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…

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…