[Jawlist] Weekly Science Report 7-12-19

Sun Jul 14 19:13:41 PDT 2019

*Weekly Science Report*

*July 12, 2019*

*“To furnish the means of acquiring knowledge is ... the greatest benefit
that can be conferred upon mankind. It prolongs life itself and enlarges
the sphere of existence.”*

John Quincy Adams

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*

Human pregnancy dependent on cells evolved in platypus-like animal 300
million years ago

https://phys.org/news/2019-07-human-pregnancy-cells-evolved-platypus-like.html

Ancient 'Hyena-Pig' Discovered to Have Once Roamed Oregon

https://www.opb.org/news/article/carnivorous-ungulate-oregon-mesonychid-hyena-pig/

The first Europeans weren't who you might think

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/the-first-europeans-weren-t-who-you-might-think/ar-AAE4u1r?ocid=ob-fb-enus-580&fbclid=IwAR2vU6QvqXFG4PQdSvGVchMKYHwVoUvIxOMZJQxNglGGv2NYHr5M_QWEfG0

Humans may have reached Europe by 210,000 years ago

https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/07/humans-may-have-reached-europe-by-210000-years-ago/?fbclid=IwAR1oNDq68mq4UOcS06r8bpOzSr1yt9mo-otTu1raX7dV2rc74ais55PED6s

Small horned dinosaur from China, a Triceratops relative, walked on two feet

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-07/uop-shd071219.php

Ancient genomics pinpoint origin and rapid turnover of cattle in the
Fertile Crescent

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-07/tcd-agp070519.php

*History*

Aborigines say Uluru is sacred. Tourists rushing to beat a hiking ban are
trashing it.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/travel/2019/07/11/aborigines-say-uluru-is-sacred-tourists-rushing-beat-hiking-ban-are-trashing-it/?utm_term=.9d98722a7697

FBI Records Could Have Solved A Civil Rights Cold Case. Now It's Too Late

https://www.npr.org/2019/07/09/738436370/fbi-records-could-have-solved-a-civil-rights-cold-case-now-its-too-late?sc=tw

When Ancient DNA Gets Politicized

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/when-ancient-dna-gets-politicized-180972639/?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=socialmedia

James Monroe Enslaved Hundreds. Their Descendants Still Live Next Door.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/07/us/politics/monroe-slavery-highland.html

Amid 'Quiet Rehabilitation Of Stalin,' Some Russians Honor The Memory Of
His Victims

https://www.npr.org/2019/07/08/739037704/amid-quiet-rehabilitation-of-stalin-some-russians-honor-the-memory-of-his-victim?utm_campaign=npr&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_term=nprnews&utm_medium=social&fbclid=IwAR3FEADrh3qlgDnws45A_Za6CT_eAby8QQJR_QSx7Og1MktVXQ2sBnBHLAA

Smithsonian inquires about drawings by migrant children showing themselves
in cages

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/smithsonian-inquires-about-drawings-migrant-children-showing-themselves-cages-n1027581?cid=sm_npd_nn_fb_ma

The Bizarre Ways America’s First Spy Agency Tried to Overthrow Hitler

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/07/how-oss-tried-defeat-hitler-world-war-ii/593455/?utm_campaign=the-atlantic&utm_source=facebook&utm_content=edit-promo&utm_term=2019-07-09T11%3A30%3A04&utm_medium=social&fbclid=IwAR0uSFJXsjgD0cB0kgZIEyMtbzKZFQfFGK-DJYlgTSUoAtNtFEWenH8y2E4

Search for remains of Emanuela Orlandi, teen missing since 1983, hits dead
end

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/search-remains-emanuela-orlandi-teen-missing-1983-hits-dead-end-n1028651?cid=sm_npd_nn_fb_nw&fbclid=IwAR1bv02AehxlYiNKyn-a0mF8TEWr6T6_41UtcmgLag4WTw-y7CeT88vS3Co

Trump removes Native American presidential appointee from Cultural Property
Advisory Committee

https://newsmaven.io/indiancountrytoday/the-press-pool/trump-removes-native-american-presidential-appointee-from-cultural-property-advisory-committee-tdtKh0H4NEaznh9zVB1nXA/?fbclid=IwAR3e38CKwakCJ08Qw2oVR0VPzD9qzFjIdsNp0h_n2JMPfy65Mtpb6UWFV20

The U.S. Deported a Million of Its Own Citizens to Mexico During the Great
Depression

https://history.com/news/great-depression-repatriation-drives-mexico-deportation?source=history&platform=facebook&postid=sf105201863&sf105201863=1&fbclid=IwAR2rcSBsdB5Vn3qfbTd2wSSOJiop73JEjxgzcMKhQyAKo_hc9qR3kTpvhXk
  Food may have been scarce in Chaco Canyon
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-07/uoca-fmh071019.php
*Archaeology*

Utah restaurateurs fight Trump cuts to national monument

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/utah-restaurateurs-fight-trump-cuts-to-national-monument?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=pbsofficial&utm_campaign=newshour

British Museum to return Buddhist heads looted in Afghan war

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2019/jul/08/british-museum-return-looted-afghan-artefacts-found-heathrow?fbclid=IwAR1iO7HFYQJ6zCX0GyWvCNqkN6M_saWlPWykFHf55kv3qxsgv_cPUchU_10

Why Are Ethiopia's Sacred Treasures Still in London?

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2019/07/why-britain-wont-return-ethiopias-sacred-treasures/593281/?utm_campaign=the-atlantic&utm_source=facebook&utm_content=edit-promo&utm_medium=social&utm_term=2019-07-09T05%3A00%3A47&fbclid=IwAR0QpJXpnm6RKcaPH76GeedN01qTpKavAcvb9r-HrKE_CDeQyPJCk0t2QCM

Giant marble pyramid-shaped island complex rising from sea uncovered,
revealing secrets of ancient Greece’s origins

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/ancient-greece-archaeology-keros-aegean-sea-bronze-age-dhaskalio-bible-pyramids-crete-milos-a8997666.html?fbclid=IwAR1hWPCKRfJwj8n-FquInMP6KQzu9KwPNfcLonzsF0vTrN8nQFL3MQAMoTk

Pompeii Is Home to Multiple Undetonated World War II Bombs
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/pompeii-home-multiple-undetonated-world-war-ii-bombs-180972626/?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=socialmedia&fbclid=IwAR11Y0z06itYvdeKKbCDrslMQISyR7TMkUdJ2xh2ndHZ5WRuQwim-yOQyzI

An Exclusive Look Inside the Recovery Efforts to Save Notre Dame

https://time.com/longform/inside-notre-dame-exclusive-photos/?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social-share-article&utm_content=20190711&fbclid=IwAR3Ja-JbFOm0v3Y9hDHGxmL8u_YcDu2G9NLlo2OC9tUvsMrOWw3zBfn4Af4
  A Man, a Horse And a Dog Found in Extremely Rare Boat Burial Unearthed in
Sweden
https://www.sciencealert.com/a-man-a-horse-and-a-dog-were-found-in-a-rare-intact-boat-burial-unearthed-in-sweden

Sask. archaeology student finds 6,000-year-old stone dart tip at Wanuskewin
dig site

https://thestarphoenix.com/news/local-news/usask-student-find-6000-year-old-stone-dart-tip-at-wanuskewin-dig-site

Inscription Honoring Dionysus Found in Bulgaria

https://www.archaeology.org/news/7821-190712-bulgaria-dionysus-inscription

Viking History Is Melting Away in Greenland

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/viking-history-is-melting-away-in-greenland/

*Egyptology*

Sarah Parcak Thinks We Need to Learn From the Fall of Egypt’s Old Kingdom

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/08/science/sarah-parcak-space-archaeology.html

Egypt Will Sue Christie’s Over the $6 Million Sale of a King Tut Sculpture
Officials Claim Was Looted From a Temple

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/egypt-christies-lawsuit-king-tut-sculpture-1595746

*General Science*

Robotic fighter jets could soon join military pilots on combat missions.
Here's why.

https://www.nbcnews.com/mach/science/robotic-fighter-jets-could-soon-join-military-pilots-combat-missions-ncna1014501

Automated system generates robotic parts for novel tasks

*https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-07/miot-asg071019.php
<https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-07/miot-asg071019.php>*

*Physics, Earth and Space Sciences*

Should Neil Armstrong’s Bootprints Be on the Moon Forever?

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/11/science/moon-apollo-11-archaeology-preservation.html

Billionaire investors like Jeff Bezos are deadly serious about space mining

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/07/billionaires-are-dead-serious-about-moving-factories-to-space

Scientists unveil the first-ever image of quantum entanglement

https://phys.org/news/2019-07-scientists-unveil-first-ever-image-quantum.html

SpaceX fire breaks out at Cocoa facility, report says

https://www.orlandosentinel.com/space/os-ne-spacex-fire-starship-20190708-764zvmqhlfcuvmeiqga3h3dlcu-story.html?fbclid=IwAR1bR4Cfv62OomYAKVPuX_j3k4xK-yKXqXEGEqZYgT2icfbrFGxChsX0Jbg

Researchers discover semiconducting nanotubes that form spontaneously

https://phys.org/news/2019-07-semiconducting-nanotubes-spontaneously.html?fbclid=IwAR2XOxE0gJWksWp9L97X18FyXoZwrEhUGhCyIvR8E6A2MbHS0iTaMHudS3k

Robots, Not Humans, Are The New Space Explorers

https://www.npr.org/2019/07/08/733714689/robots-not-humans-are-the-new-space-explorers

Super-detailed black hole simulations solved a longstanding mystery- Video

https://www.nbcnews.com/mach/video/super-detailed-black-hole-simulations-solved-a-longstanding-mystery-62895173752?cid=sm_npd_nn_fb_ma

Inside Starshot, the audacious plan to shoot tiny ships to Alpha Centauri

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/613759/starshot-alpha-centauri-laser/?utm_medium=tr_social&utm_campaign=site_visitor.unpaid.engagement&utm_source=twitter

Can the U.S. Annex the Moon?

*https://slate.com/technology/2019/07/un-outer-space-treaty-1967-allowed-property.html
<https://slate.com/technology/2019/07/un-outer-space-treaty-1967-allowed-property.html>*

Who Gets to Decide What Our Space Settlements Look Like?

*https://slate.com/technology/2019/07/space-settlement-decolonizing-forum.html
<https://slate.com/technology/2019/07/space-settlement-decolonizing-forum.html>*

As NASA Aims For The Moon, An Aging Space Station Faces An Uncertain Future

https://www.npr.org/2019/07/07/734474121/as-nasa-aims-for-the-moon-an-aging-space-station-faces-an-uncertain-future?sc=tw

Scientists discover the world's biggest seaweed patch. They say it could be
the 'new normal.'

https://www.nbcnews.com/mach/science/scientists-discover-world-s-biggest-seaweed-patch-they-say-it-ncna1027501?cid=sm_npd_nn_fb_ma&fbclid=IwAR0XZywbCVg3XmD1TH1bJEmpC68HiP_rJ0PWTrX926Znw6Cekh_YCdkLDVQ

Quantum sensor breakthrough using naturally occurring vibrations in
artificial atoms

https://phys.org/news/2019-07-quantum-sensor-breakthrough-naturally-vibrations.html?fbclid=IwAR1O1hUMPADcMqMHLtJTaK-AlBB0oHfTDnKRauBnymAqwYGqncK9TPDneM8

Mission to rare metal asteroid could spark space mining boom

https://www.nbcnews.com/mach/science/mission-rare-metal-asteroid-could-spark-space-mining-boom-ncna1027971?cid=sm_npd_nn_fb_ma&fbclid=IwAR1Zc4FA_S76MCiyzxc_dHp9eY6HiyWbpFzJWjyw1Bh5KOiv9lFlDpz9iHQ

Newfound kilometer-size asteroid orbits the sun every 151 days

https://phys.org/news/2019-07-newfound-kilometer-size-asteroid-orbits-sun.html?fbclid=IwAR00tgaZy9tqC_3SkP-Yjra5HZkaSBaKhuVGHZgfQn-EvmJ8CsxYEvlBGz4

Should Neil Armstrong’s Bootprints Be on the Moon Forever?

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/11/science/moon-apollo-11-archaeology-preservation.html

Strange warping geometry helps to push scientific boundaries

https://phys.org/news/2019-07-strange-warping-geometry-scientific-boundaries.html?fbclid=IwAR0iFpVcyo68XDSXkli_lbuyIRNLOQdNAB0b9lcTG9H24oqzqUqkyrZ7UUk

Ploonets: Exiled moons may explain astronomical mysteries

https://phys.org/news/2019-07-ploonets-exiled-moons-astronomical-mysteries.html?fbclid=IwAR2gRMan0u5-VbwbfF2TimVCaG9Z1VveMT6Oj7oVx3nybLRakBkFVFNdX4w

NASA telescope detects supermassive black hole that shouldn't exist

https://www.cnet.com/news/nasa-telescope-detects-supermassive-black-hole-that-shouldnt-exist/#ftag=CAD-09-10aai5b

Maintaining large-scale satellite constellations using logistics approach

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-07/uoic-mls071219.php

'Moon-forming' circumplanetary disk discovered in distant star system

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-07/nrao-cd071119.php

New developments with Chinese satellites over the past decade

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-07/ioap-ndw071019.php

Russia launches space telescope (Update)

https://phys.org/news/2019-07-russia-space-telescope.html

Scientists deepen understanding of magnetic fields surrounding Earth and
other planets

https://phys.org/news/2019-07-scientists-deepen-magnetic-fields-earth.html

Ploonets: Exiled moons may explain astronomical mysteries

https://phys.org/news/2019-07-ploonets-exiled-moons-astronomical-mysteries.html

Low-cost Moon mission puts India among lunar pioneers

https://phys.org/news/2019-07-low-cost-moon-mission-india-lunar.html

*Environment, Climate Change and Alternative Energy Sources*

First all-digital nuclear reactor control system in the U.S. installed at
Purdue University

https://purdue.edu/newsroom/releases/2019/Q3/first-all-digital-nuclear-reactor-control-system-in-the-u.s.-installed-at-purdue-university.html?fbclid=IwAR1q-6wzyfGmGd-td8K-jRcO3W4edyjeYoL3Mz___pEdZikPi_5pZq0iW-Y

>From Gambling to Solar, U.S. Tribes Bet on New Revenue Stream

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-07-11/from-gambling-to-solar-u-s-tribes-bet-on-new-revenue-stream

Norway Surveys Sunken Soviet Submarine

https://www.npr.org/2019/07/11/740691307/norway-surveys-sunken-soviet-submarine?sc=tw

New Designs Could Boost Solar Cells Beyond Their Limits

https://www.wired.com/story/new-designs-could-boost-solar-cells-beyond-their-limits/?mbid=social_twitter&utm_brand=wired&utm_campaign=wired&utm_medium=social&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=twitter

*Biological, Genetics and Medical Sciences*

Mama Dolphins Sing Their Name to Babies in the Womb

https://www.livescience.com/55699-mother-dolphins-teach-babies-signature-whistle.html

Spiders Can Fly Hundreds of Miles Using Electricity

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/07/the-electric-flight-of-spiders/564437/

Researchers Develop Plant-Based, Eco-Friendly Method to Produce Tylenol
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/researchers-develop-eco-friendly-method-synthesizing-tylenol-plants-180972582/

At remote Amazon jungle hospital, U.S. med students learn vital lessons

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-care/remote-amazon-jungle-hospital-u-s-med-students-learn-vital-n1025256?cid=sm_npd_nn_fb_ma&fbclid=IwAR2tUvcfpGNyVHGIi6KUzUj585PBbGtM0l4UEQc1Ug-GxitPyTNwbp_kfco&fbclid=IwAR3fLde8NvP8EzMEjTZl5Tya7pTuyb50Jma8YLb-Mg_nVs7pckwpmLl085s

The Promises And Pitfalls Of Gene Sequencing For Newborns

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/07/08/738528989/the-promises-and-pitfalls-of-gene-sequencing-for-newborns?sc=tw

Trump to order overhaul of kidney disease program

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/trump-order-overhaul-kidney-disease-program-n1028141?cid=sm_npd_nn_fb_ma&fbclid=IwAR0szmaeiRVw_I-mgtq-xzK6Al3Lrff6jNJhl5MnFcCgAcxd8Qzs0o5ps6I

US born from the transplanted uterus of a dead donor

https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/09/us/first-us-baby-transplanted-uterus-of-dead-donor-trnd/index.html?utm_term=link&utm_medium=social&utm_content=2019-07-10T02%3A00%3A29&utm_source=fbCNNi&fbclid=IwAR0p9dYlHPl07uY9oPAbHWvjkgilLLXOzgrlKQ81kt6ljwkLvv-lFuDPALk
  Gene identified that will help develop plants to fight climate change
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-07/si-git070219.php

*Other*

Can Sci-Fi Writers Prepare Us for an Uncertain Future?

https://www.wired.com/story/sci-fi-writers-prepare-us-for-an-uncertain-future/?CNDID=41291302&CNDID=41291302&bxid=MjM5NjgxMjIxODk5S0&hasha=3ed15b3d4270f52ce4da5de4e5031836&hashb=9085a9ae56cc45a4e9bae24e2eaeaade6e04a43e&mbid=nl_071219_daily_list3_p2&source=DAILY_NEWSLETTER&utm_brand=wired&utm_mailing=WIRED%20NL%20071219%20(1)&utm_medium=email&utm_source=nl

Is 'Race Science' Making A Comeback?

https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2019/07/10/416496218/is-race-science-making-a-comeback?sc=tw

Amazon’s Latest Experiment: Retraining Its Work Force

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/11/technology/amazon-workers-retraining-automation.html

UT-Austin will provide free tuition to undergrad students with family
incomes below $65,000 starting in 2020

https://www.texastribune.org/2019/07/09/ut-system-spends-160-million-financial-aid-ut-austin-students/

Thousands of people have taken a Facebook pledge to storm Area 51 to 'see
them aliens'

https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/11/us/alien-march-facebook-event-trnd/index.html?utm_term=link&utm_source=fbCNN&utm_medium=social&utm_content=2019-07-12T02%3A03%3A05&fbclid=IwAR1lWGSNW-JIlJQWoL3KWm7Eq9ApEVT_-jLajVvebp8LR84c9scfCFVy7zA

Additional Informational

In pictures: New Unesco World Heritage Sites

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-48894642?fbclid=IwAR3URdqs1FicpfsdC1WVh5L8svIlqOEt6fNQq8pG5LUjYjPpGn0xEnbwuLY

SHUSH! Silence the Patriarchy- Video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrOvrWVmSIE&feature=youtu.be

Upholding a Transparent and Truthful Account Of What Happened in Srebrenica
is Essential for Peace

https://www.icmp.int/press-releases/upholding-a-transparent-and-truthful-account-of-what-happened-in-srebrenica-is-essential-for-peace/
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