[Jawlist] Weekly Science Report 7-17-20

Sun Jul 19 17:01:14 PDT 2020

*Weekly Science Report*

*July 17, 2020*

*“These virtues do not have ineffable meaning but offer a sense of
morality-a way to be, and a way to behave, as a member of the human
family.”*

Her Majesty Queen Rania Al Abdullah of the Kingdom of Jordan on being Muslim

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*

Spinosaurus Makes Waves

https://www.npr.org/2020/05/19/859162022/spinosaurus-makes-waves?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social&utm_term=nprnews&utm_campaign=npr

Study finds asteroid impact, not volcanoes, made the Earth uninhabitable
for dinosaurs: 'Only plausible explanation'

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/06/30/dinosaurs-earth-killed-asteroid-impact-new-study-confirms/5350191002/

120,000-year-old necklace tells of the origin of string

https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/07/ancient-seashell-beads-may-help-unravel-the-origins-of-string/?fbclid=IwAR20EFJ8It8jeLE6XrlXFFTtsAF5uHj0btGsq471U8NDGP8tUi7GNhqluVc

Archaeologists date earliest known occupation of North America

https://phys.org/news/2020-07-archaeologists-date-earliest-occupation-north.html

Hand Axe Made 1.4 Million Years Ago Shows Unexpected Sophistication

https://www.haaretz.com/amp/archaeology/.premium-hand-axe-made-1-4-million-years-ago-was-oddly-sophisticated-1.8990818

How we found the earliest glass production south of the Sahara, and what it
means

https://phys.org/news/2020-07-earliest-glass-production-south-sahara.html

*History*

Tulsa’s ugly racial history: From Trail of Tears to deadly 1921 race
massacre

https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2020/06/20/tulsa-timeline-race-massacre-trump-rally-juneteenth/?utm_campaign=wp_main&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook

How Christians Destroyed the Ancient World

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/08/books/review/catherine-nixey-darkening-age.html

Historians question Trump’s choice of ‘heroes’ for national garden monument
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/historians-question-trumps-choice-of-heroes-for-national-garden-monument/2020/07/04/4a33932a-be33-11ea-80b9-40ece9a701dc_story.html?fbclid=IwAR2obCC2TAayskLLFPOGS9NfNU052prgzV-OGXi0mPnfngA9SdkBfqKos-c

Reclaiming Rumi: How Islam was erased from the Persian poet's work

https://english.alaraby.co.uk/english/society/2020/6/16/how-islam-was-erased-from-rumis-poetry?fbclid=IwAR2ypSps5C1x1b1-vr5xjDXSc9yDl8BpcB_jzPSDGnNK3ZSI1MiHSQBUmhg

What Woodrow Wilson Cost My Grandfather

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/24/opinion/what-woodrow-wilson-cost-my-grandfather.html?fbclid=IwAR2xM0-KBCA-gNWkVaIh8W03tDgz2AtW_yAkRwphk0Pyt3E3OiUn4OpLO-A

*Islam’s *anti-racist* message from the 7th century still resonates today*

https://theconversation.com/islams-anti-racist-message-from-the-7th-century-still-resonates-today-141575

Indigenous Americans had contact with Polynesians 800 years ago, DNA reveals

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jul/08/indigenous-americans-polynesians-dna-800-years-ago?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Gmail&fbclid=IwAR3abkY8lmt1SHimMmVojCuPg0r61lc6CI_4U_zAfph4VyF-q2tkg5D8y1Y

The Fight Over Monuments of Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest
Holds a Lesson About Whiteness in America

https://time.com/5865573/nathan-bedford-forrest-statues/?fbclid=IwAR1Bzd6Wn9IGnnQLiS522qMrLqbYhDmc0I00nohRoPQhuG5Dcu_Zf1z1Sl0

25 years after Srebrenica massacre, int'l crimes are still difficult to
prosecute

https://www.pri.org/stories/2020-07-10/25-years-after-srebrenica-massacre-intl-crimes-are-still-difficult-prosecute?utm_source=R%26I%20Clips%20(Reporters)&utm_campaign=5fb7b079a0-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_08_15_02_10_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_023b6bc2e1-5fb7b079a0-391847017&ncid=fcbklnkushpmg00000090&fbclid=IwAR2_szELxjDqVxhM-51OsXhnR05OhFjVEdjous9ys-ubJm1gYn_s5JE_sVs

Statues Of Conquistador Juan De Oñate Come Down As New Mexico Wrestles With
History

https://www.npr.org/2020/07/13/890122729/statues-of-conquistador-juan-de-o-ate-come-down-as-new-mexico-wrestles-with-hist?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_term=nprnews&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr

Rwanda's Genocide Ended 26 Years Ago. Survivors Are Still Finding Mass
Graves

https://www.npr.org/2020/07/16/891815028/rwandas-genocide-ended-26-years-ago-survivors-are-still-finding-mass-graves?sc=18&f=1001

Abigail Kawananakoa donates $15,000 to help Iolani Palace pay its bills

https://www.staradvertiser.com/2020/07/16/breaking-news/abigail-kawananakoa-donates-15000-to-help-iolani-palace-pay-its-bills/

Holocaust survivor reunites with family of U.S. soldier who left her
life-changing note

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/holocaust-survivor-reunites-family-u-s-soldier-who-left-her-n1233755

Huge Atlas statue to guard Sicily's Temple of Zeus once more
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2020/jul/14/huge-atlas-statue-to-guard-sicilys-temple-of-zeus-once-more

Multi-disciplinary study provides evidence of forced migration by
pre-colonial Incas

https://phys.org/news/2020-07-multi-disciplinary-evidence-migration-pre-colonial-incas.html

Rewriting history: New evidence challenges Euro-centric narrative of early
colonization

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-07/wuis-rhn071520.php

*Archaeology*

A Long Revered Relic Is Found to Be Europe’s Oldest Surviving Wooden Statue

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/19/world/europe/christ-statue-lucca-italy.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur

Climate change is having a calamitous effect on Indigenous archeological
sites in Canada’s North

https://www.universityaffairs.ca/news/news-article/climate-change-is-having-a-calamitous-effect-on-indigenous-archeological-sites-in-canadas-north/?fbclid=IwAR3nUMeXLj6GZF9oFRLC5N_MWOHZB-N01Wvc9Z31VmhZnXOR4pOWVdCdZo4

Digging up forgotten kingdoms, Saudis unearth ancient identity

https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2020/0601/Digging-up-forgotten-kingdoms-Saudis-unearth-ancient-identity?cmpid=kwcpc&kwp_0=1675615&kwp_4=4952925&kwp_1=2103402

Archaeologists find ancient Aboriginal sites underwater, off the coast of
Australia

https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/01/australia/aboriginal-archaeological-sites-underwater-scli-intl-scn/index.html

11,000-year-old mine in underwater cave surprises archaeologists

https://api.nationalgeographic.com/distribution/public/amp/history/2020/07/11000-year-old-mine-underwater-cave-surprises-archaeologists

Why the Whiteness of Archaeology Is a Problem

https://www.sapiens.org/archaeology/archaeology-diversity/?fbclid=IwAR0FPdxI6UWlPd9i_6q1xtlRU3MnC4uAij07n40F2ecILjrNDPoauM46C_0

Excavation Begins For Possible Mass Grave From 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre

https://www.npr.org/sections/live-updates-protests-for-racial-justice/2020/07/14/890785747/excavation-begins-for-possible-mass-grave-from-1921-tulsa-race-massacre?sc=18&f=1001
  Stonehenge tunnel decision delayed by archaeological find
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-wiltshire-53420160

Biblical site of Ziklag finally identified?

https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/biblical-site-of-ziklag-finally-identified-635127

How Germany’s 4,000-year-old answer to Stonehenge shows that Brexit is
'nonsense'

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/germany-s-stonehenge-sheds-light-on-prehistoric-ties-to-britain

*Egyptology*

‘Invasion’ of ancient Egypt may have actually been immigrant uprising

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/07/invasion-ancient-egypt-may-have-actually-been-immigrant-uprising

Egyptian archaeological team opens door on ancient treasure trove

https://www.arabnews.com/node/1705196/art-culture

CT scan reveals the story behind the ‘mummy of the screaming woman’ from
Deir El-Bahari’s Royal Cachette

*http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContentP/9/374722/Heritage/CT-scan-reveals-the-story-behind-the-%E2%80%98mummy-of-the.aspx
<http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContentP/9/374722/Heritage/CT-scan-reveals-the-story-behind-the-%E2%80%98mummy-of-the.aspx>*

Ancient Egyptian wall discovered in Nagaa Hamadi

*https://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/89702/Ancient-Egyptian-wall-discovered-in-Nagaa-Hamadi
<https://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/89702/Ancient-Egyptian-wall-discovered-in-Nagaa-Hamadi>*

'Sensational' Egypt find offers clues in hunt for Cleopatra’s tomb

*https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/jul/12/sensational-egypt-find-offers-clues-in-hunt-for-cleopatras-tomb
<https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/jul/12/sensational-egypt-find-offers-clues-in-hunt-for-cleopatras-tomb>*

*General Science*

Nothing to report

*Physics, Earth and Space Sciences*   The Rebel Physicist on the Hunt for a
Better Story Than Quantum Mechanics

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/25/magazine/angelo-bassi-quantum-mechanic.html

NASA Discovers Huge Potential Caches of Metal On the Moon

https://futurism.com/nasa-potential-caches-metal-moon

International Asteroid Day: A look at NASA's first planetary defense mission

https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/30/world/asteroid-day-2020-nasa-dimorphos-dart-scn-trnd/index.html

Separating gamma-ray bursts: Students make critical breakthrough

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-07/uoc-sgb071720.php

New insight into the origin of water on the earth

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-07/hu-nii071720.php

Solar Orbiter returns first data, snaps closest pictures of the Sun

https://phys.org/news/2020-07-solar-orbiter-snaps-closest-pictures.html

*Environment, Climate Change and Alternative Energy Sources*

California developer of 'micro' nuclear reactor aims to prove
environmentalist doubters wrong

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/energy/california-developer-of-micro-nuclear-reactor-aims-to-prove-environmentalist-doubters-wrong

Bacteria that eats metal accidentally discovered by scientists

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2020/07/16/world/metal-eating-bacteria-intl-scli-scn/index.html

Tulane scientists build high-performing hybrid solar energy converter

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-07/tu-tsb071520.php

Fish reef domes a boon for environment, recreational fishing

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-07/uons-frd071520.php

A call to arms: Enlisting private land owners in conservation

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-07/sje-act071720.php

Replacing lithium with sodium in batteries

https://phys.org/news/2020-07-lithium-sodium-batteries.html

*Biological, Genetics and Medical Sciences*

60% of fish species could be unable to survive in current areas by 2100 –
study

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jul/02/fish-species-survival-climate-warming-study

A Family Secret Inspired A New Book About Leprosy

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/07/16/891362870/a-family-secret-inspired-a-new-book-about-leprosy?sc=18&f=1001

Experts' high-flying study reveals secrets of soaring birds

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-07/su-ehs071420.php

*Mexico City buried its rivers to prevent disease and unwittingly created a
dry, polluted city where *COVID-19* now thrives*

https://theconversation.com/mexico-city-buried-its-rivers-to-prevent-disease-and-unwittingly-created-a-dry-polluted-city-where-covid-19-now-thrives-139622

Device found able to reduce noise in simulated neonatal intensive care unit

https://techxplore.com/news/2020-07-device-noise-simulated-neonatal-intensive.html

Sperm discovery reveals clue to genetic 'immortality'

https://phys.org/news/2020-07-sperm-discovery-reveals-clue-genetic.html

*Other*

Experts call for regulation after latest botched art restoration in Spain

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2020/jun/22/experts-call-for-regulation-after-latest-botched-art-restoration-in-spain

Are UFOs a threat? We need to investigate, says former head of secret US
program

https://www.livescience.com/unidentified-ufos-history-channel.html?fbclid=IwAR1PvKmZLGpDw8zqBNs_w5VDYvmNpsgRFKSFpqasYCByfL2lmFL-6ml8Bqs

*What Buddhism and science can teach each other – and us – about
the universe*

https://theconversation.com/what-buddhism-and-science-can-teach-each-other-and-us-about-the-universe-134322

Additional Informational

SOCIAL SCIENTISTS AWARDED NATIONAL PARKS SERVICE GRANT

https://msutoday.msu.edu/news/2020/social-scientists-awarded-national-parks-service-grant/?fbclid=IwAR1qz0vV49m0JAd-sPm1iwSzhW6LLdS5IXR4He3PZDb_N-_5FNoNgQpmYW0#.Xwcf3OMOYrE.facebook

The Cross of Redemption: Uncollected Writings

https://www.amazon.com/Cross-Redemption-Uncollected-Writings-International/dp/0307275965/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=The+Cross+of+Redemption%3A+Uncollected+Writings&qid=1593536675&sr=8-1

VIDEO: Frederick Douglass' Descendants Deliver His 'Fourth Of July' Speech

https://www.npr.org/2020/07/03/884832594/video-frederick-douglass-descendants-read-his-fourth-of-july-speech?utm_campaign=npr&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_term=nprnews&utm_medium=social

Reverse Inclusion During Lockdown. The Experience of the Pushkin State
Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow

https://icom.museum/en/news/reverse-inclusion-during-lockdown-the-experience-of-the-pushkin-state-museum-of-fine-arts-moscow/

How Museums in Botswana are Contributing to the Fight Against Climate Change

https://icom.museum/en/news/how-botswanian-museums-are-contributing-to-the-fight-against-climate-change/

Community Responsive Programming at the Myseum of Toronto during COVID-19

https://icom.museum/en/news/community-responsive-programming-at-the-myseum-of-toronto-during-covid-19/

Museums for Equality: The Time is Now

https://icom.museum/en/news/museums-for-equality-the-time-is-now/

Asteroid Day Digital

https://mailchi.mp/asteroidday/asteroid-day-2020-thats-a-wrap?e=dee220d1a0

The Good Ancestor: How to Think Long Term in a Short Term World

https://www.amazon.com/Good-Ancestor-Think-Long-Term-Short-Term-ebook/dp/B08519T8NM/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=The+Good+Ancestor%3A+How+to+Think+Long+Term+in+a+Short+Term+World&qid=1595009606&sr=8-1

*Hair Trigger*

This game was developed to engage new audiences about nuclear threats,
specifically the dangers of the risky hair-trigger status of U.S. and
Russian nuclear weapons.

https://hairtriggergame.org/
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