Matthew Chisholm’s Reviews > The Best American Science And Nature Writing 2017 > Status Update

The same man who ran through his university yelling that he had a hotline to Jesus created a formula that explained altruism in purely evolutionary terms. Humans are crazy.

The treatment of women in the National Forest Service is appalling. Shocking to see how sexual harassment fell WAY under the radar decades after the Armed Services found competent ways to fight it.

There are tens of billions of exoplanets that exist in the habitable zone of the Milk Way Galaxy alone. 😳

“Our mind can live in the past, the future, or any fantasy place it wants, but our body only processes the now.”

How do we keep what is left of Bears Ears National Monument but still also allow some form of responsible use of the landscape for resource extraction? How do we stop a mindset of mutual exclusivity?

“We are a show-me species, wired to look for visible evidence of invisible harm.”

Resistance to antibiotics kills more people—23,000—in the US each year than homicide. Fascinating information about antibiotic use in the meat industry of the US.

Greenland’s ice sheet is screwed.

Kizzia “New Harpoon” showing receding ice, oil companies, and tribal adaptations in a warming world.