet or asteroid hurtled into the atmosphere at a shallow angle, superheating the atmosphere around it as it careened toward the surface. The air grew hot enough to ignite plant material and melt rock below the object’s flight…

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YDB impact researchers cite confirmations in recent PNAS paper

Davias Presents to Geological Society of America on Carolina Bays

Mars impact plume?

Beeb Radio: Boslough and Kennett discuss new evidence from Mexico

No Bull: Wall Street Journal's Matt Ridley Covers Clovis Comet

Reading Material from Sunken Civ at Free Republic

YDB Co-Author Profile: Paul S. DeCarli

Unattributed Silly Cartoon

UCSB Press Release

Tree falls in forest and one hand claps: Science press picks up Mexican Black Mat study

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