[Jawlist] Weekly Science Report 1-26-18

[Steve Detwiler]

*Weekly Science Report*

*January 26, 2018*



“To the people of antiquity Egypt appeared as the very mother of magic”.

Lewis Spence, Egypt



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*



Ingredients for life revealed in meteorites that fell to Earth

https://eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-01/dbnl-ifl010918.php



Newly Unearthed Remains Reveal the Complexity of Levantine Hunter-Gatherers

https://www.seeker.com/archaeology/newly-unearthed-remains-reveal-the-complexity-of-levantine-hunter-gatherers



Controversial femur could belong to ancient human relative

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-00972-z



Scientists reconstruct face of 9,000 year-old Greek teenager

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-greece-archaeology-dawn/scientists-reconstruct-face-of-9000-year-old-greek-teenager-idUSKBN1FC1XK?utm_campaign=trueAnthem%3A+Trending+Content&utm_content=5a67957204d3016f26a8ae44&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=facebook



Scientists discover oldest known modern human fossil outside of Africa

https://phys.org/news/2018-01-scientists-oldest-modern-human-fossil.html



Ancient Eurasian DNA sequencing is revealing links with modern humans

https://phys.org/news/2018-01-ancient-eurasian-dna-sequencing-revealing.html



The role of cranial modification in identity formation

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-01/uocp-tro012218.php



Ancient lake reveals a colorful past

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-01/uoy-alr012618.php



Researchers pose revolutionary theory on horse evolution

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-01/nyio-rpr012518.php



*History*



2,000-year-old Dead Sea Scroll deciphered, revealing 2nd Temple power
struggles

https://www.timesofisrael.com/2000-year-old-dead-sea-scroll-deciphered-revealing-2nd-temple-power-struggles/



Did the fabled Phoenicians ever actually exist?

https://www.spectator.co.uk/2018/01/did-the-fabled-phoenicians-ever-actually-exist/



Globetrotting Vikings: The Quest for Constantinople

http://www.history.com/news/globetrotting-vikings-the-quest-for-constantinople?cmpid=_FBPAGE_HISTORY_20170103_764853659



Reimagining women’s rights in Islam

http://www.atimes.com/article/reimagining-womens-rights-islam/



Huge protest in Greece over use of ‘Macedonia’ in name dispute

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/huge-protest-greece-over-use-macedonia-name-dispute-n839736?cid=sm_npd_nn_fb_nw



Holocaust Remembrance Day and the Cost of Doing Nothing

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/the-cost-of-doing-nothing_uk_5a61b5ede4b05fd5dc6065fa



In Catalonia, the nameless dead raise old animosities toward Franco

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/catalonia-dead-franco-animosities-margaret-evans-1.4499802



Anti-Semitism: Learning the lessons of history

https://en.unesco.org/courier/correo-digital/anti-semitism-learning-lessons-history



Rising river Seine causes closures at Musée du Louvre

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/paris-floods-threat-causes-closures-at-musee-du-louvre



He was named a college president. Only 100 years ago, the KKK attacked his
grandfather

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/community-voices/article196709384.html



Jan. 26, 1700: Northwest Quake Unleashes Trans-Pacific Tsunami

https://www.wired.com/2010/01/0126northwest-quake-japan-tsunami/



3,500 Occult Manuscripts Will Be Digitized & Made Freely Available Online,
Thanks to Da Vinci Code Author Dan Brown

http://www.openculture.com/2017/12/3500-occult-manuscripts-will-be-digitized-made-freely-available-online.html



Religion isn’t the enemy of science: it’s been inspiring scientists for
centuries

https://theconversation.com/amp/religion-isnt-the-enemy-of-science-its-been-inspiring-scientists-for-centuries-90190?__twitter_impression=true



15th-century manuscript with 'alien' characters finally decoded

http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2018/01/26/15th-century-manuscript-with-alien-characters-finally-decoded.html



New Zora Neale Hurston Book Chronicles Last Known Survivor of Transatlantic
Slave Trade

http://wlrn.org/post/new-zora-neale-hurston-book-chronicles-last-known-survivor-transatlantic-slave-trade



Alcatraz inmates survived infamous 1962 escape, letter suggests

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/alcatraz-inmates-survived-infamous-1962-escape-letter-suggests/ar-AAv6E9z?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=SL5FDHP



Violent Protests In India Follow Release Of Controversial Bollywood Epic

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/01/25/580569671/violent-protests-in-india-follow-release-of-controversial-bollywood-epic?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20180125



The Museum of Whose Bible? On the Perils of Turning Theology into History
<http://www.ancientjewreview.com/articles/2018/1/24/the-museum-of-whose-bible-on-the-perils-of-turning-theology-into-history>

http://www.ancientjewreview.com/articles/2018/1/24/the-museum-of-whose-bible-on-the-perils-of-turning-theology-into-history









*Archaeology*



Korean NGO to restore UNESCO heritage site in Cambodia

http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/national/2018/01/17/0301000000AEN20180117003900315.html



The Chinese History That Is Written in Bone

https://www.sapiens.org/archaeology/chinese-oracle-bones-history/?utm_content=buffer561fb&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer



Inca Farming Terraces Restored in Peru

https://www.archaeology.org/news/6300-180124-peru-inca-farming?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter



Teotihuacan May Have Been Renamed by the Spanish

https://www.archaeology.org/news/6298-180124-mexico-teotihuacan-aztecs



Wreck found by reporter may be last American slave ship, archaeologists say

http://www.al.com/news/mobile/index.ssf/2018/01/alcom_reporter_may_have_found.html



New app developed by Turkish university digitalizes Istanbul’s cultural
heritage

https://www.dailysabah.com/istanbul/2018/01/16/new-app-developed-by-turkish-university-digitalizes-istanbuls-cultural-heritage



Scythian Prince’s Sprawling Tomb Found in the “Siberian Valley of the Kings”
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/princes-sprawling-tomb-siberian-valley-kings-180967889/#RUmT0JpLy7C6ovAg.01



Norway’s Melting Glaciers Release Over 2,000 Artifacts
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/2000-artifacts-pulled-edge-norways-melting-glaciers-180967949/?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=socialmedia



Decapitated Iron Age Skull Found by Dog Walker Is Likely Evidence of
Ancient Ritual Sacrifice

http://www.newsweek.com/decapitated-iron-age-skull-found-dog-walker-likely-evidence-ancient-ritual-787468



Could This Newfound Cave Hold More Dead Sea Scrolls?

https://www.livescience.com/61496-dead-sea-scrolls-cave-found.html

*Egyptology*



New excavation works led by Zahi Hawas take place in Luxor

http://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/40627/New-excavation-works-led-by-Zahi-Hawas-take-place-in



Nefertiti was no pharaoh, says renowned Egyptologist

https://phys.org/news/2018-01-nefertiti-pharaoh-renowned-egyptologist.html



Egypt seeks donations to finish, maintain museum

https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2018/01/egypt-donations-grand-egyptian-museum-construction.html









*General Science*



This nation might be single-handedly changing the future of transport

*https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/10/this-nation-might-be-single-handedly-changing-the-future-of-transport?utm_content=bufferaba03&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer
<https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/10/this-nation-might-be-single-handedly-changing-the-future-of-transport?utm_content=bufferaba03&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer>*



The Dangers of Keeping Women Out of Tech

*https://www.wired.com/story/dangers-keeping-women-out-of-tech/?CNDID=41291302&mbid=nl_012618_daily_list3_p1
<https://www.wired.com/story/dangers-keeping-women-out-of-tech/?CNDID=41291302&mbid=nl_012618_daily_list3_p1>*



Montana becomes first state to implement net neutrality after FCC repeal

http://thehill.com/policy/technology/370133-montana-becomes-first-state-to-implement-net-neutrality-rules-following-fcc



How Google’s Quantum Computer Could Change the World

https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-googles-quantum-computer-could-change-the-world-1508158847?mod=djmc_foearticles&Paid&nan_pid=1863441863&ad_id=7681962











*Physics, Earth and Space Sciences*



Atlas 5 launches missile-detecting satellite

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/atlas-5-rocket-launch-air-force-launches-missile-detecting-satellite/



How to keep humans from ruining the search for life on Mars

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/manned-mission-mars-humans-microbes-life



Astronomers Trace Fast Radio Bursts to Extreme Cosmic Neighborhood

https://www.wired.com/story/astronomers-trace-fast-radio-bursts-to-extreme-cosmic-neighborhood/?mbid=nl_011318_daily_list3_p4



Scientific Theory and the Multiverse Madness

https://www.npr.org/sections/13.7/2018/01/22/579666359/scientific-theory-and-the-multiverse-madness?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20180122



The Little Rocket That Could Sends Real Satellites to Space

https://www.wired.com/story/rocket-lab-still-testing/?CNDID=41291302&mbid=nl_012218_daily_list1_p4



How Smallsats Could Make a Big Difference for NASA and NOAA

https://www.wired.com/story/how-smallsats-could-make-a-big-difference-for-federal-science/?mbid=nl_012318_daily_longdek_list3_p5



Why Does Nature Love To Blow Things Up?

https://www.npr.org/sections/13.7/2018/01/19/578860150/why-does-nature-love-to-blow-things-up



An unknown object is making our solar system wobble

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/07/an-unknown-object-is-making-our-solar-system-wobble?utm_content=bufferbaabd&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer



Our oceans are in crisis. Here’s how technology could save them

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/01/our-oceans-are-in-crisis-heres-how-technology-could-save-them?utm_content=buffer31978&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer



Scientists find oxidized iron deep within the Earth's interior (Update)

https://m.phys.org/news/2018-01-scientists-oxidized-iron-deep-earth.html



NASA: "Potentially Hazardous Asteroid" has "zero" chance of hitting Earth

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/super-bowl-asteroid-headed-for-earth-2018/



Aboard the F.G. Walton Smith

https://features.miami.edu/2017/fg-walton-smith/index.html



Trump administration wants to end NASA funding for the International Space
Station by 2025

https://www.theverge.com/2018/1/24/16930154/nasa-international-space-station-president-trump-budget-request-2025



Tiny crystals could help predict volcanic eruptions

https://eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-01/uoq-tcc012118.php



Chinese volunteers spend 200 days on virtual 'moon base'

https://phys.org/news/2018-01-chinese-volunteers-days-virtual-moon.html



The Astronaut Who Might Actually Get Us to Mars

https://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/the-astronaut-who-might-actually-get-us-to-mars/



Neil deGrasse Tyson's Cosmos Revival Is Finally Getting A Second Season
<https://io9.gizmodo.com/neil-degrasse-tysons-cosmos-revival-is-finally-getting-1822056919>

https://io9.gizmodo.com/neil-degrasse-tysons-cosmos-revival-is-finally-getting-1822056919?utm_campaign=socialflow_io9_facebook&utm_source=io9_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow





*Environment, Climate Change and Alternative Energy Sources*



Spy oysters and night-vision goggles: How France is fighting back against
food thieves

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/spy-oysters-night-vision-goggles-how-france-fighting-back-against-n839076?cid=sm_npd_nn_fb_nw



Could Giant “Solar Rigs” Floating On the Ocean Convert Seawater To Hydrogen
Fuel?
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/could-giant-solar-rigs-floating-on-ocean-convert-seawater-to-hydrogen-fuel-180967750/?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=socialmedia



Official Who Allowed Tree Cutting By Redskins Owner Is Named National Parks
Director

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/01/24/580448974/official-who-allowed-tree-cutting-by-redskins-owner-named-national-parks-directo?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20180124



Trump unhappy over Zinke's Florida offshore drilling exemption: report

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-unhappy-over-zinke-s-florida-offshore-drilling-exemption-report/ar-AAuZkUr?ocid=ob-fb-enus-580



Trump imposes 30 percent tariff on solar panel imports

http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/370171-trump-imposes-30-tariffs-on-solar-panel-imports



John Coleman, Weather Channel founder who doubted manmade climate change,
dies at 83

https://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2018/01/21/john-coleman-weather-channel-founder-and-climate-change-doubter-dies-at-83/?__twitter_impression=true



Climate and tech pose the biggest risks to our world in 2018

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/01/the-biggest-risks-in-2018-will-be-environmental-and-technological/



Meet the Amateur Scientist Who Discovered Climate Change

https://www.wired.com/story/meet-the-amateur-scientist-who-discovered-climate-change/?mbid=nl_012318_daily_longdek_list1_p3



Macron at Davos: I will shut all coal-fired power stations by 2021

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/01/macron-at-davos-i-will-shut-all-coal-fired-power-stations-by-2021?utm_content=buffer09eea&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer



Tropical forests used to absorb carbon. Not any more

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/10/tropical-forests-used-to-absorb-carbon-not-any-more?utm_content=buffer6bb65&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer



New fuel cell technology runs on solid carbon

https://eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-01/dnl-nfc011818.php



World's first electric container barges to sail from European ports this
summer

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/jan/24/worlds-first-electric-container-barges-to-sail-from-european-ports-this-summer?CMP=fb_gu



What Happens If We Start Solar Geo-Engineering—And Then Suddenly Stop?

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/01/what-happens-if-we-start-geo-engineeringand-then-suddenly-stop/551354/

*Biological, Genetics and Medical Sciences*

Clashes Over the Future of Gene Therapy at the US' Biggest Biotech Meeting

https://www.wired.com/story/clashes-over-the-future-of-gene-therapy-at-the-uss-biggest-biotech-meeting/?mbid=nl_011318_daily_list1_p3



The Second Coming of Ultrasound

https://www.wired.com/story/the-second-coming-of-ultrasound/?CNDID=41291302&mbid=nl_012218_daily_list1_p1



Darpa Wants to Build an Image Search Engine out of DNA

https://www.wired.com/story/darpa-wants-to-build-an-image-search-engine-out-of-dna/?mbid=nl_012518_daily_shortdek_list3_p1



The First American CRISPR Trial in Humans Will Target Cancer

https://futurism.com/first-american-human-crispr-trial-target-cancer/



What Good Is Crispr if It Can't Get Where It Needs to Go?

https://www.wired.com/story/what-good-is-crispr-if-it-cant-get-where-it-needs-to-go/?CNDID=41291302&mbid=nl_012618_daily_list3_p4



Researchers modify common flu virus to attack pancreatic cancer

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2018-01-common-flu-virus-pancreatic-cancer.amp



Augmented reality system lets doctors see under patients' skin without the
scalpel

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2018-01-augmented-reality-doctors-patients-skin.html



How the ‘Religious Freedom Division’ Threatens LGBT Health—and Science

https://www.wired.com/story/how-the-religious-freedom-division-threatens-lgbt-healthand-science/?CNDID=41291302&mbid=nl_012418_daily_list3_p4



Are There Zombie Viruses In The Thawing Permafrost?

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2018/01/24/575974220/are-there-zombie-viruses-in-the-thawing-permafrost?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20180124



Scientists successfully clone monkeys; are humans up next?

https://apnews.com/38beefc3b75745a4b6105d48958a38b5



*Other*



Deep in the Desert, the Hyperloop Comes to Life

*https://www.wired.com/story/virgin-hyperloop-one-engineering/?mbid=nl_011318_daily_list1_p1
<https://www.wired.com/story/virgin-hyperloop-one-engineering/?mbid=nl_011318_daily_list1_p1>*



Investors Join Calls for Facebook, Twitter to Take More Responsibility

https://www.wired.com/story/investors-join-calls-for-facebook-twitter-to-take-more-responsibility/?mbid=nl_011318_daily_list3_p3



Digital Solutions Can Help Even the Poorest Nations Prosper

https://www.wired.com/story/digital-solutions-can-help-even-the-poorest-nations-prosper/?CNDID=41291302&mbid=nl_012218_daily_list3_p5



The Diminishing Role of Facts in American Public Life

https://www.rand.org/blog/2018/01/the-diminishing-role-of-facts-in-american-public-life.html?adbsc=social_TruthDecay_20180121_2081221&adbid=954896335978733568&adbpl=tw&adbpr=22545453



Elon Musk Wants to Dig Another Tunnel Under LA

https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-boring-company-culver-city/?mbid=nl_012318_daily_longdek_list1_p1



Remembering Ursula Le Guin, Imaginer of Difficult Worlds

https://www.wired.com/story/remembering-ursula-le-guin/?CNDID=41291302&mbid=nl_012418_daily_list3_p1

























Additional Informational



An Important Update From Google Lunar XPRIZE

https://lunar.xprize.org/news/blog/important-update-google-lunar-xprize



Fascism: A Warning

https://www.amazon.com/Fascism-Warning-Madeleine-Albright/dp/0062802186/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1517090058&sr=1-1&keywords=Fascism%3A+A+Warning+by+Madeleine+Albright



How can PIOs help build public trust in science Webcast, Feb 17

https://www.eurekalert.org/seminar/
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