Weekly Science Report

June 22, 2018

“I exist not to be loved and admired, but to love and act. It is not the duty of those
around me to love me. Rather, it is my duty to be concerned about the world, about
man.”
Janusz Korczak

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

A Sneaky Theory of Where Language Came From

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/06/toolmaking-language-brain/562385/?utm_source=atlfb
Weapons reveal how this 5,300-year-old ice mummy lived -- and died

https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/20/health/otzi-tyrolean-iceman-mummy-new-study/index.html?
utm_term=link&utm_source=fbCNNi&utm_content=2018-06-21T06%3A15%3A04&utm_medium=social

500 million year old sea creature named after President Obama

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/500-million-year-old-sea-creature-named-after-president-obama/?
ftag=CNM-00-10aab6a&linkId=53332318

Montana burial site answers questions about early humans

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-06/tau-mbs061918.php

Bird's Song Staying Power Implies Culture

https://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode/birds-song-staying-power-implies-culture/

History

How Native American food is tied to important sacred stories

https://theconversation.com/how-native-american-food-is-tied-to-important-sacred-stories-97770

Jefferson's Monticello Makes Room For Sally Hemings

https://www.npr.org/2018/06/16/620311433/jeffersons-monticello-makes-room-for-sally-hemings?
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Aztec Turquoise Tiles May Solve a Mesoamerican Mystery

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/06/13/science/turquoise-aztecs-mexico.html

Recalling internment, Japanese Americans condemn family separations

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/recalling-internment-japanese-americans-condemn-family-
separations-n884861?cid=sm_npd_nn_fb_ma
The Hammond Train Wreck of 1918 Killed Scores of Circus Performers
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/hammond-train-wreck-disaster-1918-killed-dozens-circus-
performers-180969428/

The Unheralded Pioneers of 19th-Century America Were Free African-American Families

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/unheralded-pioneers-19th-century-america-were-free-african-
american-families-180969400/

Archaeology

Google and the World Monuments Fund highlight Iraqi heritage under threat

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/google-and-the-world-monuments-fund-highlight-iraqi-heritage-under-threat?
utm_source=daily_june6_2018&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=email_daily&utm_source=The+Art+Newspaper
+Newsletters&utm_campaign=a9f81e1bbe-
EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_06_05_06_08&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c459f924d0-a9f81e1bbe-60907441

Sculpted head of mystery biblical king found in Israel

https://www.apnews.com/dd3713cc12f24a4090d1a34b650bdd5f

Civil War Battlefield 'Limb Pit' Reveals Work Of Combat Surgeons

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/06/20/620394034/civil-war-battlefield-limb-pit-reveals-work-
of-combat-surgeons?sc=tw

This ancient Chinese tomb held a royal, her extinct ape — and a warning

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/this-ancient-chinese-tomb-held-a-royal-her-extinct-ape-and-a-
warning/ar-AAyYJLc?ocid=ob-fb-enus-580
Swedes have been brewing beer since the Iron Age, new evidence confirms

https://popular-archaeology.com/article/swedes-have-been-brewing-beer-since-the-iron-age-new-evidence-
confirms/

Enigmatic Stone Balls from 5,000 Years Ago Continue to Baffle Archaeologists

https://www.livescience.com/62843-enigmatic-stone-balls-scotland.html

Ming Dynasty city found in Jiangxi Province

http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-06/19/c_137265206.htm

Sun Storm

https://www.archaeology.org/issues/304-1807/from-the-trenches/6700-trenches-mexico-aztec-stone-disk

Egyptology

Nothing to report

General Science

Inside the Mad Lab That's Getting Robots to Walk and Jump Like Us

https://www.wired.com/story/inside-the-mad-lab-thats-getting-robots-to-walk-and-jump-like-us/?
CNDID=41291302&mbid=nl_061418_daily_list3_p5

Startup Working on Contentious Pentagon AI Project Was Hacked

https://www.wired.com/story/startup-working-on-contentious-pentagon-ai-project-was-hacked/?
CNDID=41291302&mbid=nl_061318_daily_list1_p2

Self-Driving Cars Likely Won’t Steal Your Job (Until 2040)

https://www.wired.com/story/self-driving-car-job-impact-economy-savings-safe-report/?
CNDID=41291302&mbid=nl_061318_daily_list3_p4
China is building drone planes for its aircraft carriers

https://www.popsci.com/china-drone-planes-aircraft-carrier?
con=TrueAnthem&dom=fb&lnk=TA&src=SOC&utm_campaign=&utm_content=5b1cfdb904d3010d47225f38&
utm_medium=&utm_source

This computer can do more calculations per second than the world's population could do in a year

https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/09/world/supercomputer-summit-america-china-trnd/index.html?
utm_term=link&utm_content=2018-06-09T18%3A30%3A18&utm_medium=social&utm_source=fbCNN

Controlling robots with brainwaves and hand gestures

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-06/miot-crw061818.php

Physics, Earth and Space Sciences

Can Physicists Find Time Travelers on Facebook?

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/01/can-physicists-find-time-travelers-on-facebook/
282718/?utm_source=atlfb

We could move to another planet with a spaceship like this

https://www.popsci.com/realistic-generational-spaceship?
con=TrueAnthem&dom=fb&lnk=TA&src=SOC&utm_campaign=&utm_content=5b25816604d3014f4a75946b
&utm_medium=&utm_source=

Puerto Rico's Observatory Is Still Recovering From Hurricane Maria

https://www.wired.com/story/puerto-ricos-observatory-is-still-recovering-from-hurricane-maria/?
CNDID=41291302&mbid=nl_061618_daily_list1_p4

NASA reveals new plan to stop asteroids before they hit Earth

https://www.nbcnews.com/mach/science/nasa-reveals-new-plan-stop-asteroids-they-hit-earth-ncna885316?
cid=sm_npd_nn_fb_ma

Martian dust storm has become 'planet-encircling,' NASA says

https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/20/us/mars-curiosity-rover-giant-storm/index.html?
utm_term=link&utm_source=fbCNNi&utm_content=2018-06-21T08%3A00%3A19&utm_medium=social
Physicists show that it is impossible to mask quantum information in correlations

https://phys.org/news/2018-06-physicists-impossible-mask-quantum.html

Air Force says planning for Space Force will be 'thorough' and 'deliberate'

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-air-force-space-force-20180620-story.html

Bedrock in West Antarctica rising at surprisingly rapid rate

https://phys.org/news/2018-06-bedrock-west-antarctica-surprisingly-rapid.html

Einstein proved right in another galaxy

https://phys.org/news/2018-06-einstein-galaxy.html

Unconfirmed near-Earth objects

https://phys.org/news/2018-06-unconfirmed-near-earth.html

Environment, Climate Change and Alternative Energy Sources

The Potential Pitfalls of Sucking Carbon From the Atmosphere

https://www.wired.com/story/the-potential-pitfalls-of-sucking-carbon-from-the-atmosphere/?
CNDID=41291302&mbid=nl_061318_daily_list3_p1

Free Power From Freeways? China Is Testing Roads Paved With Solar Panels

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/11/business/energy-environment/china-solar-roads-renewables.html

Wanna Pull Water Out of Air? Grab Some Ions or a Weird Sponge

https://www.wired.com/story/pull-water-out-of-air/?CNDID=41291302&mbid=nl_060918_daily_list1_p4

Laser bursts generate electricity faster than any other method

https://phys.org/news/2018-06-laser-electricity-faster-method.html
Firm Prepares To Mine Land Previously Protected As A National Monument

https://www.npr.org/2018/06/21/622128554/firm-prepares-to-mine-land-previously-protected-as-a-national-
monument?
utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20
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Reversing Obama's initiatives, Trump focuses national ocean policy on business

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/reversing-obama-s-initiatives-trump-focuses-national-ocean-
policy-business-n885211?cid=sm_npd_nn_fb_ma

NIF achieves record double fusion yield

https://www.llnl.gov/news/nif-achieves-record-double-fusion-yield

Chemists report biorenewable, biodegradable plastic alternative

https://phys.org/news/2018-06-chemists-biorenewable-biodegradable-plastic-alternative.html

Renewables Will Make Up 50 Percent of the World's Energy by 2050

https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/energy/a21756137/renewables-50-percent-energy-2050/

NASA Is Stepping Into the Twilight Zone

https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/animals/a21602787/nasa-plankton-global-warming-science/

Oil and Gas Facilities Leak More Methane than Previously Thought

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/oil-and-gas-facilities-leak-more-methane-than-previously-thought/

Biological, Genetics and Medical Sciences

Lithgow panther an enduring mystery amid hundreds of sightings, claims of a cover-up

http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2018-06-13/could-the-lithgow-panther-actually-exist/9116232?pfmredir=sm

DNA test solves mystery of wolf-like creature shot in Montana

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/dna-test-reveals-identity-of-mysterious-wolf-creature-shot-in-montana/?
ftag=COS-05-10aaa0h&utm_campaign=trueAnthem
%3A+Trending+Content&utm_content=5b29d66904d301600b2fde6f&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_sourc
e=facebook

Living inside a canister: Dallas polio survivor is one of few people left in U.S. using iron lung

https://www.dallasnews.com/news/science-medicine/2018/05/25/living-inside-canister-dallas-polio-survivor-
one-people-left-us-using-iron-lung

Researchers Find Herpes Viruses In Brains Marked By Alzheimer's Disease

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/06/21/621908340/researchers-find-herpes-viruses-in-brains-
marked-by-alzheimers-disease?
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Towards personalized medicine: One type of data is not enough

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-06/embl-tpm062018.php

Study reveals new therapeutic target for slowing the spread of flu virus

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2018-06-reveals-therapeutic-flu-virus.html

Low-cost plastic sensors could monitor a range of health conditions

https://techxplore.com/news/2018-06-low-cost-plastic-sensors-range-health.html

Other

The face of God is in the eye of the beholder, researchers say

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/face-god-eye-beholder-researchers-say-n882491?
cid=sm_npd_nn_fb_ma

California is creating one big online community college

https://amp.cnn.com/money/2018/06/19/pf/college/california-online-community-college/index.html

MIT Clears Junot Díaz Of Sexual Misconduct Allegations

https://www.npr.org/2018/06/20/622094905/mit-clears-junot-diaz-of-sexual-misconduct-allegations?
utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20
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Additional Informational

Nothing to report