[Jawlist] Weekly Science Report 6-14-19

Sun Jun 16 17:14:35 PDT 2019

*Weekly Science Report*

*June 14, 2019*

*“Your job as a historian is to help people remember not just what they
want to remember but also what they need to remember.”*

Lonnie Bunch

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*

*Ancient DNA is revealing the origins of livestock herding in Africa*

https://theconversation.com/ancient-dna-is-revealing-the-origins-of-livestock-herding-in-africa-114387

Rare example of prehistoric engravings of fish

https://www.seedordogne.com/caves/abri-du-poisson-les-eyzies-de-tayac-658047

*History*

Letters Written by Anne Frank’s Father, Otto, Will Be Digitized to Mark
Diarist’s 90th Birthday
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/letters-written-anne-franks-father-otto-will-be-digitized-mark-diarists-90th-birthday-180972400/?preview

*The history of China’s Muslims and what’s behind their persecution*

https://theconversation.com/the-history-of-chinas-muslims-and-whats-behind-their-persecution-117365

*‘World Heritage’ site selection is Eurocentric – and that shapes which
historic places get love and money*

https://theconversation.com/world-heritage-site-selection-is-eurocentric-and-that-shapes-which-historic-places-get-love-and-money-115898

Netherlands to restitute two paintings sold by Jewish businessman in Nazi
era

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/netherlands-to-restitute-two-paintings-sold-by-jewish-businessman-in-nazi-era

Pope Francis apologises to Roma for Catholic discrimination

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-48490942

Trophies made from human skulls hint at regional conflicts around the time
of Maya civilization’s mysterious collapse

https://theconversation.com/trophies-made-from-human-skulls-hint-at-regional-conflicts-around-the-time-of-maya-civilizations-mysterious-collapse-115025

Former Pitt professor reassessing view of MLK after he uncovers new FBI
documents

https://www.post-gazette.com/local/region/2019/06/01/david-garrow-martin-luther-king-jr-fbi-files-bearing-the-cross-pulitzer-prize-pitt/stories/201905310145?utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook_Pittsburgh_Post-Gazette&fbclid=IwAR23O2bwBLXkrVYOS2_LBzGBZ0dJ7E3Vp43ffO1FM_fvlpouwP_eT0K10ds

Fighting Germans and Jim Crow: Role of black troops on D-Day

https://apnews.com/3f2df9d9bd0d4a449ae60b422c72a1ab?fbclid=IwAR013aEk0wlDEFnHbwvJzkTTXb5hwxcMQMGzqVp3GA-e4nsMl30QwNx2IYg

South America’s Inca civilization was better at skull surgery than Civil
War doctors

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/06/south-america-s-inca-civilization-was-better-skull-surgery-civil-war-doctors

'Moscow Rules': How The CIA Operated Under The Watchful Eye Of The KGB

https://www.npr.org/2019/06/10/724099134/moscow-rules-how-the-cia-operated-under-the-watchful-eye-of-the-kgb?sc=tw

A New Civil War Museum Speaks Truths in the Former Capital of the
Confederacy
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/civil-war-museum-speaks-truths-former-capital-of-confederacy-180972085/?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=socialmedia

Missing in the Smokies: Dennis Martin's disappearance still haunts park, 50
years later

https://www.knoxnews.com/story/news/local/2019/06/06/dennis-martin-missing-smoky-mountains-50-years-spence-field-mystery-smokies-search-east-tennessee/1272247001/

An Archbishop Could Become a Saint. But First, His Body Must Be Moved.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/11/nyregion/archbishop-sheen-remains.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur&fbclid=IwAR3EKddkEJmTUbqx-lj_SCsNDM735Uhbk1sEW2h60dlf5ehMvsJrHhQbyAo

Not Forgotten
<https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/projects/cp/obituaries/archives>

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/projects/cp/obituaries/archives/medgar-evers-civil-rights

Lonnie Bunch III Takes Helm Of The Smithsonian: 'I Feel The Weight Of
History'

https://www.npr.org/2019/06/12/730795443/lonnie-bunch-iii-takes-helm-of-the-smithsonian-i-feel-the-weight-of-history?sc=tw

These Ancient Peoples Smoked the Chronic at Funerals

https://www.wired.com/story/ancient-cannabis/?CNDID=41291302&CNDID=41291302&bxid=MjM5NjgxMjIxODk5S0&hasha=3ed15b3d4270f52ce4da5de4e5031836&hashb=9085a9ae56cc45a4e9bae24e2eaeaade6e04a43e&mbid=nl_061219_daily_list3_p1&source=DAILY_NEWSLETTER&utm_brand=wired&utm_mailing=WIRED%20NL%20061219%20(1)&utm_medium=email&utm_source=nl

Meet Elizabeth Kloepfer, Ted Bundy's Former Girlfriend

https://www.biography.com/news/ted-bundy-elizabeth-kloepfer

Nicholas Winton, Savior of Children During Holocaust, Dies at 106

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/nicholas-winton-savior-children-during-holocaust-dies-106-n385436

Pope Francis advances sainthood cause for first African-American diocesan
priest in the U.S

https://www.americamagazine.org/politics-society/2019/06/12/pope-francis-advances-sainthood-cause-first-african-american-diocesan

‘They Aren’t Just Little Adults’: Inside The Smithsonian’s Push To Make
Museums Fun For Kids

https://www.aam-us.org/wire/wamu/they-arent-just-little-adults-inside-the-smithsonians-push-to-make-museums-fun-for-kids/

Taking Native Lands and Lives

https://www.aam-us.org/2019/05/29/taking-native-lands-and-lives/

Chef Leah Chase, civil rights activist and legendary 'Queen of Creole
Cuisine,' dies at age 96

https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/02/us/chef-leah-chase-death-trnd/index.html?utm_source=fbCNN&utm_content=2019-06-02T19%3A30%3A25&utm_medium=social&utm_term=link

*Archaeology*

Archaeology group looks for lost graves in Punta Gorda

https://www.yoursun.com/charlotte/news/archaeology-group-looks-for-lost-graves-in-punta-gorda/article_c26caa26-8b39-11e9-be0b-d365677c3af5.html?fbclid=IwAR0MuDbUm6W-g6glnCHk3zLLI1fTVJAlUVtLMMkWMK-XGw6dQkTGYiIjHKA

Land managers say this important archaeological site in southern Utah was
vandalized

https://www.deseretnews.com/article/900071561/land-managers-say-this-important-archaeological-site-in-southern-utah-was-vandalized.html

Recent archaeological finds on Keros bring new authoritative scholarship on
Cycladic art

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/review/recent-archaeological-finds-on-keros-raise-questions-about-our-knowledge-of-cycladic-art-and-culture

*Angkor Wat archaeological digs yield new clues to its civilization’s
decline*

https://theconversation.com/angkor-wat-archaeological-digs-yield-new-clues-to-its-civilizations-decline-116793

'Blood Antiquities' Looted from War-Torn Yemen Bring in $1 Million at
Auction

https://www.livescience.com/65641-yemen-blood-antiquities-investigation.html

Rising Seas Swallowed Countless Archaeological Sites. Scientists Want Them
Back
http://discovermagazine.com/2019/june/return-to-aquaterra

The Birdman of Siberia: sensational finds in the heart of Russia puzzle
scientists
<https://siberiantimes.com/science/casestudy/features/the-birdman-of-siberia-sensational-finds-in-the-heart-of-russia-puzzle-scientists/>

https://siberiantimes.com/science/casestudy/features/the-birdman-of-siberia-sensational-finds-in-the-heart-of-russia-puzzle-scientists/

Life in a Busy Oasis

https://www.archaeology.org/issues/340-1905/letter-from/7568-life-in-a-busy-oasis

Tidal Basin listed as one of the nation's most endangered historic places

https://www.bizjournals.com/washington/news/2019/05/30/tidal-basin-listed-as-one-of-the-nations-most.html

Roman amphitheaters act like seismic invisibility cloaks

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/613550/roman-amphitheaters-act-like-seismic-invisibility-cloaks/?fbclid=IwAR2KQvGLiL6y0gYKunHho2sVvEXTySI3cjQU6qR6d55dXqqrkNeCJ_ITw94

The underwater Indian village that emerges once a year

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-48523964?ns_source=facebook&ns_mchannel=social&ocid=socialflow_facebook&ns_campaign=bbcnews

The Invisible City beneath Paris

https://www.newyorker.com/news/dispatch/the-invisible-city-beneath-paris?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&mbid=social_twitter&utm_social-type=owned&utm_brand=tny

Artificial islands older than Stonehenge stump scientists

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/2019/06/neolithic-island-older-than-stonehenge-crannog-scotland/

International Protests Mount As Peru Moves Ahead With New Airport Near
Machu Picchu

https://www.npr.org/2019/06/11/731798477/international-protests-mount-as-peru-moves-ahead-with-new-airport-near-machu-pic?sc=tw

Nearly 700-year-old dugout canoe unearthed in mudflats on Maine’s coast

https://bangordailynews.com/2019/06/10/news/york/nearly-700-year-old-dugout-canoe-unearthed-in-mudflats-on-maines-coast/?fbclid=IwAR25Wk1dBWeSxwYjFCAUdYP7PSd02d3TJBNq7IWDL18-xOjua1b0ERGfoR8

Historic remains discovered on Blackfeet Nation given traditional burial

https://kpax.com/news/montana-news/2019/06/13/historic-remains-discovered-on-blackfeet-nation-given-traditional-burial/

Aerial laser surveys have identified the archaeological remains of ancient
cities in Cordoba, Spain

https://www.heritagedaily.com/2019/06/aerial-laser-surveys-have-identified-the-archaeological-remains-of-ancient-cities-in-cordoba-spain/123936

A Tibetan Collection Fights a battle that Small Museums often face

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/31/arts/design/jacques-marchais-museum.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

*Egyptology*

Egypt tries to stop sale of Tutankhamun statue in London

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jun/10/egypt-tries-to-stop-sale-tutankhamun-statue-london

*General Science*

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*Physics, Earth and Space Sciences*

White Holes: Black Holes' Neglected Twins

https://www.space.com/white-holes.html?utm_source=notification

*The *tell-tale* clue to how meteorites were made, at the birth of the
solar system*

https://theconversation.com/the-tell-tale-clue-to-how-meteorites-were-made-at-the-birth-of-the-solar-system-116052

Mass anomaly detected under the moon's largest crater

https://phys.org/news/2019-06-mass-anomaly-moon-largest-crater.html

The True Price of Privatizing Space Travel

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/06/nasa-iss-private-astonauts/591421/?utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=the-atlantic&utm_term=2019-06-11T15%3A29%3A28&utm_content=edit-promo&utm_medium=social&fbclid=IwAR3ZVuWxe7g5xWNgNIMWZ42I2nkeBbNZxC9cdURyuD0G4y1WCobv3xzFrdM

Fusion-Powered Spacecraft Could Be Just a Decade Away

https://www.space.com/fusion-powered-spacecraft-could-launch-2028.html?utm_source=notification

Earth Is Now Approaching The Same 'Meteor Swarm' That Wiped-Out A Siberian
Forest

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamiecartereurope/2019/06/11/earth-is-now-approaching-the-same-meteor-swarm-that-wiped-out-a-siberian-forest/#7a0a1a641714

NASA Eyes Wild Space Tech Ideas to Mine the Moon (and Asteroids, Too!)

https://www.space.com/nasa-moon-asteroid-mining-concepts-niac-2019.html

Here’s What a $52 Million Ticket to the ISS Will Get You

https://www.wired.com/story/heres-what-a-52-million-dollar-ticket-to-the-iss-will-get-you/?CNDID=41291302&CNDID=41291302&bxid=MjM5NjgxMjIxODk5S0&hasha=3ed15b3d4270f52ce4da5de4e5031836&hashb=9085a9ae56cc45a4e9bae24e2eaeaade6e04a43e&mbid=nl_061219_daily_list1_p3&source=DAILY_NEWSLETTER&utm_brand=wired&utm_mailing=WIRED%20NL%20061219%20(1)&utm_medium=email&utm_source=nl

New Space Telescopes Could Look Like Giant Beach Balls

https://www.wired.com/story/new-space-telescopes-could-look-like-giant-beach-balls/?CNDID=41291302&CNDID=41291302&bxid=MjM5NjgxMjIxODk5S0&hasha=3ed15b3d4270f52ce4da5de4e5031836&hashb=9085a9ae56cc45a4e9bae24e2eaeaade6e04a43e&mbid=nl_061119_daily_list3_p2&source=DAILY_NEWSLETTER&utm_brand=wired&utm_mailing=WIRED%20NL%20061119%20(1)&utm_medium=email&utm_source=nl

The Future of Space Is 3D-Printed Rockets—And This Company Is Leading the
Change

https://www.fastcompany.com/90318218/the-future-of-space-is-3d-printed-rockets-and-this-company-is-leading-the-change?cid=pso028%3A712%3As00%3A_&utm_source=paidSocial&utm_medium=facebook&utm_campaign=pso028%3A712%3As00%3A_

NASA Went to the Stock Exchange to Try to Sell the ISS

https://www.wired.com/story/nasa-went-to-the-stock-exchange-to-try-to-sell-the-iss/?CNDID=41291302&CNDID=41291302&bxid=MjM5NjgxMjIxODk5S0&hasha=3ed15b3d4270f52ce4da5de4e5031836&hashb=9085a9ae56cc45a4e9bae24e2eaeaade6e04a43e&mbid=nl_060919_daily_list1_p1&source=DAILY_NEWSLETTER&utm_brand=wired&utm_mailing=WIRED%20NL%20060919%20(1)&utm_medium=email&utm_source=nl

A New Fuel for Satellites Is So Safe It Won’t Blow Up Humans

https://www.wired.com/story/a-new-fuel-for-satellites-is-so-safe-it-wont-blow-up-humans/?CNDID=41291302&CNDID=41291302&bxid=MjM5NjgxMjIxODk5S0&hasha=3ed15b3d4270f52ce4da5de4e5031836&hashb=9085a9ae56cc45a4e9bae24e2eaeaade6e04a43e&mbid=nl_061319_daily_list1_p2&source=DAILY_NEWSLETTER&utm_brand=wired&utm_mailing=WIRED%20NL%20061319%20(1)&utm_medium=email&utm_source=nl

NASA's Mars 2020 Will Blaze a Trail — for Humans

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/nasas-mars-2020-will-blaze-a-trail-for-humans

How a Group of Students Built and Launched a Rocket to Space

https://www.wired.com/story/how-a-group-of-students-built-and-launched-a-rocket-to-space/?CNDID=41291302&CNDID=41291302&bxid=MjM5NjgxMjIxODk5S0&hasha=3ed15b3d4270f52ce4da5de4e5031836&hashb=9085a9ae56cc45a4e9bae24e2eaeaade6e04a43e&mbid=nl_060219_daily_list1_p3&source=DAILY_NEWSLETTER&utm_brand=wired&utm_mailing=Mailing%20Name%20(14)%20(1)&utm_medium=email&utm_source=nl

Saturn’s Largest Moon Would Make an Unbelievable Vacation Spot

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/06/titan-saturn-lakes-vacation/591709/?utm_campaign=the-atlantic&utm_term=2019-06-14T12%3A42%3A47&utm_medium=social&utm_content=edit-promo&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwAR3FlMUEAKvvkip_VgBxs_ww6JkVDlrQiZVUnpPwoLO4_bcT04IOY0s5k1o

*Environment, Climate Change and Alternative Energy Sources*

A warming Arctic produces weather extremes in our latitudes

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-05/awih-awa052819.php

Hydrogen-power electric flying vehicle: Long road to liftoff

https://techxplore.com/news/2019-05-hydrogen-power-electric-vehicle-road-liftoff.html

*Climate change is driving rapid shifts between high and low water levels
on the Great Lakes*

https://theconversation.com/climate-change-is-driving-rapid-shifts-between-high-and-low-water-levels-on-the-great-lakes-118095

*Climate change alters what’s possible in restoring Florida’s Everglades*

https://theconversation.com/climate-change-alters-whats-possible-in-restoring-floridas-everglades-115618

3 Republican former EPA chiefs accuse Trump of 'undermining of science'

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/republican-epa-chiefs-accuse-trump-undermining-science/story?id=63631502

The secret to fighting climate climate could be in your back garden

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/02/ponds-can-absorb-more-carbon-than-woodland-here-s-how-they-can-fight-climate-change-in-your-garden

Trump Administration Seeking To Overhaul Forest Management Rules

https://www.npr.org/2019/06/12/731713229/trump-administration-seeking-to-overhaul-forest-management-rules?sc=tw

Estimate the Energy of an Utterly Massive Wind Turbine

https://www.wired.com/story/estimate-the-energy-of-an-utterly-massive-wind-turbine/?CNDID=41291302&CNDID=41291302&bxid=MjM5NjgxMjIxODk5S0&hasha=3ed15b3d4270f52ce4da5de4e5031836&hashb=9085a9ae56cc45a4e9bae24e2eaeaade6e04a43e&mbid=nl_061319_daily_list3_p1&source=DAILY_NEWSLETTER&utm_brand=wired&utm_mailing=WIRED%20NL%20061319%20(1)&utm_medium=email&utm_source=nl

Rising sea levels destroyed evidence of shell middens at many prehistoric
coastal sites

https://www.heritagedaily.com/2019/06/rising-sea-levels-destroyed-evidence-of-shell-middens-at-many-prehistoric-coastal-sites/123951

*Biological, Genetics and Medical Sciences*   High-tech* fishing gear could
help save critically endangered right whales*
https://theconversation.com/high-tech-fishing-gear-could-help-save-critically-endangered-right-whales-115974

Crispr gene-editing will change the way Americans eat – here's what's coming

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/may/30/crispr-gene-edited-food-technology-us-produce?utm_source=Agri-Pulse%20Daily%20Harvest%202018&utm_campaign=a324ee42b6-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_05_31_09_35&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_6978e27d37-a324ee42b6-49111769

There Are Whales Alive Today Who Were Born Before Moby Dick Was Written
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/there-are-whales-alive-today-who-were-born-before-moby-dick-was-written-660944/?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=socialmedia

'Plant blindness' is obscuring the extinction crisis for non-animal species

https://theconversation.com/amp/many-plant-species-at-risk-of-extinction-and-were-blind-to-danger-this-poses-to-life-on-earth-118208

For Senior Diala Noofoory, Studying Neuroscience Was Worth the Wait

https://sasn.rutgers.edu/news-events/news/senior-diala-noofoory-studying-neuroscience-was-worth-wait

No more 'manels,' NIH head says in call to end all-male science panels

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/no-more-manels-nih-head-says-call-end-all-male-n1017181?cid=sm_npd_nn_fb_ma&fbclid=IwAR2Dz-2iZldXiKyPpnLLfSrGWx5oYp1wuUfwkBgm_XqIQCC8_LfAxMzq7xw

Patient dies from fecal transplant containing drug-resistant bacteria

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/patient-dies-fecal-transplant-containing-drug-resistant-bacteria-n1017426

Why Are Gray Whales Dying? Researchers Cut Through The Blubber For Answers

https://www.npr.org/2019/06/01/728033320/why-are-gray-whales-dying-researchers-cut-through-the-blubber-for-answers?sc=tw

*Other*

Initially threatened by change, people adapt to societal diversity over time

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-05/puww-itb052319.php

He got the FBI to test ‘Bigfoot’ hair in the 1970s — and this 93-year-old
man is still searching for Sasquatch

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/06/05/fbi-tested-bigfoot-hair-in-1970s-government-documents-show.html

US House Committee Rejects Elimination of Tribal Scholarship Program

https://www.knau.org/post/us-house-committee-rejects-elimination-tribal-scholarship-program?fbclid=IwAR3lYxf9lpfVCY2iOchAhopkgV843wjzXpMcAHEnOX6Tmf-jHeo7XmuEvxo

To Save The Science Poster, Researchers Want To Kill It And Start Over

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/06/11/729314248/to-save-the-science-poster-researchers-want-to-kill-it-and-start-over?sc=tw

Additional Informational

TED Talk, a World without Waste

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

TED Talk, The Next Global Agricultural Revolution

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

TED Talk, How Supercharged Plants could slow Climate Change

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

TED Talk, Inside the Black Hole Image that made History

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

NASA, The First Commercial Moon Landing Service Providers on This Week

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

Fossil Finders: The Hominid Gang

https://leakeyfoundation.org/fossil-finders-hominid-gang/

Taking Native Lands and Lives

https://www.aam-us.org/2019/05/29/taking-native-lands-and-lives/

Decolonisation: we aren’t going to save you

https://www.aam-us.org/2018/12/17/decolonisation-we-arent-going-to-save-you/

What were the Zoot Suit Riots?

https://www.history.com/news/what-were-the-zoot-suit-riots?source=history&platform=facebook&postid=sf103599563&sf103599563=1&fbclid=IwAR1PnB9qPOMRtZJIM81eNkXUmbEx6vqao57LyR_sad1zhWDT0PqPCOUcRBI

TrendsWatch 2019: Take Care: Building resilience and sustainable practice

https://www.aam-us.org/2019/05/14/trendswatch-2019-take-care-building-resilience-and-sustainable-practice/

TED Talk, The most detailed map of galaxies, black holes and stars ever made

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

Frontline, the Last Survivors

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/the-last-survivors/

The Czech 'Church of Bones': Inside Sedlec Ossuary

https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/sedlec-ossuary/index.html

He Built Schools to Fight Injustice, and I Want You to Know His Story

https://www.npca.org/articles/2167-he-built-schools-to-fight-injustice-and-i-want-you-to-know-his-story

Active, Dormant, & Extinct Volcanoes of the National Park System

https://www.nationalparks.org/connect/blog/active-dormant-extinct-volcanoes-national-park-system?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=photopost

UNESCO, Illicit Trafficking of Cultural Property

http://www.unesco.org/new/en/culture/themes/illicit-trafficking-of-cultural-property/
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