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#plaques — Public Fediverse posts

Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #plaques, aggregated by home.social.

  1. Halabat al Tawba in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

    Outside a historic fort stands a replica of the “tree of repentance” where criminals were publicly punished.#replicas #plaques #section-Atlas
    Halabat al Tawba

  2. The inspirational #plaques are hard to make heads or tails of, but that's the point. You get one & muse on it. "Sunshine is the axle of love." "Thank the pine needles for their footsteps." Things like that.

    For a price, you can make your own. You're blindfolded & taken into a room filled with #piles of brass slips with nouns & verbs stamped on them. You pick out four & they'll be put on a piece of polished maplewood, with conjunctions & prepositions interspersed. Voila!

    #wss366 #microfiction

  3. Morse Seaside Laboratory Site in Fujisawa, Japan

    The oft-overlooked site of one of the first marine biological research facilities in the world.#archaeology #plaques #islands #biology #marine #laboratories #section-Atlas
    Morse Seaside Laboratory Site

  4. What is known as the #prodromal phase, the years when #Alzheimer's is attacking the brain but the clinical presentations may not yet be apparent. "One early hallmark is that sticky protein called beta-amyloid, which over time builds up into brain-clogging #plaques. #Amyloid alone isn’t enough to damage memory — plenty of healthy people’s brains harbor a lot of plaque. An abnormal #tau protein that forms neuron-killing tangles is one of several co-conspirators."

    yahoo.com/news/silent-brain-ch

    #EndAlz