Barricades that divide areas of Northern Ireland to help keep the peace. Also called Peace Walls as many are really walls.
These could apply to other places where similar barriers exist, but the term originated and is mostly associated with the complex situation in Northern Ireland. From the 99 Percent Invisible podcast episode below.
https://twitter.com/digitalcitizen/status/1164922447608590339
A type of virus that uses RNA as its genetic material. After infecting a cell, a retrovirus uses an enzyme called reverse transcriptase to convert its RNA into DNA. The retrovirus then integrates its viral DNA into the DNA of the host cell, which allows the retrovirus to replicate.
Hear the fascinating story of how retroviruses were found and proven against the vast majority of scientific opinions that deemed the idea to have been nonsense for many years! This is like science-fiction of the nasty kind, found in this Revisionist History podcast episode below!
https://twitter.com/digitalcitizen/status/1164969249410101248
A reverse transcriptase (RT) is an enzyme used to generate complementary DNA (cDNA) from an RNA template, a process termed reverse transcription.
It’s a cool, but slightly complicated concept. As a result, I’ll leave it to you to read more about it in the link above, or the Revisionist History podcast episode below!
https://twitter.com/digitalcitizen/status/1164969249410101248
Talk therapy based on proven methods of therapy.
The definition above talks about Evidence Based Therapy (EBT), in general, rather than the talk version of such proven methods of therapy in the TEDTalks Daily podcast below that talks about lay-counselor grandmothers trained to deliver such talk therapy.
https://twitter.com/digitalcitizen/status/1165424318559506432
The four ways humans have generally come up with for being able to live, or at least exist, forever:
Epically fascinating stuff from the Hidden Brain podcast below that also discussed the Mortality Paradox described in yesterday’s post!
https://twitter.com/digitalcitizen/status/1176618757411823619
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