[Jawlist] Weekly Science Report 1-3-20

Sun Jan 5 19:32:40 PST 2020

*Weekly Science Report*

*January 3, 2020*

*“Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive
themselves.”*

Eric Hoffer

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*

This Cave Contains the Oldest Story Ever Recorded

https://www.wired.com/story/cave-with-oldest-story-ever-recorded/?bxid=5bd6790424c17c1048020acb&cndid=41291302&esrc=twitter-newsletter-c&source=EDT_WIR_NEWSLETTER_0_DAILY_ZZ&utm_brand=wired&utm_campaign=aud-dev&utm_mailing=WIR_Daily_010220&utm_medium=email&utm_source=nl&utm_term=list1_p3

Scientists Find the Oldest Human Skull Outside of Africa
https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/scientists-find-the-oldest-human-skull-outside-of-africa
  Remains of 8,000-year-old Neolithic settlement unearthed in central China
https://news.cgtn.com/news/2019-12-21/Remains-of-Neolithic-settlement-unearthed-in-central-China-MBmktYU5MI/index.html#.

Origin story: Rewriting human history through DNA
https://phys.org/news/2019-12-story-rewriting-human-history-dna.html

Denisovan Research Reveals That Early Humans Were More Complex Than We
Thought

https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/denisovan-research-reveals-the-early-humans-were-more-complex-than-we

Early modern humans cooked starchy food in South Africa, 170,000 years ago

https://phys.org/news/2020-01-early-modern-humans-cooked-starchy.html

This 8000-year-old ‘gum’ holds surprises about ancient toolmakers

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/12/8000-year-old-gum-holds-surprises-about-ancient-toolmakers

*History*

His grandfather was the monster behind Auschwitz. Rainer Hoess is making
sure no one ever forgets

https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2019/11/06/his-grandfather-was-the-monster-behind-auschwitz-rainer-hoess-is-making-sure-no-one-ever-forgets.html

Afghanistan’s Last Jew Gets Ready for the Taliban—Again

https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/10/29/afghanistan-last-jew-simentov-taliban-return/

Gandhi’s great-grandson joins wave of protest at law isolating India’s
Muslims

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/dec/21/citizenship-act-tushar-gandhi-great-grandson-india-muslim-infiltrators-backlash

White Sands National Monument designated as the newest US national park

https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/white-sands-national-park-trnd/index.html?utm_source=fbCNNi&utm_term=link&utm_content=2019-12-23T23%3A01%3A07&utm_medium=social

How to Read “Gilgamesh”

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/10/14/how-to-read-gilgamesh?utm_source=twitter&utm_social-type=owned&utm_medium=social&utm_brand=tny&mbid=social_twitter

When America Tried to Deport Its Radicals

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/11/11/when-america-tried-to-deport-its-radicals?utm_source=twitter&utm_social-type=owned&utm_medium=social&mbid=social_twitter&utm_brand=tny

The U.S. Wanted to Hide Nukes in Arctic Ice Tunnels. The Plan Blew Up in
Their Faces

https://time.com/5585149/arctic-nuclear-history/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial&utm_term=history_&linkId=79791374

Navy warship to be named USS Arizona; first since Pearl Harbor

https://www.kgun9.com/news/local-news/navy-warship-to-be-named-uss-arizona-first-since-pearl-harbor

Polish PM accuses Putin of lying about outbreak of WWII

https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/polish-pm-accuses-putin-lying-outbreak-wwii-67970438

Is the Ark of the Covenant in Ethiopia?

https://www.thedailybeast.com/is-the-ark-of-the-covenant-in-ethiopia?ref=home&source=TDB&via=FB_Page

This week is the somber anniversary of the largest mass execution in the US

https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/28/us/dakota-38-anniversary-trnd/index.html

3D printing is helping museums in repatriation and decolonisation efforts

https://www.museumnext.com/article/3d-printing-is-helping-museums-in-repatriation-and-decolonisation-efforts/

A 1970 Law Led to the Mass Sterilization of Native American Women. That
History Still Matters

https://time.com/5737080/native-american-sterilization-history/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial&utm_term=history_&linkId=79730055

*Archaeology*

Human remains found in Idaho cave identified as outlaw who died over 100
years ago

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/human-remains-found-idaho-cave-identified-outlaw-who-died-over-n1109111?cid=sm_npd_nn_fb_ma&fbclid=IwAR0pErMRrYabFPqxJB-g3cMVQoNlwtwl7XYRUkkVKyb0G8W3MwommD-1p-I

Scientists identify 5,300 year-old sinew bowstring used by Otzi the Iceman

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/12/18/scientists-identify-5300-year-old-sinew-bowstring-used-otzi/

Archaeologists Discover an Ancient Portrait of Young Jesus in an Abandoned
Israeli Church
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/ancient-portrait-jesus-revealed-israeli-church-1396909?utm_content=buffer6182e&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=socialmedia

Looters removing Native American artifacts along North Port creek
https://www.mysuncoast.com/2019/12/24/looters-removing-native-american-artifacts-along-north-port-creek/
  *Archaeological discoveries are happening faster than ever before,
helping refine the human story*
https://theconversation.com/archaeological-discoveries-are-happening-faster-than-ever-before-helping-refine-the-human-story-128743?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=facebookbutton

Archeologists in Mexico discovered the ruins of an ancient Mayan palace

https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/28/americas/mexico-mayan-palace-trnd/index.html?utm_medium=social&utm_term=link&utm_content=2019-12-29T20%3A15%3A06&utm_source=fbCNN&fbclid=IwAR0Fsm_FL7w4y7hLjjZZIkqJJuQ4WqIZyLfB922i9lZEGTkMO7giGfJaiRg

Notre Dame cathedral has just 50% chance of being saved, rector says

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/notre-dame-cathedral-fire-50-percent-chance-paris-landmark-can-be-saved-rector-said-today-2019-12-25/?ftag=CNM-00-10aab6a&linkId=79769930

*Egyptology*

An Artist Has Won a Three-Year Legal Battle to Force a German Museum to
Publicly Release Its 3-D Scan of a Bust of Nefertiti

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/3d-scans-museums-nefertiti-1706181

Ancient Egyptian Head Cones Were Real, Grave Excavations Suggest

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/ancient-egyptian-head-cones-were-real-grave-excavations-suggest-180973750/?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=socialmedia

*General Science*

Nothing to report

*Physics, Earth and Space Sciences*

India Announces Plans For Its First Human Space Mission

https://www.npr.org/2020/01/01/792927666/india-announces-plans-for-its-first-human-space-mission?sc=18&f=1001

Santorini: Underneath the Aegean island rages a volcano that is an ideal
testing ground for space vehicles
https://inews.co.uk/news/world/santorini-greece-volcano-nasa-testing-ground-space-vehicles-1350470

This drone will fly on one of Saturn’s moons. Here’s the woman leading the
mission
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/this-drone-will-fly-on-one-of-saturns-moons-heres-the-woman-leading-the-mission?utm_campaign=NewsHour&utm_content=1577379650&utm_medium=pbsofficial&utm_source=facebook

Researchers found a brand new mineral tucked in a tiny meteorite. It's
never been seen in nature before
https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/26/world/new-mineral-discovered-edscottite-scn-trnd/index.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=fbCNN&utm_content=2019-12-26T21%3A25%3A02&utm_term=link&fbclid=IwAR3qE1cBGx-2hesTmRHCNdNsScLI2nA5wiIuDrZZlGplNMu7iiFyBkJoRR0

A giant star is acting strange, and astronomers are buzzing
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2019/12/betelgeuse-is-acting-strange-astronomers-are-buzzing-about-supernova/

Mars 2020 rover to seek ancient life, prepare human missions

https://phys.org/news/2019-12-mars-rover-ancient-life-human.html

*Environment, Climate Change and Alternative Energy Sources*

Submarine Hobbyists Help Researchers On Montana's Flathead Lake

https://www.npr.org/2019/09/02/755571204/submarine-hobbyists-help-researchers-on-montanas-flathead-lake?sc=tw

North Atlantic Current may cease temporarily in the next century
https://phys.org/news/2019-12-north-atlantic-current-cease-temporarily.html

We Might Not Be Planting the Right Kinds of Forests

https://www.wired.com/story/we-might-not-be-planting-the-right-kinds-of-forests/?bxid=5bd6790424c17c1048020acb&cndid=41291302&esrc=twitter-newsletter-c&source=EDT_WIR_NEWSLETTER_0_DAILY_ZZ&utm_brand=wired&utm_campaign=aud-dev&utm_mailing=WIR_Daily_010220&utm_medium=email&utm_source=nl&utm_term=list2_p3

After 13 years of research, scientists know how to save the world's coral
reefs

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/08/what-a-million-corals-in-2-500-reefs-tell-us-about-saving-them

This is how we can feed the planet while saving the ocean

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/09/this-is-how-we-can-feed-the-planet-while-saving-our-oceans

Scientists and designers are proposing radical ways to 'refreeze' the Arctic

https://www.cnn.com/style/article/refreeze-arctic-design-scn/index.html

*Biological, Genetics and Medical Sciences*

Whales Help Explain the Evolutionary Mystery of Menopause

https://www.wired.com/story/whales-help-explain-the-evolutionary-mystery-of-menopause/?bxid=5bd6790424c17c1048020acb&cndid=41291302&esrc=twitter-newsletter-c&source=EDT_WIR_NEWSLETTER_0_DAILY_ZZ&utm_brand=wired&utm_campaign=aud-dev&utm_mailing=WIR_Daily_010220&utm_medium=email&utm_source=nl&utm_term=list1_p2

This Villanova Researcher Is Using Earthworms to Create a Human Blood
Substitute

https://www.phillymag.com/healthcare-news/2019/12/18/earthworms-blood-substitute-villanova/

A Young Mississippi Woman's Journey Through A Pioneering Gene-Editing
Experiment
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/12/25/784395525/a-young-mississippi-womans-journey-through-a-pioneering-gene-editing-experiment?sc=18&f=1001

Tourists may be making Antarctica’s penguins sick

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/12/tourists-may-be-making-antarctica-s-penguins-sick

SOIL FROM A NORTHERN IRELAND GRAVEYARD MAY LEAD SCIENTISTS TO A POWERFUL
NEW ANTIBIOTIC

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/astonishing-medical-potential-soil-northern-ireland-graveyard-180973741/

*Other*

Here's What the World Will Look Like in 2030 ... Right?

https://www.wired.com/story/heres-what-the-world-will-look-like-in-2030-right/?bxid=5bd6790424c17c1048020acb&cndid=41291302&esrc=twitter-newsletter-c&source=EDT_WIR_NEWSLETTER_0_DAILY_ZZ&utm_brand=wired&utm_campaign=aud-dev&utm_mailing=WIR_Daily_Personalized_010120&utm_medium=email&utm_source=nl&utm_term=tout-p

What American Muslims Do On Christmas: New Traditions Emerge

https://www.npr.org/2015/12/23/460726559/what-american-muslims-do-on-christmas-new-traditions-emerge

Science Under Attack: How Trump Is Sidelining Researchers and Their Work

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/28/climate/trump-administration-war-on-science.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

‘It Sounds Like Magic, But It’s Not’: Many Icelanders Believe In Elves

https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2019/12/24/iceland-elves?utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&fbclid=IwAR2-210o4nfJPQe8iWxtjm0xV66ne1CHwPNHVDsErvCz5cjoC8e2-M99t14

With births down, U.S. had slowest growth rate in a century

https://apnews.com/f2fc555b185859a3816b7369b69da11d?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=AP&utm_campaign=SocialFlow

Additional Informational

Decolonizing the Future: museums as agents of generational equity

https://www.aam-us.org/2019/09/17/decolonizing-the-future-museums-as-agents-of-generational-equity/?fbclid=IwAR3F9buYVhkiug_fcwHFGmQcJJhQnLKLF__NJZNW_ydyGqhQpqYjPhc1nzY

The Museum of Our Discoveries: Empowering Young Refugees in an Urban Context

https://icom.museum/en/news/the-museum-of-our-discoveries-empowering-young-refugees-in-an-urban-context/

TED Talk, How your pictures can help reclaim Lost History

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

TED Talk, What it takes to launch a telescope

https://www.ted.com/talks/erika_hamden_what_it_takes_to_launch_a_telescope?utm_campaign=social&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_content=talk&utm_term=science

The Museum (2020)- Video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3Z2owCQRrI&fbclid=IwAR02wNJYbhGaegDWa4hNkPTjW-UcAyE6VE4y6EPYdu81dPROCMUIzEpea84&app=desktop
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