[Jawlist] Weekly Science Report 8-24-18

[Steve Detwiler]

*Weekly Science Report*

*August 24, 2018*



*"Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no
path and leave a trail." *
Ralph Waldo Emerson


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!



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News Articles   *Paleontology, Evolution and Prehistoric Studies*



Scientists find perfectly preserved ancient foal in Siberia

https://phys.org/news/2018-08-scientists-perfectly-ancient-foal-siberia.html



Offspring of Neanderthal and Denisovan identified for first time

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/aug/22/offspring-of-neanderthal-and-denisovan-identified-for-first-time



Blue-eyed immigrants transformed Ancient Israel 6,500 years ago

https://www.livescience.com/63396-ancient-israel-immigration-turkey-iran.html



Stone Age treasures unearthed in Sussex offer extraordinary insight into
evolution of human intelligence

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/stone-age-sussex-archaeology-human-evolution-insight-intelligence-a8504766.html



Mutations in this molecule may have helped mammoths tolerate the cold

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-08/cuim-mit082418.php



Discovery of two new Chinese dinosaurs by international research team

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-08/uotw-dot082318.php







*History*



The Myth of Never Again

https://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/18/opinion/18iht-edannan.html?mtrref=l.facebook.com&assetType=opinion&mtrref=www.nytimes.com&gwh=C7D00083555E7C29C04F92C88C74FBF2&gwt=pay&assetType=opinion



Parliament has LOST over 220 works of art

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5991029/More-220-works-art-gone-MISSING-Parliament.html



Russia takes a new look at an old enemy: Genghis Khan

https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2018/0817/Russia-takes-a-new-look-at-an-old-enemy-Genghis-Khan?cmpid=FB&utm_campaign=Echobox&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook



*Tearing down Confederate statues leaves structural racism intact*

https://theconversation.com/tearing-down-confederate-statues-leaves-structural-racism-intact-101951



IMLS Announces Investment of $8.1 Million to Strengthen America's Libraries

https://www.imls.gov/news-events/news-releases/imls-announces-investment-81-million-strengthen-americas-libraries



Sen. John McCain, Former Presidential Nominee And Prisoner Of War, Dies At
81

https://www.npr.org/2018/08/25/537705767/sen-john-mccain-former-presidential-nominee-and-prisoner-of-war-dies-at-81



How a bishop's murder could change Egypt's Coptic church

https://www.middleeasteye.net/columns/how-bishops-killing-could-change-egypts-coptic-church-1096905532



Eisenhower approves coup in Iran, Aug. 19, 1953

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/08/19/eisenhower-green-lights-coup-in-iran-aug-19-1953-788012



Nazi collaborator Jakiw Palij is deported from U.S. to Germany

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/nazi-collaborator-jakiw-palij-arrested-new-york-deported-germany-n902441?cid=sm_npd_nn_fb_ma



A college textbook says Holocaust victims failed to realize their strength

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2018/07/31/health/unc-textbook-holocaust-cancer-trnd/index.html

*Archaeology*



Drought In Central Europe Reveals Cautionary 'Hunger Stones' In Czech River

https://www.npr.org/2018/08/24/641331544/drought-in-central-europe-reveals-cautionary-hunger-stones-in-czech-river?sc=tw



How to Save What’s Priceless When Disaster Strikes

https://www.houzz.com/ideabooks/112189552/list/how-to-save-whats-priceless-when-disaster-strikes



Ancient 'made in China’ label pushes back the date of shipwreck by 100 years

https://www.popsci.com/ancient-pottery-made-in-china-label?con=TrueAnthem&dom=fb&lnk=TA&src=SOC&utm_campaign=&utm_content=5b7a983b04d301216f487af6&utm_medium=&utm_source
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Archaeologists explore a rural field in Kansas, and a lost city emerges

http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-kansas-lost-city-20180819-htmlstory.html#
<http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-kansas-lost-city-20180819-htmlstory.html>



Ancient Riches Discovered at Mysterious Burial Monument

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2018/08/news-ancient-pillar-monument-burial-mound-africa/?cmpid=org=ngp::mc=social::src=facebook::cmp=editorial::add=fb20180820science-kenyaburialground::rid=&sf195912144=1



UK investigates fresh reports of looting of sunken navy ships

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/19/government-investigates-fresh-reports-of-looting-of-sunken-navy-ships?platform=hootsuite



Robots Reveal Possible 3,000-Year-Old Human Sacrifices in Peru

http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=2463492&CategoryId=13936



Massive Pyramid, Lost City and Ancient Human Sacrifices unearthed in China

https://www.livescience.com/63406-massive-shimao-pyramid-unearthed-china.html



Intact tomb of Bronze Age Minoan man discovered in Ierapetra, Crete

http://www.tornosnews.gr/en/greek-news/culture/32350-intact-tomb-of-bronze-age-minoan-man-discovered-in-ierapetra-crete.html



Salt of the Alps: ancient Austrian mine holds Bronze Age secrets

https://phys.org/news/2018-08-salt-alps-ancient-austrian-bronze.html



Seen from the air, the dry summer reveals an ancient harvest of
archaeological finds

https://phys.org/news/2018-08-air-summer-reveals-ancient-harvest.html





*Egyptology*



Initial analysis shows skeletons from huge Egyptian sarcophagus are two
men, one woman

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/309896/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/Initial-analysis-shows-skeletons-from-huge-Egyptia.aspx













*General Science*



Nothing to report

*Physics, Earth and Space Sciences*   Scientists Are Puzzled By Mysterious
Lights In The Sky. They Call Them STEVE
https://www.npr.org/2018/08/23/641276633/scientists-puzzled-by-mysterious-lights-in-the-sky-they-call-steve?sc=tw
  NASA spacecraft captures first images of the asteroid it will soon land on
https://mashable.com/2018/08/24/asteroid-bennu-nasa-space-mission/?utm_cid=mash-com-fb-main-link#_xQ60rshyOqT


Robert Zubrin wants to establish a 'new branch of human civilization' on
Mars

https://www.nbcnews.com/mach/science/robert-zubrin-wants-establish-new-branch-human-civilization-mars-ncna901316?cid=sm_npd_nn_fb_ma



NASA's Opportunity Rover on Mars Still Silent 2 Months into Epic Dust Storm

https://www.space.com/41521-mars-dust-storm-opportunity-rover-still-silent.html



The Women 'Computers' Who Revolutionized Astronomy

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/12/the-women-computers-who-measured-the-stars/509231/?utm_campaign=the-atlantic&utm_content=5b7a9f363ed3f000010b85b7_ta&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook



A Superconductor Scandal? Scientists Question a Nobel-Prize-Worthy Claim

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-superconductor-scandal-scientists-question-a-nobel-prize-worthy-claim/



*Five reasons to forget Mars for now and return to the moon*

https://theconversation.com/five-reasons-to-forget-mars-for-now-and-return-to-the-moon-101683



First direct evidence of surface exposed water ice on the Moon

https://www.soest.hawaii.edu/soestwp/announce/news/first-direct-evidence-of-surface-exposed-water-ice-on-the-moon/#.W3vK6zTyMRs.facebook



Paul Allen's space firm details plans for rockets, cargo vehicle

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-space-paulallen/paul-allens-space-firm-details-plans-for-rockets-cargo-vehicle-idUSKCN1L52AY



With help from NASA astronaut, treasure hunter says he may have found alien
space ship off Florida's coast

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/florida/os-ae-ufo-alien-ship-bermuda-triangle-20180813-story.html





*Environment, Climate Change and Alternative Energy Sources*



World's Largest Shipping Company Heads Into Arctic As Global Warming Opens
The Way

https://www.npr.org/2018/08/22/640679831/worlds-largest-shipping-company-heads-into-arctic-as-global-warming-opens-the-wa?sc=tw



New way to save endangered sharks – and our seafood

https://www.scidev.net/global/biodiversity/news/new-way-to-save-endangered-sharks-and-our-seafood.html


Bio-based* plastics can reduce waste, but only if we invest in both making
and getting rid of them*

https://theconversation.com/bio-based-plastics-can-reduce-waste-but-only-if-we-invest-in-both-making-and-getting-rid-of-them-98282



Green space in every schoolyard: the radical plan to cool Paris

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2018/aug/16/could-greening-every-paris-schoolyard-cool-the-city



The biggest palm collection in the nation is in Miami. Can it be saved from
sea rise?

http://amp.miamiherald.com/news/local/environment/article215586425.html?__twitter_impression=true



Desertification: The people whose land is turning to dust

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-34790661



States greet Trump’s coal rules with lawsuit threats

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/states-greet-trumps-new-coal-rules-with-lawsuit-threats/?ftag=CNM-00-10aab6a&linkId=55859480

*Biological, Genetics and Medical Sciences*   *What the grieving mother
orca tells us about how animals experience death*
https://theconversation.com/what-the-grieving-mother-orca-tells-us-about-how-animals-experience-death-101230



Are we smart enough to measure animal intelligence?

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/are-we-smart-enough-to-measure-animal-intelligence/?ftag=COS-05-10aaa0h&utm_campaign=trueAnthem%3A+Trending+Content&utm_content=5b7a838c00bd470001f51156&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=facebook



After 13 Years, Scientists Finally Map the Massive Wheat Genome

https://www.wired.com/story/after-13-years-scientists-finally-map-the-massive-wheat-genome?mbid=nl_081918_daily_leadposition4__list1_p2&CNDID=41291302



Clay fights MRSA, other 'superbugs' in wounds

https://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=296313&org=NSF&from=news



Scientists have developed an effective marker for cancer diagnosis and
therapy

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-08/nuos-shd082418.php





*Other*



Nothing to report























Additional Informational



Former Nazi labor camp guard Jakiw Palij removed to Germany

https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/former-nazi-labor-camp-guard-jakiw-palij-removed-germany?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
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