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RIP Charles Appleton

The trust-but-verify ancient history crowd was devastated last month by the passing of indefatigable YouTube science communicator Charles Appleton. I took it hard like many. But I feel particularly sorry upon his death, and a bit guilty. Not long before Chuck died, I responded to a tweet from LasVegApps with this: WTF?! Have you run out of mysteries or something? Good god man this is a lifelong…
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RIP: Theodore "Ted" Bunch of the Comet Research Group

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CatastrophismOther Ancient Impacts

The ~335 AD Hopewell Airburst Event in Ohio

Meteorites, silicious vesicular melt glass, Fe and Si-rich magnetic spherules, positive Ir and Pt anomalies, and burned charcoal-rich Hopewell habitation surfaces demonstrate that a cosmic airburst event occurred over the Ohio River valley during the late Holocene. A comet-shaped earthwork was constructed near the airburst epicenter. Twenty-nine radiocarbon ages demonstrate that the event…
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Key paper reveals the astonishing cosmic secret behind "Boneyard Alaska"

Comet Research Group member Marc Young presents at Flinders U

CatastrophismPopular PressYounger Dryas Impact Evidence

Smoking Gun: Fifty years of study by Bill Napier et al. vindicated in new paper

Napier on the Tusk 2010 Napier on The Bos 2013 Tusk Interviews Napier 2015 Napier on Orbital Fragmentation 2019 Daily Mail A comprehensive study of the Taurid meteor stream released last week confirms a central understanding of astronomer Dr. Bill Napier and the Comet Research Group, which was incorporated into the YDI hypothesis from the start in 2007. A large comet has been fragmenting in solar…
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NYT: 6000 word Sunday feature article on the YDI and Comet Research Group

Comet Research Group kicks off new journal with blockbuster papers

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#PebbleGate

#ImageForensics Some potential repetitive parts in the corner of Figure 15 of that recent @SciReports paper about an asteroid that destroyed Tall el-Hammam (biblical city of Sodom?).https://t.co/wtZbnXOTrH pic.twitter.com/qGHRwDzKjr — Elisabeth Bik (@MicrobiomDigest) September 29, 2021 [pdfjs-viewer…
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Younger Dryas trigger: Cosmic Impacts or Volcanoes?

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Tall el-Hammam paper gains intense global attention

The Tusk is on another adventure, but I wanted to get out a quick follow-up to last week’s post announcing the Tall el-Hammam paper in Scientific Reports. For the time being, arguably, its the most read scientific paper on earth. This week 250,000 people have read the actual paper on the Nature website itself. Click for more metrics. [pdfjs-viewer…
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#Pebblegate over; Tall el-Hammam paper remains published

CatastrophismOther Ancient ImpactsPopular Press

Cosmic airburst of biblical proportions revealed by Comet Research Group

230,000 read actual paper first week Worlds Most Popular science pub? CRG press release The Conversation UC Santa Barbara Daily Mail A few of my photos This is an easy Monday post. The Tusk was a minor co-author of a paper with extraordinary implications for science and faith published today in Nature’s Scientific Reports. The lengthy journal article has been under development since 2014…
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NYT: 6000 word Sunday feature article on the YDI and Comet Research Group

Key paper reveals the astonishing cosmic secret behind "Boneyard Alaska"

Charles Appleton Day

2021 Tall el-Hammam study makes final Jeopardy! question

The Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis: A Guide for the Perplexed: Marc Young provides a six-part counter-gallop

Scientific Reports: Melted platinum found in Florida swamp marks Younger Dryas cataclysm; Temps reached >3214­°F

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Teaching the Younger Dryas Impact

The Tusk has characteristically hit a summer communication drought. But that doesn’t mean we can’t toss up a YouTube here and there from the coast. It’s welcome to see college courses fully integrating the Younger Dryas Impact into their thinking about the Younger Dryas and climate change. Here’s a great effort from Middlebury College. Gotta love this guy’s building…
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Video Round-up and the Foxhole

Comet Research Group kicks off new journal with blockbuster papers

CoronavirusDisease from SpacePanspermia

Steele et al. (2021)

In a review of all the relevant key evidence the most parsimonious explanation seems to be that COVID-19 came from space [2,3], just as have many other similar suddenly emergent pandemics past and recent: such as the Spanish Flu 1918-1919 and the other pandemics that punctuate history over millennia, and in particular over the best documented period over the past 100 years spanning the 20th and…
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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