[Jawlist] Weekly Science Report 11-10-17

Sat Nov 11 09:25:56 PST 2017

*Weekly Science Report*

*November 10, 2017*

*“In the history of the world there have been thousands of kings and
emperors who called themselves 'their highnesses,' 'their majesties,' and
'their exalted majesties' and so on. They shone for a brief moment, and as
quickly disappeared. But Ashoka shines and shines brightly like a bright
star, even unto this day.”*

H.G. Wells on Ashoka the Great

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!

The Weekly Science Report is also on social media at:

   - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/weeklysciencerpt/
   - Twitter: https://twitter.com/wklysciencerpt

News Articles   *Paleontology, Evolution and Prehistoric Studies*

Crops evolved 10 millennia earlier than thought

https://m.phys.org/news/2017-10-crops-evolved-millennia-earlier-thought.html

How Neanderthals influenced human genetics at the crossroads of Asia and
Europe

https://m.phys.org/news/2017-10-neanderthals-human-genetics-crossroads-asia.html

Scientists Are Rewriting the History of Photosynthesis

https://www.wired.com/story/scientists-are-rewriting-the-history-of-photosynthesis/?mbid=nl_102217_daily_list3_p5

Göbekli Tepe: Discovering the World’s Oldest Religious Site

http://popular-archaeology.com/issue/fall-2017/article/gobekli-tepe-discovering-the-worlds-oldest-religious-site

Height and weight evolved at different speeds in the bodies of our ancestors

https://eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-11/uoc-haw102617.php

Stars that vary in brightness shine in the oral traditions of Aboriginal
Australians

https://phys.org/news/2017-11-stars-vary-brightness-oral-traditions.html

Scientists find potential 'missing link' in chemistry that led to life on
Earth

https://phys.org/news/2017-11-scientists-potential-link-chemistry-life.html

It's time to rethink how you read the story of Adam and Eve

https://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/news/posteverything/wp/2017/11/06/its-time-to-rethink-how-you-read-the-story-of-adam-and-eve/

Fossil of 'our earliest ancestors' found in Dorset

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-41889633?ocid=socialflow_facebook&ns_mchannel=social&ns_campaign=bbcnews&ns_source=facebook

*History*

Russia struggles with legacy of 1917 Bolshevik Revolution

https://www.apnews.com/2c59c9c6898c41eebe3e5a3e56e7c461

The Newseum Is Increasingly Relevant, but Can It Survive?

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/22/arts/design/the-newseum-is-increasingly-relevant-but-can-it-survive.html

Prehistoric Statues Reunited at McClung Museum

http://wuot.org/post/prehistoric-statues-reunited-mcclung-museum

Signpost From Standing Rock, Now in the Smithsonian Collections, Shows the
Power of Solidarity

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/signpost-from-standing-rock-now-smithsonian-collections-shows-power-solidarity-180966928/?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=socialmedia

Forest Hills investigates student 'mockery' of Holocaust museum exhibits

http://wjactv.com/news/local/forest-hills-investigates-student-mockery-of-holocaust-museum-exhibits

How Artificial Intelligence Could Revolutionize Archival Museum Research

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/how-artificial-intelligence-could-revolutionize-museum-research-180967065/?no-cache

The people saving lost words

http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20171013-the-people-saving-lost-words

Pop-Up VR Museum to Bring Dutch and Flemish Masterpieces to the Masses
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/inside-pop-vr-museum-bringing-rembrandt-dutch-and-flemish-masterpieces-art-lovers-180967106/#0eU6osP91SybS3mb.01

Unesco: the view from Israelis and Palestinians

http://theartnewspaper.com/news/unesco-the-view-from-israelis-and-palestinians

Russia and Israel sign historic deal to share digitised Gunzburg Collection

http://theartnewspaper.com/news/russia-and-israel-sign-historic-deal-to-share-digitised-gunzburg-collection-of-hebrew-manuscripts-and-books

After nearly 75 years, son seeks crash site of WWII hero

https://apnews.com/659ee68e88cb4910bfa235c8575c8614/After-nearly-75-years,-son-seeks-crash-site-of-WWII-hero?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=APEastRegion

*Archaeology*

Civil War artifact thieves sentenced to 30 months in federal prison

http://www.timesnews.net/News/2015/08/06/Civil-War-artifact-thieves-sentenced-to-30-months-in-federal-prison

Experts have uncovered remains at the first permanent English colony. But
whose bones are they?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/experts-have-uncovered-remains-at-americas-first-permanent-colony-but-whose-bones-are-they/2017/10/26/6ceaa0c4-b446-11e7-be94-fabb0f1e9ffb_story.html?tid=pm_local_pop&utm_term=.e5e8bf846b6a

Bloomberg reveals the Roman temple in its foundations

http://theartnewspaper.com/blog/bloomberg-reveals-the-roman-temple-in-its-foundations

A girl’s pendant found at Sobibor reunites a Jewish family spread across
the globe
https://www.jta.org/2017/11/07/news-opinion/world/a-girls-pendant-found-at-sobibor-reunites-a-jewish-family-spread-across-the-globe?sf154652514=1
  Reconstructed Roman Temple of Mithras opens to public in London
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/nov/08/reconstructed-roman-temple-mithras-opens-public-bloomberg-hq?CMP=share_btn_fb

Team discovers a rare Minoan sealstone in the treasure-laden tomb of a
Bronze Age Greek warrior

https://phys.org/news/2017-11-team-rare-minoan-sealstone-treasure-laden.html

*Egyptology*

Great Pyramid's previously hidden 'void' hailed by some scientists,
dismissed by Egyptian experts

http://abcnews.go.com/International/great-pyramids-previously-hidden-void-hailed-scientists-dismissed/story?id=50907655&cid=social_fb_gma

Sir John Soane's museum recreates architect's vision of pharaoh's tomb

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2017/nov/05/sir-john-soane-museum-recreates-sepulchral-chamber-of-pharaoh-seti-i

*General Science*

This AR Headset Won't Replace My Monitor, But It's a Promising Start

*https://www.wired.com/story/meta-2-ar-headset-hands-on/?mbid=nl_110117_daily_list1_p1
<https://www.wired.com/story/meta-2-ar-headset-hands-on/?mbid=nl_110117_daily_list1_p1>*

Google’s AI Wizard Unveils a New Twist on Neural Networks

*https://www.wired.com/story/googles-ai-wizard-unveils-a-new-twist-on-neural-networks/?mbid=nl_110117_daily_list3_p2
<https://www.wired.com/story/googles-ai-wizard-unveils-a-new-twist-on-neural-networks/?mbid=nl_110117_daily_list3_p2>*

Prepping Self-Driving Cars for the World's Most Chaotic Cities

*https://www.wired.com/story/self-driving-cars-chaotic-cities-traffic/?mbid=nl_103017_daily_list3_p1
<https://www.wired.com/story/self-driving-cars-chaotic-cities-traffic/?mbid=nl_103017_daily_list3_p1>*

Uber's Plan to Launch Flying Cars in LA by 2020 Really Could Take Off

*https://www.wired.com/story/uber-flying-cars-los-angeles/?mbid=nl_110917_daily_list3_p2
<https://www.wired.com/story/uber-flying-cars-los-angeles/?mbid=nl_110917_daily_list3_p2>*

How to Build a Robot That Won't Take Over the World

*https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-build-a-robot-that-wont-take-over-the-world/?mbid=nl_110617_daily_list3_p4
<https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-build-a-robot-that-wont-take-over-the-world/?mbid=nl_110617_daily_list3_p4>*

A new kind of quantum computer

https://phys.org/news/2017-11-kind-quantum.html

'Smart' paper can conduct electricity, detect water

https://phys.org/news/2017-11-smart-paper-electricity.html

*Physics, Earth and Space Sciences*

Astronomers complete first international asteroid tracking exercise

https://phys.org/news/2017-11-astronomers-international-asteroid-tracking.html

The Astounding Engineering Behind the World's Largest Optical Telescope

https://www.wired.com/story/the-astounding-engineering-behind-the-giant-magellan-telescope/?mbid=nl_110317_daily_list1_p4

SpaceX Keeps Lining Up Covert Military Launches

https://www.wired.com/story/spacex-keeps-lining-up-covert-military-launches/?mbid=nl_102417_daily_list1_p4

ALMA's image of red giant star gives a surprising glimpse of the sun's
future

https://eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-11/cuot-aio110617.php

'Monster' planet discovery challenges formation theory
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-10/ras-pd103117.php

Stephen Hawking Says Humans Must Leave Earth Within 600 Years

https://www.nbcmiami.com/news/national-international/Hawking-Says-Humans-Must-Leave-Earth-Within-600-Years--456122083.html?_osource=SocialFlowFB_MIBrand

Something scorching hot is melting Antarctica from below, and NASA thinks
they know what it is

https://www.yahoo.com/news/something-scorching-hot-melting-antarctica-below-nasa-thinks-180655776.html?utm_content=buffer988e6&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Take in the Surreal Beauty of Jupiter in These Incredible New Images
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/juno-probe-takes-incredible-jupiter-images-during-latest-fly--180967167/#7p753QOTyV3rs1Dr.01

Space Nursing: Boldly Going Where No Nurse Has Gone Before

https://nurse.org/articles/nasa-space-nursing/

Green Bank Observatory Embraces Its Alien-Hunting Future

https://www.wired.com/story/green-bank-observatory-reluctantly-embraces-its-alien-hunting-future/?mbid=nl_110617_daily_list3_p2

Twenty Years after His Death, Carl Sagan Is Still Right

https://www.wired.com/story/sagan-old-interview/?mbid=nl_111017_daily_list1_p1

*Environment, Climate Change and Alternative Energy Sources*   Chasing the
Illegal Loggers Looting the Amazon Forest
https://www.wired.com/story/on-the-trail-of-the-amazonian-lumber-thieves/?mbid=nl_102417_daily_list1_p2
  Transparent solar technology represents 'wave of the future'
https://m.phys.org/news/2017-10-transparent-solar-technology-future.html#

This Battery Has Lasted 175 Years and No One Knows How
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/9akg9d/this-battery-has-lasted-175-years-and-no-one-knows-how?utm_campaign=global&utm_source=vicefbanz

The Ozone Hole Is the Smallest It’s Been in 30 Years—But We Can’t Take
Credit
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/ozone-hole-smallest-30-years-though-humanity-cant-take-credit-180967082/#thCBowlrUhItSDPU.01

Container Ships Use Super-Dirty Fuel. That Needs to Change

https://www.wired.com/story/container-ships-use-super-dirty-fuel-that-needs-to-change/?mbid=nl_110917_daily_list3_p3

Brazil Begins Effort to Plant 73 Million Trees in the Amazon
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/brazil-begins-effort-plant-73-million-trees-amazon-180967086/?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=socialmedia

*Biological, Genetics and Medical Sciences*   Workers Displaced by
Automation Should Try a New Job: Caregiver
https://www.wired.com/story/workers-displaced-by-automation-should-try-a-new-job-caregiver/?mbid=nl_110317_daily_list3_p5
  Opioids Haven't Solved Chronic Pain. Maybe Virtual Reality Can
https://www.wired.com/story/opioids-havent-solved-chronic-pain-maybe-virtual-reality-can/?mbid=nl_110217_gadgetlab_list3_p3
  These Neurons are Alive and Firing. And You Can Watch Them In 3-D
https://www.wired.com/story/live-neurons-help-scientists-build-better-maps-of-the-brain/?mbid=nl_102517_daily_list3_p1
  A giant insect ecosystem is collapsing due to humans. It's a catastrophe
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/oct/21/insects-giant-ecosystem-collapsing-human-activity-catastrophe?CMP=share_btn_link
  Washington, D.C., Is Home to America's Largest Collection of Parasites
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/11/washington-dc-is-home-to-americas-largest-collection-of-parasites/545234/

Drug Hunters: Meet the scientists building a library of designer drugs
https://www.theverge.com/2017/11/8/16619142/designer-drugs-k2-spice-synthetic-weed-ucsf-lab-dea
*Other*

Here's How NASA Thinks Society Will Collapse

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/03/heres-how-nasa-thinks-society-will-collapse/441375/

Tesla's Secret Second Floor

https://www.wired.com/story/teslas-secret-second-floor/?mbid=nl_102317_daily_list1_p3

The Challenge of Teaching War to Today's Students

https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2017/11/teaching-students-about-war/545351/?google_editors_picks=true&utm_source=fbb

Us vs them: the sinister techniques of ‘Othering’ – and how to avoid them

https://www.theguardian.com/inequality/2017/nov/08/us-vs-them-the-sinister-techniques-of-othering-and-how-to-avoid-them

Is The Universe Conscious?

http://www.npr.org/sections/13.7/2017/07/12/536752502/is-the-universe-conscious

Additional Informational

Beneath the Sands of Egypt: Adventures of an Unconventional Archaeologist

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003P2WEUY/ref=pe_2240030_258567250_em_1p_0_ti

Climate Science Special Report

https://science2017.globalchange.gov/downloads/CSSR2017_FullReport.pdf

NATO Legal Gazette: Cultural Property Protection

http://www.act.nato.int/images/stories/media/doclibrary/legal_gazette_38.pdf

ASOR Cultural Heritage Initiatives (CHI): Safeguarding the Heritage of the
Near East Initiative

http://www.asor-syrianheritage.org/asor-chi-mr-august-2017/

The Ghent Altarpiece in 100 Billion Pixels

http://blogs.getty.edu/iris/the-ghent-altarpiece-in-100-billion-pixels/

Surveying the Black Desert: Investigating Prehistoric Human Occupation in
North-Eastern Jordan

http://archeorient.hypotheses.org/7882?utm_content=buffer3fb6a&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

UNESCO Courier, Oct-Dec 2017 Edition

https://en.unesco.org/courier/2017-october-december
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.jawest.net/pipermail/jawlist-jawest.net/attachments/20171111/19e473b9/attachment.html>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: Weekly Science Report 11-10-17.pdf
Type: application/pdf
Size: 653088 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://lists.jawest.net/pipermail/jawlist-jawest.net/attachments/20171111/19e473b9/attachment.pdf>