[Jawlist] Weekly Science Report 5-11-18
Steve Detwiler
steveorange2011 at gmail.com
Sun May 13 20:56:44 PDT 2018
*Weekly Science Report*
*May 11, 2018*
*“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!
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News Articles *Paleontology, Evolution and Prehistoric Studies*
Neanderthal Engraving Hints They Were Capable of Cultural Expression
https://www.inverse.com/article/44462-neanderthal-art-engravings-culture
Dinosaur tracks in Utah park thrown into lake by visitors
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/dinosaur-tracks-lake-1.4653012
78,000 year cave record from East Africa shows early cultural innovations
https://phys.org/news/2018-05-year-cave-east-africa-early.html
Ancient DNA Reveals New Human History Of Eurasian Steppes
<http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/deadthings/2018/05/09/eurasian-steppes/>
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/deadthings/2018/05/09/eurasian-steppes/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A%20DiscoverBlogs%20%28Discover%20Blogs%29#.WvQ8emczUdV
*Studying chimpanzee calls for clues about the origins of human language*
https://theconversation.com/studying-chimpanzee-calls-for-clues-about-the-origins-of-human-language-95990
Jurassic fossil tail tells of missing link in crocodile family tree
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-05/uoe-jft051118.php
*History*
Husband-wife serial killers may be link between two 40-year-old mysteries,
police say
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/husband-wife-serial-killers-may-be-link-between-two-40-year-old-mysteries-police-say/ar-AAwSp98?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=SL5FDHP
Are Museums the Right Home for Confederate Monuments?
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/are-museums-right-home-confederate-monuments-180968969/?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=socialmedia
'Nazi Grandma' Caught after Not Turning up to Prison
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/nazi-grandma-caught-after-not-turning-up-to-prison/ar-AAwXJjd?li=BBnbfcL&ocid=SL5FDHP
Hostility towards minorities can be contagious
https://phys.org/news/2018-05-hostility-minorities-contagious.html
Two books look at complicity in war crimes by regular folks
https://www.jweekly.com/2018/05/08/two-books-look-complicity-war-crimes-regular-folks/
Cold case mystery: Wife charged with murder 17 years later
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2018/05/09/cold-case-mystery-wife-charged-2000-slaying/593355002/
Mormon Church Will Sever Ties With Boy Scouts, Create Own Youth Program
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/05/09/609697466/mormon-church-will-sever-ties-with-boy-scouts-create-own-youth-program?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20180509
*Why Ramadan is called Ramadan: 6 questions answered*
https://theconversation.com/why-ramadan-is-called-ramadan-6-questions-answered-77291
Conflicts and migration destroying languages: Unesco
https://gulfnews.com/news/uae/culture/conflicts-and-migration-destroying-languages-unesco-1.2216417
Madeleine Albright Warns: Don't Let Fascism Go 'Unnoticed Until It's Too
Late'
https://www.npr.org/2018/04/03/599120190/madeleine-albright-warns-dont-let-fascism-go-unnoticed-until-its-too-late?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20180404
Foreign sailors may have worked on South Song Dynasty ships
http://www.kaogu.cn/en/News/New_discoveries/2018/0502/61830.html
India’s Abandoned Island of Colonial Horror
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/indias-abandoned-island-colonial-horror-180960617/?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=socialmedia
Genetic Study Estimates Number of First New World Migrants
https://www.archaeology.org/news/6612-180511-new-world-migration
New research shows how Indo-European languages spread across Asia
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-05/uoc--nrs050918.php
One of These Five Innovative Memorials Will Soon Honor Native American
Veterans
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/one-these-five-innovative-memorials-will-soon-honor-native-american-veterans-180969060/
*Archaeology*
Hiker finds 1,000-year-old piece of pottery on Arizona Strip
https://www.thespectrum.com/story/news/2018/05/07/hiker-finds-ancestral-puebloan-anasazi-pot-archaeology/587147002/
Czechs showcase destruction and conservation of Syrian heritage during
civil war
http://www.radio.cz/en/section/curraffrs/czechs-showcase-destruction-and-conservation-of-syrian-heritage-during-civil-war
Finding Pandava's Kingdom: ASI Excavations Touch Pre-Mauryan Level at
Delhi's Purana Qila
https://www.news18.com/news/india/finding-pandavas-kingdom-asi-excavations-touch-pre-mauryan-level-at-delhis-purana-qila-1744145.html
Ancient tools and weapons over 3,500 years-old displayed in Halesworth
http://www.edp24.co.uk/news/axe-heads-spears-found-buried-wissett-field-halesworth-museum-1-5511720
Turkish archeologists identify earliest-known images of Turks in ancient
Persia’s Persepolis
https://www.dailysabah.com/history/2018/04/27/turkish-archeologists-identify-earliest-known-images-of-turks-in-ancient-persias-persepolis
British Museum launches Egyptian antiquities database to track looted
artefacts
https://www.antiquestradegazette.com/news/2018/british-museum-launches-egyptian-antiquities-database-to-track-looted-artefacts/?platform=hootsuite
A stolen identity, a mysterious coffin and the Frenchman who baffled the
Bay Area in the 1880s
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/a-stolen-identity-a-mysterious-coffin-and-the-frenchman-who-baffled-the-bay-area-in-the-1880s/ar-AAwMV6k?ocid=ob-fb-enus-580
Ancient Christian ruins discovered under ISIS garbage dump
<https://nypost.com/2018/05/02/ancient-christian-ruins-discovered-under-isis-garbage-dump/>
https://nypost.com/2018/05/02/ancient-christian-ruins-discovered-under-isis-garbage-dump/
UMaine, Penobscot Tribe to Sign Pact About Tribal Resources
https://www.usetinc.org/news/umaine-penobscot-tribe-to-sign-pact-about-tribal-resources-542018/
Ancestral remains 'people not objects'
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-43927157
Alderney Iron Age finds to go on display there
https://guernseypress.com/news/2018/04/25/alderney-iron-age-finds-to-go-on-display-there/
Remains of ancient horse discovered at Pompeii
https://www.thelocal.it/20180511/pompeii-horse
Ancient Lost City of Mardaman Uncovered in Iraq
https://www.livescience.com/62545-lost-city-of-mardaman-discovered.html
*Egyptology*
Egypt discovers tomb of ancient pharaonic general near Cairo
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2018/05/08/egypt-discovers-tomb-ancient-pharaonic-general-near-cairo.html
New archaeological discovery in Matariya
http://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/49619/New-archaeological-discovery-in-Matariya
*General Science*
The U.S. Army Is Rushing to Field Drone-Killing Stryker Armored Vehicles
https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/weapons/a20267214/army-fielding-stryker-drone-killers/
Uber Unveils the Flying Taxi It Wants to Rule the Skies
https://www.wired.com/story/uber-unveils-flying-taxi/?CNDID=41291302&mbid=nl_050818_daily_list1_p3
New polymer manufacturing process saves 10 orders of magnitude of energy
https://phys.org/news/2018-05-polymer-magnitude-energy.html
Light could make semiconductor computers a million times faster or even go
quantum
https://phys.org/news/2018-05-semiconductor-million-faster-quantum.html
Cloaking devices—it's not just 'Star Trek' anymore
https://phys.org/news/2018-05-cloaking-devicesit-star-trek-anymore.html
*Physics, Earth and Space Sciences*
What will happen when our sun dies?
https://phys.org/news/2018-05-sun-dies.html
A Naked-Eye Superflare Detected from Proxima Centauri
http://aasnova.org/2018/05/08/a-naked-eye-superflare-detected-from-proxima-centauri/
Congress Is Quietly Nudging NASA to Look for Aliens
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/05/seti-technosignatures-nasa-jill-tarter/558512/?utm_source=atlfb
First NASA lander to study Mars' interior launches from California
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/first-nasa-lander-to-study-mars-interior-launches-from-california/ar-AAwLWiZ?ocid=ob-fb-enus-580
Proof of 'Planet Nine' May Be Sewn into Medieval Tapestries
https://www.livescience.com/62475-medieval-comets-reveal-planet-nine.html
NASA Tests New Nuclear Reactor For Future Space Travelers
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/05/03/608137119/nasa-tests-new-nuclear-reactor-for-future-space-travelers?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20180503Sent
Could a multiverse be hospitable to life?
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-05/du-cam051018.php
*Environment, Climate Change and Alternative Energy Sources*
Smaller, Cheaper Nuclear Reactors Are on the Way
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/energy/a20126111/smaller-cheaper-nuclear-reactors-are-on-the-way/
What the Longest Known Whale Shark Migration Ever Tells Us About
Conservation
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/what-longest-known-whale-shark-migration-ever-tells-us-about-conservation-180969019/#xgySCJrePlHCeqgm.01
California moves to require solar panels on all new homes
https://apnews.com/afa0978eff8443af9e5d7c77a3c285bf
The Impacts of Relying on Desalination for Water
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-impacts-of-relying-on-desalination/
Sweden’s recycling is so revolutionary, the country has run out of rubbish
https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/sweden-s-recycling-is-so-revolutionary-the-country-has-run-out-of-rubbish-a7462976.html?amp
*Biological, Genetics and Medical Sciences*
Plants can use underground communication to find out when neighbors are
stressed
https://phys.org/news/2018-05-underground-neighbors-stressed.html
Ketamine Stirs Up Hope—and Controversy—as a Depression Drug
https://www.wired.com/story/ketamine-stirs-up-hope-controversy-as-a-depression-drug/?CNDID=41291302&mbid=nl_050918_backchannel_list1_p2
Leprosy May Have Originated in Europe
https://www.archaeology.org/news/6613-180511-europe-oldest-leprosy
Trial shows chemotherapy is helping kids live with pulmonary vein stenosis
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-05/bch-tsc051118.php
*Other*
Can Humans Survive a Faster Future?
https://www.rand.org/blog/articles/2018/05/can-humans-survive-a-faster-future.html?adbsc=social_Security2040_20180506_2328431&adbid=993000662194503681&adbpl=tw&adbpr=22545453
Additional Informational
Designing a Superyacht Destined for Scientific Discovery
https://thesuperyachtlife.com/craft/rev-project/
The Spectacular Wonders of Europe's Libraries
https://www.wired.com/story/photo-gallery-europe-libraries/?CNDID=41291302&mbid=nl_050718_daily_list3_p4
Endangered Archaeology in the Middle East and North Africa
http://eamena.arch.ox.ac.uk/
Want to Hunt Aliens? Go to West Virginia's Low-Tech 'Quiet Zone'
https://www.wired.com/story/national-radio-quiet-zone-gallery/?CNDID=41291302&mbid=nl_050618_daily_list1_p3
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