The Cosmic Tusk

December 3, 2012

Mayan Match: Baillie discovers correlation between ice core chemistry spikes and Mayan Long Count Calendar

Mayan Calendar A Mike Baillie fan passed along this fascinating discovery last week and I hoisted the paper to the Tusk immediately. Mike is on to something mighty interesting. Nowhere has anyone noted the corellation between the two early Mayan “Baktun” transitions and spikes in ice core chemistry from Greenland. Calendrical genius that he is, Mike even reverse engineers the…

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November 19, 2012

Clovis Comet paper #1 read article in Geology

The wisdom of crowds is comforting. Despite the near total news blackout of the recent developments related to our subject, readers have shot Anders Carlson’s 2010 free paper, What Caused the Younger Dryas Cold Event?, to the top of the Most Read articles in the journal Geology. I am not surprised. This is an absolutely fascinating subject and normal people are roaming around reading all…

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November 17, 2012

Honorable Mention: Clovis Comet in Natural History

Nice blurb in Natural History Magazine this month. Still not sure if there is a longer article behind it in the print or on-line editions. Perhaps not, which would be a shame because Natural History is a fine magazine. It was one of those magazines you could buy when there were still bookstores where you browsed them. Since that is over in our neighborhood these days, with the closing of the…

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November 11, 2012

Davias at Charlotte GSA: The Poster

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November 8, 2012

Exaggerated Reports of My Demise

E.P. Grondine was kind to contact me this morning with a thoughtful “Is everything OK?” query. Emphatically yes, and that is the problem. My business and civic life, as balanced with young family, have been all consuming for me of late. Our company just signed a very, very large contract and I have recently been appointed Vice Chair of the newly formed North Carolina Mining and…

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September 22, 2012

2012 Slow Green Fireball Train in UK: Satellite or Meteor Break-Up?

I hate being dragged into these “modern” reports, since the Tusk specializes about this kind of stuff in the ancient past. But the UK event yesterday was really, really cool and I have posted before on these slow greenish fireballs. Because of the unusually long duration and slow movement, some people have suggested the possibility of a satellite reentry. For various reasons, this is…

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September 20, 2012

Unfiltered: Surovell - Holliday in PNAS, 2009

To a great degree the Tusk itself was a response to my frustration with Todd Surovell and Vance Holliday’s botched 2009 PNAS journal article, “An independent evaluation of the Younger Dryas extraterrestrial impact hypothesis,“ published three months before this blog began. Despite my early understanding of the sloppy work of the authors, however, I did not have the data or…

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September 19, 2012

Breaking: Ducks join Gamecocks with press release calling out Surovell, et al. 2009

Today’s press release from the University of Oregon complimenting yesterday’s from the University of South Carolina. Surovell, et. al 2009 has another serious challenge here. Challengers to Clovis-age impact theory missed key protocols, new study finds EUGENE, Ore. — (Sept. 18, 2012) — An interdisciplinary team of scientists from seven U.S. institutions says a…

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September 18, 2012

PNAS: Five-Year study rips spear from back of YDB hypothesis

https://cosmictusk.com/wp-content/uploads/Independent-evaluation-of-conflicting-microspherule-results-from-different-investigations-of-the-Younger-Dryas-impact-hypothesis.pdf Working on getting the paper. [Update: Got it above} This appears to be the long hoped for independent, intentional, blind, professional and reproducible confirmation of the original 2007 findings of the…

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September 11, 2012

Again, again, again, again -- and AGAIN!: Jupiter impacts continue to defy NASA estimates

LIVE UPDATE: See here to watch tonight for the potential scar of the impact. The Tusk focuses laser-like on impacts experienced by ancient humans. But when called for, I share items from current events that prove our thesis that the rate of cosmic collisions is far greater than generally acknowledged by science (and NASA). Yesterday the impossibly improbable happened once more on…

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Mayan Match: Baillie discovers correlation between ice core chemistry spikes and Mayan Long Count Calendar

Clovis Comet paper #1 read article in Geology

Honorable Mention: Clovis Comet in Natural History

Davias at Charlotte GSA: The Poster

Exaggerated Reports of My Demise

2012 Slow Green Fireball Train in UK: Satellite or Meteor Break-Up?

Unfiltered: Surovell - Holliday in PNAS, 2009

Breaking: Ducks join Gamecocks with press release calling out Surovell, et al. 2009

PNAS: Five-Year study rips spear from back of YDB hypothesis

Again, again, again, again -- and AGAIN!: Jupiter impacts continue to defy NASA estimates

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