Weekly Science Report

November 10, 2017

In the history of the world there have been thousands of kings and
emperors who called themselves 'their highnesses,' 'their majesties,' and
'their exalted majesties' and so on. They shone for a brief moment, and as
quickly disappeared. But Ashoka shines and shines brightly like a bright
star, even unto this day.
H.G. Wells on Ashoka the Great

Table of Contents
Introduction ....................................................................................................................... 2
News Articles .................................................................................................................... 3
Paleontology, Evolution and Prehistoric Studies ............................................................ 3
History ............................................................................................................................. 4
Archaeology .................................................................................................................... 5
Egyptology ....................................................................................................................... 6
General Science .............................................................................................................. 7
Physics, Earth and Space Sciences ............................................................................... 8
Environment, Climate Change and Alternative Energy Sources ................................... 9
Biological, Genetics and Medical Sciences .................................................................. 10
Other .............................................................................................................................. 11
Additional Informational ................................................................................................ 12
 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. Detwilers 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

Crops evolved 10 millennia earlier than thought

https://m.phys.org/news/2017-10-crops-evolved-millennia-earlier-thought.html

How Neanderthals influenced human genetics at the crossroads of Asia and Europe
https://m.phys.org/news/2017-10-neanderthals-human-genetics-crossroads-asia.html

Scientists Are Rewriting the History of Photosynthesis

https://www.wired.com/story/scientists-are-rewriting-the-history-of-
photosynthesis/?mbid=nl_102217_daily_list3_p5

Gbekli Tepe: Discovering the Worlds Oldest Religious Site

http://popular-archaeology.com/issue/fall-2017/article/gobekli-tepe-discovering-the-worlds-oldest-
religious-site

Height and weight evolved at different speeds in the bodies of our ancestors
https://eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-11/uoc-haw102617.php

Stars that vary in brightness shine in the oral traditions of Aboriginal Australians
https://phys.org/news/2017-11-stars-vary-brightness-oral-traditions.html

Scientists find potential 'missing link' in chemistry that led to life on Earth
https://phys.org/news/2017-11-scientists-potential-link-chemistry-life.html

It's time to rethink how you read the story of Adam and Eve
https://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/news/posteverything/wp/2017/11/06/its-time-to-
rethink-how-you-read-the-story-of-adam-and-eve/

Fossil of 'our earliest ancestors' found in Dorset

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-
41889633?ocid=socialflow_facebook&ns_mchannel=social&ns_campaign=bbcnews&ns_source=
facebook
History

Russia struggles with legacy of 1917 Bolshevik Revolution

https://www.apnews.com/2c59c9c6898c41eebe3e5a3e56e7c461

The Newseum Is Increasingly Relevant, but Can It Survive?

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/22/arts/design/the-newseum-is-increasingly-relevant-but-can-it-
survive.html

Prehistoric Statues Reunited at McClung Museum

http://wuot.org/post/prehistoric-statues-reunited-mcclung-museum

Signpost From Standing Rock, Now in the Smithsonian Collections, Shows the Power of
Solidarity
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/signpost-from-standing-rock-now-
smithsonian-collections-shows-power-solidarity-
180966928/?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=socialmedia

Forest Hills investigates student 'mockery' of Holocaust museum exhibits

http://wjactv.com/news/local/forest-hills-investigates-student-mockery-of-holocaust-museum-
exhibits

How Artificial Intelligence Could Revolutionize Archival Museum Research

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/how-artificial-intelligence-could-
revolutionize-museum-research-180967065/?no-cache

The people saving lost words

http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20171013-the-people-saving-lost-words

Pop-Up VR Museum to Bring Dutch and Flemish Masterpieces to the Masses

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/inside-pop-vr-museum-bringing-rembrandt-dutch-
and-flemish-masterpieces-art-lovers-180967106/#0eU6osP91SybS3mb.01

Unesco: the view from Israelis and Palestinians

http://theartnewspaper.com/news/unesco-the-view-from-israelis-and-palestinians

Russia and Israel sign historic deal to share digitised Gunzburg Collection
http://theartnewspaper.com/news/russia-and-israel-sign-historic-deal-to-share-digitised-gunzburg-
collection-of-hebrew-manuscripts-and-books

After nearly 75 years, son seeks crash site of WWII hero

https://apnews.com/659ee68e88cb4910bfa235c8575c8614/After-nearly-75-years,-son-seeks-
crash-site-of-WWII-
hero?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=APEastRegion
Archaeology

Civil War artifact thieves sentenced to 30 months in federal prison

http://www.timesnews.net/News/2015/08/06/Civil-War-artifact-thieves-sentenced-to-30-months-in-
federal-prison

Experts have uncovered remains at the first permanent English colony. But whose bones are
they?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/experts-have-uncovered-remains-at-americas-first-
permanent-colony-but-whose-bones-are-they/2017/10/26/6ceaa0c4-b446-11e7-be94-
fabb0f1e9ffb_story.html?tid=pm_local_pop&utm_term=.e5e8bf846b6a

Bloomberg reveals the Roman temple in its foundations

http://theartnewspaper.com/blog/bloomberg-reveals-the-roman-temple-in-its-foundations

A girls pendant found at Sobibor reunites a Jewish family spread across the globe
https://www.jta.org/2017/11/07/news-opinion/world/a-girls-pendant-found-at-sobibor-reunites-a-
jewish-family-spread-across-the-globe?sf154652514=1

Reconstructed Roman Temple of Mithras opens to public in London

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/nov/08/reconstructed-roman-temple-mithras-opens-
public-bloomberg-hq?CMP=share_btn_fb

Team discovers a rare Minoan sealstone in the treasure-laden tomb of a Bronze Age Greek
warrior
https://phys.org/news/2017-11-team-rare-minoan-sealstone-treasure-laden.html
Egyptology

Great Pyramid's previously hidden 'void' hailed by some scientists, dismissed by Egyptian experts
http://abcnews.go.com/International/great-pyramids-previously-hidden-void-hailed-scientists-
dismissed/story?id=50907655&cid=social_fb_gma

Sir John Soane's museum recreates architect's vision of pharaoh's tomb

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2017/nov/05/sir-john-soane-museum-recreates-
sepulchral-chamber-of-pharaoh-seti-i
General Science

This AR Headset Won't Replace My Monitor, But It's a Promising Start

https://www.wired.com/story/meta-2-ar-headset-hands-on/?mbid=nl_110117_daily_list1_p1

Googles AI Wizard Unveils a New Twist on Neural Networks

https://www.wired.com/story/googles-ai-wizard-unveils-a-new-twist-on-neural-
networks/?mbid=nl_110117_daily_list3_p2

Prepping Self-Driving Cars for the World's Most Chaotic Cities

https://www.wired.com/story/self-driving-cars-chaotic-cities-
traffic/?mbid=nl_103017_daily_list3_p1

Uber's Plan to Launch Flying Cars in LA by 2020 Really Could Take Off
https://www.wired.com/story/uber-flying-cars-los-angeles/?mbid=nl_110917_daily_list3_p2

How to Build a Robot That Won't Take Over the World

https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-build-a-robot-that-wont-take-over-the-
world/?mbid=nl_110617_daily_list3_p4

A new kind of quantum computer

https://phys.org/news/2017-11-kind-quantum.html

'Smart' paper can conduct electricity, detect water

https://phys.org/news/2017-11-smart-paper-electricity.html
Physics, Earth and Space Sciences

Astronomers complete first international asteroid tracking exercise

https://phys.org/news/2017-11-astronomers-international-asteroid-tracking.html

The Astounding Engineering Behind the World's Largest Optical Telescope

https://www.wired.com/story/the-astounding-engineering-behind-the-giant-magellan-
telescope/?mbid=nl_110317_daily_list1_p4

SpaceX Keeps Lining Up Covert Military Launches

https://www.wired.com/story/spacex-keeps-lining-up-covert-military-
launches/?mbid=nl_102417_daily_list1_p4

ALMA's image of red giant star gives a surprising glimpse of the sun's future
https://eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-11/cuot-aio110617.php

'Monster' planet discovery challenges formation theory

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-10/ras-pd103117.php

Stephen Hawking Says Humans Must Leave Earth Within 600 Years
https://www.nbcmiami.com/news/national-international/Hawking-Says-Humans-Must-Leave-
Earth-Within-600-Years--456122083.html?_osource=SocialFlowFB_MIBrand

Something scorching hot is melting Antarctica from below, and NASA thinks they know what it is
https://www.yahoo.com/news/something-scorching-hot-melting-antarctica-below-nasa-thinks-
180655776.html?utm_content=buffer988e6&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&ut
m_campaign=buffer

Take in the Surreal Beauty of Jupiter in These Incredible New Images

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/juno-probe-takes-incredible-jupiter-images-during-
latest-fly--180967167/#7p753QOTyV3rs1Dr.01

Space Nursing: Boldly Going Where No Nurse Has Gone Before

https://nurse.org/articles/nasa-space-nursing/

Green Bank Observatory Embraces Its Alien-Hunting Future

https://www.wired.com/story/green-bank-observatory-reluctantly-embraces-its-alien-hunting-
future/?mbid=nl_110617_daily_list3_p2

Twenty Years after His Death, Carl Sagan Is Still Right

https://www.wired.com/story/sagan-old-interview/?mbid=nl_111017_daily_list1_p1
Environment, Climate Change and Alternative Energy Sources

Chasing the Illegal Loggers Looting the Amazon Forest

https://www.wired.com/story/on-the-trail-of-the-amazonian-lumber-
thieves/?mbid=nl_102417_daily_list1_p2

Transparent solar technology represents 'wave of the future'

https://m.phys.org/news/2017-10-transparent-solar-technology-future.html#

This Battery Has Lasted 175 Years and No One Knows How
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/9akg9d/this-battery-has-lasted-175-years-and-no-one-
knows-how?utm_campaign=global&utm_source=vicefbanz

The Ozone Hole Is the Smallest Its Been in 30 YearsBut We Cant Take Credit
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/ozone-hole-smallest-30-years-though-humanity-
cant-take-credit-180967082/#thCBowlrUhItSDPU.01

Container Ships Use Super-Dirty Fuel. That Needs to Change

https://www.wired.com/story/container-ships-use-super-dirty-fuel-that-needs-to-
change/?mbid=nl_110917_daily_list3_p3

Brazil Begins Effort to Plant 73 Million Trees in the Amazon

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/brazil-begins-effort-plant-73-million-trees-amazon-
180967086/?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=socialmedia
Biological, Genetics and Medical Sciences

Workers Displaced by Automation Should Try a New Job: Caregiver

https://www.wired.com/story/workers-displaced-by-automation-should-try-a-new-job-
caregiver/?mbid=nl_110317_daily_list3_p5

Opioids Haven't Solved Chronic Pain. Maybe Virtual Reality Can

https://www.wired.com/story/opioids-havent-solved-chronic-pain-maybe-virtual-reality-
can/?mbid=nl_110217_gadgetlab_list3_p3

These Neurons are Alive and Firing. And You Can Watch Them In 3-D
https://www.wired.com/story/live-neurons-help-scientists-build-better-maps-of-the-
brain/?mbid=nl_102517_daily_list3_p1

A giant insect ecosystem is collapsing due to humans. It's a catastrophe

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/oct/21/insects-giant-ecosystem-collapsing-
human-activity-catastrophe?CMP=share_btn_link

Washington, D.C., Is Home to America's Largest Collection of Parasites

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/11/washington-dc-is-home-to-americas-largest-
collection-of-parasites/545234/

Drug Hunters: Meet the scientists building a library of designer drugs

https://www.theverge.com/2017/11/8/16619142/designer-drugs-k2-spice-synthetic-weed-ucsf-lab-
dea
Other

Here's How NASA Thinks Society Will Collapse

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/03/heres-how-nasa-thinks-society-will-
collapse/441375/

Tesla's Secret Second Floor

https://www.wired.com/story/teslas-secret-second-floor/?mbid=nl_102317_daily_list1_p3

The Challenge of Teaching War to Today's Students

https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2017/11/teaching-students-about-
war/545351/?google_editors_picks=true&utm_source=fbb

Us vs them: the sinister techniques of Othering and how to avoid them

https://www.theguardian.com/inequality/2017/nov/08/us-vs-them-the-sinister-techniques-of-
othering-and-how-to-avoid-them

Is The Universe Conscious?

http://www.npr.org/sections/13.7/2017/07/12/536752502/is-the-universe-conscious
 Additional Informational
Beneath the Sands of Egypt: Adventures of an Unconventional Archaeologist
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003P2WEUY/ref=pe_2240030_258567250_em_1p_0_ti

Climate Science Special Report

https://science2017.globalchange.gov/downloads/CSSR2017_FullReport.pdf

NATO Legal Gazette: Cultural Property Protection

http://www.act.nato.int/images/stories/media/doclibrary/legal_gazette_38.pdf

ASOR Cultural Heritage Initiatives (CHI): Safeguarding the Heritage of the Near East Initiative
http://www.asor-syrianheritage.org/asor-chi-mr-august-2017/

THE GHENT ALTARPIECE IN 100 BILLION PIXELS

http://blogs.getty.edu/iris/the-ghent-altarpiece-in-100-billion-pixels/

Surveying the Black Desert: Investigating Prehistoric Human Occupation in North-Eastern Jordan
http://archeorient.hypotheses.org/7882?utm_content=buffer3fb6a&utm_medium=social&utm_sou
rce=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

UNESCO Courier, Oct-Dec 2017 Edition

https://en.unesco.org/courier/2017-october-december