Weekly Science Report

April 13, 2018

“Is there a God? I don’t know. Just tell me! I would if I could but I don’t know and
neither does anybody else. Roberta knows. No Roberta has faith and that’s a great
thing to have. Faith is about what you think and feel. What about Jesus? Love that
guy, do what he says. But is he God? I don’t know. I have an opinion but that’s my
opinion, I could be wrong. So why would I screw up yours? Use your head but
don’t be afraid to believe in things either. There was a guy on TV that said there was
no God. The only difference between the atheists on TV and Roberta is that Roberta
loves you. She is just trying to help. Tell you what though, one way or another we
all end up back together in the end. That’s what you are asking right? Yep! Do me
a favor find something else to worry about.”
Gifted the Movie

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
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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

Rice growing spread north in Neolithic age: researchers

http://www.china.org.cn/arts/2018-04/13/content_50872888.htm

A Fossilized Finger Bone May Be From the Earliest Humans on the Arabian Peninsula

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/09/science/a-fossilized-finger-bone-may-be-from-the-earliest-humans-on-
the-arabian-peninsula.html

Was There a Civilization On Earth Before Humans?

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/04/are-we-earths-only-civilization/557180/

Secrets of the sea bed: Hunt for Stone Age site in North Sea

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-43711762

200-million-year-old insect color revealed by fossil scales

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-04/caos-2ic040418.php

Why expressive brows might have mattered in human evolution

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-04/uoy-web040618.php

First human migration out of Africa more geographically widespread than previously thought

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-04/mpif-fhm040418.php

New method predicts evolution

https://phys.org/news/2018-04-method-evolution.html

Archaeologists reveal "ice age" hunter-gatherers in Indonesia arrive 50,000 years ago

http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-04/12/c_137106145.htm
History

Louvre’s director: we are active in 75 countries

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/interview/louvre-s-director-we-are-active-in-75-countries

Assassination in Brazil unmasks the deadly racism of a country that would rather ignore it

https://theconversation.com/assassination-in-brazil-unmasks-the-deadly-racism-of-a-country-that-would-
rather-ignore-it-94389

This 20-year-old wants to interview every WWII combat veteran he can before it's too late

https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/09/us/rishi-sharma-wwii-veterans-interviews-trnd/index.html?
sr=fbCNN041018rishi-sharma-wwii-veterans-interviews-trnd0625AMStory

Inside the Memorial to Victims of Lynching

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/inside-the-memorial-to-victims-of-lynching-60-minutes-oprah-winfrey/

After MLK's Death, Coretta Scott King Went To Memphis To Finish His Work

https://www.npr.org/2018/04/08/597703360/after-mlks-death-coretta-scott-king-went-to-memphis-to-finish-
his-work?sc=tw

Viking skeleton’s DNA test proves historians wrong

https://nypost.com/2017/09/08/viking-skeletons-dna-test-proves-historians-wrong/?
utm_content=inf_10_2731_2&utm_source=tsefacebook&utm_medium=tsefb&utm_campaign=tse&tse_id=IN
F_fa2383603ffc11e8b29b6b4043a47a2a

Commerce vs. Curation: Lessons From Today’s Museum World

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/06/arts/design/museums-commercial-challenges.html?smid=fb-share

How the Death of 6,000 Sheep Spurred the American Debate on Chemical Weapons
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-death-6000-sheep-spurred-american-debate-chemical-
weapons-cold-war-180968717/

Migration Photo Exhibit Showcases Similarity Over Strangeness

http://wesa.fm/post/migration-photo-exhibit-showcases-similarity-over-strangeness#stream/0
Survey Reveals Gaps in Knowledge of Holocaust History—And That Most Americans Believe It Could
Happen Again

http://time.com/5235725/holocaust-history-survey/

How Muslims, Often Misunderstood, Are Thriving in America

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2018/05/Being-Muslim-In-America/

Trump judicial nominee refuses to say if landmark civil rights opinion was correctly decided

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/trump-judicial-nominee-refuses-to-say-if-landmark-civil-rights-opinion-
was-correctly-decided/ar-AAvNWNL?ocid=ob-fb-enus-580

The Secret Student Group That Stood Up to the Nazis

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/the-secret-student-group-stood-up-nazis-180962250/?
utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=socialmedia

Why Thomas Jefferson Owned a Qur’an

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/why-thomas-jefferson-owned-qur-1-180967997/?
utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=socialmedia

Unusual climate during Roman times plunged Eurasia into hunger and disease

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-04/uoh-ucd041118.php

200-million-year-old insect color revealed by fossil scales

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-04/caos-2ic040418.php

Asian Ancestors Detected in DNA Study in Mexico

https://www.archaeology.org/news/6546-180413-mexico-asia-dna

New study finds: Ancient Mycenaean civilization might have collapsed due to uprising or invasion

http://www.tornosnews.gr/en/greek-news/culture/30911-new-study-mycenaean-civilization-might-have-
collapsed-due-to-uprising-or-invasion.html
Archaeology

Chinese protests fail to stop 'illegal' water vessel sale

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/uk-england-kent-43726526?__twitter_impression=true

UK archaeologists help Iraqis restore their Isis-ravaged heritage

https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2018/apr/01/uk-archaeologists-help-iraqis-restore-their-isis-ravaged-heritage?
CMP=share_btn_tw&__twitter_impression=true

Along with Iraqi culture, we have lost priceless art

http://www.indiannewslink.co.nz/along-with-iraqi-culture-we-have-lost-priceless-art/?platform=hootsuite

Possible Indian burial grounds could delay million-dollar homes

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/classified/realestate/os-indian-burial-grounds-chuck-whittall-20180409-
story.html

As Mongolia Melts, Looters Close In On Priceless Artifacts

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/mongolia-melts-climate-change-looters-close-in-180968764/

War savages ancient sites in Yemen and Iraq, destroying archaeological record

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/04/war-savages-ancient-sites-yemen-and-iraq-destroying-archaeological-record

Nubian Stone Tablets Unearthed in African 'City of the Dead'

https://www.livescience.com/62272-oldest-meroe-inscriptions-sudan-africa.html

Origin of Mysterious 2,700-Year-Old Gold Treasure Revealed

https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2018/04/carambolo-treasure-tartessos-gold-atlantis-spain-archaeology/
Egyptology

Losing Heritage, losing identity

http://rawi-magazine.com/articles/losingheritage/

Have Archaeologists Discovered the Tomb of King Tut's Wife? Maybe

https://www.livescience.com/62264-search-king-tut-wife-tomb.html#undefined.uxfs

This ancient Egyptian papyrus could be the first record of a man getting fired for sexual assault

https://qz.com/1249141/metoo-sexual-assault-possibly-led-to-the-firing-of-a-powerful-man-in-ancient-egypt/?
utm_source=qzfb

Emblems for the Afterlife

https://www.archaeology.org/issues/296-1805/features/6508-egypt-middle-kingdom-tomb-paintings

General Science

Tesla's Wild Fight With the Feds Investigating Its Autopilot Death

https://www.wired.com/story/tesla-autopilot-investigation-ntsb-crash/?
CNDID=41291302&mbid=nl_041318_daily_list1_p4

Cloudflare's Plan to Protect the Whole Internet Comes Into Focus

https://www.wired.com/story/cloudflare-spectrum-iot-protection/?
CNDID=41291302&mbid=nl_041318_daily_list3_p2

The World’s Fastest Drones Want to Save Lives in America, Too

https://www.wired.com/story/zipline-drone-delivery-reno-faa/?
CNDID=41291302&mbid=nl_040818_daily_list1_p1
When Robots Milk Cows, Farm Families Taste Freedom

https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2018/04/07/599259931/when-robots-milk-cows-farm-families-taste-
freedom?
utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20
180407

Mark Zuckerberg Answers to Congress for Facebook's Troubles

https://www.wired.com/story/mark-zuckerberg-congress-facebook-troubles?
mbid=nl_041018_daily_list1_p1&CNDID=41291302

Physics, Earth and Space Sciences

SpaceX’s President Is Thinking Even Bigger Than Elon Musk

https://www.wired.com/story/spacexs-president-is-thinking-even-bigger-than-elon-musk/?
CNDID=41291302&mbid=nl_041218_daily_list1_p4

Inside the Cleanroom Where NASA’s New Mars Lander Waits to Launch

https://www.wired.com/story/inside-the-cleanroom-where-nasas-new-mars-lander-waits-to-launch/?
CNDID=41291302&mbid=nl_041118_daily_list3_p3

Are the aliens long gone?

https://www.nbcnews.com/mach/science/are-aliens-long-gone-ncna864411?cid=sm_npd_nn_fb_ma

NASA's Juno Mission Provides Infrared Tour of Jupiter's North Pole

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2018-071

Powerful Atlas 5 rocket launches multi-satellite military payload

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/united-launch-alliance-atlas-5-rocket-launches-multi-satellite-pentagon-
payload/

Rolls-Royce and Boeing invest in UK space engine

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-43732035
Looking for Planet Nine, Astronomers Gaze into the Abyss

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/looking-for-planet-nine-astronomers-gaze-into-the-abyss/

Environment, Climate Change and Alternative Energy Sources

Israel will boost desalination to fight a five-year drought

http://news.trust.org/item/20180409114815-km4iu/

A major climate boundary in the central U.S. has shifted 140 miles due to global warming

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2018/04/13/climate-boundary-shifts-140-miles-global-warming/
514911002/

Want to save the world from hunger? Start by not wasting food, shoppers told

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2018/apr/12/food-waste-recipe-for-disaster-global-hunger-fight-
shoppers-warned-world-food-programme

He Spent 40 Years Alone in the Woods, and Now Scientists Love Him

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/video/shorts/he-spent-40-years-alone-in-the-woods-and-now-scientists-love-him/?
utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=Social&utm_content=link_fb20180407video-
maninwoodssfs&utm_campaign=Content&sf186442370=1

Ocean Current That Keeps Europe Warm Is Weakening

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/ocean-current-keeps-europe-warm-weakening-180968784/?
utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=socialmedia

Tungsten 'too brittle' for nuclear fusion reactors

https://phys.org/news/2018-04-tungsten-brittle-nuclear-fusion-reactors.html

Biologically inspired membrane purges coal-fired smoke of greenhouse gases

https://phys.org/news/2018-04-biologically-membrane-purges-coal-fired-greenhouse.html

Global shipping in 'historic' climate deal

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-43759923

Sweden installs section of electrified road

https://techxplore.com/news/2018-04-sweden-section-electrified-road.html

Biological, Genetics and Medical Sciences

Researchers develop transparent patch to detect dangerous food threats

https://phys.org/news/2018-04-transparent-patch-dangerous-food-threats.html

The memory part of the brain may also hold clues for anxiety and depression

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2018-04-memory-brain-clues-anxiety-depression.html

Using caffeine as a catalyst, researchers create new gels for drug delivery

https://phys.org/news/2018-04-caffeine-catalyst-gels-drug-delivery.html

Other

There’s No Scientific Basis for Race—It's a Made-Up Label

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2018/04/race-genetics-science-africa/
Watch: The First Trailer for ‘Mary Shelley’ Explores the Many Inspirations for ‘Frankenstein’
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/watch-first-trailer-mary-shelley-180968791/?no-cache/?
utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=socialmedia

He got fed up with Miami traffic, so now he commutes with dolphins and pelicans

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/article208126004.html

Helping Native Americans help themselves

https://www.usetinc.org/news/helping-native-americans-help-themselves-harvard-program-students-grapple-
with-problems-facing-tribal-communities-442018/

Cambridge Analytica Could Have Also Accessed Private Facebook Messages

https://www.wired.com/story/cambridge-analytica-private-facebook-messages?
mbid=nl_041018_daily_list1_p2&CNDID=41291302

‘The Boy Who Came Back From Heaven’ now wants his day in court
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/the-boy-who-came-back-from-heaven-now-wants-his-day-in-court/ar-
AAvKxwr?ocid=ob-fb-enus-580

Additional Informational

Frontline, the Last Generation

http://apps.frontline.org/the-last-generation/?linkId=50152782
United Nations, Let’s Face Racism

http://www.un.org/en/letsfightracism/

NOVA, Climate Change's Best Hope

http://www.pbs.org/video/climate-changes-best-hope-wfgae1/

New Graham Hancock the Evidence Mainstream Archaeology Does Not Want You to See- Video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZhSun9_SYs