Truly bored readers must have noticed my posts trailing off this summer, just like last year. But knowledge waits for no man — even if he is on the beach with a beer. So here are a few intriguing subjects that are barking in the dog days:
Another purported ancient Mega-Tsunami is claimed by a reputable archaeologist to have swept into Ireland, this wave in Medieval times. The news…
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I have to be quick and dirty to get this up. But here are some links to a flurry of new publications, all of them letters, in PNAS this week concerning the YDB hypothesis:
1.) Age models and the Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis, Maarten Blaauw, Vance T. Holliday, Jacquelyn L. Gill, and Kathleen…
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Highly recommended reading
Below is a neat little overview of the work of Mike Baillie and others to define a cause for the worldwide climate downturns of: 3195 BC, 2354 BC, 1628 BC, 1159 BC, 207 BC, 44 BC, and 540 AD. It is found here on a website devoted to liberalizing Islam (not a bad cause itself).
Unless a modern day Twain, Mark penned this, I think we can assume the author was using a nom…
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…the Destroyer
Dr. Hermann Burchard, a gentleman Tusk reader, insightful contributor, and emeritus mathematician, suggested I post a paper regarding the Shiva Structure off Mumbai, India, the little known brother of Chicxulub. The question is whether it is a fraternal twin, or younger or older sibling. I say fraternal because it is certainly not identical. It is much larger.
I avoid…
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It occurred to me that there was no dedicated link on the Tusk to my (poorly produced) videos concerning the YDB hypothesis (mostly from conferences), and other YouTube content regarding our subject, such as full length TV shows, academic lectures, and nutty and not so nutty videos from the public.
So, for your viewing enjoyment, I am providing a permanent link to the YouTube playlist…
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The History Channel has made an entire episode of Prehistorc Megastorms concerning the Younger Dryas Boundary event available on YouTube.
UPDATE: I have also found a full BBC episode concerning the theory which I was entirely unaware of. It makes a nice level headed contrast to the breathless tedium of the History Channel show. Great to see these videos available, even when flawed, to explain the…
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I happened upon this dated but interesting video of Dr. Leland C. Bement of the University of Oklahoma lecturing on the Younger Dryas Boundary hypothesis. The audio is painfully faint, and I am still watching it, but Bement is a careful, open-minded researcher who is contributing to the investigation. I wonder how his large grant noted here is proceeding?
25:20 minutes seems to be the start of…
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I came across a well-researched and informative blog today summing up the recent findings and YDB science to date. I was so impressed by Abby Tabor’s post at Science Works Now, “New Evidence for Climate-Changing Cosmic Impact,” I have added a permanent link to her on the side-bar.
Tabor it seems was driven — shudder — to actually contact the authors on each side of…
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