First, we have an update on two previous stories then we have a bit of a theme going regarding new fossil finds and the distinction between dinosaurs and birds and report on thylacine DNA and the Pope?s personification of Satan …
15 Credibility Street #29: Amateur Hour
Trump nominates Brett Talley, an unqualified lawyer and former paranormal investigator, for Federal Court in Alabama. Being a former ghost hunter is the least of his problems.
Bigfoot gets another ?official? name: Kryptopithecus gimlinpattersonorum. What does this …
Not a dinosaur!
A story put forward in November (and posted to our Facebook page) is recirculating again via dubious sensationalist media reports.
Is this a dinosaur? Remains of T-rex-like ?animal? found in Uttarakhand?s Jaspur (Dated November 17, 2017.)
It?s now appearing in …
15 Credibility Street #30: Bear with us, yeti again
This episode has two cryptozoologically-themed topics. We have a follow-up on the Bigfoot-naming show from last episode and there is a new paper about Yeti DNA just out that is not making cryptozoologists too happy.
See the comments on this …
[GGP] The Many Sides of the Fracking Debate
In his recent Columbia University Press book The Fracking Debate: The Risks, Benefits and Uncertainties of the Shale Revolution, Daniel Raimi examines various perspectives on the U.S. shale revolution. The debate has pitted proponents of who point to fracking as …
Russian Novatek 2017 Gas Sales Up, Output Down
Summary
Novatek produced 63.39bn m³ of natural gas in 2017, just 0.5% above the year before, as the start-up of LNG exports from the first train at Yamal LNG began in December.
by: William Powell
Algeria’s In Amenas at Full Capacity
Summary
Production from the In Amenas gas field complex reached almost 9bn m3 last year, according to state media, five years after it was attacked by Islamist militants.
by: Mark Smedley
The Gorgeous Stupidity of Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
Valerian is a plant whose root has for centuries been cultivated for its medicinal properties. It absolutely stinks but is supposed to put you to sleep. That anybody would name a movie after valerian is therefore extremely brave and perhaps
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Street repairs in Sofia: The big mess will drag on into October
The driver of the TM20 bus, which is replacing tram line no. 20, is sweating like a horse, as he stops his decades old vehicle at a newly installed, provisional bus stop on Boulevard Yanko Sakazov in Sofia. …
Court to examine application to extradite Bulgarian village mayor to Spain on people-trafficking charges
The Regional Court in the Bulgarian town of Pazardzhik was due on July 13 to examine an application to extradite to Spain the mayor of the village of Semchinovo, Plamen Temelkov, and six other people to face charges …