Weekly Science Report

October 30, 2020

 
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Introduction
 
Steve Detwiler created this publication with the support of Graham Hancock and the late
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
 
How Human Y Chromosomes Replaced Those of Neanderthals in a Quiet Genetic Takeover
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/how-human-y-chromosomes-replaced-those-neanderthals-
quiet-genetic-takeover-180975944/
 
Tools made by some of North America's earliest inhabitants were made only during a 300-year period
https://phys.org/news/2020-10-tools-north-america-earliest-inhabitants.html
 
The New Testament Doesn’t Say What Most People Think It Does About Heaven
https://time.com/5743505/new-testament-heaven/?
utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial&utm_term=ideas_religion&linkId=102
688719
 
How Humans Domesticated Themselves
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/10/31/928764215/how-humans-domesticated-themselves?
sc=18&f=1001
 
UofL researcher leads team that discovered modern humans and Neanderthals possibly lived in the same
area concurrently
https://www.uoflnews.com/section/science-and-tech/uofl-researcher-part-of-team-that-discovered-modern-
humans-and-neanderthals-possibly-lived-in-the-same-area-concurrently/
 
Neanderthal genes are a liability for COVID-19 patients, study says
https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/neanderthal-genes-are-a-liability-for-covid-19-patients-study-says/?
s=09
 
 
 
 

History
 
Gun Lake Tribe awarded $41K National Parks grant to protect cultural heritage
https://www.mlive.com/news/kalamazoo/2020/10/gun-lake-tribe-awarded-41k-national-parks-grant-to-protect-
cultural-heritage.html
 
Germany’s arguments to toss Guelph Treasure case raise concerns from US lawmakers
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/germany-s-arguments-to-toss-guelph-treasure-case-raise-concerns-
from-us-lawmakers
 
White Supremacists Have Weaponized an Imaginary Viking Past. It's Time to Reclaim the Real
History
https://time.com/5569399/viking-history-white-nationalists/?
utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial&utm_term=history_&linkId=10269130
2
 
Mexico Asks Vatican for Temporary Return of Ancient Indigenous Manuscripts
https://hyperallergic.com/598115/mexico-asks-vatican-for-temporary-return-of-ancient-indigenous-
manuscripts/?s=09
 
Blessed Carlo Acutis is set to become the first millennial saint. This isn’t the first time the Catholic Church
has canonized children.
https://www.americamagazine.org/faith/2020/10/28/blessed-carlo-acutis-first-millennial-saint-catholic-church-
children-canonization
 
The Cherokee Nation reservation is now visible on Google Maps
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2020/09/23/us/cherokee-nation-reservation-google-maps-trnd/index.html?
__twitter_impression=true&s=09
 
Iraqi archbishop who saved ancient manuscripts nominated for E.U. prize
https://www.americamagazine.org/politics-society/2020/09/24/iraqi-archbishop-who-saved-ancient-
manuscripts-nominated-eu-prize
 
32 acquitted in razing of India mosque that set off violence
https://www.staradvertiser.com/2020/09/29/breaking-news/32-acquitted-in-razing-of-india-mosque-that-set-
off-violence/?fbclid=IwAR1VR7IWjb7KQjOXGB0Zqsahtc23n1K2ve7Yrw_2MXfI4JHkcSFL3AZWqV4
 
THIS NORWEGIAN ISLAND CLAIMS TO BE THE FABLED LAND OF THULE
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/this-norwegian-island-claims-to-be-fabled-land-thule-180975740/?
utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=socialmedia&fbclid=IwAR1VR7IWjb7KQjOXGB0Zqsahtc23n1K2v
e7Yrw_2MXfI4JHkcSFL3AZWqV4
 
Kevin Young Named Director Of National Museum Of African American History And Culture
https://www.npr.org/2020/09/30/918658839/kevin-young-named-director-of-national-museum-of-african-
american-history-and-cu?
utm_term=nprnews&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=npr&utm_medium=social&fbclid=IwAR0Qi
_xPwnKUXTzyeKWO_lny2pQkVJTmfwVoatXY6Qc6Wo0nfxykXYXTsTM&fbclid=IwAR1xIwZeTfABR14rpRUo
MkJeaFZK3cexPwySIlMscm0aES-ZTlZfqTCS2Ds
 
Mystery company ties accused temple raiders to art world elite
https://www.icij.org/investigations/fincen-files/mystery-company-ties-accused-temple-raiders-to-art-world-
elite/?s=09
 
 
 
‘I literally weep’: anguish as New Zealand’s National Library culls 600,000 books
https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/11/i-literally-weep-anguish-as-new-zealands-national-library-
culls-600000-books?s=09
 
Has guaranteed basic income’s time arrived? Canada may find out.
https://www.csmonitor.com/layout/set/amphtml/World/Americas/2020/0922/Has-guaranteed-basic-income-s-
time-arrived-Canada-may-find-out?__twitter_impression=true&s=09
 
How the Myth of a Liberal North Erases a Long History of White Violence
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/how-myth-liberal-north-erases-long-history-white-
violence-180975661/?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=socialmedia
 
How 19th-Century Anti-Black and Anti-Indigenous Racism Reverberates Today
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/how-19th-century-anti-black-and-anti-indigenous-
racism-reverberates-today-180975692/?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=socialmedia
 

Archaeology
 
Is This The Tomb of The First King of Rome?
https://www.albawaba.com/editors-choice/tomb-first-king-rome-1339881
 
Maryland Archaeologists Unearth Jesuit Plantation’s 18th-Century Slave Quarters
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/jesuit-slave-quarters-unearthed-maryland-180976151/
 
Scientists Discover Unmarked Coffins During Search For 1921 Tulsa Massacre Victims
https://www.npr.org/sections/live-updates-protests-for-racial-justice/2020/10/23/927265545/scientists-
discover-unmarked-coffins-during-search-for-1921-tulsa-massacre-victi?sc=18&f=1001
 
Newly Documented Aboriginal Rock Art Is ‘Unlike Anything Seen Before’
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/ancient-australian-aboriginal-art-unlike-anything-seen-
180975984/?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=socialmedia
 
Shipwrecked Nazi Steamer May Hold Clues to the Amber Room’s Fate
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/shipwrecked-nazi-steamer-found-180976119/
 
Six African heritage sites under threat from climate change
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/world-africa-54158901?__twitter_impression=true
 
Survey cited in push to protect sites sacred to tribes
https://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-cultures-archive-parks-native-americans-
2f84747e2eb46a674196d4e2f8a2d345?s=09
 
Crypt reopens, honors 2 figures key to Notre Dame Cathedral
https://apnews.com/article/paris-emmanuel-macron-fires-victor-hugo-notre-dame-cathedral-
7d23da95c5762fa33394cc4507c470df
 
Archaeologists discover Iron Age massacre, frozen in time
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2020/09/30/europe/iron-age-massacre-town-scn-intl-scli/index.html?
__twitter_impression=true&s=09
 
'The story it must have to wind up in this site:' UNF archaeologists find ancient artifact
https://www.jacksonville.com/story/news/history/2020/10/07/native-american-village-jacksonville-coming-life-
unf-crew/3631043001/?
fbclid=IwAR0eNtd4h0Wpy6lUXYd5pIWgfWEQyWoGxwXcYzFInTWqfyX7r7vmF2W6M58
 
 
 

Egyptology
 
Nothing to report
 
 
 
 

General Science
 
Finally, the first room temperature superconductor
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/14/science/superconductor-room-temperature.html?smtyp=cur&smid=fb-
nytimes&fbclid=IwAR0Px-OEyoHOeZ08t10Hl8yk5BJdM2i0RLKpNALX2Rr0K3zE3DVvbpyfm5c
 

Physics, Earth and Space Sciences

 
Massive coral reef taller than the Empire State Building found off Australian coast
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/coral-reef-discovery-taller-than-empire-state-building-australia-great-barrier-
reef/?ftag=CNM-00-10aab6j&linkId=103018850
 
NASA, European Space Agency to collaborate on Artemis Gateway lunar outpost
https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/27/world/nasa-esa-gateway-partnership-artemis-scn-trnd/index.html
 
Asteroid samples successfully sealed in capsule to return to Earth, NASA says
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/asteroid-bennu-samples-successful-nasa-osiris-rex/
 
Quantum entanglement realized between distant large objects
https://phys.org/news/2020-09-quantum-entanglement-distant-large.html
 
Paradox-Free Time Travel Is Theoretically Possible, Researchers Say
https://www.npr.org/2020/09/27/917556254/paradox-free-time-travel-is-theoretically-possible-researchers-
say?sc=18&f=1001
 
Water on Mars: discovery of three buried lakes intrigues scientists
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02751-1
 
NASA Dropped New Images of Our Universe That Straight-Up Look Fake
https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/deep-space/g34118164/nasa-releases-chandra-x-ray-
observatory-images/?utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=socialflowFBPOP&utm_medium=social-
media&fbclid=IwAR3xx55Gne3PNwee73aWUuyDc3zZZJ8ekYfmVbiKsFJ0P4YKdDR4Zlcdoz0
 
An earlier universe existed before the Big Bang, and can still be observed today, says Nobel winner
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/10/06/earlier-universe-existed-big-bang-can-observed-today/
#:~:text=An%20earlier%20universe%20existed%20before%20the%20Big%20Bang%20and%20can,the
%20Nobel%20Prize%20for%20Physics.

Environment, Climate Change and Alternative Energy Sources

 
Why this Brooklyn library is betting on a future that’s bigger than books
https://www.fastcompany.com/90567017/why-this-brooklyn-library-is-betting-on-a-future-thats-bigger-than-
books?partner=rss&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=rss
%20fastcompany&utm_content=rss&s=09
 
Waves are generating power
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2020/04/waves-are-generating-power-just-one-of-many-
signs-of-hope-for-our-planet/?
cmpid=org=ngp::mc=social::src=facebook::cmp=editorial::add=fb20201026ngm-
resurfwavespowerhope::rid=&sf239181987=1
 
In Landmark Approval, BIA Grants Coquille Tribe Autonomy Over Its Forest Lands
https://www.klcc.org/post/landmark-approval-bia-grants-coquille-tribe-autonomy-over-its-forest-lands
 
How Indigenous Peoples Adapted to the Arctic’s Harsh Climate
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/british-museum-hosts-exhibition-indigenous-arctic-artifacts-
180976125/
 
Executives caught bragging of cozy government relationships as they sought approvals for controversial
Alaskan gold mine
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/09/25/politics/alaska-pebble-mine-executives-legislators/index.html?
utm_content=2020-09-26T01%3A28%3A05&utm_term=link&utm_medium=social&utm_source=fbCNN
 
Satellite achieves sharp-eyed view of methane
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-54210367
 
New Climate Maps Show a Transformed United States
https://projects.propublica.org/climate-migration/
 
With foreign tourists gone, Balinese rediscover seaweed farming
https://mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKBN26M42Z?__twitter_impression=true&s=09
 
Healthy corals in Biscayne Bay surprised scientists. They may help reefs survive
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/healthy-corals-in-biscayne-bay-surprised-scientists-they-may-help-
reefs-survive/ar-BB19BoGI
 
Power pivot: What happens in states where wind dethrones King Coal?
https://www.csmonitor.com/Environment/2020/0821/Power-pivot-What-happens-in-states-where-wind-
dethrones-King-Coal?
cmpid=kwpsub&kwp_0=1734218&kwp_4=5109002&kwp_1=2171436&fbclid=IwAR2Z5LqskDLvgae-I-
GuQ4QC0ge1icUo6k0dn28CoXyz3-5bjEFS2EyB1rE
 
How Europe is turning to tech to help clean up the shipping industry
https://www.euronews.com/2020/09/29/how-europe-is-turning-to-tech-to-help-clean-up-the-shipping-
industry?s=09
 
 
 

Biological, Genetics and Medical Sciences

 
Neuroscience Has A Whiteness Problem. This Research Project Aims To Fix It
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/09/24/915783973/a-neuroscience-project-pushes-to-include-
more-african-americans-in-brain-researc?sc=18&f=1001
 
Tasmanian devils return to mainland Australia for first time in 3,000 years
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2020/10/tasmanian-devils-return-to-mainland-australia/?
cmpid=org=ngp::mc=social::src=twitter::cmp=editorial::add=tw20201005animals-
tasmaniandevils::rid=&sf238500567=1
 
Nobel Prize in chemistry awarded to two women who developed CRISPR, a revolutionary gene-editing tool
https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2020/10/07/nobel-prize-chemistry/?
utm_campaign=wp_main&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwAR37KUyJEWxL41_rVUJV
Hrsz7uEeJcJWtu_lgWHsidVOp_PPUIE1FjIj9dE
 

Other
 
Coal magnate Robert Murray, who fought mine safety regulations for years, dies at 80
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/robert-murray-coal-magnate-dies-age-80/?ftag=CNM-00-
10aab6a&linkId=102901207
 
More mysterious lights appear over Hawaii (and they’re likely not Starlink satellites)
https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2020/10/25/more-mysterious-lights-appear-night-sky-over-hawaii/
 
HowTrump damaged science — and why it could take decades to recover
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02800-9?
utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_content=organic&utm_campaign=NGMT_USG_JC01_GL_Na
ture&fbclid=IwAR02YeuFN6SIYWc6xRrSNnf74UIUsgC-AceRyIPPFRGLcbuFOv0eYOwPNEc
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Additional Informational
 
NASA Publishes Artemis Plan to Land First Woman, Next Man on Moon in 2024
https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-publishes-artemis-plan-to-land-first-woman-next-man-on-moon-in-
2024/?fbclid=IwAR3T5tr7T2UZif9ibnlZObdVnEg1DYpOF_AePlb5N-5iXF5Jx9JuuNCU6mg
 
Burma’s Path to Genocide Safeguarding Life
https://exhibitions.ushmm.org/burmas-path-to-genocide/safeguarding-life?
utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=rohingya&utm_content=safeguarding&fbclid=IwA
R2S5j033KnfH8qFOjSBSLQ-2DVJyj3ZOexwbaEsEUQg8B6CGv6lKbEGzos
 
20 inspiring and empowering quotes from the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg
https://www.today.com/news/ruth-bader-ginsburg-quotes-20-inspiring-ideas-rbg-t192057?
cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma
 
Syllabus: 21-Day Racial Equity Habit-Building Challenge
https://www.americanbar.org/groups/labor_law/membership/equal_opportunity/
 
The Museum of Our Discoveries: Empowering Young Refugees in an Urban Context
https://icom.museum/en/news/the-museum-of-our-discoveries-empowering-young-refugees-in-an-urban-
context/
 
Stuart Smith, 'Black Pharaohs? Egyptological bias, racism, & Egypt & Nubia as African Civilizations'- Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=4QK7P0Bdpj0&app=desktop
 
Reimagining Dinosaurs
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2020/10/reimagining-dinosaurs-prehistoric-icons-get-a-
modern-reboot-interactive-feature/?
cmpid=org=ngp::mc=social::src=twitter::cmp=editorial::add=tw20201006ngm-
DinoFact2spino::rid=&sf238545927=1