Mount St. Helen: Flipping through the idiot box yesterday, I came across this episode on the Mount St Helen volcano eruption that occurred in 1980 on Discovery Channel. It was totally unlike the regular volcanoes because Mount St Helens is an active stratovolcano (check it out on wiki). The episode showed real life witnesses and their experience during that time. Many of them were camping in the forests when it happened. Their escape by a helicopter was miraculou...

Did deadly space rocks slammed into Northern Canada about 13,000 years ago, triggering a mini-Ice Age?: Did deadly space rocks slammed into Northern Canada about 13,000 years ago, triggering a mini-Ice Age and the eventual extinction of the woolly mammoth and a host of other prehistoric species? Advocates of the theory site the discoveries of nanodiamonds at sites around North America as proof that a cosmic blast sent showers of shocked rock particles across the continent.