National Hispanic Heritage Month starts today, September 15. YGBFKM has a story about Juan Seguín to mark the occasion. Link in comments. #HispanicHeritage #history #texas #ygbfkm
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Two marsupial species died out thousands of years ago, or did they? Local Indigenous communities never stopped saying otherwise. In this instance, deep-time oral history beat modern science. Link in comments. #science #nature #paleontology #ygbkm
Maternal cells cross into a child's brain before birth and can persist for decades, turning up in brain tissue from people well into old age. Read more on YGBFKM: www.gottabekidding.me/your-mothers... #medicine #health #science #ygbfkm #neuroscience
Your Mother's Cells Are Living Inside Your Brain
Your brain contains cells that aren't yours, and may never have been. What exactly your mother's DNA is doing in there remains, somehow, an open question.
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Today on YGBFKM, find out what tricks the Naked Mole-Rat Queen is up to: www.gottabekidding.me/the-naked-mo... Hint: It's something she borrowed from the insect world #science #nature #ygbfkm
The Naked Mole-Rat Queen Doesn't Rule With an Iron Fist. She Rules With a Smell.
One airborne compound keeps every other female in a colony infertile, and it doesn't require anyone to be in the room to work. What else are we missing?
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Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is back, now for anti-aging. Read more at YGBFKM: www.gottabekidding.me/shocking-way... #medicine #health #aging #brain #science #YGBFKM
Shocking Way to Make Adult Brain Cells Act Young
Adult brain cells aren't supposed to change anymore. Shock therapy may be quietly overriding that rule, and the mechanism breaks something neuroscientists thought was locked shut.
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Sleepy sickness. Loyal sharks. Ancient amphibians. A star that dies and possibly gives birth to a whole universe. Yeah, we went there. 🎙️ EP-003 is out now. → rss.com/podcasts/got... #podcast #science #history #til
Forgotten Plague. Secret Romance. Baby Universe. | Podcast Episode on RSS.com
What do a pandemic that erased itself from memory, bull sharks with a decade-long romance, a dime-sized fossil mislabeled for decades, and a dying star that might be giving birth to a new universe hav...
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Neurons fire electrical signals. Skin cells stay quiet, or so scientists thought. YGBFKM breaks down the new science: www.gottabekidding.me/your-skin-ce... #medicine #health #skin #science #ygbfkm
Your Skin Cells Fire Electrical Spikes When You're Injured. They Work Nothing Like a Nerve.
A wound sets off a wave of activity that races across nearby tissue for over an hour, using signaling biology assumed reserved for neurons. What it's actually communicating is still unclear.
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YGBFKM holds the Aliens beat to a paper trail: declassified transcripts, sensor tapes the government itself calls unresolved, officials attaching their names to specific claims. Read the Roswell series & see the evidence for yourself. www.gottabekidding.me/what-roswell... #UAP #UFO #aliens #ygbfkm
What Roswell Knows
Directory of posts marking the 79th anniversary of the Roswell incident with a series of posts covering the original events, the official record, and the decades of fallout.
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Voting is closed on our Best Hot Take poll. Flatulent lakes, a jawbone under a bathroom floor, a galaxy with a metal band name: all of it was on the ballot. The astronomy entries pulled ahead of the pack. www.gottabekidding.me/vote-best-ho... #astronomy #science #ygbfkm #hottake
Results: Best Hot Take from YGBFKM
Ten hot takes. One vote. Science journalism has never been more democratically absurd.
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Sign up today (free, no ads) & in the morning you'll see the weekly YGBFKM newsletter in your inbox. This week: Osage oil murders, a gene-stealing plant, and sharks getting weirdly loud, loyal, and warm-blooded. www.gottabekidding.me/membership/ #science #nature #ygbfkm
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A directive freeing whistleblowers from their NDAs reads like disclosure is finally moving. But check where they are actually allowed to talk: two agencies, the same two that already had jurisdiction. Not Congress. Not the public. www.gottabekidding.me/ufo-whistleb... #aliens #uap #ygbfkm
UFO Whistleblowers Are Free to Speak. Just Not to You.
New oversight panels and a whistleblower memo raise the stakes, but a still-unreleased helicopter encounter report leaves the biggest question untouched.
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This Medicine & Health story was the second-most-viewed post for July: www.gottabekidding.me/the-ovary-cl... #medicine #health #science #menopause #women #ygbfkm
The Ovary Clocked Out. Then It Picked Up a Second Shift.
The ovary stops making eggs and medicine calls it done. New research suggests it just switched departments. What is it actually doing?
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Nine shark stories, all in one place. A shark the length of two school buses. A shark with a 400 year old heart that's still beating. A shark the color of a traffic cone. Shark Week is a good excuse to catch up. tinyurl.com/weirdsharks #sharkweek #science #nature #ygbfkm
Nine Sharks. One Week. All the Weird.
From an 80-foot prehistoric giant to a bull shark following your stormwater runoff, YGBFKM has been covering sharks all year. Shark Week is a good excuse to catch up.
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Shark Week is here and we're ready with stories. Read about a solid orange nurse shark turned with white, irisless eyes and a rarely seen adult great white surfacing beside divers hauling gear off a shipwreck. tinyurl.com/sharkwk #SharkWeek #nature #ygbfkm
Nine Sharks. One Week. All the Weird.
From an 80-foot prehistoric giant to a bull shark following your stormwater runoff, YGBFKM has been covering sharks all year. Shark Week is a good excuse to catch up.
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111 years ago today, America's deadliest maritime disaster happened in a Chicago river, in calm water, before the ship left the dock. The SS Eastland disaster killed 844 people: more than the Titanic, more than the Lusitania. tinyurl.com/eastland-111 #history #ygbfkm
America's Deadliest Shipwreck Happened in a River. 20 Feet From the Dock.
The Titanic is legend. The Eastland killed more passengers and vanished from memory. The difference? Who was on board.
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A galaxy called RAD-BAARG is plowing into a cluster at supersonic speed. The collision carved a glowing arc 1.8 million light-years across. A grad student in the Himalayas found it. tinyurl.com/supersonic-g... #astronomy #science #ygbfkm
A Galaxy Did a Supersonic Cannonball. A Student in the Himalayas Caught the Glow.
A galaxy plowing through near-empty space fast enough to leave a glowing 1.8-million-light-year scar and a student in the Himalayas found it first.
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A fly lands on a deer, sheds its wings, and dials its own vision down to make a home in the fur. Just one of dozens of weird science stories this week at YGBFKM: www.gottabekidding.me/this-fly-lan... #nature #science #ygbfkm
This Fly Lands on a Deer, Rips Off Its Own Wings, and Dials Down Its Vision
A blood-feeding fly sheds its wings on landing, then halves its own visual output, and researchers are asking whether evolution can't, or just won't, finish the job.
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Medieval courts tried, convicted, and sometimes executed pigs, rats, and weevils for crimes against humans. The condemned were sometimes dressed in human clothing before execution. Cats remained essentially untouchable. tinyurl.com/cats-for-the... #history #ygbfkm
Medieval Europe Put Pigs, Rats and Weevils on Trial. Cats Were Somehow Above the Law.
Medieval courts tried pigs, rats and weevils for actual crimes. Dogs faced charges regularly. Cats, despite ample provocation, were almost never touched.
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A daddy longlegs has no venom and no web. It pinned down a live frog bigger than itself and ate it whole. Scientists think this is routine across South American tropical forests. tinyurl.com/daddy-longle... #nature #science #ygbfkm
Daddy Longlegs Are Eating Frogs Whole
A daddy longlegs with no venom and no web just pinned down a live frog bigger than itself. Scientists say this might be happening all over South American tropical forests.
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For nearly five minutes, military sensors tracked an object over the Yellow Sea. The footage glitches, degrades, and goes dark. The 4th UAP records release at war.gov/ufo preserves the entire sequence. What it doesn't give us: an explanation. tinyurl.com/yellow-sea-ufo #uap #ufo #aliens #ygbfkm
The Yellow Sea UAP Video Ends With Four Seconds of Nothing
Military sensors tracked something over the Yellow Sea for nearly 5 minutes. The footage degraded, skipped, and went dark. The official record documents every second. It explains none of it.
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In 1949, the scientists who built the atomic bomb held a classified meeting about something flying over their facility. They left without an answer. The green lights are still unexplained. This story is part of UAP drop 4: tinyurl.com/ufogreenlights #uap #aliens #ygbfkm
The Men Who Split the Atom Couldn't Explain the Green Lights
In 1949, the scientists who built the atomic bomb held a secret meeting about something flying over their facility. They ran the numbers. They left without an answer.
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Most YGBFKM posts end with a hot take. We've selected ten favorites. Now it's your turn to choose the best one. Vote now. www.gottabekidding.me/vote-best-ho... #ygbfkm #uap #science
Vote: Best Hot Take from YGBFKM
Ten hot takes. One vote. Science journalism has never been more democratically absurd.
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The hoaxes collapsed. The cover-up got officially admitted. Then in 2017, the government admitted it had been secretly studying UAPs for years. The final chapter of What Roswell Knows is live. We still don't know what Mac Brazel found. tinyurl.com/roswellgrowsup #roswell #ufo #uap #aliens #ygbfkm
Roswell Grows Up
The Roswell mythology spent the 2000s losing its key witnesses and its fabricated evidence. Then the government quietly started studying UFOs again. Then it started admitting things. We still don't kn...
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"Would you lie for your government?" Moore said yes. For a decade, he fed disinformation to the UFO community at Air Force intelligence's direction. He confessed in 1989. The mythology survived. Part 3 is live. tinyurl.com/moore-lied #roswell #ufo #uap #aliens #ygbfkm
The Mythology Machine
Between 1978 and 2000, Roswell transformed from a forgotten local incident into the defining UFO event in American history. Some of that transformation was accidental. Some of it was manufactured by p...
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Browse an interactive timeline of Roswell events for the 79th anniversary: www.gottabekidding.me/roswell-79-y... We made a commemorative T-shirt too. 47% off for subscribers. #Roswell #UFO #UAP #Aliens #YGBFKM
Roswell: 79 Years of What We Don't Know
From a rancher's debris field in 1947 to a congressional hearing in 2026: the complete arc of the incident that won't stay closed. An interactive timeline covering 38 key events across five eras.
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YGBFKM is ramping up for Shark Week at the end of July. Meet Lazy Shark: www.gottabekidding.me/walking-shar... #nature #science #sharks #ygbfkm
Walking Sharks Gain a Cousin: Lazy Shark
Scientists confirmed a tenth reef-walking shark off Papua New Guinea, but surveys at a nearby island where it was once common turned up nothing.
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Nature doing odd things again Single-Celled Cannibal Eats Its Own Clones www.gottabekidding.me/single-celle... Tiny Wrens Turn Giant on Scottish Isles www.gottabekidding.me/tiny-wrens-t... A Tadpole Tail Turns Orange When a Dragonfly Shows Up www.gottabekidding.me/a-tadpole-ta... #nature #ygbfkm
Single-Celled Cannibal Eats Its Own Clones
One microbe. One cell. Same DNA as every relative it's about to eat.
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