Dispatches From Turtle Island

 

A clever new paper uses the observational evidence from astronomy supporting Big Bang Nucleosynthesis to constrain the hypotheses of sterile...

In addition to being highly model dependent and unsupported by ancient DNA data, and hence somewhat speculative, this is really a less revol...

Astrophysics Papers Black hole physicists are skeptical of leading cosmology paradigms. The cosmological constant, cosmological inflation, a...

In MOND, due to the external field effect, you expect a bimodal distribution. In CDM is should be a more continuous distribution. SIDM shoul...

The Urnfield culture probably was a major factor spreading Celtic languages, and the Celtic languages and culture probably originated not wi...

Modern humans existed in wet tropical forests of West Africa about 150,000 years ago, contrary to the believe that humans could only survive...

I note this fact without exploring the most speculative explanations for this still unsolved problem in astrophysics and cosmology. The $10 ...

Why do we kiss? Is there an evolutionary advantage to it? This article tries to answer that question. A kiss has been a signal of special af...

Another gravity based explanation of dark matter phenomena taking an approach somewhat similar to that of Deur who is cited at endnote 11. M...

A study from 2023, that has come to my attention, convincingly argues that symbolic marking in cave painting of animals made by European hun...

Overview Anthropologists have found partial Homo erectus remains in Spain from 1.1-1.4 million years ago, adding to 1.97 million year old Ho...