[Jawlist] Weekly Science Report 9-25-20

Sun Sep 27 19:06:55 PDT 2020

*Weekly Science Report*

*September 25, 2020*

*“People come here penniless but not cultureless.  They bring us gifts.  We
can synthesize the best of our traditions with the best of theirs.  We can
teach and learn from each other to produce a better America.”*

Mary Pipher

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*

New funerary and ritual behaviors of the Neolithic Iberian populations
discovered

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-09/uos-nfa092520.php

Neandertals have adopted male sex chromosome from modern humans

https://phys.org/news/2020-09-neandertals-male-sex-chromosome-modern.html

Family care? Healed injuries suggest social behavior in ancestral wolves

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-09/p-fch092420.php

Sweden: Bones of dog found at Stone Age burial site

https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/sweden-bones-dog-found-stone-age-burial-site-73215315

Genetic testing suggests horse domestication did not begin in Anatolia

https://phys.org/news/2020-09-genetic-horse-domestication-anatolia.html

A 48,000 years old tooth that belonged to one of the last Neanderthals in
Northern Italy

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-09/udb-a4y091720.php

Did our early ancestors boil their food in hot springs?

https://news.mit.edu/2020/early-human-hot-springs-food-0915

*History*

Cherokee Heritage Center to be owned by tribe under new plan

https://tulsaworld.com/news/state-and-regional/govt-and-politics/cherokee-heritage-center-to-be-owned-by-tribe-under-new-plan/article_e34fb2c0-f478-11ea-a04d-b339f3790cca.html?utm_content=bufferd2e8d&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer&fbclid=IwAR176r9Amh2WZXV45lKWukpVrDCbwnP7hJpEoAbkWtaYHdB7_Q04f2L-ht8

Pilgrim fathers: harsh truths amid the Mayflower myths of nationhood

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/20/pilgrim-fathers-harsh-truths-amid-the-mayflower-myths-of-nationhood

This WWII Marine can finally come home – nearly eight decades after his
death

https://amp.usatoday.com/amp/5756361002?s=09

Spain imprisons ex-colonel for Jesuit priests slain in El Salvador

https://www.americamagazine.org/politics-society/2020/09/11/spain-imprisons-ex-colonel-jesuit-priests-slain-el-salvador?fbclid=IwAR1bc2ehBugESMvF2LS6M2BDSfLbkpfcmS-1uNUdPKuLDeAsKB1eA5LZ9ZU

Muslim female secret agent who was tortured and executed by Nazis at Dachau
concentration camp in 1944 is honoured with first blue plaque for
Indian-origin woman

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8671371/Muslim-female-secret-agent-executed-Nazis-honoured-blue-plaque-Indian-origin-woman.html

Rwanda’s president says ‘Hotel Rwanda’ hero must stand trial

https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-09-06/rwanda-president-says-hotel-rwanda-hero-must-stand-trial?_amp=true&__twitter_impression=true&s=09

The 1918 Flu Pandemic Killed Hundreds of Thousands of Americans. The White
House Never Said a Word About It

https://time.com/5877129/1918-pandemic-white-house/?amp=true&__twitter_impression=true&s=09

Sharing language with the world

https://indiancountrytoday.com/news/sharing-language-with-the-world-tl9ZSFNobUGn6IjfQHtR-Q

For 'Ike,' A Monument Unlike Any Other: Eisenhower Memorial Is Dedicated In
D.C.

https://www.npr.org/2020/09/15/908427868/for-ike-a-monument-unlike-any-other-eisenhower-memorial-is-dedicated-in-d-c?sc=18&f=1001

Arrest made in Gila River woman’s 1987 killing

https://indiancountrytoday.com/news/arrest-made-in-gila-river-woman-s-1987-killing-rpeDfHfKhEmPeNkKMihWkQ

Trump says Caesar Rodney statue will be inside National Garden of American
Heroes

https://www.delawareonline.com/story/news/2020/09/17/trump-says-caesar-rodney-statue-live-inside-national-garden-american-heroes-wilmington-delaware/3485665001/

With Theaters Still Closed, 136-Year-Old 'Playbill' Does A Quick Online
Pivot

https://www.npr.org/2020/09/15/912764183/with-theaters-still-closed-136-year-old-playbill-does-a-quick-online-pivot?sc=18&f=1001

Researchers find genetic signature of ancient MacDougall bloodline

https://phys.org/news/2020-09-genetic-signature-ancient-macdougall-bloodline.html

Rediscovered Paul Gauguin manuscript written in his Polynesian hut reveals
artist's hidden secrets

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/paul-gauguin-manuscript-courtauld

World's largest DNA sequencing of Viking skeletons reveals they weren't all
Scandinavian

https://phys.org/news/2020-09-world-largest-dna-sequencing-viking.html

*Archaeology*

Archaeologists Locate the South Carolina Battlefield Where Patriot John
Laurens Died

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/archaeologists-locate-south-carolina-battlefield-where-patriot-john-laurens-died-180975626/?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=socialmedia&fbclid=IwAR176r9Amh2WZXV45lKWukpVrDCbwnP7hJpEoAbkWtaYHdB7_Q04f2L-ht8

Deep in the Swamps, Archaeologists Are Finding How Fugitive Slaves Kept
Their Freedom

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/deep-swamps-archaeologists-fugitive-slaves-kept-freedom-180960122/?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=socialmedia&fbclid=IwAR3Tm74oH_3Rll1r2DhB9ldvm5iydlM_lAyL6LKVtXXM5UPJnic9jH9JF9w

Crypts, Tunnel Discovered Beneath Knights Templar Chapel in Poland

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/crypts-discovered-underneath-polish-knights-templar-chapel-180975827/?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=socialmedia

Tribes’ Ancestral Remains Return Home After Over a Century

https://nativenewsonline.net/currents/tribes-ancestral-remains-return-home-after-over-a-century

Nine Places Where You Can Still See Wheel Tracks from the Oregon Trail

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/follow-relics-oregon-trail-180960589/?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=socialmedia&fbclid=IwAR0dFtkoZh7DLZzDOjkftvgmAxchUmVcRU8xnyEHe5WynM1sEBao-dbzwxE

'Zeugma of Black Sea' 3,500 years older than previously thought

https://www.dailysabah.com/arts/zeugma-of-black-sea-3500-years-older-than-previously-thought/news

Chromium steel was first made in ancient Persia

https://phys.org/news/2020-09-chromium-steel-ancient-persia.html

Artifacts from upstate Indigenous towns digitized, repatriated

https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2020/09/artifacts-upstate-indigenous-towns-digitized-repatriated

'Mystery' endures in France over Montaigne tomb: archaeologist

https://www.france24.com/en/20200918-mystery-endures-in-france-over-montaigne-tomb-archaeologist

Dozens of pieces of Inuit art found in decrepit Rochester Hills home

https://www.clickondetroit.com/news/local/2020/09/18/dozens-of-pieces-of-inuit-art-found-in-decrepit-rochester-hills-home/

Archaeologists dig to uncover one of America's first Black churches in
Colonial Williamsburg
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/archaeologists-dig-uncover-one-america-s-first-black-churches-colonial-n1240325
  Possible War of 1812 Cemetery Found in Vermont
https://www.archaeology.org/news/9055-200925-vermont-military-cemetery
*Egyptology*

The Egyptian Egg Ovens Considered More Wondrous Than the Pyramids

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/egypt-egg-ovens?utm_source=Gastro%20Obscura%20Weekly%20E-mail&utm_campaign=9430ab8bde-GASTRO_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_09_08&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_2418498528-9430ab8bde-67886873&mc_cid=9430ab8bde&mc_eid=ec31f6fc0e&fbclid=IwAR3RTO_cern8XkPW_pXrdySVgU5on75YIy0HDJ__a7fUUonsqXCPApnyx78

Archaeologists worry new roads could damage pyramids

https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2020/09/egypt-roads-tourist-memphis-concerns-archaeologists.html

Wild birds as offerings to the Egyptian gods

https://phys.org/news/2020-09-wild-birds-egyptian-gods.html

Facial reconstruction reveals Egyptian 'mummy portrait' was accurate except
for one detail

https://www.livescience.com/mummy-portraits-egypt-accuracy.html

*General Science*

Children Are Born Scientists. What If School Encouraged That?

https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2020/09/what-makes-blissfield-elementarys-science-lab-unique/616285/?utm_campaign=the-atlantic&utm_term=2020-09-11T10%3A00%3A04&utm_content=edit-promo&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&s=09

An Air Force One that flies at five times the speed of sound?

https://www.cnn.com/travel/amp/supersonic-air-force-one/index.html?s=09

*Physics, Earth and Space Sciences*

This asteroid is ejecting particles into space. A spacecraft may tell us why

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2020/09/11/world/asteroid-bennu-particles-osiris-rex-nasa-scn/index.html?__twitter_impression=true&s=09

With latest Starlink launch, SpaceX touts 100 Mbps download speeds and
‘space lasers’

https://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2020/9/3/21419841/spacex-starlink-internet-satellite-constellation-download-speeds-space-lasers?__twitter_impression=true&s=09

China's first reusable spacecraft lands after 2-days in orbit

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/china-s-first-reusable-spacecraft-lands-after-2-days-orbit-n1239436?cid=sm_npd_nn_fb_ma
  First measurements of radiation levels on the moon
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-09/ku-fmo092420.php

Astronomers model, determine how disk galaxies evolve so smoothly

https://phys.org/news/2020-09-astronomers-disk-galaxies-evolve-smoothly.html

First candidate for an extragalactic planet identified

https://phys.org/news/2020-09-candidate-extragalactic-planet.html

*Environment, Climate Change and Alternative Energy Sources*

Fusion Energy Gets Ready to Shine—Finally

https://www.wired.com/story/fusion-energy-iter-reactor-ready-to-shine/?mbid=social_twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_social-type=owned&utm_brand=wired&s=09

Study reviews impact of wind energy on local Indiana communities

https://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/releases/2020/Q3/study-reviews-impact-of-wind-energy-on-local-indiana-communities.html?s=09

Tree rings show scale of Arctic pollution is worse than previously thought

https://phys.org/news/2020-09-tree-scale-arctic-pollution-worse.html

*Biological, Genetics and Medical Sciences*

Brain-Computer Interfaces Are Coming. Will We Be Ready?

https://www.rand.org/blog/articles/2020/08/brain-computer-interfaces-are-coming-will-we-be-ready.html?utm_campaign=digitalforward%2Csecurity2040&utm_content=1598635370&utm_medium=rand_social&utm_source=twitter&s=09

Researchers explore how the human brain is so resilient

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-09/uarl-reh092420.php

Researchers show conscious processes in birds' brains for the first time

https://phys.org/news/2020-09-conscious-birds-brains.html

*Other*

In India, an ancient grain is revived for the modern era

https://www.csmonitor.com/Environment/2020/0825/In-India-an-ancient-grain-is-revived-for-the-modern-era?cmpid=kwpsub&kwp_0=1741769&kwp_4=5131580&kwp_1=2182785

Additional Informational

U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, America First Committee

https://exhibitions.ushmm.org/americans-and-the-holocaust/main/america-first-committee-2?utm_medium=socialmedia&utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=americans&utm_content=lindberghspeechindesmoines20200913&fbclid=IwAR3RTO_cern8XkPW_pXrdySVgU5on75YIy0HDJ__a7fUUonsqXCPApnyx78

THE BIOLOGICAL STATE: NAZI RACIAL HYGIENE, 1933–1939

https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/the-biological-state-nazi-racial-hygiene-1933-1939?utm_medium=socialmedia&utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=socialholiday&utm_content=deafawarenessmonth20200922&fbclid=IwAR14AiQhB9_GD0qm0VW33rJPFBqu6NWTOKCbrfDl0RtxQfaHO6lphXHJiZ4
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