Game of Thrones - Sources The Wall ● Human-made ice walls to keep in Fukushima leak. https://www.cnet.com/news/fukushimas-underground-ice-wall-keeps-nuclear-radiatio n-at-bay ● Background on the wall in GOT. https://www.vulture.com/2017/08/game-of-thrones-the-wall-explained.html ● The wall would never stand for thousands of years. https://www.livescience.com/61174-game-of-thrones-ice-wall-unrealistic.html ● Vertical Ice wall of that size would shift and collapse under its own weight. https://www.wired.com/2013/03/game-of-thrones-ice-wall-science/ Incest ● The genetic problems of inbreeding - deleterious genes, the Westermack effect and Taiwanese minor marriages https://www.livescience.com/2226-incest-taboo-nature.html ● List of genetic mutations that can be caused by inbreeding. https://www.ranker.com/list/genetic-mutation-from-incest/laura-allan ● Why Marrying first cousins is not that bad https://phys.org/news/2012-04-cousin-millions.html ● 3rd or 4th cousins may even have reproductive advantages- The Sweet Spot! https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/when-incest-is-best-kissi/ ● Study which demonstrates that we are subconsciously attracted to family members due to sexual imprinting and the familiarity principle. https://digest.bps.org.uk/2010/09/10/freud-was-right-we-are-attracted-to-our-relatives/ ● Cheery thought - technically we’re all related, so all sex is kinda incest. https://phys.org/news/2013-08-dna-earth.html ● Many couples today are probably 10th or 12th cousins https://www.voanews.com/a/can-kissing-cousins-wed-in-the-us-/4907000.html Dragons ● How a dragon might breathe fire. https://www.sciencenews.org/blog/scicurious/build-dragon-fire-science ● The Exothermic defense mechanism of the Bombardier Beetle + Fulmars and Cobras. https://blog.rsb.org.uk/the-biology-behind-a-fire-breathing-dragon/ ● How a dragon would work physically. https://news.ufl.edu/2019/04/the-science-of-dragons/