[Jawlist] Weekly Science Report 9-9-16

Sat Sep 10 20:59:46 PDT 2016

*Weekly Science Report*

*September 9, 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*

Prehistoric Tattoos Were Made with Volcanic Glass Tools

http://www.livescience.com/55289-prehistoric-tattoos-made-with-glass-tools.html?utm_content=buffer325e3&utm_medium=social&utm_source=linkedin.com&utm_campaign=buffer

How did prehistoric humans occupy the Tibetan Plateau?

http://phys.org/news/2016-09-prehistoric-humans-occupy-tibetan-plateau.html

How China is rewriting the book on human origins

http://www.nature.com/news/how-china-is-rewriting-the-book-on-human-origins-1.20231?utm_content=buffer7903d&utm_medium=social&utm_source=linkedin.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Scientists find 3.7 billion-year-old fossil, oldest yet

https://www.yahoo.com/news/scientists-3-7-billion-old-fossil-oldest-yet-172228446.html

*History*

Burnswark's bloody Roman history becomes clearer

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-south-scotland-37194266?ref=yfp

Tuskegee Airman, Martin Luther King Jr. Bodyguard Dies at 93

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/09/05/492722499/tuskegee-airman-martin-luther-king-jr-bodyguard-dies-at-93

Exhibition documents 'hidden Holocaust' of WWII

http://www.post-gazette.com/life/lifestyle/2016/09/02/Exhibition-documents-hidden-Holocaust-of-WWII/stories/201609020066

The Long-Lasting Legacy of the Great Migration
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/long-lasting-legacy-great-migration-180960118/?no-ist

A Ranger, a Field of Wildflowers and the Retelling of Flight 93

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/04/us/a-ranger-a-field-of-wildflowers-and-the-retelling-of-flight-93.html?_r=0

Was U.S. Marshal Bass Reeves the real Lone Ranger?

https://www.policeone.com/police-heroes/articles/6408028-Police-History-Was-U-S-Marshal-Bass-Reeves-the-real-Lone-Ranger/

Why the Founder of Standing Rock Sioux Camp Can’t Forget the Whitestone
Massacre

http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2016/09/03/why-founder-standing-rock-sioux-camp-cant-forget-whitestone-massacre-165672

Half-Indian 'elephant whisperer' crowned Miss Japan

https://www.yahoo.com/news/half-indian-elephant-whisperer-crowned-miss-japan-131313602.html

The 100-Year-Old Carve-Up Bleeding the Middle East Today

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/09/04/the-100-year-old-carve-up-bleeding-the-middle-east-today.html?source=TDB&via=FB_Page

How to Preserve Cultural Memory in the Digital Age

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/abby-smith-rumsey/culture-memory-digital_b_10357622.html

Cardinal Burke, anti-Muslim crusader

http://religionnews.com/2016/09/07/cardinal-burke-anti-muslim-crusader/

Female WWII pilots were barred from Arlington. Not anymore.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/md-politics/female-wwii-pilots-were-barred-from-arlington-not-anymore/2016/05/20/5bddff46-1ec0-11e6-9c81-4be1c14fb8c8_story.html

13th century Maya codex, long shrouded in controversy, proves genuine

http://phys.org/news/2016-09-13th-century-maya-codex-shrouded.html

Eerie evidence Amelia Earhart died a castaway
<http://nypost.com/2016/09/09/amelia-earhart-survived-her-plane-crash-new-evidence-suggests/>

http://nypost.com/2016/09/09/amelia-earhart-survived-her-plane-crash-new-evidence-suggests/

The story of twins who endured Josef Mengele, the Nazi ‘Angel of Death’

https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/the-story-of-twins-who-endured-josef-mengele-the-nazi-angel-of-death/2016/08/29/f0cf7cac-492b-11e6-acbc-4d4870a079da_story.html

Pre-Hispanic Mexican civilization may have bred and managed rabbits and
hares

http://phys.org/news/2016-08-pre-hispanic-mexican-civilization-bred-rabbits.html

Stone tools tell story of intrepid Polynesian mariners

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-07-05/polynesian-maritime-network-revealed-by-tools/7567652?site=science/news&utm_content=buffer34073&utm_medium=social&utm_source=linkedin.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Mussolini message to future revealed under Rome obelisk

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-37230455?ocid=socialflow_facebook&ns_mchannel=social&ns_campaign=bbcnews&ns_source=facebook

Jewish avengers unapologetic for targeting Nazis after WWII

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2016/08/31/jewish-avengers-unapologetic-for-targeting-nazis-after-wwii.html

Hitler’s Nazi Holiday Resort Turned into Luxury Flats

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/nazi-coastal-resort-turned-luxury-flats-637058

Joe Hosteen Kellwood, a Navajo code talker during WWII, dies

http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/07/us/navajo-code-talker-joe-hosteen-kellwood-obit/index.html?sr=fbCNN090716navajo-code-talker-joe-hosteen-kellwood-obit0915AMStoryLink&linkId=28465470

The long, steady decline of literary reading

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/09/07/the-long-steady-decline-of-literary-reading/?tid=sm_fb

DNA confirms cause of 1665 London's Great Plague

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-37287715

*Archaeology*

Assisi basilica declared safe after fatal earthquake strikes central Italy

http://theartnewspaper.com/news/news/assisi-basilica-declared-safe-after-earthquake-shakes-central-italy-/

New picture emerges on human settlement of Madagascar

http://popular-archaeology.com/issue/summer-2016/article/new-picture-emerges-on-human-settlement-of-madagascar?utm_content=buffer58883&utm_medium=social&utm_source=linkedin.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Researchers validate ancient astronomical structures

http://phys.org/news/2016-08-validate-ancient-astronomical.html

What is the Cost of Preserving the Past?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04542nk

Human bones found near former Nazi research site in Berlin

https://www.yahoo.com/news/human-bones-found-near-former-nazi-research-berlin-101317998.html

Secret tunnel found in Hittite capital

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/secret-tunnel-found-in-hittite-capital-.aspx?pageID=238&nid=103034&NewsCatID=375&utm_content=buffer1dba3&utm_medium=social&utm_source=linkedin.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Timbers Unearthed in Wales May Be Neolithic Log Boat

http://www.archaeology.org/news/4803-160830-wales-log-boat

How Ancient Greek Statues Really Looked: Research Reveals their Bold,
Bright Colors and Patterns
<http://www.openculture.com/2016/09/how-ancient-greek-statues-really-looked.html>

http://www.openculture.com/2016/09/how-ancient-greek-statues-really-looked.html

Protecting antiquities in Syria and Libya from Islamic State

http://ht.ly/rYW5303V0O9

Only Portrait of William Shakespeare Painted From Life to Be Cleaned for
First Time

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/shakespeare-portrait-cleaned-risking-losing-beard-634475

Ancient seeds to be resurrected

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/ancient-seeds-to-be-resurrected-.aspx?PageID=238&NID=103555&NewsCatID=375

*Why should cultural artefacts be more rooted than people?*

http://theconversation.com/why-should-cultural-artefacts-be-more-rooted-than-people-63954

Feature: Greece strives to preserve underwater antiquities

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2016-08/29/c_135643152.htm?platform=hootsuite

Prehistoric Cochno Stone unearthed near housing estate

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-37290979

Jewish Prophet's Tomb at Risk from IS in Iraq

http://www.voanews.com/a/jewish-prophets-tomb-risk-islamic-state-iraq/3496299.html

*Egyptology*

Scientists unearth centuries-old crocodile stone

http://phys.org/news/2016-09-scientists-unearth-centuries-old-crocodile-stone.html

Egypt CANNOT afford to search for ancient treasures as it closes historic
museums

http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/703854/Egypt-cannot-afford-search-ancient-treasures-closes-historic-museums?utm_content=buffera8307&utm_medium=social&utm_source=linkedin.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Does Chinese Civilization Come From Ancient Egypt?

http://foreignpolicy.com/2016/09/02/did-chinese-civilization-come-from-ancient-egypt-archeological-debate-at-heart-of-china-national-identity/

*General Science*

Africa Will Build The Future Says Zuckerberg, Visits Kenya On First African
Trip

*http://www.forbes.com/sites/tobyshapshak/2016/09/01/africa-will-build-the-future-says-zuckerberg-visits-kenya-on-first-african-trip/#435bddc85214
<http://www.forbes.com/sites/tobyshapshak/2016/09/01/africa-will-build-the-future-says-zuckerberg-visits-kenya-on-first-african-trip/#435bddc85214>*

There’s a New Approach to Quantum Computing: Microwave Signals

*http://futurism.com/theres-a-new-approach-to-quantum-computing-microwave-signals/
<http://futurism.com/theres-a-new-approach-to-quantum-computing-microwave-signals/>*

EXCLUSIVE: Google, Singularity visionary Ray Kurzweil on the amazing future
he sees — thanks to tech

http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2016/09/06/exclusive-google-singularity-visionary-ray.html?utm_content=buffer3146b&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter-su&utm_campaign=buffer

*Physics, Earth and Space Sciences*

All Aboard the Most Tricked Out Science Ship in America

https://www.wired.com/2016/08/aboard-tricked-science-ship-america/?mbid=social_twitter

SpaceX Rocket Explodes On Launch Pad

http://www.wmfe.org/spacex-rocket-explodes-on-launch-pad/63622

Turns out that mysterious signal SETI found is almost certainly not aliens

http://www.blastr.com/2016-9-1/turns-out-mysterious-signal-seti-found-almost-certainly-not-aliens?utm_campaign=trueAnthem:+Trending+Content&utm_content=57c86ca204d301627ace1d70&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=facebook

Rosetta's missing Philae probe found in dark crack on comet

https://www.yahoo.com/news/rosettas-missing-philae-probe-found-dark-crack-comet-151755515.html

Young men knocking over unique rock formation in Oregon

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/caught-on-tape-young-men-knocking-over-unique-rock-formation-in-oregon/ar-AAiwtI2

The hunt for Planet Nine reveals some strange, far-out objects

http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-planet-nine-objects-snap-story.html

NASA Trek Talks at Mission New York

http://www.startrek.com/article/nasa-trek-talks-at-mission-new-york

Super-resolution microscope builds 3-D images by mapping negative space

http://phys.org/news/2016-09-super-resolution-microscope-d-images-negative.html

A Teen Might Pick The Landing Site For NASA's Next Mars Rover

http://www.npr.org/2016/09/04/492260860/a-teen-might-pick-the-landing-site-for-nasas-next-mars-rover?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20160904

NASA may need to reroute Curiosity rover to avoid contaminating potential
water site

http://www.blastr.com/2016-9-9/nasa-may-need-reroute-curiosity-rover-avoid-contaminating-potential-water-site

NASA wants to send a submarine into the largest ocean on Saturn's moon Titan

http://www.blastr.com/2016-8-30/nasa-wants-send-submarine-largest-ocean-saturns-moon-titan?utm_campaign=trueAnthem:+Trending+Content&utm_content=57c6564304d3011540f8a334&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=facebook

Scientists working on real-life 'hibernation' tech to send future colonists
to Mars

http://www.blastr.com/2016-8-30/scientists-working-real-life-hibernation-tech-send-future-colonists-mars?utm_campaign=trueAnthem:+Trending+Content&utm_content=57c5f3d204d30148cdf328ae&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=facebook

*Environment, Climate Change and Alternative Energy Sources*

A tale of more cities: Are we reducing our impact on the Earth by sharing
it?

http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2016/0826/A-tale-of-more-cities-Are-we-reducing-our-impact-on-the-Earth-by-sharing-it

How One Audio Archivist Works To Preserve Yellowstone's Iconic Sounds

http://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2016/08/22/audio-archivist-yellowstone

Human induced climate change has been going on longer than you think

https://www.wired.com/2016/08/human-induced-climate-change-going-longer-think/

Meet Luigi the Poopbot

https://www.wired.com/2016/08/luigi-poopbot-scrape-sewers/?mbid=social_twitter

Costa Rica Is Trying to Go a Year Without Fossil Fuels

https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/costa-rica-renewable-energy-fossil-fuels/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_content=global&utm_campaign=general-content&linkId=28301791

Leading insurers tell G20 to stop funding fossil fuels by 2020

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/aug/30/leading-insurers-tell-g20-to-stop-funding-fossil-fuels-by-2020?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

A Trip Back In Time: Big Cypress National Preserve

http://wlrn.org/post/trip-back-time-big-cypress-national-preserve

Eastern Gorilla Gets Added to Critically Endangered List

http://www.nbcnews.com/science/environment/eastern-gorilla-gets-added-critically-endangered-list-n642686?cid=sm_fb

Future climate change field test doesn't make Earth greener

https://apnews.com/b5a9c111f525437f887489cc8b89f25f/Future-climate-change-field-test-doesn't-make-Earth-greener

Taboos and ancient traditions help one community protect Kenya's forests

http://news.trust.org/item/20160905134717-zjc33/

What is Africa’s “Great Green Wall”?

http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2016/09/economist-explains?fsrc=scn/fb/te/bl/ed/whatisafricasgreatgreenwall

The farm that runs without sun, soil or water

http://edition.cnn.com/2016/09/05/world/aerofarms-indoor-farming/index.html

The Strike That Shook America

http://www.history.com/news/the-strike-that-shook-america-100-years-ago?cmpid=Social_FBPAGE_HISTORY_20160906_563724720&linkId=28357832

The Next Generation of Solar Panels

http://energy.gov/articles/next-generation-solar-panels

New wave energy device to be developed in Pembrokeshire

http://www.walesonline.co.uk/business/business-news/new-wave-energy-device-developed-11846964

*Biological, Genetics and Medical Sciences*

Ants trapped in nuclear bunker are developing their own society

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2104632-ants-trapped-in-nuclear-bunker-are-developing-their-own-society/?utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=Echobox&utm_source=Facebook&utm_term=Autofeed&cmpid=SOC%7cNSNS%7c2016-Echobox#link_time=1473097129

*Other*

Is It Possible to Measure Supernatural or Paranormal Phenomena?

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-it-possible-to-measure-supernatural-or-paranormal-phenomena/?WT.mc_id=SA_FB_MB_NEWS

Society Is Doomed, Say Scientists

http://www.seeker.com/society-is-doomed-say-scientists-1768396079.html

Iceland unearths rock to appease angry elves

https://www.yahoo.com/news/iceland-unearths-rock-appease-angry-elves-195326271.html

Additional Informational

Watch the Destruction of Pompeii by Mount Vesuvius, Re-Created with
Computer Animation (79 AD)

http://www.openculture.com/2016/02/watch-the-destruction-of-pompeii-by-mount-vesuvius-re-created-with-computer-animation-79-ad.html

International Journal of Cultural Property

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-journal-of-cultural-property

Iconography of the Indus Unicorn: Origins and Legacy

https://www.harappa.com/content/iconography-indus-unicorn-origins-and-legacy

When We Have To Leave Earth... Where Will We Go?

http://www.seeker.com/when-we-have-to-leave-earth-where-will-we-go-1985197069.html?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=dnewssocial&utm_campaign=owned

*Library of Congress *John J. Pershing Papers

https://www.loc.gov/collections/john-pershing-papers/about-this-collection/?loclr=fbloc-new-ww1

Meet the Man with the Most Advanced Prosthetic Arm in the World

http://www.freethinkmedia.com/shows/superhuman/article/meet-man-advanced-prosthetic-arm-world/

Defying the Nazis: The Sharps' War

http://www.defyingthenazis.org/
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