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Paper: Abbott, D.H., McCafferty, P., et al. (2025). “New Data from a Round, Deep Basin in the Russian Heartland: The Smerdyachee Basin as a Prospective Impact Crater.” Airbursts and Cratering Impacts Link: https://www.scienceopen.com/hosted-document?doi=10.14293/ACI.2025.0002...
We wrapped up Cosmic Summit 2025 five weeks ago and I’m still stunned. It was a wonderful event. For me, it exceeded ‘23 and ‘24 and matured once again exponentially as a intellectual force. More...
Daily Mail Spotlights Groundbreaking Giza Discovery — Revealed at Cosmic Summit 2025 This week, the Daily Mail published a remarkable article that has begun to shake the foundations of Egyptology. The piece, authored by science...
Whew. The Tusk is relieved to have my first ever stage production/lecture series/brain party/mass sleepover/international fly-in/livestream/video-on-demand/plus five meals for hundreds completed. I’ve been to plenty of public gatherings, but I have never, ever organized such...
Tusk buddy Micah Hanks is the opening speaker eleven days from now at the Cosmic Summit 2023, at 8:15 AM eastern, Saturday, June 17th. Micah is also the Co-Founding Publisher and the Editor-in-Chief of The...
Update Jan 20th 2025: Marc Young does not and has never called himself a “Cosmoarchaeologist”. He coined the term “Geo-cosmic Archaeologist” in this 2022 essay published in the Flinders University Archaeology and History Society’s journal...
With the Cosmic Summit close to a month away, I thought it would be fun to post a bit about a speaker or two. Dr. Andrew MT Moore and Ben van Kerkwyk are first up....
Hello old friends, new friends and others. As some are aware, the event I have been planning for a year, the Cosmic Summit 2023, has had a sudden and disappointing setback. Two of the lead...
Hello, Cosmic Tusk, good to be here and sorry to be AWOL. One good thing about having a blog for thirteen years is that readers, I trust, know that I am not going anywhere and...
After 28 years of fascination with this subject, I've now completely lost my mind and gone all in.