The Cosmic Summit is only three weeks, three days, away. I’m busy ordering lanyards, making the program attractive, finding good vendors, and all manner of things I am unqualified to do.
But I am also looking forward to meeting longtime digital friends in person, like Marc Young, of Adelaide, Australia. We collaborated years ago on The Bib and many, many projects before and since. I have…
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With the Cosmic Summit close to a month away, I thought it would be fun to post a bit about a speaker or two. Dr. Andrew MT Moore and Ben van Kerkwyk are first up.
Ben has been the tour leader for my trips to Egypt and recently Turkey. He is also an extraordinarily skilled YouTube science and data communicator. His three recent videos on scans he inspired of ‘pre-dynastic’ Egyptian…
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Hello old friends, new friends and others. As some are aware, the event I have been planning for a year, the Cosmic Summit 2023, has had a sudden and disappointing setback. Two of the lead speakers, Graham Hancock and Jimmy Corsetti, will not be joining us in Asheville.
Fortunately and graciously, within 72 hours of the schedule change last Thursday, TV host Scott Wolter, ancient history…
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Hello, Cosmic Tusk, good to be here and sorry to be AWOL. One good thing about having a blog for thirteen years is that readers, I trust, know that I am not going anywhere and I’m likely expressing my interest in our subjects in other ways.
But there is never an excuse not to blog, so off we go…
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My first update would concern the Tusk sponsored Cosmic Summit…
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The recent Joe Rogan episode featuring John Reeves was a wild one for the Tusk. I was both cheering my fellow boners on, while at the same time trying to climb inside my car speakers to provide these two gentlemen with a critical piece of information. Joe and John are seemingly unaware of a 2017 Comet Research Group paper in Nature’s Scientific Reports. The publication concerned our analysis…
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