Weekly Science Report

August 3, 2018

“Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunters.”
African Proverb

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

The Mystery of How Neanderthals Got Fire

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/07/neanderthals-fire-mystery/565514/?utm_source=fbb
History

Pentagon Identifies Remains Of Missing Tuskegee Airman

https://www.npr.org/2018/07/28/633442127/pentagon-identifies-remains-of-missing-tuskegee-airman?sc=tw

Bates professor tells story of Malaga Island, including its dark chapter of forced exodus

https://www.pressherald.com/2018/07/22/food-from-the-past-words-from-the-present/

Meet Mexico City's First Elected Female Mayor

https://www.npr.org/2018/07/25/631465464/meet-mexico-citys-first-elected-woman-mayor?
utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=201
80725

“Set the world on fire”? Sorry, St. Ignatius never said that (or these other famous Jesuit quotes)
https://www.americamagazine.org/faith/2017/04/06/set-world-fire-sorry-st-ignatius-never-said-or-these-other-
famous-jesuit-quotes

St. Katharine Drexel’s tomb will be moved to Philadelphia cathedral

https://www.americamagazine.org/politics-society/2018/07/30/st-katharine-drexels-tomb-will-be-moved-philadelphia-
cathedral

Jeremy Corbyn apologises over 2010 Holocaust event

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-45027582?
ns_source=facebook&ns_campaign=bbcnews&ns_mchannel=social&ocid=socialflow_facebook

After 500 years, a clue to who inspired Botticelli's ‘Birth of Venus’

https://www.nbcnews.com/video/after-500-years-a-clue-to-who-inspired-botticelli-s-birth-of-venus-
1285917251529?cid=sm_npd_nn_fb_ma

The War Photo No One Would Publish

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/08/the-war-photo-no-one-would-publish/375762/?
utm_campaign=the-
atlantic&utm_content=5b63fdb54b7385000752baab_ta&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook

House of Lords warns Brexit may starve UK museums of skilled workers

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/house-of-lords-warns-brexit-may-prevent-cultural-sector-workers-
from-coming-to-uk?
utm_source=daily_july26_2018&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=email_daily&utm_source=The+Art+Ne
wspaper+Newsletters&utm_campaign=9b506eb1bc-
EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_07_23_03_47&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c459f924d0-9b506eb1bc-
60907441

Archaeology

Rome's Subway Expansion Reveals Artifacts From The Ancient Past

https://www.npr.org/2018/07/22/630532760/romes-subway-expansion-reveals-artifacts-from-the-ancient-past?
utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=201
80722

Cologne archaeologists unearth oldest library in Germany

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/cologne-archaeologists-unearth-oldest-library-in-germany

Climate Change Is Coming for Underwater Archaeological Sites

https://www.wired.com/story/climate-change-is-coming-for-underwater-archaeological-sites/?
CNDID=41291302&mbid=nl_073118_daily_list3_p3

Archaeologists have found the remains of one of Jamestown’s early settlers. Now they have to prove he is
who they think he is.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/archaeologists-have-found-the-remains-of-one-of-jamestown-s-early-
settlers-now-they-have-to-prove-he-is-who-they-think-he-is/ar-BBL1eEG?ocid=ob-fb-enus-580

The YEAR of the CALUSA

https://fortmyers.floridaweekly.com/articles/the-year-of-the-calusa/

Rethinking Shell Middens

https://www.archaeologicalconservancy.org/rethinking-shell-middens/
Egyptology

Ancient Egyptian graffiti, burial sites discovered by Yale archaeologists

https://news.yale.edu/2018/07/24/ancient-egyptian-graffiti-burial-sites-discovered-yale-archaeologists

General Science

The moral dilemmas of the Fourth Industrial Revolution

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/02/ethics-2-0-how-the-brave-new-world-needs-a-moral-compass

Google Glass Is Back—Now with Artificial Intelligence

https://www.wired.com/story/google-glass-is-backnow-with-artificial-intelligence/?
CNDID=41291302&mbid=nl_072518_daily_list3_p1

Physics, Earth and Space Sciences

Sorry, Nerds: Terraforming Might Not Work on Mars

https://www.wired.com/story/co2-terraforming-mars/?CNDID=41291302&mbid=nl_073118_daily_list1_p4

Scientists Discover Evidence of the First Large Body of Liquid Water on Mars
https://www.wired.com/story/large-body-of-liquid-water-on-mars/?
CNDID=41291302&mbid=nl_072518_daily_list1_p4

NASA backs designs for 3D-printed homes on Mars

https://www.cnn.com/style/article/nasa-3d-homes-mars/index.html?utm_content=2018-08-
03T09%3A31%3A02&utm_medium=social&utm_source=fbCNNi&utm_term=link

NASA Assigns Crews to First Test Flights, Missions on Commercial Spacecraft

https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-assigns-crews-to-first-test-flights-missions-on-commercial-
spacecraft

Environment, Climate Change and Alternative Energy Sources

New study puts a figure on sea-level rise following Antarctic ice shelves' collapse

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-07/egu-nsp071618.php

Colombia peace deal brings new threat to country's rainforest

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-07/sjcu-cpd071818.php

Wave energy converters are not geared towards the increase in energy over the last century

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-07/uotb-wec072018.php

Cape Sharp places tidal turbine placed on Fundy floor

http://thechronicleherald.ca/novascotia/1586001-cape-sharp-places-tidal-turbine-placed-on-fundy-floor

Yes, humans are depleting Earth’s resources, but ‘footprint’ estimates don’t tell the full story

https://theconversation.com/yes-humans-are-depleting-earths-resources-but-footprint-estimates-dont-tell-the-
full-story-100705

If Germany Can't Quit Coal, Can Anyone Else?

https://www.wired.com/story/if-germany-cant-quit-coal-can-anyone-else/?
CNDID=41291302&mbid=nl_073018_daily_list1_p4

Sweeping Chinese Landscapes Transformed by Rapid Development

https://www.wired.com/story/photo-gallery-china-development/?
CNDID=41291302&mbid=nl_080218_daily_list3_p1

This British restaurant is turning its waste into food

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/05/in-britain-chefs-stir-up-food-waste-revolution-in-the-kitchen

This Dutch football stadium creates its own energy and stores it in electric car batteries

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/07/netherlands-football-johan-cruijff-stadium-electric-car-batteries

Sweden to reach its 2030 renewable energy target this year

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/07/sweden-to-reach-its-2030-renewable-energy-target-this-year

Trump moving forward to end California's authority to set clean-air standards, mandate electric-car sales

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-trump-california-clean-air-20180723-story.html

We're Drowning In Plastic Trash. Jenna Jambeck Wants To Save Us

https://www.npr.org/2018/07/24/627505327/meet-the-woman-who-put-plastic-waste-on-the-map?
utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20
180724

Team lands new efficiency breakthrough for emerging solar cell material

https://techxplore.com/news/2018-07-team-efficiency-breakthrough-emerging-solar.html

The wait is over: Trump taps meteorologist as White House science adviser

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-05862-y?
utm_source=twt_nnc&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=naturenews&sf194640978=1

Trump Administration Proposes Auto Plan That Would Increase Fuel Use by 500,000 Barrels a Day

http://time.com/5352036/trump-auto-plan-fuel-increase/
Biological, Genetics and Medical Sciences

Climate Change's Looming Mental Health Crisis

https://www.wired.com/story/climate-changes-looming-mental-health-crisis/?
CNDID=41291302&mbid=nl_080218_daily_list3_p5

Cruise line faces backlash over shooting of polar bear

https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/29/world/polar-bear-killed-norway-cruise-guard-attacked/index.html

Shark shocker: 20-foot great white 'Deep Blue' caught on camera

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/shark-shocker-20-foot-great-white-deep-blue-caught-on-
camera/ar-BBKZZ3R?ocid=ob-fb-enus-580

Pregnant Dolphin Shot And Killed In Mississippi

https://www.yahoo.com/news/pregnant-dolphin-shot-killed-mississippi-070349684.html

Fertilizer destroys plant microbiome's ability to protect against disease

https://phys.org/news/2018-07-fertilizer-microbiome-ability-disease.html

A mother grieves: Orca whale continues to carry her dead calf into a second day

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/a-mother-grieves-orca-whale-continues-to-carry-her-dead-calf-into-
a-second-day/

To Combat Rhino Poaching, Dogs Are Giving South African Park Rangers A Crucial Assist

https://www.npr.org/2018/07/31/633980885/to-combat-rhino-poaching-dogs-are-giving-south-african-park-rangers-a-
crucial-as?
utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20180801

Genetically modifying rice to produce HIV-neutralizing proteins

https://phys.org/news/2018-07-genetically-rice-hiv-neutralizing-proteins.html

CRISPR diversifies: Cut, paste, on, off, and now—evolve

https://phys.org/news/2018-08-crispr-diversifies-nowevolve.html
Other

Kurdish refugee wins 'Nobel of mathematics' Fields medal

https://phys.org/news/2018-08-british-iranian-kurd-fields-math.html

Scientists are pushing the limits of 3D printing with these shape-shifting materials

https://www.nbcnews.com/mach/science/scientists-are-pushing-limits-3d-printing-these-shape-shifting-
materials-ncna895301?cid=sm_npd_nn_fb_ma

Additional Informational

Holocaust Survivor Irene Weiss Delivers Remarks at Event to Advance Religious Freedom

https://www.ushmm.org/confront-genocide/genocide-prevention-blog/holocaust-survivor-irene-weiss-delivers-
remarks-at-event-to-advance-religious-freedom

ESRI, Living in the Age of Humans

http://storymaps.esri.com/stories/2018/anthropocene/index.html?
adumkts=social&utm_source=social&aduc=social&adum=external&aduSF=twitter&aduca=social_branding&
aduco=living_age_of_humans&aduat=storymap&adbsc=social_UC_20182446091&adbid=64224681269313
29024&adbpl=li&adbpr=5311&adbid=1021369442347827201&adbpl=tw&adbpr=16132791

Hope amid Terror: The Significance of the Warsaw Uprising

https://medium.com/@HolocaustMuseum/hope-amid-terror-the-significance-of-the-warsaw-uprising-
c9afa1f5ade5