The Cosmic Tusk

January 1, 2015

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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Random Tusks

November 8, 2014

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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Random Tusks

September 12, 2014

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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Panspermia

September 7, 2014

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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Random Tusks

August 31, 2014

Joanne Ballard: Amazing pics from field work in European coversands

UPDATED In response to an inquiry from the Tusk, Joanne Ballard of the University of Tennessee very graciously provided our blog the unpublished photos, field notes and narrative below from her recent trip to Netherlands. She personally inspects and samples the Usselo Boundary, or black mat of Europe. Absolutely…

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August 31, 2014

Those darn nanodiamonds again in a High-Impact journal: More hard evidence and 26 independent researchers confirm cosmic Ice Age catastrophe

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August 31, 2014

Another requiem: Holiday-Meltzer doth protest too much

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Panspermia

August 23, 2014

International Space Station: Window scum supports Wickramasinghe and Sir Fred's long contention of teeming life in space

The space station is orbiting the earth in a total vacuum, there is no air, so it is a total defiance of the laws of physics to say these organisms were blown into space from Earth. ‘The only explanation is that they have come from elsewhere in space, and this supports long-held theories that plankton, and therefore all life on Earth including humans, originated from organisms in…

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Random Tusks

August 19, 2014

Shaken not stirred: Zamora proposes ice impacts into fluidized sand surface to explain bays

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Random Tusks

August 12, 2014

Just Sayin': Not all bays were lakes

Chris Moore, Andy Ivester and other skeptics of sudden bay formation recently published a beautiful poster detailing their findings and discussing their conclusions. I was impressed and disappointed. Impressed to see thoughtful research into the bay phenomena, disappointed that it ignored our previous published work determining that at least one (and presumably many more) Carolina bays were never…

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Mark U. Boslough

Library Fire

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

The Plait Affair: Gross contempt for one's better

Joanne Ballard: Amazing pics from field work in European coversands

Those darn nanodiamonds again in a High-Impact journal: More hard evidence and 26 independent researchers confirm cosmic Ice Age catastrophe

Another requiem: Holiday-Meltzer doth protest too much

International Space Station: Window scum supports Wickramasinghe and Sir Fred's long contention of teeming life in space

Shaken not stirred: Zamora proposes ice impacts into fluidized sand surface to explain bays

Just Sayin': Not all bays were lakes

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