Weekly Science Report

August 24, 2018

"Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and
leave a trail."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Introduction

Steve Detwiler created this publication with the support of Graham Hancock and 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.

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News Articles

Paleontology, Evolution and Prehistoric Studies

Scientists find perfectly preserved ancient foal in Siberia

https://phys.org/news/2018-08-scientists-perfectly-ancient-foal-siberia.html

Offspring of Neanderthal and Denisovan identified for first time

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/aug/22/offspring-of-neanderthal-and-denisovan-identified-for-
first-time

Blue-eyed immigrants transformed Ancient Israel 6,500 years ago

https://www.livescience.com/63396-ancient-israel-immigration-turkey-iran.html

Stone Age treasures unearthed in Sussex offer extraordinary insight into evolution of human intelligence

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/stone-age-sussex-archaeology-human-evolution-
insight-intelligence-a8504766.html

Mutations in this molecule may have helped mammoths tolerate the cold

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-08/cuim-mit082418.php

Discovery of two new Chinese dinosaurs by international research team

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-08/uotw-dot082318.php

History

The Myth of Never Again

https://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/18/opinion/18iht-edannan.html?
mtrref=l.facebook.com&assetType=opinion&mtrref=www.nytimes.com&gwh=C7D00083555E7C29C04F92C
88C74FBF2&gwt=pay&assetType=opinion

Parliament has LOST over 220 works of art

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5991029/More-220-works-art-gone-MISSING-Parliament.html

Russia takes a new look at an old enemy: Genghis Khan

https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2018/0817/Russia-takes-a-new-look-at-an-old-enemy-Genghis-
Khan?cmpid=FB&utm_campaign=Echobox&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook

Tearing down Confederate statues leaves structural racism intact

https://theconversation.com/tearing-down-confederate-statues-leaves-structural-racism-intact-101951
IMLS ANNOUNCES INVESTMENT OF $8.1 MILLION TO STRENGTHEN AMERICA'S LIBRARIES

https://www.imls.gov/news-events/news-releases/imls-announces-investment-81-million-strengthen-
americas-libraries

Sen. John McCain, Former Presidential Nominee And Prisoner Of War, Dies At 81

https://www.npr.org/2018/08/25/537705767/sen-john-mccain-former-presidential-nominee-and-prisoner-of-
war-dies-at-81

How a bishop's murder could change Egypt's Coptic church

https://www.middleeasteye.net/columns/how-bishops-killing-could-change-egypts-coptic-church-1096905532

Eisenhower approves coup in Iran, Aug. 19, 1953

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/08/19/eisenhower-green-lights-coup-in-iran-aug-19-1953-788012

Nazi collaborator Jakiw Palij is deported from U.S. to Germany

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/nazi-collaborator-jakiw-palij-arrested-new-york-deported-germany-
n902441?cid=sm_npd_nn_fb_ma

A college textbook says Holocaust victims failed to realize their strength

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2018/07/31/health/unc-textbook-holocaust-cancer-trnd/index.html

Archaeology

Drought In Central Europe Reveals Cautionary 'Hunger Stones' In Czech River

https://www.npr.org/2018/08/24/641331544/drought-in-central-europe-reveals-cautionary-hunger-stones-in-
czech-river?sc=tw

How to Save What’s Priceless When Disaster Strikes

https://www.houzz.com/ideabooks/112189552/list/how-to-save-whats-priceless-when-disaster-strikes

Ancient 'made in China’ label pushes back the date of shipwreck by 100 years

https://www.popsci.com/ancient-pottery-made-in-china-label?
con=TrueAnthem&dom=fb&lnk=TA&src=SOC&utm_campaign=&utm_content=5b7a983b04d301216f487af6&
utm_medium=&utm_source=
Archaeologists explore a rural field in Kansas, and a lost city emerges

http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-kansas-lost-city-20180819-htmlstory.html#

Ancient Riches Discovered at Mysterious Burial Monument

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2018/08/news-ancient-pillar-monument-burial-mound-africa/?
cmpid=org=ngp::mc=social::src=facebook::cmp=editorial::add=fb20180820science-
kenyaburialground::rid=&sf195912144=1

UK investigates fresh reports of looting of sunken navy ships

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/19/government-investigates-fresh-reports-of-looting-of-sunken-
navy-ships?platform=hootsuite

Robots Reveal Possible 3,000-Year-Old Human Sacrifices in Peru

http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=2463492&CategoryId=13936

Massive Pyramid, Lost City and Ancient Human Sacrifices unearthed in China

https://www.livescience.com/63406-massive-shimao-pyramid-unearthed-china.html

Intact tomb of Bronze Age Minoan man discovered in Ierapetra, Crete

http://www.tornosnews.gr/en/greek-news/culture/32350-intact-tomb-of-bronze-age-minoan-man-discovered-
in-ierapetra-crete.html

Salt of the Alps: ancient Austrian mine holds Bronze Age secrets

https://phys.org/news/2018-08-salt-alps-ancient-austrian-bronze.html

Seen from the air, the dry summer reveals an ancient harvest of archaeological finds

https://phys.org/news/2018-08-air-summer-reveals-ancient-harvest.html

Egyptology

Initial analysis shows skeletons from huge Egyptian sarcophagus are two men, one woman

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/309896/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/Initial-analysis-shows-
skeletons-from-huge-Egyptia.aspx
General Science

Nothing to report

Physics, Earth and Space Sciences

Scientists Are Puzzled By Mysterious Lights In The Sky. They Call Them STEVE

https://www.npr.org/2018/08/23/641276633/scientists-puzzled-by-mysterious-lights-in-the-sky-they-call-steve?sc=tw

NASA spacecraft captures first images of the asteroid it will soon land on

https://mashable.com/2018/08/24/asteroid-bennu-nasa-space-mission/?utm_cid=mash-com-fb-main-
link#_xQ60rshyOqT

Robert Zubrin wants to establish a 'new branch of human civilization' on Mars

https://www.nbcnews.com/mach/science/robert-zubrin-wants-establish-new-branch-human-civilization-mars-
ncna901316?cid=sm_npd_nn_fb_ma

NASA's Opportunity Rover on Mars Still Silent 2 Months into Epic Dust Storm

https://www.space.com/41521-mars-dust-storm-opportunity-rover-still-silent.html

The Women 'Computers' Who Revolutionized Astronomy

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/12/the-women-computers-who-measured-the-stars/
509231/?utm_campaign=the-
atlantic&utm_content=5b7a9f363ed3f000010b85b7_ta&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook
A Superconductor Scandal? Scientists Question a Nobel-Prize-Worthy Claim

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-superconductor-scandal-scientists-question-a-nobel-prize-
worthy-claim/

Five reasons to forget Mars for now and return to the moon

https://theconversation.com/five-reasons-to-forget-mars-for-now-and-return-to-the-moon-101683

First direct evidence of surface exposed water ice on the Moon

https://www.soest.hawaii.edu/soestwp/announce/news/first-direct-evidence-of-surface-exposed-water-ice-on-
the-moon/#.W3vK6zTyMRs.facebook

Paul Allen's space firm details plans for rockets, cargo vehicle

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-space-paulallen/paul-allens-space-firm-details-plans-for-rockets-cargo-
vehicle-idUSKCN1L52AY

With help from NASA astronaut, treasure hunter says he may have found alien space ship off Florida's coast

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/florida/os-ae-ufo-alien-ship-bermuda-triangle-20180813-story.html

Environment, Climate Change and Alternative Energy Sources

World's Largest Shipping Company Heads Into Arctic As Global Warming Opens The Way

https://www.npr.org/2018/08/22/640679831/worlds-largest-shipping-company-heads-into-arctic-as-global-
warming-opens-the-wa?sc=tw

New way to save endangered sharks – and our seafood

https://www.scidev.net/global/biodiversity/news/new-way-to-save-endangered-sharks-and-our-seafood.html

Bio-based plastics can reduce waste, but only if we invest in both making and getting rid of them
https://theconversation.com/bio-based-plastics-can-reduce-waste-but-only-if-we-invest-in-both-making-and-
getting-rid-of-them-98282

Green space in every schoolyard: the radical plan to cool Paris

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2018/aug/16/could-greening-every-paris-schoolyard-cool-the-city
The biggest palm collection in the nation is in Miami. Can it be saved from sea rise?

http://amp.miamiherald.com/news/local/environment/article215586425.html?__twitter_impression=true

Desertification: The people whose land is turning to dust

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-34790661

States greet Trump’s coal rules with lawsuit threats

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/states-greet-trumps-new-coal-rules-with-lawsuit-threats/?ftag=CNM-00-
10aab6a&linkId=55859480

Biological, Genetics and Medical Sciences

What the grieving mother orca tells us about how animals experience death

https://theconversation.com/what-the-grieving-mother-orca-tells-us-about-how-animals-experience-death-101230

Are we smart enough to measure animal intelligence?

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/are-we-smart-enough-to-measure-animal-intelligence/?ftag=COS-05-
10aaa0h&utm_campaign=trueAnthem
%3A+Trending+Content&utm_content=5b7a838c00bd470001f51156&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_sourc
e=facebook

After 13 Years, Scientists Finally Map the Massive Wheat Genome

https://www.wired.com/story/after-13-years-scientists-finally-map-the-massive-wheat-genome?
mbid=nl_081918_daily_leadposition4__list1_p2&CNDID=41291302

Clay fights MRSA, other 'superbugs' in wounds

https://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=296313&org=NSF&from=news

Scientists have developed an effective marker for cancer diagnosis and therapy

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-08/nuos-shd082418.php
Other

Nothing to report

Additional Informational

Former Nazi labor camp guard Jakiw Palij removed to Germany

https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/former-nazi-labor-camp-guard-jakiw-palij-removed-germany?
utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter