[Jawlist] Weekly Science Report 10-19-18

Sun Oct 21 13:37:49 PDT 2018

*Weekly Science Report*

*October 19, 2018*

*“An understanding society cannot fall into the hands of racism.  Stand
together and build a foundation of peace. Yesterday’s lessons are
tomorrow’s warnings.”*

Robert Badinter

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*

Dry conditions in East Africa half a million years ago possibly shaped
human evolution, study finds

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-10/gsu-dci101718.php

Newly Discovered Tyrant Dinosaur Stalked Ancient New Mexico
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/newly-discovered-tyrant-dinosaur-stalked-ancient-new-mexico-180970491/

Ancient Proteins From Unwashed Dishes Reveal the Diets of a Lost
Civilization
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/ancient-proteins-unwashed-dishes-reveal-diets-lost-civilization-180970481/

Prehistoric Wine Reveals Missing Pieces of Ancient Sicilian Culture
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/prehistoric-wine-reveals-missing-pieces-ancient-sicilian-culture-180970597/

A long walk: New insight into history of dogs and humans

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-45875974

Ancient Andean genomes show distinct adaptations to farming and altitude

https://popular-archaeology.com/article/ancient-andean-genomes-show-distinct-adaptations-to-farming-and-altitude/

*History*

Archaeologists to solve mystery in ancient city of Hadrianapolis

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/archaeologists-to-solve-mystery-in-ancient-city-of-hadrianapolis-137824

Extensive trade in fish between Egypt and Canaan already 3,500 years ago

https://popular-archaeology.com/article/extensive-trade-in-fish-between-egypt-and-canaan-already-3500-years-ago/

What Contributed to the Downfall of the Ancient City of Angkor in Modern
Cambodia?

https://popular-archaeology.com/article/what-contributed-to-the-downfall-of-the-ancient-city-of-angkor-in-modern-cambodia/

Vesuvius eruption may have been later than thought

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-45874858

‘There’s no plan B’: academics race to safeguard research against Brexit

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2018/oct/16/academics-race-safeguard-research-against-brexit-universities?CMP=fb_gu&fbclid=IwAR0ux7mBanczF7SW1iv7uKJRDMTmbTUrfxL_UZd4NHWcuXfavuwjEUDaTLU

The Japanese Man Who Saved 6,000 Jews With His Handwriting

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/15/opinion/sugihara-moral-heroism-refugees.html?fbclid=IwAR1iByThW5H2Vuavt-A-ElHXnEqf6BIY9S5wNkc4br1dtpwwmUTAPnd-tgM

How a Dictator Got Away With a Brazen Murder in D.C. in 1976

https://www.history.com/news/pinochet-terror-attack-dc?cmpid=FACEBOOK_FBPAGE__20181017&linkId=58316348

In Wake Of Charlottesville, Federal Government Pays To Protect Confederate
Cemeteries

https://www.npr.org/2018/10/16/658003387/in-wake-of-charlottesville-federal-government-pays-to-protect-confederate-cemete?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=2045&fbclid=IwAR1ezKOZAFRYS1R5esLwAygloT2sB4DNMEmbtOnw2-_ymSqi2cdL_bFodHw

Madness in Massachusetts

https://www.economist.com/books-and-arts/2015/11/14/madness-in-massachusetts?fsrc=scn/fb/te/bl/ed/thesalemwitchtrialsmadnessinmassachusetts

UNESCO emergency mission to Rio de Janeiro helps guide global efforts to
restore Brazil’s National Museum

https://en.unesco.org/news/unesco-emergency-mission-to-rio-de-janeiro

MATTHEW SHEPARD PERSONAL COLLECTION DONATED TO SMITHSONIAN

http://k2radio.com/matthew-shepard-personal-collection-donated-to-smithsonian/

*Archaeology*

Getty announces grants to shore up modern buildings

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/getty-announces-grants-to-shore-up-modern-buildings

Wildfire destruction leads to re-discovery of ancient Indigenous sites in
B.C.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/elephant-hill-wildfire-1.4861022?cmp=rss

Mount Vesuvius murdered its victims in more brutal ways than we thought

https://www.popsci.com/vesuvius-blood-boil

900-Year-Old 'Grand Lady' Skeleton Emerges from Watery Coffin

https://www.livescience.com/63826-grand-lady-skeleton-china.html

Viking Ship and Cemetery Found Buried in Norway
https://www.livescience.com/63829-viking-ship-cemetery.html

Do Canadian Carvings Depict Vikings? Removing Mammal Fat May Tell

https://www.livescience.com/63839-viking-carvings-mystery.html

Archeological find changes date of Pompeii's destruction

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/oct/16/archeological-find-changes-date-of-pompeiis-destruction

Fire consumes depot at Deutsches Museum

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/fire-consumes-depot-at-deutsches-museum?fbclid=IwAR3mUcu3XLhbc9sLsyPUY7m7miJ0t55vyJmZsBGKaXIWARqJbagLtTfe9R4

*America’s archaeology data keeps disappearing – even though the law says
the government is supposed to preserve it*

https://theconversation.com/americas-archaeology-data-keeps-disappearing-even-though-the-law-says-the-government-is-supposed-to-preserve-it-104674?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=facebookbutton

Excavation Of Lithuania's Great Synagogue Highlights A 'Painful Page' From
History

https://www.npr.org/2018/10/16/657482569/excavation-of-lithuanias-great-synagogue-highlights-a-painful-page-from-history?sc=tw

*Egyptology*

Oxford Professor heads back to Egypt after losing legs

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-england-oxfordshire-45811189/oxford-professor-heads-back-to-egypt-after-losing-legs?fbclid=IwAR1BDVtBNygNFW0cpNZtvoJzyuYYAO09iLaWqCQb7UdjUsQUgyduCv5gNa4

Women Achieved Enormous Power in Ancient Egypt. What They Did With It Is a
Warning for Today

http://time.com/5425216/ancient-egypt-women-in-power-today/

*General Science*

First proof of quantum computer advantage

*https://techxplore.com/news/2018-10-proof-quantum-advantage.html
<https://techxplore.com/news/2018-10-proof-quantum-advantage.html>*

Understanding the building blocks for an electronic brain

*https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-10/uog-utb101918.php
<https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-10/uog-utb101918.php>*

Merging mathematical and physical models toward building a more perfect
flying vehicle

*https://phys.org/news/2018-10-merging-mathematical-physical-vehicle.html
<https://phys.org/news/2018-10-merging-mathematical-physical-vehicle.html>*

*Physics, Earth and Space Sciences*   *Solving the mystery of the
wimpy supernova*
https://theconversation.com/solving-the-mystery-of-the-wimpy-supernova-104726

*Neil Armstrong and the America that could have been*

https://theconversation.com/neil-armstrong-and-the-america-that-could-have-been-104101

China Plans to Launch an 'Artificial Moon' to Light Up the Night Skies

http://time.com/5429288/china-chengdu-artificial-moon/?utm_medium=social&xid=time_socialflow_facebook&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=time&fbclid=IwAR2L1RHqfXtKO2cGmy-Gsr4CyoEqY9DPMBk3DpOnqaJr9rn0TpTV29ehPbc

Surprise finding: Discovering a previously unknown role for a source of
magnetic fields

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-10/dppl-sfd101918.php

New Discovery Stirs Up Signs of the Elusive Planet 9
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/new-discovery-goblin-stirs-signs-elusive-planet-9-180970442/

A Slow Trip To A Hot Planet: Spacecraft Launches For Mission To Mercury

https://www.npr.org/2018/10/19/654341131/a-slow-trip-to-a-hot-planet-spacecraft-poised-for-mission-to-mercury

Exotic Matter Made in Space Could Boost the Hunt for Gravitational Waves

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/exotic-matter-made-in-space-could-boost-the-hunt-for-gravitational-waves/

Was life on the early Earth purple?

https://phys.org/news/2018-10-life-early-earth-purple.html?fbclid=IwAR3CdqXaJvFc-baVGXAIQrLI3Ocn24s4HdtgllJgYLtlAKBR7DFYglcsau0

How much does space travel cost?

https://www.nbcnews.com/mach/science/how-much-does-space-travel-cost-ncna919011?cid=sm_npd_nn_fb_ma

Recent intergalactic flashes might help solve this great astronomical
mystery

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/recent-intergalactic-flashes-might-help-solve-this-great-astronomical-mystery/ar-BBOunvE?ocid=ob-fb-enus-580&fbclid=IwAR18mS2fmk2sHL890BtJZVQi9PNdsZJiCmISv95x6DAwv7U4BMCgvbbMCXs

*NASA wants to send humans to Venus – here’s why that’s a brilliant idea*

http://theconversation.com/nasa-wants-to-send-humans-to-venus-heres-why-thats-a-brilliant-idea-104961?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=facebookbutton&fbclid=IwAR3XulICOfZNNkE7SXEvbKpIEPH04DCSKXXI4PvpLviALJYiOHzBufogwNc

Huge alien planets detected around baby star for first time ever

https://www.nbcnews.com/mach/science/huge-alien-planets-detected-around-baby-star-first-time-ever-ncna921196?cid=sm_npd_nn_fb_ma

Mathematicians confirm the possibility of data transfer via gravitational
waves

https://phys.org/news/2018-10-mathematicians-possibility-gravitational.html

'Brief Answers To The Big Questions' Is Stephen Hawking's Parting Gift To
Humanity

https://www.npr.org/2018/10/16/657526628/brief-answers-to-the-big-questions-is-stephen-hawkings-parting-gift-to-humanity?sc=tw

Jeff Bezos Wants Us All to Leave Earth—for Good

https://www.wired.com/story/jeff-bezos-blue-origin/?CNDID=41291302&CNDID=41291302&mbid=nl_101618_daily_list1_p4&utm_brand=wired&utm_mailing=WIRED%20NL%20101618%20(1)&utm_medium=email&utm_source=nl

*Environment, Climate Change and Alternative Energy Sources*

World's largest rice gene bank secures funding to fight climate change

http://news.trust.org/item/20181015084919-9ew0j/

Estimating the feeding habits of corals may offer new insights on resilient
reefs

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-10/uoc--etf101818.php

Carbon fiber can store energy in the body of a vehicle

https://techxplore.com/news/2018-10-carbon-fiber-energy-body-vehicle.html?fbclid=IwAR3qPWzCi1_FxEtpSyeFK9mGwzQ_qDYhMCAh5qIdNKZ1SCuz9EvZRcvPVVA

Rick Perry’s coal rescue runs aground at White House

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/10/15/rick-perry-coal-rescue-trump-850528?fbclid=IwAR3zCwf9yQY1vGhHrvLCnFQcOO3B27Mtsc0VtevvFMcG-KZ9unGUUkJ0R3Q

Cultural heritage has a lot to teach us about climate change

https://theconversation.com/amp/cultural-heritage-has-a-lot-to-teach-us-about-climate-change-103266?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=twitterbutton&__twitter_impression=true

*Biological, Genetics and Medical Sciences*   Immune therapy generates
promising results in hard-to-treat ankylosing spondylitis
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-10/w-itg101818.php

Bioelectronic medicine treatment effective for lupus, pilot clinical trial
shows

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-10/nh-bmt101918.php

South American marsupials discovered to reach new heights

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-10/esoa-sam101818.php

First immunotherapy success for triple-negative breast cancer

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2018-10-immunotherapy-success-triple-negative-breast-cancer.html

Scientists identify critical cancer immunity genes using new genetic
barcoding technology

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2018-10-scientists-critical-cancer-immunity-genes.html

New therapies pack a triple-drug punch to treat cystic fibrosis

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/new-therapies-pack-triple-drug-punch-treat-cystic-fibrosis

Doctors to prescribe museum visits to help patients 'escape from their own
pain'

https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.4859936?fbclid=IwAR3eNtXMkMaEvcZnZLDcYu-5UdybQ6cP_YuvPFDNLx0EnB74M9oIrcc2OuY

*Other*

Mystery of the 'blast-proof' material- Video

http://www.bbc.com/reel/video/p06fs373/the-substance-that-can-withstand-75-nuclear-blasts-?ocid=gnl.ppc.sponsored-post.bbc-gnl..BBCReel&kwp_0=987740&kwp_4=3319261&kwp_1=1393778

Additional Informational

All museums can be Human Rights museums: ICOM COMCOL 2018

https://icom.museum/en/news/all-museums-can-be-human-rights-museums-icom-comcol-2018/

UNESCO Intercultural Dialogue Website

https://en.unesco.org/interculturaldialogue/resources?q=&lang=&region=&topic

TED Talk, How to create a world where no one dies waiting for a transplant

https://www.ted.com/talks/luhan_yang_how_to_create_a_world_where_no_one_dies_waiting_for_a_transplant

International Collaboration in Human Spaceflight: A Conversation with Dr.
Jeanette Epps, NASA Astronaut Webcast, Oct 29

https://www.csis.org/events/international-collaboration-human-spaceflight-conversation-dr-jeanette-epps-nasa-astronaut?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=366d3fd00a-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_04_17_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-366d3fd00a-189939825

Jamal Khashoggi: What the Arab world needs most is free expression

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/jamal-khashoggi-what-the-arab-world-needs-most-is-free-expression/2018/10/17/adfc8c44-d21d-11e8-8c22-fa2ef74bd6d6_story.html?utm_term=.3b56f7904e15

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