[Jawlist] Weekly Science Report 10-27-17

[Steve Detwiler]

*Weekly Science Report*

*October 27, 2017*



*“Human history becomes more and more a race between education and
catastrophe.”*
H.G. Wells




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*



Science Found The Ancient Dude Who Started Herpes

https://www.vice.com/en_au/article/zmznka/science-found-the-ancient-dude-that-started-herpes?utm_campaign=global&utm_source=vicefbanz



Ancient skull 'oldest tsunami victim'

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-41757232



The Guanches originated from North Africa, shows DNA-study

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-10/su-tgo102617.php



Crops evolving 10 millennia before experts thought

http://popular-archaeology.com/issue/fall-2017/article/crops-evolving-10-millennia-before-experts-thought









*History*



Hidden in a Basement for 70 Years, Newly Discovered Documents Shed Light on
Jewish Life and Culture Before WWII
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/cache-newly-discovered-documents-sheds-light-jewish-art-and-resistance-during-wwii-180966972/?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=socialmedia



SIX BOOKS TO READ ABOUT THE HISTORY OF IMMIGRATION IN AMERICA

https://www.smithsoniansecondopinion.org/immigration-america/six-books-read-about-history-immigration-america-180965198/?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=socialmedia


David Adjaye and Ron Arad unanimously selected to design UK Holocaust and
Memorial Centre
http://theartnewspaper.com/news/david-adjaye-and-ron-arad-unanimously-selected-to-design-uk-holocaust-and-memorial-centre


Trump releases some, but not all, JFK assassination records

http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/26/politics/jfk-assassination-files-classified-document-release-donald-trump/index.html?sr=fbCNN102617jfk-assassination-files-classified-document-release-donald-trump0608PMStory



Trump to shrink two Utah national monuments, senator says

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-to-shrink-two-utah-national-monuments-senator-says/ar-AAu8D6V?ocid=ob-fb-enus-580



Are You Descended From Witches? New Digital Document Could Help You Find Out
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/are-you-descended-witches-new-digital-document-could-help-you-find-out-180960952/?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=socialmedia



How the 1867 Medicine Lodge Treaty Changed the Plains Indian Tribes Forever
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-1867-medicine-lodge-treaty-changed-plains-indian-tribes-forever-180965357/?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=socialmedia



House tied to 1692 Salem witch trials rises from near ruin

https://www.boston.com/news/history/2017/10/29/framingham-house-tied-to-salem-witch-trials-rises-from-near-ruin?s_campaign=bcom%3Asocialflow%3Afacebook



FSU researcher: Modern civilization doesn't diminish violence

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-10/fsu-frm102717.php



The Bakhshali manuscript: The world's oldest zero?

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-10/uoa-tbm102517.php



Eight Historical Archives That Will Spill New Secrets
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/nine-historical-archives-that-will-spill-new-secrets-966931/



The Nazis’ Plan to Infiltrate Los Angeles And the Man Who Kept Them at Bay
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/stopping-nazi-plots-1930s-los-angeles-180966961/





*Archaeology*



Archaeologists Discover Trove of Cuneiform Tablets in Northern Iraq
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/archaeologists-cuneiform-tablets-northern-iraq-180966923/#K9sfJGlTi5oibECz.01



Italy gets back looted mosaic from Emperor Caligula's ship

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-italy-culture-caligula/italy-gets-back-looted-mosaic-from-emperor-caligulas-ship-idUSKBN1CP23I?platform=hootsuite
  UK’s Cultural Protection Fund makes headway in conflict zones
http://theartnewspaper.com/news/uk's-cultural-protection-fund-makes-headway-in-conflict-zones



Here’s what they found in the Old North Church tomb

https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2017/10/27/heres-what-they-found-in-the-old-north-church-tomb?s_campaign=bcom%3Asocialflow%3Afacebook



Rare Mariner’s Astrolabe Found in Shipwreck Near Oman

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/rare-mariners-astrolabe-found-shipwreck-near-oman-2-180966980/#z8IEkSu4eXy0z5Yl.01



Young Gazans mobilize to save Palestine's oldest archaeological site

https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2017/10/palestine-youth-protest-tell-es-sakan-old-historic-dredging.html



New research on the Caribbean's largest concentration of indigenous
pre-Columbian rock art

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-10/uol-nro102717.php



Where There’s Coal…

https://www.archaeology.org/issues/269-1709/from-the-trenches/5824-trenches-mexico-cenote-coal



Painted Worlds

https://www.archaeology.org/issues/268-1709/features/5815-peru-panamarca-moche



This Shipwreck Dates to When Genghis Khan's Descendants Ruled China

https://www.livescience.com/60753-china-shipwreck-from-mongols-era.html



Europe's Oldest Battlefield Yields Clues to Fighters' Identities

https://www.livescience.com/60739-europe-oldest-battlefield-yields-secrets.html



*Egyptology*



Oldest recorded solar eclipse helps date the Egyptian pharaohs

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-10/uoc-ors102717.php



Newly discovered Coptic tombstone in Luxor belonged to a child: Study

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/280309/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/Newly-discovered-Coptic-tombstone-in-Luxor-belonge.aspx





*General Science*



Wal-Mart's new robots scan shelves to restock items faster

*https://finance.yahoo.com/news/wal-mart-launches-shelf-scanning-112738159.html?utm_content=bufferc807f&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer
<https://finance.yahoo.com/news/wal-mart-launches-shelf-scanning-112738159.html?utm_content=bufferc807f&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer>*



Meet the High Schooler Shaking Up Artificial Intelligence

*https://www.wired.com/story/meet-the-high-schooler-shaking-up-artificial-intelligence/?mbid=nl_102717_daily_list1_p1
<https://www.wired.com/story/meet-the-high-schooler-shaking-up-artificial-intelligence/?mbid=nl_102717_daily_list1_p1>*













*Physics, Earth and Space Sciences*



Scientists Peek Across the Galaxy to the “Dark Side” of the Milky Way
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/scientists-are-getting-their-first-good-look-other-side-milky-way-180965263/#vVEvBQ9Ub4F0lL7H.01



New findings have physicists questioning reality

https://www.cbsnews.com/videos/new-findings-have-physicists-questioning-reality/



Small Asteroid or Comet 'Visits' from Beyond the Solar System

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=6983&utm_source=iContact&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NASAJPL&utm_content=comet20171026



As an asteroid approaches, NASA carries out a cosmic fire drill

https://www.csmonitor.com/Science/Spacebound/2017/1012/As-an-asteroid-approaches-NASA-carries-out-a-cosmic-fire-drill



How a new era of astronomy will ride on gravitational waves

https://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2017/1003/How-a-new-era-of-astronomy-will-ride-on-gravitational-waves



SpaceX designs smaller rocket in continued effort to put humans on Mars

https://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2017/0929/SpaceX-designs-smaller-rocket-in-continued-effort-to-put-humans-on-Mars



The Universe Should Not Actually Exist, Scientists Say

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/the-universe-should-not-actually-exist-scientists-say/ar-AAu227S?ocid=ob-fb-enus-580



Nanomagnets levitate thanks to quantum physics

https://phys.org/news/2017-10-nanomagnets-levitate-quantum-physics.html



Artificial intelligence finds 56 new gravitational lens candidates

https://phys.org/news/2017-10-artificial-intelligence-gravitational-lens-candidates.html



Newfound Wormhole Allows Information to Escape Black Holes

https://www.wired.com/story/information-escape-wormholes/?mbid=nl_102817_daily_list1_p2



NASA's X3 ion thruster smashes records in test firings

https://newatlas.com/x3-hall-thruster-test-record-nasa/51869/



A light in the dark: NASA sounding rocket probes the dark regions of space

https://phys.org/news/2017-10-dark-nasa-rocket-probes-regions.html



Winters on Mars are shaping the Red Planet's landscape

https://phys.org/news/2017-10-winters-mars-red-planet-landscape.html



A Nearby Neutron Star Collision Could Cause Calamity on Earth

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-nearby-neutron-star-collision-could-cause-calamity-on-earth/



*Environment, Climate Change and Alternative Energy Sources*

First ‘Negative Emissions’ Plant Opens in Iceland, Turning Atmospheric CO2
Into Stone

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/first-negative-emissions-plant-opens-iceland-180965270/#1rZWQX1FtRsuGCjV.01


You may have to pay $70 to visit the Grand Canyon and 16 other national
parks

http://www.cnn.com/travel/article/national-park-service-fee-proposal/index.html?sr=fbCNN102517national-park-service-fee-proposal0218PMStoryGal



PA based power grid operator protests Trump plan to aid coal and nuclear

http://www.post-gazette.com/powersource/policy-powersource/2017/10/25/Power-grid-operator-protests-Trump-plan-coal-nuclear-pennsylvania-PJM/stories/201710250092?utm_campaign=Echobox&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook#link_time=1508968926



Can See-Through Solar Panels Replace Fossil Fuels?

https://www.yahoo.com/news/see-solar-panels-replace-fossil-091521658.html?utm_content=buffercffb5&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer



Vikings Razed the Forests. Can Iceland Regrow Them?

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/10/20/climate/iceland-trees-reforestation.html?rref=collection/sectioncollection/climate&action=click&contentCollection=climate&region=rank&module=package&version=highlights&contentPlacement=1&pgtype=sectionfront



This map shows how many years could be added to you life - if the air you
breathe was less polluted

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/09/this-map-shows-how-many-years-could-be-added-to-you-life-if-the-air-you-breathe-was-less-polluted?utm_content=buffer2de93&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer



'Star in a Jar' Fusion Reactor Works and Promises Infinite Energy

https://www.seeker.com/star-in-a-jar-fusion-reactor-works-and-promises-infinite-energy-2134228965.html



Where clean energy jobs are growing the fastest

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/where-clean-energy-jobs-are-growing-the-fastest/







*Biological, Genetics and Medical Sciences*   Beluga whale learns dolphin
language
https://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/animals/stories/beluga-whale-learns-dolphin-language-after-being-placed-their-tank
  Machine learning helps science tackle Alzheimer's
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/machine-learning-helps-science-tackle-alzheimers/
  'Incredible' editing of life's building blocks
http://www.bbc.com/news/health-41724994   Advanced artificial limbs mapped
in the brain
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2017-10-advanced-artificial-limbs-brain.html
  New molecule shows promise in HIV vaccine design
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2017-10-molecule-hiv-vaccine.html   NASA
"Twins Study" Shows How Spaceflight Changes Gene Expression
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/nasa-ldquo-twins-study-rdquo-shows-how-spaceflight-changes-gene-expression/

*Other*



I'm not crying over a Burger King ad. You're crying over a Burger King ad.

http://mashable.com/2017/10/20/burger-king-bullying-ad/?utm_cid=mash-com-fb-main-link#gneNS3OigPqi



This app could be the key to speaking a second language

http://mashable.com/2017/09/24/learn-new-language-with-utalk-app/?utm_cid=mash-com-fb-main-link&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=Facebook_Ads&utm_campaign=Prospecting_Auto_BoostedPost_Lookalike_uTalkLanguage_SaleID%3D9429_9.26.2017#uovM86qsVPqX



























Additional Informational



Images from above reveal an ancient city in the middle of the ocean

http://www.msn.com/en-us/video/wonder/images-from-above-reveal-an-ancient-city-in-the-middle-of-the-ocean/vi-AAtZuKh?ocid=SL5FDHP
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