Brandon Keim

A few favorites.

ANIMALS

• The Groundhog Watchers Nautilus

• Groundhogs Emerge From the Scientific Shadows New York Times

• The Octopus Teacher’s Student Nautilus

• Does a Bear Think in the Woods Sierra Magazine

• A Tale of Three Dogs Aeon

• Animal Minds: The New Anthropomorphism Chronicle of Higher Education

• If We Could Talk to the Animals: Do Our Politics Have Room for Nonhumans Too? Breakthrough Journal

• What Pigeons Teach Us About Love Nautilus

• Should Animals Have a Right to Privacy? WIRED

• Don’t Doxx the Duck Boston Globe

• The social lives of cows are remarkably sophisticated Popular Science

• Being a Sandpiper Aeon

• Nonhuman Workers of the World, Unite! Center for Humans & Nature

• The Falcon & The Chicken Center for Humans & Nature

• Parrots are deeply intelligent. But do we understand their emotions? Popular Science

• A Chimp’s Day in Court: Inside the Demand for Nonhuman Rights Wired

• Reconsider the Rat: The New Science of a Reviled Rodent Wired

• I, Cockroach: The Inner Life of an Insect Aeon

• To Bring Back Extinct Species, We’ll Need to Change Our Own Nautilus

• An Eel Swims in the Bronx Nautilus

NATURE

• The Waning Reign of the Wetland Architect We Barely Know (Hint: Not a Beaver) Hakai

• Meet the Mice Who Make the Forest New York Times

• Never Underestimate the Intelligence of Trees Nautilus

• Conservation for the World We Want Breakthrough Journal

• The Tree Whisperer Chronicle of Higher Education

• With the World on Pause, Salamanders Own the Road New York Times

• The Marvelous Physics of Swarming Midges New York Times

• Earth Is Not a Garden Aeon

• Does Conservation Need to Be More Compassionate? Yale E360

• The Wild, Secret Life of New York City Nautilus

• Decoding Nature's Soundtrack Nautilus

• The Hated, Invasive Parasite That’s Actually a Key Part of Its Ecosystem Nautilus

• When Climate Change Blinds Us Aeon

• A Memo From the Year 2050 Anthropocene

• A Mud-Loving, Iron-Lunged, Jelly-Eating Ecosystem Savior Wired

• The Desperate Battle Against Killer Bat Plague Wired

• Uncertainty and a Butterfly's Wings Nautilus

• Biologists Find New Rules for Life at the Edge of Chaos Wired

OTHER

• The Science of Handwriting Scientific American Mind

• Evolution of Language Takes Unexpected Turn Wired

• Biophysicist Opens Genomic Black Box, Finds Ramen Noodles Wired

• Swine Flu Ancestor Born on U.S. Factory Farms Wired

• Why the Smart Reading Device of the Future May Be … Paper Wired

• Paging Dr. Watson: Artificial Intelligence As a Prescription for Health Care Wired

• Computer Program Self-Discovers Laws of Physics Wired

• Humans No Match for Go Bot Overlords Wired

• Big, Smart and Green: A Revolutionary Vision for Modern Farming Wired

• The Next GM Crops Have Arrived—And So Has the Controversy Wired

• The Secret Life of Everything: One Journalist Tries to Find Out Where Stuff Comes From Nautilus

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