Margaret Eldridge

Margaret Eldridge

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Book lover, sailing enthusiast, baker. I 💗 cats, so bring on the pics.

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Margaret Eldridge
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Dogs can pick out words without understanding them. Humans can solve complex logic problems without using language at all. Two of our most popular stories last week challenge what we thought we knew about brains, language, and intelligence. Links in the replies. #neuroscience #science #ygbfkm

Margaret Eldridge
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Dogs can pick out words without understanding them. Humans can solve complex logic problems without using language at all. Two of our most popular stories last week challenge what we thought we knew about brains, language, and intelligence. Links in the replies. #neuroscience #science #ygbfkm

Margaret Eldridge
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Exploding grandmothers. A predator framed by its own face. Two hours nobody could explain. And a metal forged in the Hiroshima fireball that had never existed before. Just another day in the strange-but-true world of YGBFKM. Links in comments. #science #nature #ygbfkm

Margaret Eldridge
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Exploding grandmothers. A predator framed by its own face. Two hours nobody could explain. And a metal forged in the Hiroshima fireball that had never existed before. Just another day in the strange-but-true world of YGBFKM. Links in comments. #science #nature #ygbfkm

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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

Margaret Eldridge
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Something weird that isn't a political headline: A microbe grows young inside (yeah, like it's pregnant), and then *explodes* to release them. Doom scrolling alternatives found every day at YGBFKM. #science #nature #microbes #ygbfkm

gottabekidding.meThis Microbe Grows Its Young Inside Itself. Then It Explodes.A newly discovered microbe doesn't split in two like ordinary cells. It grows its young inside itself, then bursts open to release them, and what's happening inside before that happens is stranger tha...
Margaret Eldridge
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Is your garden wall running electrical signals? If there's moss on it, maybe. YGBFKM ran this strange plant signals story. Link in comments. #nature #botany #science #plants #moss #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

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Not really in the mood for, well, anything, but here's a truly interesting story about the Dunning-Kruger effect. That's the pattern where people who don't know much are overconfident. www.gottabekidding.me/the-dunning-... #science #medicine #health #psychology #ygbfkm

gottabekidding.meThe Dunning-Kruger Effect Has It BackwardsEveryone assumed the loudest person in the room was proof. Turns out the math was lying, and the most skilled people may be the most deluded about their limits.

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The Empire State Building went pink at exactly 9:25pm for Dolly Parton. Because of course they made it 9 to 5. That’s how you honor an icon. 🩷

Margaret Eldridge
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Cells carrying mom's DNA set up permanent residence in your brain. One dataset found maternal cells in the brain of a man in his 90s. YGBFKM has the details: www.gottabekidding.me/your-mothers... #ygbfkm #medicine #health #science #neuroscience

gottabekidding.meYour Mother's Cells Are Living Inside Your BrainYour 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

gottabekidding.meThe 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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I was feeling sick, losing my mind Heard about these treatments from a good friend of mine here.... #ramones #shocktreatment

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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

gottabekidding.meShocking Way to Make Adult Brain Cells Act YoungAdult 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

rss.comForgotten Plague. Secret Romance. Baby Universe. | Podcast Episode on RSS.comWhat 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...
Margaret Eldridge
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The Medicine & Health beat is getting a lot of interest lately. An ovaries story was the second most popular in July. Here's another wait, what post about bodies, this time: skin.

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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

gottabekidding.meYour 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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My favorite beat is Nature. Everyone else's favorite is Aliens. With the 4 UAP drops on war.gov/uap, I can see why.

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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

gottabekidding.meWhat Roswell KnowsDirectory 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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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

gottabekidding.meMembershipTired of regular, old doomscrolling? We've got what you need! Sign up today for a free membership and get: * Weekly Roundup. We see a lot of weird stories here each week. Maybe too many. You don'...

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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

gottabekidding.meUFO 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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Get your shark fix for Shark Week at YGBFKM 🦈🦈🦈🦈🦈🦈🦈🦈🦈

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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

gottabekidding.meNine 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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♥️ 🦈 Happy Shark Week!

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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

tinyurl.comNine 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.
Margaret Eldridge
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Eastland disaster, 111 years ago today.

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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

tinyurl.comAmerica'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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The violence of the universe is astounding

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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

tinyurl.comA 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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This one is making me itchy...

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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

gottabekidding.meThis Fly Lands on a Deer, Rips Off Its Own Wings, and Dials Down Its VisionA 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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You know I'm all for whatever cats have planned. 😼

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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

tinyurl.comMedieval 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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Sharing Ken's newsletter. He's funny even if you aren't a Java dev.

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Tales from the jar side: Java documentary, Kimi K3, Chinese AI models market share, and the usual silly Social Media posts open.substack.com/pub/kenkouse...

open.substack.comTales from the jar side: Java documentary, Kimi K3, Chinese AI models market share, and the usual silly Social Media postsIt seems relevant this week to remember the term "millihelen", which is the amount of beauty needed to launch one ship. (rimshot)

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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

tinyurl.comDaddy Longlegs Are Eating Frogs WholeA 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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Yellow Sea footage is one of the UAP stories from the 4th drop that I'm surprised more folks didn't pick up on. To me, it implies jamming or interference of the recording.

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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

tinyurl.comThe Yellow Sea UAP Video Ends With Four Seconds of NothingMilitary 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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We're covering some of the 4th UAP drop this week on YGBFKM. This post leaves questions still unanswered.

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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

tinyurl.comThe Men Who Split the Atom Couldn't Explain the Green LightsIn 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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Go vote for your favorite. Mine is the Thymus Lumbergh take. IYKYK.

margeditor.bsky.socialMargaret Eldridge (@margeditor.bsky.social)Book lover, sailing enthusiast, baker. I 💗 cats, so bring on the pics.
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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

gottabekidding.meVote: Best Hot Take from YGBFKMTen hot takes. One vote. Science journalism has never been more democratically absurd.