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Charles Appleton Day

2021 Tall el-Hammam study makes final Jeopardy! question

Random Tusks

Firestone and Topping 2001

The excitement when this scientific paper was published in 2001 was old news to me, really. I had first heard from William Topping way back in 1998. He was interested in Carolina Bays. Terribly interested. So was another scientist he said, Dr. Richard Firestone. I hit the search on Alta Vista and lo and behold, Firestone is indeed a San Francisco nuclear scientist — for the government. That…
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Charles Appleton Day

2021 Tall el-Hammam study makes final Jeopardy! question

Random Tusks

Scoop: Grad student beats major journal to the punch

It is truly disturbing to see a young grad student do a quick blog for AGU and reveal fundamentally new earth science — while the top writer for Science can sit in the 2nd row and not publish a word. Dukin’ Out the Younger Dryas Boundary: The session PP33B. Younger Dryas Boundary: Extraterrestrial Impact or Not? II was standing room only. The question: What caused the thousand plus…
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Charles Appleton Day

2021 Tall el-Hammam study makes final Jeopardy! question

Random Tusks

Video: Clovis Comet theory

Here is an informative — if breathless — YouTube clip from one of the several television programs aired in the last year or two that featured the proposed Younger Dryas event.   I am not certain of the name of this particular program — Mega Disasters “Comet Storm,” or some such.  In any event, the Cosmic Tusk is nothing if not multi-media, and we will present any…
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Charles Appleton Day

2021 Tall el-Hammam study makes final Jeopardy! question

Journal of Academic Ethics: Data vs. Derision: The Ethics of Language in Scientific Publication. The Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis as a Case Study

Martin Sweatman Drops Facinating Paper on Turkish Tepes