[Jawlist] Weekly Science Report 2-8-19

Sat Feb 9 22:31:34 PST 2019

*Weekly Science Report*

*February 8, 2019*

*“Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not
a crime.”  *

Ernest Hemingway

Introduction

Steve Detwiler created this publication with the support of Graham Hancock
and the late 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*

A Bold New Theory Proposes That Humans Tamed Themselves

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/03/how-humans-tamed-themselves/580447/?utm_campaign=the-atlantic&utm_content=5c58ee324b73850001368717_ta&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwAR2jRqJsylpoDkg-qKm2n2P1Y1akIca4b3Co9iJ6XKoL72Rq0XJNKzER_l0

Neanderthals Were the Original Artists
<http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2018/02/22/neanderthals-cave-paintings-spain/>

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2018/02/22/neanderthals-cave-paintings-spain/?utm_source=dscfb&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=dscfb&fbclid=IwAR0FvqYTItrffqQqoIiL91d29fOONJaiZ-hVVqw6mkcQDWjdB0Q4J5QkXv4#.XFn8fVVKhQI

'Ridiculously rare' case of cancer found in fossilized leg

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2019/02/ridiculously-rare-cancer-found-fossil-leg-turtle-triassic-paleontology/?cmpid=org=ngp::mc=social::src=twitter::cmp=editorial::add=tw20190207science-bonecancerturtle::rid=&sf207412381=1
  Why Did Darker and Lighter Human Skin Colors Evolve?
<http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/crux/2019/01/28/human-skin-color-explained-vitamind-folate/>
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/crux/2019/01/28/human-skin-color-explained-vitamind-folate/#.XF8BgazsbIV

With Ancient Human DNA, Africa’s Deep History Is Coming to Light
<http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/crux/2019/02/08/ancient-human-dna-africa/>
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/crux/2019/02/08/ancient-human-dna-africa/#.XF8BzazsbIU

New oviraptorosaur species discovered in Mongolia

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-02/p-nos013019.php

DNA reveals early mating between Asian herders and European farmers

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/dna-mating-asian-herders-european-farmers?tgt=nr

*History*

Bible dating back 1,200 years seized from smuggling suspects in Turkey

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/ancient-bible-smuggled-turkey-seized-diyarbakir-syria-war-a8765876.html

Russia Is Reopening an Investigation Into the World’s Greatest Mystery

https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/3kgkzb/russia-is-reopening-an-investigation-into-the-worlds-greatest-mystery?utm_source=vicefbca&utm_campaign=global

Her family farm once belonged to the Kaw Indians. She decided to pay them
back.

https://www.kansas.com/news/local/article225981195.html

Spanish art dealer returns carved stones from a Nabatean temple to Jordan

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/nabatean-goddess

New memorial site to honor those afflicted by 9/11-related illnesses

https://nypost.com/2019/02/02/new-memorial-site-to-honor-those-afflicted-by-9-11-related-illnesses/?utm_source=facebook_sitebuttons&utm_medium=site+buttons&utm_campaign=site+buttons&fbclid=IwAR0aqMVrnFiusAY6tjdf2fHR7VaexqpDt6EPudt3bU3Pj5T3-SPRO-66Fi0

New Exhibition Highlights Story of the Richest Man Who Ever Lived
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/richest-man-who-ever-lived-180971409/?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=socialmedia&fbclid=IwAR2Z1NjeUelcQ-BKNi8fWOrb7TtZvm_OR4Nb42_9seAdOysXQneu1Zu6t2Y

New Mexico lawmaker calls for creation of Navajo Code Talkers Museum

https://www.krqe.com/news/politics-governement/new-mexico-lawmaker-calls-for-creation-of-navajo-code-talkers-museum/1743704121

Monuments Men Foundation Collection Finds a New Home at The National WWII
Museum

https://www.monumentsmenfoundation.org/news/monuments-men-foundation-collection-finds-a-new-home-at-the-national-wwii-museum

Ravaged by war, Beirut’s historic sites are being reimagined

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/destinations/asia/lebanon/beirut-war-damaged-landmarks-becoming-cultural-sites/

The Black Sergeant and the White Judge Who Changed Civil Rights History

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/07/books/review/richard-gergel-unexampled-courage.html

Why Alexander the Great May Have Been Declared Dead Prematurely (It's
Pretty Gruesome)

https://www.livescience.com/64676-alexander-the-great-declared-dead-prematurely.html

*Archaeology*

Airport construction threatens unexplored archaeological sites in Peru

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/02/airport-construction-threatens-unexplored-archaeological-sites-peru?r3f_986=https://www.google.com/

Change Is In The Wind At Cahokia Mounds, As Supporters Try Again For
National Park Status

https://news.stlpublicradio.org/post/change-wind-cahokia-mounds-supporters-try-again-national-park-status?fbclid=IwAR3nLWys8OF-tBvwRFzj1WURHtM9eKC1b8cjEmvv71BuSbvJdV4KYodQtGA#stream/0

How the Kerala floods unearthed a site filled with ancient terracotta
figures

https://www.thehindu.com/society/how-the-kerala-floods-unearthed-a-site-filled-with-ancient-terracotta-figures/article26026694.ece/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

Archaeologists puzzle over mystery woman in early Christian cemetery

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/2019/01/mystery-woman-cemetery-ljubljana-slovenia-archaeology/

Remembering Lamia Al-Gailani, Pioneering Iraqi Archaeologist

https://www.npr.org/2019/02/02/689933122/remembering-lamia-al-gailani-pioneering-iraqi-archaeologist?sc=tw

On a Civil War battlefield in Western Maryland, opposition to Hogan’s land
swap

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/on-a-civil-war-battlefield-in-western-maryland-opposition-to-hogans-land-swap/2019/02/06/500b381a-18d6-11e9-88fe-f9f77a3bcb6c_story.html?fbclid=IwAR1FpOxyjVOdlWU56pvM9Lp8AYOB4OGB1Qaa3vbK0Gh4EJVds4J2fHAF0Lo&utm_term=.409cc6cbc831

The battle for the future of Stonehenge

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/feb/08/the-battle-for-the-future-of-stonehenge?CMP=share_btn_tw

Ahead Of 2020 Summer Olympics, A Building Boom In Kyoto Is Yielding Ancient
Artifacts

https://www.npr.org/2019/02/06/689931917/ahead-of-2020-summer-olympics-a-building-boom-in-kyoto-is-yielding-ancient-artif?utm_campaign=storyshare&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social

'X-ray gun' helps researchers pinpoint the origins of pottery found on
ancient shipwreck

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-02/fm-gh020419.php

*Egyptology*

Egypt Unveils Pharaonic Tomb With 50 Mummies

https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/MAGAZINE-in-photos-egypt-unveils-pharaonic-tomb-with-50-mummies-1.6898362

*General Science*

Artificial intelligence is learning not to be so literal

*https://www.sciencenews.org/article/artificial-intelligence-learning-not-be-so-literal?tgt=nr
<https://www.sciencenews.org/article/artificial-intelligence-learning-not-be-so-literal?tgt=nr>*

*Physics, Earth and Space Sciences*   NASA Battled Cybersecurity Threats
During Government Shutdown
https://www.hstoday.us/subject-matter-areas/cybersecurity/nasa-battled-cybersecurity-threats-during-government-shutdown/
  *Scientist at work: I’m a geologist who’s dived dozens of times to
explore submarine volcanoes *
https://theconversation.com/scientist-at-work-im-a-geologist-whos-dived-dozens-of-times-to-explore-submarine-volcanoes-110472

Harvard’s top astronomer says an alien ship may be among us — and he
doesn’t care what his colleagues think

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/techandscience/harvards-top-astronomer-says-an-alien-ship-may-be-among-us-%E2%80%94-and-he-doesnt-care-what-his-colleagues-think/ar-BBTbOMd?fbclid=IwAR2R0fn8pr34WIZo0YHjWqemso16mCAgRbK3qxbAcArJqiRPNqq-wdsKF38

Earth's magnetic north pole is hurtling toward Russia
https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/05/health/north-pole-magnetic-moving-russia-scli-intl/index.html?utm_medium=social&utm_content=2019-02-05T13%3A00%3A18&utm_source=fbCNN&utm_term=link

Exploring The Mysterious Origins Of Mars' 3-Mile-High Sand Pile

https://www.npr.org/2019/01/31/690126426/exploring-the-mysterious-origins-of-mars-3-mile-high-sand-pile?sc=tw

New Horizons' evocative farewell glance at Ultima Thule

https://phys.org/news/2019-02-horizons-evocative-farewell-glance-ultima.html

Chang'e 4 Rover comes into view

https://phys.org/news/2019-02-rover-view.html

Richard Branson says he'll fly to space by July

https://phys.org/news/2019-02-richard-branson-hell-space-july.html

An Antarctic expedition will search for what lived under the Larsen C ice
shelf

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/antarctic-expedition-search-life-larsen-c-ice-shelf-iceberg?tgt=nr

Wayward Satellites Test Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/wayward-satellites-test-einsteins-theory-of-general-relativity/

Mystery mud on new volcanic island baffles Nasa scientists

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/feb/05/mystery-mud-on-new-volcanic-island-baffles-nasa-scientists

*Environment, Climate Change and Alternative Energy Sources*

Climate change and infertility -- a ticking time bomb?

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-01/uol-cca013119.php

Melting glaciers reveal ancient landscapes, thawing mummies, and long-dead
diseases

https://www.popsci.com/climate-change-melting-glaciers-history

Reenvisioning The Role For Natural Gas In A Clean Energy Future
https://www.forbes.com/sites/thebakersinstitute/2019/02/01/re-envisioning-the-role-for-natural-gas-in-a-clean-energy-future/amp/?utm_source=TWITTER&utm_medium=social&utm_term=Paulie%2F&__twitter_impression=true

DESALINATION IS BOOMING. BUT WHAT ABOUT ALL THAT TOXIC BRINE?

https://www.wired.com/story/desalination-is-booming-but-what-about-all-that-toxic-brine/amp?__twitter_impression=true

Solar-Power Benefits Aren’t Reaching Communities of Color

https://www.citylab.com/environment/2019/01/solar-panel-pv-black-hispanic-environmental-justice-equality/581506/

>From smarter energy to less plastic, Caribbean resorts go green

http://mercury.postlight.com/amp?url=http://news.trust.org/item/20190201111626-s795o/&__twitter_impression=true

Rating riverside corridors -- the 'escape routes' for animals under climate
change

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-02/uow-rrc020819.php

*Biological, Genetics and Medical Sciences*   *Potential treatment for eye
cancer using *tumor-killing* virus*
https://theconversation.com/potential-treatment-for-eye-cancer-using-tumor-killing-virus-110558

3 ways science aims to end the organ shortage crisis
https://www.nbcnews.com/mach/science/3-ways-science-aims-end-organ-shortage-crisis-ncna966556?cid=sm_npd_ms_tw_ma

New U.S. Experiments Aim To Create Gene-Edited Human Embryos

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/02/01/689623550/new-u-s-experiments-aim-to-create-gene-edited-human-embryos?sc=tw

Researchers develop human cell-based model to study small cell lung cancer

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-02/rup-rdh020419.php

Sea snakes that can't drink seawater

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-02/uof-sst020819.php

Brain scans decode an elusive signature of consciousness

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/brain-scans-decode-elusive-signature-consciousness?tgt=nr

Pills equipped with tiny needles can inject a body from the inside

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/pills-needles-injection-medication?tgt=nr

*Other*

The World Might Actually Run Out of People

https://www.wired.com/story/the-world-might-actually-run-out-of-people/?CNDID=41291302&CNDID=41291302&bxid=MjM5NjgxMjIxODk5S0&hasha=3ed15b3d4270f52ce4da5de4e5031836&hashb=9085a9ae56cc45a4e9bae24e2eaeaade6e04a43e&mbid=nl_020419_daily_list1_p4&source=DAILY_NEWSLETTER&utm_brand=wired&utm_mailing=WIRED%20NL%20020419%20(1)%20remainder&utm_medium=email&utm_source=nl

Morgan le Fay: how Arthurian legend turned a powerful woman from healer to
villain

https://theconversation.com/amp/morgan-le-fay-how-arthurian-legend-turned-a-powerful-woman-from-healer-to-villain-109928?__twitter_impression=true

Jerry Brown's New Gig as Keeper of Doomsday Clock

https://www.kqed.org/science/1937167/jerry-browns-new-gig-as-keeper-of-doomsday-clock

The truth is out there! Scientist who investigated UFOs for 20 years for
the government coined the phrase Close Encounters of the Third Kind

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6675625/J-Allen-Hynek-UFOs-investigations-Close-Encounters-Kind-Steven-Spielberg-new-TV-show.html

Additional Informational

Secret Life of Muslims, Creeping Sharia-Video

http://www.secretlifeofmuslims.com/season-two?ss_source=sscampaigns&ss_campaign_id=5c5c84d9962e28000136b1b4&ss_email_id=5c5c9af9e1a87d000148f6d3&ss_campaign_name=Is+Creeping+Sharia+out+to+get+you%3F+Hint%3A+It%27s+probably+not.&ss_campaign_sent_date=2019-02-07T20%3A54%3A23Z

U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, Blacks during the Holocaust Era

https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/blacks-during-the-holocaust-era?utm_source=mkto&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=1902MKTEM04381-horizontal-link-1&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiWkdKallUbGxaamszWldSaSIsInQiOiJpbkxjU3R4enZ1RG1oWUcydW1oV2htS0tIMXJCbjNIZTk5RVJobHZ3VWNyNzk0UVRtbkFBTCtzZ0FvbHVWa2h2aUtqamo3bVU0TDB2aUxEREcxM2tlYWRnNk94TGdiSHBlbDZ4aWFpMURZS3pwMVlEYk5TcHEwR3B2R0hKRlp4cyJ9

WOMEN AT NUREMBERG: BELLE MAYER ZECK

http://sfi.usc.edu/news/2018/06/22236-women-nuremberg-belle-mayer-zeck
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