[Jawlist] Weekly Science Report 7-22-16

Sun Jul 24 16:42:34 PDT 2016

*Weekly Science Report*

*July 22, 2016*

*“A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.”*

*Walter Winchell*

Introduction

Steve Detwiler created this publication with the support of Graham Hancock
and John Anthony West to share news and information on various disciplines
to include but not limited to paleontology, space sciences, genetics and
archaeology.  His goal behind sharing this publication has always been very
simple, by sharing knowledge we can make our world a better place.  This
publication is Mr. Detwiler’s contribution to bring people together and
share ideas and discoveries with his fellow humans.

I hope you enjoy this publication and that the content challenges and
inspires you!

Steve Detwiler

News Articles

*Paleontology, Evolution and Prehistoric Studies*

The world's first farmers were surprisingly diverse

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/07/worlds-first-farmers-were-surprisingly-diverse

Echoes of Ancient Cosmology Found at Prehistoric Native American Site

http://www.livescience.com/54750-prehistoric-native-american-ceremonial-site.html?utm_content=buffera71ca&utm_medium=social&utm_source=linkedin.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Discovery of 40,000-year-old Aboriginal artefacts puts Rio Tinto Pilbara
mine expansion on hold

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-05-19/pilbara-archeological-artefacts-heralded-as-very-significant/7428800?utm_content=buffer98d4f&utm_medium=social&utm_source=linkedin.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Bird research suggests calling dinosaurs may have been tight-lipped

http://phys.org/news/2016-07-bird-dinosaurs-tight-lipped.html

How China Is Rewriting the Book on Human Origins

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-china-is-rewriting-the-book-on-human-origins/?WT.mc_id=SA_FB_EVO_NEWS

1.5-million-year-old footprints reveal human ancestor walked like us

http://www.foxnews.com/science/2016/07/15/1-5-million-year-old-footprints-reveal-human-ancestor-walked-like-us.html

*History*

The World’s Oldest Working Library Will Soon Open Its Doors to the Public
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/worlds-oldest-working-library-will-soon-open-to-the-public-180959670/?no-ist

Senate Approves Carla Hayden as New Librarian Of Congress

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/07/14/485992207/senate-approves-carla-hayden-as-new-librarian-of-congress?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20160714

Did China discover America?

https://www.1843magazine.com/content/places/rosie-blau/rewriting-history-map?fsrc=scn/fb/te/bl/ed/

Should Adolf Hitler’s Family Home Be Torn Down or Turned Into a Museum?

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/adolf-hitler-birthplace-561857

Masterpieces replaced by fakes in six national galleries in treasure hunt

http://artdaily.com/news/88819/Masterpieces-replaced-by-fakes-in-six-national-galleries-in--treasure-hunt#.V44dxWdOUdW

Where women once ruled

http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2016/07/where-women-once-ruled/

Fort Necessity National Battlefield: A living, evolving lab for historical
research and interpretation

http://newsinteractive.post-gazette.com/usparks/fort-necessity-national-battlefield/?utm_campaign=Echobox&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook#link_time=1469122738

Remembering Tuskegee Airman Roscoe Brown, Educator And Civil Rights
Trailblazer

http://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2016/07/06/484792854/honoring-tuskegee-airman-roscoe-brown

The most dangerous U.S. spy you've never heard of

http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/06/us/declassified-ana-montes-american-spy-profile/?sr=fbCNN071016declassified-ana-montes-american-spy-profile1112PMStoryLink&linkId=26405842

8 Things You Didn’t Know About Nikola Tesla

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/5-things-you-didnt-know-about-nikola-tesla/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=pbsofficial&utm_campaign=newshour

The Vatican just digitized this 1,600-year-old epic

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/innovations/wp/2016/07/08/the-vatican-just-digitized-this-1600-year-old-epic/

Stage set for Colosseum to begin hosting events again after restoration

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jul/01/stage-set-colosseum-hosting-events-restoration-italy-rome

Thousands mark 21 years since Srebrenica massacre

https://www.yahoo.com/news/thousands-mark-21-years-since-srebrenica-massacre-094532241.html

Holocaust Museum to visitors: Please stop catching Pokémon here

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2016/07/12/holocaust-museum-to-visitors-please-stop-catching-pokemon-here/?tid=sm_fb

American Jews consider the unthinkable: Should they become German citizens?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2016/07/14/american-jews-consider-the-unthinkable-should-they-become-german-citizens/?tid=sm_fb

The hidden story of Borobudur

http://www.insideindonesia.org/the-hidden-story-of-borobudur

Lost Incan City, Last Refuge of Warrior Túpac Amaru, Found at Last?

http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2016/07/21/lost-incan-city-last-refuge-warrior-tupac-amaru-found-last-165225

Times are a-changing for Italian museums

http://theartnewspaper.com/news/museums/times-are-a-changing-for-italian-museums/

Where Did Chief Joseph Get His Mesopotamian Tablet?

http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2011/03/24/where-did-chief-joseph-get-his-mesopotamian-tablet-24717

Elie Wiesel and the Agony of Bearing Witness

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2016/07/elie-wiesel-holocaust/490604/?sf30707578=1

FBI gives up on DB Cooper case after 45-year investigation

http://thehill.com/homenews/287353-fbi-gives-up-on-db-cooper-case-after-45-year-investigation

*Archaeology*

On the Loss of Cultural Heritage in Quake-Ravaged Nepal

http://asianart.com/articles/heritage/

Quake-damaged cultural heritage being restored
<https://thehimalayantimes.com/nepal/quake-damaged-cultural-heritage-restored/>

https://thehimalayantimes.com/nepal/quake-damaged-cultural-heritage-restored/

Mali’s Old Towns of Djenné on List of World Heritage in Danger

http://www.unesco.org/new/en/media-services/single-view/news/le_site_des_villes_anciennes_de_djenne_mali_ajoute_a_la-1/#.V4aAZ2dOUdV

US Senator Introduces Bill to Stop Overseas Sales of Stolen Indigenous
Objects

http://hyperallergic.com/311874/us-senator-introduces-bill-to-stop-overseas-sales-of-stolen-indigenous-objects/?platform=hootsuite

In an astonishing Bronze Age discovery a 3000-year-old community has been
unearthed

http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/20/architecture/britain-pompeii-bronze-age-discovery/index.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fcnn_latest+%28RSS%3A+CNN+-+Most+Recent%29

A Secret Tunnel Found in Mexico May Finally Solve the Mysteries of
Teotihuacán

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/discovery-secret-tunnel-mexico-solve-mysteries-teotihuacan-180959070/?no-ist&utm_content=buffer64660&utm_medium=social&utm_source=linkedin.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Preserving Islamic arts for posterity

http://gulfnews.com/culture/arts/preserving-islamic-arts-for-posterity-1.1865735

Site with clues to fate of fabled Lost Colony may be saved

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/site-with-clues-to-fate-of-fabled-lost-colony-may-be-saved/2016/07/22/b15a2ebe-4fde-11e6-bf27-405106836f96_story.html

Israel find may help solve mystery of biblical Philistines

http://phys.org/news/2016-07-israel-mystery-biblical-philistines.html

Archaeology prize named after Palmyra director in Paestum

http://ht.ly/9cRp3025Qtf

UNESCO to discuss sites destroyed by ISIL, heritage list in Istanbul

http://ht.ly/A3e43025QmD

German Parliament Passes Controversial Law to Protect National Heritage
<http://artforum.com/news/id=62122>

http://artforum.com/news/id=62122

Artifact may be from long-lost pagoda, tallest ever built

http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ201607090039.html

National Park Service Helping Tribes and Museums Repatriate Native American
Remains and Sacred Objects

https://www.nps.gov/orgs/1207/07-11-2016a.htm

Digs Uncover Buildings in Cyprus' 11,000-Year-Old Village

http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/digs-uncover-buildings-cyprus-11000-year-village-40515350?yptr=yahoo

Restoring a Charles Rennie Mackintosh Architectural Gem From the Ashes

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/12/arts/design/restoring-a-charles-rennie-mackintosh-architectural-gem-from-the-ashes.html?smid=fb-share&_r=1

Four new sites inscribed on UNESCO’s World Heritage List

http://www.unesco.org/new/en/media-services/single-view/news/four_new_sites_inscribed_on_unescos_world_heritage_list-1/#.V5VMLOTD_am

Australia artefact find divides Aboriginal clans

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2016/06/australia-artefact-find-divides-aboriginal-clans-160607085641571.html

Underground Transit Projects Reveal Secrets Buried Beneath Cities

http://discovermagazine.com/2015/sept/13-city-layers

UK's best bronze age site dig ends but analysis will continue for years

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/jul/14/uks-best-bronze-age-site-must-farm-dig-ends-analyis-continue-years

*Egyptology*

It paid to be a royal servant in Ancient Egypt! Stunning tombs of pharaohs'
butlers are opened following restoration of elaborate paintings
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3589153/It-paid-royal-servant-Ancient-Egypt-Stunning-tombs-pharaohs-butlers-opened-following-restoration-elaborate-paintings.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&utm_content=buffer4bea1&utm_medium=social&utm_source=linkedin.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Egypt unveils oldest papyrus, details on pyramid-builders

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/egypt-unveils-oldest-papyrus-details-pyramid-builders-151701436.html

*General Science*

Scientists develop way to upsize nanostructures into light, flexible 3-D
printed materials

http://phys.org/news/2016-07-scientists-upsize-nanostructures-flexible-d.html

The Navy’s Future Submarines May Go to Sea with Robot Remoras

http://www.defenseone.com/technology/2016/07/navys-future-submarines-may-go-sea-robot-remoras/129966/

MoDOT, Solar Roadways Hope to Pave Future for Solar Panel Roads

http://www.ozarksfirst.com/news/modot-solar-roadways-hope-to-pave-future-for-solar-panel-roads

A Chemist Accidentally Creates A New Blue. Then What?

*http://www.npr.org/2016/07/16/485696248/a-chemist-accidentally-creates-a-new-blue-then-what?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20160716
<http://www.npr.org/2016/07/16/485696248/a-chemist-accidentally-creates-a-new-blue-then-what?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20160716>*

*Physics, Earth and Space Sciences*

NASA Accused of Cutting Live Feed of Mysterious UFO

http://miami.cbslocal.com/2016/07/13/nasa-accused-of-cutting-live-feed-of-mysterious-ufo/

China’s Space Station Is Out Of Control - And ‘Could Crash To Earth’

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/chinas-space-station-is-out-of-control-and-091639428.html

Scientists move one step closer to creating an invisibility cloak

http://phys.org/news/2016-07-scientists-closer-invisibility-cloak.html

Biggest galactic map will throw light on 'dark energy'

http://phys.org/news/2016-07-biggest-galactic-dark-energy.html

Kepler confirms more than 100 planets in single trove

http://phys.org/news/2016-07-kepler-planets-trove.html

World's most sensitive dark matter detector completes search

http://phys.org/news/2016-07-world-sensitive-dark-detector.html

Study reveals Leonardo da Vinci's 'irrelevant' scribbles mark the spot
where he first recorded the laws of friction

http://phys.org/news/2016-07-reveals-leonardo-da-vinci-irrelevant.html

Grassy Trampolines Are Appearing in Siberia’s Tundra
<http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2016/07/22/grassy-trampolines-are-appearing-in-siberias-tundra/>

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2016/07/22/grassy-trampolines-are-appearing-in-siberias-tundra/#.V5Jx0WdOUdV

This innovation could change space travel forever

http://linkis.com/theweek.com/articles/AR4u7

Oddball Planet Has 3 Sunsets

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/oddball-planet-has-3-sunsets/?WT.mc_id=SA_FB_SPC_NEWS

Cosmic carve-up: Law and plunder on the final frontier

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg23130810-400-cosmic-carveup-law-and-plunder-on-the-final-frontier/?utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=SOC&utm_campaign=hoot&cmpid=SOC%7CNSNS%7C2016-GLOBAL-hoot

Elon Musk: We Must Leave Earth For One Critical Reason

http://futurism.com/elon-musk-we-must-leave-earth-for-one-critical-reason/

NASA camera catches moon 'photobombing' Earth

http://phys.org/news/2016-07-nasa-camera-moon-photobombing-earth.html

Sierra Nevada Corp. completes first milestone on ISS commercial cargo
contract
http://spacenews.com/sierra-nevada-corp-completes-first-milestone-on-iss-commercial-cargo-contract/#sthash.3zcC8MTk.dpuf

NASA's next Mars rover progresses toward 2020 launch

http://phys.org/news/2016-07-nasa-mars-rover.html

First image released from world's super radio telescope

http://phys.org/news/2016-07-image-world-super-radio-telescope.html

Astronaut Buzz Aldrin on legacy he wants to leave behind

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/buzz-aldrin-second-man-on-moon-new-book-no-dream-is-too-high/?ftag=CNM-00-10aab6a&linkId=26630757

NASA will intentionally destroy a $1 billion spacecraft in case aliens exist

http://www.techinsider.io/nasa-destroy-1-billion-spacecraft-juno-jupiter-2016-7?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=techinsider&utm_campaign=xpromo

*Environment, Climate Change and Alternative Energy Sources*

Solar panels study reveals impact on the Earth

http://phys.org/news/2016-07-solar-panels-reveals-impact-earth.html

Scientists think they’ve just pinpointed the key driver of ice loss in
Antarctica

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2016/07/14/scientists-think-theyve-just-pinpointed-the-key-driver-of-ice-loss-in-antarctica/?tid=sm_fb

IAEA Launches New Version of Advanced Reactors Database

https://www.iaea.org/newscenter/news/iaea-launches-new-version-of-advanced-reactors-database

Wake-up call: climate change is serious threat to our heritage

http://theartnewspaper.com/news/conservation/wake-up-call-climate-change-is-serious-threat-to-our-heritage/?utm_content=buffer4edc0&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Salt-Water Fish Extinction Seen By 2048

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/salt-water-fish-extinction-seen-by-2048/

Can we feed the world without cutting forests? It can be done, says U.N.

http://news.trust.org/item/20160718122401-lylax/?source=hpOtherNews1

New Concentrating Solar Tower Is Worth Its Salt with 24/7 Power

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-concentrating-solar-tower-is-worth-its-salt-with-24-7-power/

Pacific islands nations consider world's first treaty to ban fossil fuels

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jul/14/pacific-islands-nations-consider-worlds-first-treaty-to-ban-fossil-fuels?CMP=share_btn_tw

New App Detects Rainfall, Helps 80,000 African Farmers

https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/weather-app-increase-yield-african-farmers/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_content=global&utm_campaign=general-content&linkId=26746111

Climate Change May Already Be Shifting Clouds Toward The Poles

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/07/11/485314321/climate-change-may-already-be-shifting-clouds-toward-the-poles?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20160711

*Biological, Genetics and Medical Sciences*

Mobius Bionics and SoldierStrong Team Up to Provide the LUKE Arm to Veterans

https://globenewswire.com/news-release/2016/07/14/855999/0/en/Mobius-Bionics-and-SoldierStrong-Team-Up-to-Provide-the-LUKE-Arm-to-Veterans.html

Can Trauma Be Passed From Parent to Child?

http://www.ozy.com/fast-forward/can-trauma-be-passed-from-parent-to-child/70261?utm_source=NH&utm_medium=pp&utm_campaign=pp

China tried to drive a furry mammal to extinction. Maybe that wasn’t such a
good idea.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/china-tried-to-drive-a-furry-mammal-to-extinction-maybe-that-wasnt-such-a-good-idea/2016/07/21/97759d34-3ed2-11e6-9e16-4cf01a41decb_story.html?tid=sm_fb

Doctors are performing heart surgeries via Skype. This is the harsh reality
of Syria

https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/syria-medicine-health-care-skype-doctors/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_content=global&utm_campaign=general-content&linkId=26381177

A 'bridge' of carbon between nerve tissues

http://phys.org/news/2016-07-bridge-carbon-nerve-tissues.html

This illegal practice has overtaken trophy poaching in depleting wildlife
in Zambia

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/in-sight/wp/2016/07/15/this-illegal-practice-has-overtaken-trophy-poaching-in-depleting-wildlife-in-zambia/?tid=sm_fb

A 'slow catastrophe' unfolds as the golden age of antibiotics comes to an
end

http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-antibiotic-resistance-20160711-snap-story.html

*Other*

Were There Aliens Before Us?

http://www.npr.org/sections/13.7/2016/07/14/485992587/were-there-aliens-before-us?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20160714

Status Report: 7 'Star Trek' Technologies under Development

http://www.popsci.com/star-trek-technologies-where-are-they-now

Additional Informational

The 25 Museums You Should Visit Before You Die

http://www.popularmechanics.com/adventure/g2204/best-museums-in-the-world/?src=arb_fb_d&mag=pop&dom=fb

Fighting illicit traffic of cultural property in South-East Europe- Video

*https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0k5MqzvtZc&feature=share
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0k5MqzvtZc&feature=share>*

Talks to restore your faith in humanity

*http://www.ted.com/playlists/216/talks_to_restore_your_faith_in_1?utm_campaign=social&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_content=playlist&utm_term=humanities
<http://www.ted.com/playlists/216/talks_to_restore_your_faith_in_1?utm_campaign=social&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_content=playlist&utm_term=humanities>*

*US Department of Energy, Fuel Cells*

*http://energy.gov/eere/fuelcells/fuel-cells
<http://energy.gov/eere/fuelcells/fuel-cells>*

July 2016 AOM: Ancient Egyptian Symbols: 50 New Discoveries (Abridged)

https://grahamhancock.com/meaderdemeter1/

Beatrice de Cardi, archaeologist – obituary

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2016/07/06/beatrice-de-cardi-archaeologist--obituary/

*"Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us.*

On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of,
every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our
joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and
economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every
creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young
couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and
explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every
"superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history
of our species lived there--on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers
of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and
triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot.
Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of
this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other
corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill
one another, how fervent their hatreds.

Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have
some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of
pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic
dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help
will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.

The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere
else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate.
Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is
where we make our stand.

It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building
experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human
conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores
our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve
and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known."

Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot, 1994
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