interesting lecture explaining that the rise of the religious right (through goldwater and eventually reagan) is really just a front for white supremacism in reaction to the civil rights movement.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=_Gf4jN1xoSo

http://www.astrobio.net/pressrelease/5545/in-subglacial-lake-surprising-life-goes-on
http://phys.org/news/2013-07-d-liquid-metal.html
http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/2013/jul/17/5d-superman-memory-crystal-heralds-unlimited-lifetime-data-storage

http://www.nature.com/news/claims-of-lake-vostok-fish-get-frosty-response-1.13364
http://popular-archaeology.com/issue/june-2013/article/scholars-assemble-to-discuss-archaeology-of-sound
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00334/full

i think trying to build a trail based on the presence of tools is a flawed method. i see no reason to think that neanderthals couldn't have spread the same tool technology after early contact, or that it couldn't have been spread further by erectus or other subspecies.
http://popular-archaeology.com/issue/june-2013/article/excavations-uncover-earliest-middle-paleolithic-stone-tools-in-india
(yes, i just said neanderthals, sapiens and erectus are subspecies.)

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=acoustic-result-could-change-temperature-definition&WT.mc_id=SA_Facebook

http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/july-2013/t2k-experiment-catches-neutrinos-in-the-act

oh, ffs. king david is a fictional character in an absurd mythology. there is absolutely zero evidence supporting his existence. the script is canaanite because they're the people that actually lived there at the time.
http://popular-archaeology.com/issue/june-2013/article/earliest-alphabetical-script-found-in-jerusalem

http://phys.org/news/2013-07-dna-cells.html
http://phys.org/news/2013-07-drone-carrier-deck-historic-flight.html
http://phys.org/news/2013-07-neanderthals-speech-language-modern-humans.html