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Slide show: Tusk back from Jordanian dig

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Charles Appleton Day

2021 Tall el-Hammam study makes final Jeopardy! question

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Tall el-Hammam Excavation: Tusk travels to Hashemite Kingdom in search of biblical catastrophe

Tall el-Hammam, Jordan Valley, Jordan Nice background comment from Phil Clapham — who got me into this Your correspondent has some fun news to share. The Tusk is writing from downtown Amman, Jordan, after joining Trinity Southwest University on a fabulous dig for biblical Sodom. I have been meaning for weeks to let you all in on the adventure but have been distracted more than usual by my…
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Charles Appleton Day

2021 Tall el-Hammam study makes final Jeopardy! question

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Extraordinary or ordinary?: West responds to CBS about latest paper

We agree with them that glass could be formed a lot of different ways. We don’t have a problem with that,” said Allen West, a retired oil and gas executive who is one of the leading proponents of the theory. “You can get them from grass fires but you also get melt glass from lightning, volcanic eruptions and you also get it from cosmic impacts. The trick is being…
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Charles Appleton Day

2021 Tall el-Hammam study makes final Jeopardy! question

Random TusksThe Bos & Co

Mark U. Boslough

As a rule, the Tusk is scrupulously clean of politics. There is a reference in my own blog bio to being a former conservative policy staffer in the US Senate, but that is background and not polemics. I am old fashioned and believe politics is generally if not inherently destructive of sound inquiry. The more political a scientist appears to me, the less likely I am to take him or her…
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Charles Appleton Day

2021 Tall el-Hammam study makes final Jeopardy! question

Random Tusks

Library Fire

Update: I have now re-uploaded another half dozen publications to recent posts. Slowly but surely… A disaster befell our favorite blog late this summer and for weeks I have cowered under my digital bed, pained and confused about what is to be done. While still tender, I have summoned the courage to speak of it now, will try to characterize the forward challenge, and perhaps gain some…
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Charles Appleton Day

2021 Tall el-Hammam study makes final Jeopardy! question

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University of Chicago: Nanodiamonds prove cosmic impact responsible for ancient climate change

Press Statement  Hot thread at WUWT Microscopic Diamonds Suggest Cosmic Impact Responsible for Major Period of Climate Change A new study published in The Journal of Geology provides support for the theory that a cosmic impact event over North America some 13,000 years ago caused a major period of climate change known as the Younger Dryas stadial, or “Big Freeze.” Around 12,800 years ago, a…
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Charles Appleton Day

2021 Tall el-Hammam study makes final Jeopardy! question

Panspermia

The Plait Affair: Gross contempt for one's better

Wickramasinghe and Sir Fred Hoyle Plait #1 Plait #2 Plait #3 Rebuttal Space plankton at ProfChandra Though Panspermia is not the focus of this blog, I consider the theory and body of evidence a friendly intellectual cousin to the Tusk’s Coherent Catastrophism and worthy of defense on the same grounds. Both philosophies (to use the old term) come from a place of humility in the cosmos…
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The Wickramsinghe Affair: Letter of Inquiry

Chandra Wickramasinghe, Cambridge ('60), Member of the Order of the British Empire ('22), cancelled for life lecture at Durham University: A Tusk Investigation

Charles Appleton Day

2021 Tall el-Hammam study makes final Jeopardy! question

Charles Appleton Day

2021 Tall el-Hammam study makes final Jeopardy! question

Charles Appleton Day

2021 Tall el-Hammam study makes final Jeopardy! question