Retro Virus

We Have Concerns

Anthony Carboni/Jeff Cannata

Pop, Society & Culture, Culture, Games, Gadgets, News, Internet, Comedy, Science

4.9 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2018

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Inside the brain, proteins don’t stick around longer than a few minutes. And yet, our memories can hang on for our entire lifetime. Recently, an international collaboration of researchers discovered something strange about a protein called Arc. This is essential to long-term memory formation. What they found was that it has very similar properties to how a virus infects its host. Jeff and Anthony consider what life could have been like without the ability to remember.

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0:00.0	You ever see that movie, Dr. Strange?
0:02.0	That's very good.
0:03.0	You know, he has that cape that helps him out.
0:05.0	Yeah, the magical cape that has sentience.
0:07.0	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
0:08.0	It's this magical cape and every time he's in trouble,
0:10.0	this magical cape comes and helps him out.
0:12.0	Because he's a good dude and the cape likes what he's doing.
0:14.0	That's awesome.
0:15.0	Yeah, you can kind of do that for this show.
0:16.0	What? You could be our magical cape?
0:18.0	You could be our magical cape and help us keep the show going
0:20.0	and help us grow the show.
0:22.0	To find out how, go to patreon.com slash we have concerns.
0:25.0	Be our magical cape.
0:26.0	So I'm very excited.
0:33.0	You're like a Jeff Keely over here.
0:34.0	I'm like, uh, I'm like the Jeff Keely of anime.
0:44.0	This is we have concerns.
0:48.0	I'm Jeff Ganada.
0:49.0	Hi, I'm the Descartes Boney.
0:50.0	Hello, concerned citizens.
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