Society for Interdisciplinary Studies Internet Digest ISSN 1362-7686 2000 No. 1

Editor/Compiler: Ian Tresman. 9 Ashdown Drive, Borehamwood, Herts. WD6 4LZ. UK Tel: +44 20 8953 7722. Fax: +44 20 8905 1879. Email: ian@knowledge.co.uk World Wide Web site: http://www.knowledge.co.uk/sis/ © May 2000 The Society for Interdisciplinary Studies

2000 Number 1

Contents

Our Rock Who Art in Heaven, the new book from Jacqueline Brook (see page 3)

About the SIS; How to Join Editorial .. 1 World Wide Web focus .. 2 Our Rock Who Art in Heaven .. 2 The Living Cosmos .. 2 Graham Hancock .. 3 Ebay Auction Site: Velikovskiana .. 5 When the Gods Came Down .. 5 Institute for the Study of Interdisciplinary Sciences .. 6 ONElist : NewChronology .. 7 Dance of the Planets .. 7 Out of Egypt .. 8 Bob Kobres' Research Menu .. 8 Dawn of Astronomy .. 8 The Death of Gods in Ancient Egypt .. 9 Geology and God .. 9 Comets Contagion and Contingency .. 10 Cambridge-Conference Email Network .. 11 Did Jupiter Give Birth to Uranus & Neptune? .. 11 Purple Salt & Tiny Drops of Water in Meteorites .. 11 Beowulf, or Moving Heaven and Earth .. 11 The Archaeology of Geological Catastrophes .. 12 Catastrophic Events & Mass Extinctions .. 12 Dragons in the Sky .. 12 Did Cosmic Impact Change Earth's Tilt? .. 13 Evidence of Planet Orbiting A Pair of Stars .. 13 Soddom and Gomorrah 'Found At Bottom of Dead Sea'? .. 14 Cometary Orbits Hints At Large Undiscovered Object .. 14 Thoth Catastrophics Newsletter Focus .. 15 The Absurdity of Neutron Stars .. 15 Star Words .. 16 Kronia Mailing List Focus .. 17 Prayer, Magic, and the Stars .. 17 The Vacuum, Light Speed, and the Redshift .. 17 Worlds in Collision republished .. 17 Ancient Astronomy and Celestial Divination .. 17 Unorthodox Science: past, present and future .. 18 Worlds in Collision Symposium .. 18 Anomalous Foucault pendulum .. 18 New tallest dinosaur .. 18 Wobbly World .. 19 Sightings - Astrology/Astronomy .. 19 First Light from Eros Orbit .. 19 Announcements .. 20 Lectures on the Saturn Model and Electric Universe .. 20 Proof readers wanted: earn a free CD-Rom .. 20 What's Opera Doc? Akhnaten opera .. 22