After reading various books and listening to interviews and podcasts, it seems that there is a high barrier to entry in this field.  When new people want to understand and contribute to paranormal research, they each have to go back to the beginning of the field and try to catch up on what the veterans already know.  At that rate, each contributor spends many years on background and may be discouraged before the get to make a contribution.

Properties of Light

• http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2012/04/light-bends-by-itself.html

Nature of Time

• http://andersoninstitute.com/time.html

Ice Free History of Antarctica

• http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v458/n7236/full/nature07867.html

Role of Viruses in Seeding Life and Evolution

• http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16476498
• http://www.panspermia.org/panfluenza.htm

Genetic Differences Between Humans and Chimps

• Georgia Institute of Technology (2012, August 23). Human-chimp genetic differences: New insights into why humans are more susceptible to cancer and other diseases. ScienceDaily. Retrieved March 2, 2013, from http://www.sciencedaily.com­/releases/2012/08/120823142735.htm
• American Society of Human Genetics (2012, November 6). Humans, chimpanzees and monkeys share DNA but not gene regulatory mechanisms. ScienceDaily. Retrieved March 2, 2013, from http://www.sciencedaily.com­/releases/2012/11/121106201124.htm

• Britten, R.J. 2002. ‘Divergence between samples of chimpanzee and human DNA sequences is 5% counting indels.’ Proceedings National Academy Science 99:13633-13635. Back (1) Back (2)
• Gagneux, P. and Varki, A. 2001. ‘Genetic differences between humans and great apes.’ Mol Phylogenet Evol 18:2-13. Back (1) Back (2)
• Kakuo, S., Asaoka, K. and Ide, T. 1999. ‘Human is a unique species among primates in terms of telomere length.’ Biochem Biophys Res Commun 263:308-314. Back
• Gibbons, A. 1998. ‘Which of our genes make us human?’ Science 281:1432-1434. Back
• Archidiacono, N., Storlazzi, C.T., Spalluto, C., Ricco, A.S., Marzella, R., Rocchi, M. 1998. ‘Evolution of chromosome Y in primates.’ Chromosoma 107:241-246. Back
• Fujiyama, A., Watanabe, H., Toyoda, A., Taylor, T.D., Itoh, T., Tsai, S.F., Park, H.S., Yaspo, M.L., Lehrach, H., Chen, Z., Fu, G., Saitou, N., Osoegawa, K., de Jong, P.J., Suto, Y., Hattori, M., and Sakaki, Y. 2002. ‘Construction and analysis of a Human-Chimpanzee Comparative Clone Map.’ Science 295:131-134. Back (1) Back (2)
• Knight, A., Batzer, M.A., Stoneking, M., Tiwari, H.K., Scheer, W.D., Herrera, R.J., and Deninger, P.L. 1996. ‘DNA sequences of Alu elements indicate a recent replacement of the human autosomal genetic complement.’ Proc. Natl Acad Sci USA 93:4360-4364. Back
• Heyer, E., Zietkeiwicz, E., Rochowski, A., Yotova, V., Puymirat, J., and Labuda D. 2001. ‘Phylogenetic and familial estimates of mitochondrial substitution rates: study of control region mutation in deep-rooting pedigrees.’ Am J Hum Genet 69:1113-1126. Back (1) Back (2)
• Sigurgardottir, S., Helgason, A., Gulcher, J.R., Stefansson, K., and Donnelly P. 2000. ‘The mutation rate in the human mtDNA control region.’ Am J Hum Genet 66:1599-1609. Back (1) Back (2)
• Parsons T.J., Muniec, D.S., Sullivan, K., Woodyatt, N., Alliston-Greiner, R., Wilson, M.R., Berry, D.L., Holland, K.A., Weedn, V.W., Gill, P., and M.M. Holland. 1997. A high observed substitution rate in the human mitochondrial DNA control region. Nat. Genet. 15:363-368. Back

Origin of Humans

• University of Arizona (2013, March 4). Human Y chromosome much older than previously thought. ScienceDaily. Retrieved March 5, 2013, from http://www.sciencedaily.com­/releases/2013/03/130305145821.htm
• Washington University in St. Louis (2010, October 28). Modern humans emerged far earlier than previously thought, fossils from China suggest. ScienceDaily. Retrieved March 6, 2013, from http://www.sciencedaily.com­/releases/2010/10/101025172924.htm
• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2012, August 20). Lao skull earliest example of modern human fossil in Southeast Asia.ScienceDaily. Retrieved March 6, 2013, from http://www.sciencedaily.com­/releases/2012/08/120820152204.htm

Geology of Lost Micro Contents

•  “continent fragments continued to wander almost exactly over the Reunion plume, which explains how they were covered by volcanic rock”  from Helmholtz Centre Potsdam – GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences (2013, February 22). Fragments of continents hidden under lava in Indian Ocean: New micro-continent detected under Reunion and Mauritius.ScienceDaily. Retrieved March 2, 2013, from http://www.sciencedaily.com­/releases/2013/02/130224142725.htm