[Jawlist] Weekly Science Report 8-14-20

Sun Aug 16 11:07:21 PDT 2020

*Weekly Science Report*

*August 14, 2020*

*“The most important job of any elected leader is to call people to their
highest values and to bring them together in pursuit of our highest goals.
No leader can do this alone.”*

Peter Buttigieg

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*

Dinosaurs Suffered From Cancer, Too

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/dinosaurs-suffered-cancer-too-180975467/

Mystery ancestor mated with ancient humans. And its 'nested' DNA was just
found.

https://www.livescience.com/mystery-ancestor-mated-with-humans.html

New Study Shows Human Ancestors Had ‘Complicated Love Life’

https://www.voanews.com/science-health/new-study-shows-human-ancestors-had-complicated-love-life

Europe’s Oldest Bone Tools Hint at Early Hominin Sophistication

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/europes-earliest-bone-tools-hint-early-hominin-sophistication-180975564/

200,000 years ago, humans preferred to sleep in beds
https://phys.org/news/2020-08-years-humans-beds.html

Oldest human cremation in the Near East unearthed

https://www.livescience.com/oldest-cremation-near-east.html

Ancient genomes suggest woolly rhinos went extinct due to climate change,
not overhunting
https://phys.org/news/2020-08-ancient-genomes-woolly-rhinos-extinct.html

*Boxgrove: how we found Europe’s oldest bone tools – and what we learned
about their makers*
https://theconversation.com/boxgrove-how-we-found-europes-oldest-bone-tools-and-what-we-learned-about-their-makers-144340

Stone tools dating back to 8,000 years unearthed in Oman and Yemen

https://timesofoman.com/article/3017976/oman/stone-tools-dating-back-to-8000-years-unearthed-in-oman-and-yemen

Monkeys’ Attraction to Burned Grasslands May Offer Clues to Human
Ancestors’ Mastery of Fire

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/monkeys-attraction-burned-grasslands-may-offer-clues-human-ancestors-mastery-fire-180975527/

Humans Have Been Making Poison Arrows For Over 70,000 Years, Study Finds

https://www.sciencealert.com/humans-may-have-been-aiming-poison-arrows-for-at-least-70-000-years

Ancient Artisans in Arabia, the Americas Invented Same Technology
Independently

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/stone-age-tech-invented-separately-america-and-arabia-served-different-purposes-180975503/

A 429-Million-Year-Old Trilobite Had Eyes like Those of Modern Bees

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-429-million-year-old-trilobite-had-eyes-like-those-of-modern-bees/

Cretaceous 'terror crocodile' crushed dinosaurs with banana-size teeth

https://www.livescience.com/terror-crocodile-banana-teeth.html

*History*

Opinion: 75 Years On, Remember Hiroshima And Nagasaki. But Remember Toyama
Too

https://www.npr.org/2020/08/01/896627359/opinion-75-years-on-remember-hiroshima-and-nagasaki-but-remember-toyama-too?sc=18&f=896627359

D.C. Museum Of The Bible To Return Looted Artifacts To Iraq

https://www.npr.org/2020/07/31/897836720/d-c-museum-of-the-bible-to-return-looted-artifacts-to-iraq?s=09

Help Transcribe Field Notes Penned by S. Ann Dunham, a Pioneering
Anthropologist and Barack Obama’s Mother

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/help-transcribe-field-notes-penned-ann-dunham-pioneering-anthropologist-barack-obama-mother-180975310/?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=socialmedia

Hiroshima Atomic Bombing Raising New Questions 75 Years Later

https://www.npr.org/2020/08/06/899593615/hiroshima-atomic-bombing-raising-questions-75-years-later?sc=18&f=1001

Miguel Trujillo victory not forgotten

https://indiancountrytoday.com/news/miguel-trujillo-victory-not-forgotten-G23BI62qRk6r6SNvE-3h0A

To Honor the Victims of Hiroshima and Nagasaki 75 Years on, We Must Lay
Down Our Nuclear Weapons

https://time.com/5875424/ban-ki-moon-hiroshima-nagasaki-nuclear/?fbclid=IwAR0O2RVj1T_QnQAZyNhpRTn9fx0ZZxNQl3TnE3VvHwEhlL5B-Xr3zVAuhvs

NINE EYEWITNESS ACCOUNTS OF THE BOMBINGS OF HIROSHIMA AND NAGASAKI

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/nine-harrowing-eyewitness-accounts-bombings-hiroshima-and-nagasaki-180975480/?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=socialmedia&fbclid=IwAR31qgZBS2Bch03eZU9o0ArMFJplyNtjyW4c8E3_vHjCQvjYW7ENyizcKSk

The people who shaped Islamic civilisation

https://www.economist.com/1843/2016/12/05/the-people-who-shaped-islamic-civilisation?fbclid=IwAR2YPBJM5lKfEW4lE4gShvTbxw4dEogIo5L5cVP-NHzfmpy-Vr3mToySPU4

WWII Hero Who Led Ragtag Group that Killed over 200 Nazis Considered for
Medal of Honor

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2020/08/07/wwii-hero-who-led-ragtag-group-killed-over-200-nazis-considered-medal-of-honor.html?fbclid=IwAR1oqpyuHgkApbmUnuYm5g25QJBY67PWW6ct22Fm-QKbVJEaiQZSjGpqn8Y

An Atomic Bomb Survivor On Her Journey From Revenge To Peace

https://www.npr.org/2020/08/09/900553387/an-atomic-bomb-survivor-on-her-journey-from-revenge-to-peace?sc=18&f=1001

Marking the first American revolution: the Pueblo Revolt of 1680

https://indiancountrytoday.com/news/marking-the-first-american-revolution-the-pueblo-revolt-of-1680-WFSeO2ZqCEyl3Ljvt0mjbA?s=09#:

How the Smithsonian Prepares for Hurricanes and Flooding

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/how-smithsonian-preps-hurricanes-and-flooding-180970294/?fbclid=IwAR2DSA-WzPFAVt5Bqkiz78tDsByOmdh1nDnGbwHuEzJmwc-11rfWaNxUEwY

1000s of Korean laborers still lost after WWII, Cold War end

https://apnews.com/c851ba77fe32a26c99557948005456cf

Medieval DNA suggests Columbus didn’t trigger syphilis epidemic in Europe

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/08/medieval-dna-suggests-columbus-didn-t-trigger-syphilis-epidemic-europe

Australian Indigenous banana cultivation found to go back over 2,000 years

https://phys.org/news/2020-08-australian-indigenous-banana-cultivation-years.html

6,600-year-old gravesites in Poland suggest wealth gap existed earlier than
thought

https://phys.org/news/2020-08-year-old-gravesites-poland-wealth-gap.html

*The long history of how Jesus came to resemble a white European*

https://theconversation.com/the-long-history-of-how-jesus-came-to-resemble-a-white-european-142130

*The mystery of the missing portrait of Robert Hooke, *17th-century*
scientist extraordinaire*

https://theconversation.com/the-mystery-of-the-missing-portrait-of-robert-hooke-17th-century-scientist-extraordinaire-141681

*What are the origins of cathedrals and chapels?*

https://theconversation.com/what-are-the-origins-of-cathedrals-and-chapels-143341

Security questions remain after Nantes cathedral blaze: 'There's no
European country where church fires are this common'

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/nantes-cathedral

International Criminal Court trial begins of Jihadist police chief accused
of destroying Timbuktu’s cultural heritage

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/international-criminal-court-trial-begins-of-jihadist-accused-of-destroying-timbuktu-s-cultural-heritage

Unesco's plan to ‘revive spirit’ of devastated Mosul gets under way

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/unesco-plan-to-revive-spirit-of-devastated-mosul-gets-under-way

Saving Notre Dame's 'voice': mammoth restoration begins on cathedral's
fire-damaged organ

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/notre-dame-organ

*75 years after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Vatican is providing moral
guidance on nuclear weapons*

https://theconversation.com/75-years-after-hiroshima-and-nagasaki-the-vatican-is-providing-moral-guidance-on-nuclear-weapons-140615

*Fight for economic equality is as old as America itself*

https://theconversation.com/fight-for-economic-equality-is-as-old-as-america-itself-143163

*How the failures of the 1919 Versailles Peace Treaty set the stage for
today’s *anti-racist* uprisings*

https://theconversation.com/how-the-failures-of-the-1919-versailles-peace-treaty-set-the-stage-for-todays-anti-racist-uprisings-140143

*Archaeology*

Iowa monument continues to recover stolen human remains

https://www.timesrepublican.com/news/todays-news/2018/09/iowa-monument-continues-to-recover-stolen-human-remains/?utm_content=bufferfd58d&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer&s=09

Ancient Rome’s Finest Glass Was Actually Made in Egypt

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/romes-finest-glass-was-made-egypt-180975482/?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=socialmedia&fbclid=IwAR3ga_0DSTsncSRgPBa3pL7YxzZl2kfThXHlCCLbF-dEbaK1TcgFLcpi0nI

*Destruction of Juukan Gorge: we need to know the history of artefacts, but
it is more important to keep them in place*

https://theconversation.com/destruction-of-juukan-gorge-we-need-to-know-the-history-of-artefacts-but-it-is-more-important-to-keep-them-in-place-139650

Archaeology Student Finds Viking Trading Post in Norway

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/archaeology-student-finds-viking-trading-post-norway-180975391/?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=socialmedia&fbclid=IwAR18IpexVQlUHQLEmGZNsY8FTgVAfjirASimNNEDC_QYDKpfpi-yVH5tMg0

Mysterious carvings and evidence of human sacrifice uncovered in ancient
city

https://api.nationalgeographic.com/distribution/public/amp/history/2020/08/mysterious-carvings-evidence-human-sacrifice-uncovered-ancient-city-china

4,500-year-old 'timber circles' discovered in Portugal

https://www.livescience.com/ancient-timber-circles-discovered-portugal.html

'Monumental temple complex' dating back to Iron Age discovered, researchers
confirm

https://www.foxnews.com/science/monumental-temple-complex-dating-to-iron-age-discovered
  *From cave art to climate chaos: how a new carbon dating timeline is
changing our view of history*
https://theconversation.com/from-cave-art-to-climate-chaos-how-a-new-carbon-dating-timeline-is-changing-our-view-of-history-143620

Oxford archaeologists win access to restricted satellite images of Israel
and the Palestinian territories

https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/arts-blog/oxford-archaeologists-win-access-restricted-satellite-images-israel-and-palestinian

A Silk Road Renaissance

https://www.archaeology.org/issues/386-2007/features/8756-a-silk-road-renaissance

1st intact evidence of Incas' underwater ritual offerings found in a lake
in the Andes

https://www.livescience.com/incas-underwater-offering.html

Extent of trade in looted antiquities is exaggerated, report claims

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/report-challenges-thinking-on-illicit-trade-in-antiquities

*Egyptology*

A Nubian Kingdom Rises

https://www.archaeology.org/issues/393-2009/features/8919-sudan-kerma-nubian-kingdom

*General Science*

AI software enables real-time 3D printing quality assessment

*https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-08/drnl-ase081420.php
<https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-08/drnl-ase081420.php>*

Versatile new material family could build realistic prosthetics, futuristic
army platforms

*https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-08/tau-vnm081420.php
<https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-08/tau-vnm081420.php>*

*Physics, Earth and Space Sciences*

Quantum physicists crack mystery of 'strange metals,' a new state of matter

https://phys.org/news/2020-07-quantum-physicists-mystery-strange-metals.html

NASA mission will study the cosmos with a stratospheric balloon

https://phys.org/news/2020-07-nasa-mission-cosmos-stratospheric-balloon.html

This Might Be the Best Stargazing Spot on Earth, According to Scientists

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/might-be-best-stargazing-spot-earth-according-scientists-180975494/?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=socialmedia&s=09

The reason we're shooting laser beams between Earth and the moon

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/08/13/world/nasa-moon-lasers-scn-trnd/index.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=fbCNNi&utm_term=link&utm_content=2020-08-13T21%3A00%3A24&fbclid=IwAR1j35fSDdJrAff6cbK0MJji-9KOB-kZd6JVTIZL8wnmlfQpSLsc3l_i35o

Puerto Rico's Arecibo Radio Telescope Damaged By Falling Cable

https://www.npr.org/2020/08/12/901920638/puerto-ricos-arecibo-radio-telescope-damaged-by-falling-cable?sc=18&f=1001
  A method has been developed to study extreme space weather events
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-08/sios-amh081420.php

Aurora mysteries unlocked with NASA's THEMIS mission

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-08/nsfc-amu081420.php

Searching for Heavy Higgs bosons decaying into two tau leptons with the
ATLAS detector

https://phys.org/news/2020-08-heavy-higgs-bosons-tau-leptons.html

Study rewrites the recent history of productive Cascade Arc volcanoes

https://phys.org/news/2020-08-rewrites-history-productive-cascade-arc.html

Simulations show lander exhaust could cloud studies of lunar ices

https://phys.org/news/2020-08-simulations-lander-exhaust-cloud-lunar.html

Entire cities could fit inside the moon's monstrous lava tubes

https://www.livescience.com/lava-tubes-mars-and-moon-habitable.html

SpaceX wins Pentagon rocket contract to send spy satellites into orbit

https://www.livescience.com/spacex-ula-win-pentagon-rocket-contract.html

*Marie Tharp pioneered mapping the bottom of the ocean 6 decades ago –
scientists are still learning about Earth’s last frontier*
https://theconversation.com/marie-tharp-pioneered-mapping-the-bottom-of-the-ocean-6-decades-ago-scientists-are-still-learning-about-earths-last-frontier-142451
  NASA sun data helps new model predict big solar flares

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-07/nsfc-nsd073120.php

*Environment, Climate Change and Alternative Energy Sources*

BP will slash oil production by 40% and pour billions into green energy

https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/04/business/bp-oil-clean-energy/index.html

Kiribati's president's plans to raise islands in fight against sea-level
rise

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/10/kiribatis-presidents-plans-to-raise-islands-in-fight-against-sea-level-rise

A Prophet Of Soil Gets His Moment Of Fame

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/08/11/895765991/a-prophet-of-soil-gets-his-moment-of-fame?sc=18&f=1001

Warming Greenland ice sheet passes point of no return

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-08/osu-wgi081320.php

How people and ecosystems fit together on the Great Barrier Reef

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-08/acoe-hp081420.php

Green electricity for Europe: Small scale solutions also affordable

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-08/ifas-gef081220.php

World-renowned climate scientist dies in ice accident in Greenland

https://www.livescience.com/konrad-steffen-death.html

World's largest nuclear fusion project begins assembly

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-53573294

Post-pandemic brave new world of agriculture

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-07/uoq-pbn072920.php

Satellite survey shows California's sinking coastal hotspots

https://phys.org/news/2020-07-satellite-survey-california-coastal-hotspots.html

*Biological, Genetics and Medical Sciences*   Texas A&M researchers
developing first oral anthrax vaccine for livestock, wildlife
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-08/tau-tar081120.php

Researchers develop cell injection technique that could help reverse vision
loss

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-08/uotf-rdc081320.php

Study finds cancer mapping may solve puzzle of regional disease links

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-08/quot-sfc081320.php

Study hints, can't prove, survivor plasma fights COVID-19

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-08-hints-survivor-plasma-covid-.html

Landmark transplant in 1960s Virginia performed with heart stolen from a
Black man

https://www.livescience.com/the-organ-thieves-historic-heart-transplant.html

Don't wear masks with valves, CDC says

https://www.livescience.com/avoid-masks-exhalation-valves-cdc-recommends.html

*Other*

Pentagon's UFO unit could make some findings public

https://www.13wmaz.com/article/news/nation-world/pentagon-ufo-unit-information-release/507-805a005d-cca1-41a2-8779-289a1f6ed791

*How to hide from a drone – the subtle art of ‘ghosting’ in the age
of surveillance*

https://theconversation.com/how-to-hide-from-a-drone-the-subtle-art-of-ghosting-in-the-age-of-surveillance-143078

*Urban planning as a tool of white supremacy – the other lesson
from Minneapolis*

https://theconversation.com/urban-planning-as-a-tool-of-white-supremacy-the-other-lesson-from-minneapolis-142249

*At the evangelical Creation Museum, dinosaurs lived alongside humans and
the world is 6,000 years old*

https://theconversation.com/at-the-evangelical-creation-museum-dinosaurs-lived-alongside-humans-and-the-world-is-6-000-years-old-142145

Additional Informational

U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, That First Day

https://www.ushmm.org/remember/holocaust-reflections-testimonies/echoes-of-memory/that-first-day?utm_medium=socialmedia&utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=survivoraffairs&utm_content=rebuildingaftertheholocaust%3Adpcamps20200807&fbclid=IwAR1ZSleZk2o3_Sd_uXuJ7Zy4gYZ5lspnNdq3STOzBsFa3ro-BCiM6sRWSsY

Holocaust Encyclopedia, David Sierakowiak

https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/dawid-sierakowiak?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=evergreen&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTlRrNFlXSXhOekZqWlRRMyIsInQiOiJidCtwM21UQmdONnY1d1wveDRpZFg1U1J4c1RoSmFTTjIzSGFsWVhTbitGc0FhSkVzYVZvT1JKeGxCeTRqZmtwMDV4MjRDWWhlWjk4d0piNXE3d2xvV3hxRW9aa1lQOHdWU2Jld1hraVVvQ0NScUdXdmh4OTIwaWVHNUxqbHdRSEcifQ%3D%3D%3Futm_medium%3Dsocialmedia&utm_content=diaries%3Adawidsierakowiak20200807&fbclid=IwAR2gkfxVaPrJiAU--X0LBYOBdbEfaWMuQECOfwsmdBRzfFHA4bnEMJVKPLY

Islamic Civilization in Thirty Lives: The First 1,000 Years

https://www.amazon.com/Islamic-Civilization-Thirty-Lives-First/dp/0520292987/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Chase+Robinson&qid=1597080140&sr=8-1

Holocaust Encyclopedia, Genocide of European Roma (Gypsies), 1939-1945

https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/genocide-of-european-roma-gypsies-1939-1945?utm_medium=socialmedia&utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=evergreen&utm_content=romaasvictims20200806&fbclid=IwAR1v76ByCGOiBj1PJ1TBSt5ci76ZBTDm370fYuo15ThhKqOvvBX5inemAlQ

U.S. Gulf Coast Cultural Institutions Hurricane Season Preparations
Webinar, Aug 20

https://www.ncptt.nps.gov/events/hurricane-season-readiness-webinar-for-u-s-gulf-coast-cultural-institutions/

The first evidence for Late Pleistocene dogs in Italy

*https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-69940-w
<https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-69940-w>*

NOAA, US Navy will increase Nation’s Unmanned maritime systems operations

https://www.noaa.gov/media-release/noaa-us-navy-will-increase-nation-s-unmanned-maritime-systems-operations#:~:text=August%204%2C%202020%20NOAA%20and,coastal%20and%20world's%20ocean%20waters.&text=For%20over%20twenty%20years%2C%20Naval,and%20use%20of%20unmanned%20systems.

Volcanic or cosmic impact origin of the YD mini ice-age? New evidence from
Hall’s Cave, Texas

https://grahamhancock.com/sweatmanm2/?fbclid=IwAR3WG5l-by5E9vajDbJSFlxS4iXtyAXn0C4vmBV5n7jp0WYLumqomvZzabQ

The Faerie Phenomenon in Folkloric and Modern Experience

https://grahamhancock.com/rushtonn1/?fbclid=IwAR1etdqN6PEGm0tBmgy8oZZb68rWNELX0IrqaQrFgZFQkoMROCNH9Sl7RBU

Coalition for American Heritage, Coalition Opposes Surveillance of
Protestors

https://heritagecoalition.org/coalition-opposes-executive-order-on-monuments/?preview=true&_thumbnail_id=2808

Yellow Bird: Oil, Murder, and a Woman's Search for Justice in Indian Country

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/ref=pe_827610_520470780_pe_b3_reftag_t/?ASIN=B07S7M6X56

10 John Lewis Quotes That Will Inspire You to Get Into ‘Good Trouble’

https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/john-lewis-quotes/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_content=global&utm_campaign=general-content&linkId=95653544

John Lewis’ Last Words

https://www.ajc.com/john-lewis/john-lewis-last-words/GGQ6MKJTIBHGHJ7RQXZVLQFHUA/?fbclid=IwAR104myZV3Kc2UDGLbBhHDdFEd8aYlfoiC4OJ6RQ_vDG4fqbiipCUp11OW0

TED Talks, Indigenous knowledge meets science to solve climate change

https://www.ted.com/talks/hindou_oumarou_ibrahim_indigenous_knowledge_meets_science_to_solve_climate_change?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=t.co&utm_content=2020-7-25&utm_campaign=social
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