Exploring Venus, Forest Stewardship, and Auto-Brewery Syndrome

Today, you’ll learn about the life-crushing conditions on Venus that could actually tell us about life elsewhere in the universe, how indigenous cultural fire burning could help us create healthier forests, and the people who brew beer in their stomachs.  

Venus Environment  

• “To find life in the universe, look to deadly Venus.” EurekAlert! 2024.  
• “Davinci, a return to Venus’ clouds.” The Planetary Society. N.d.  
• “NASA’s Planetary Fleets, Including Mars, Venus, Discovery Missions, and Small Body Missions.” n.a. 2023.  
• “Missions to Venus: Highlights From History, and When We May Go Back.” by Shannon Stirone. 2020.  
• “Venus as an anchor point for planetary habitability.” by Stephen R. Kane & Paul K. Byrne. 2024.  
• “Venus.” NASA. 2024.  

Forest Stewardship  

• “Research showcases Indigenous stewardship’s role in forest ecosystem resilience.” EurekAlert! 2024.  
• “Blending Indigenous and western science: Quantifying cultural burning impacts in Karuk Aboriginal Territory.” by Skye M. Greenler, et al. 2024.  
• “The Karuk Used Fire to Manage the Forest for Centuries. Now They Want To Do That Again.” by Danielle Venton. 2021.  
• “North America’s summer of wildfire smoke: 2023 was only the beginning.” by Charles O. Stanier, Gregory Carmichael, & Peter S. Thorne. 2023. 

Auto-Brewery Syndrome 

• “A Brewery Worker’s Drunken Driving Defense: His Stomach Made the Alcohol.” by Ali Watkins. 2024.  
• “Auto Brewery Syndrome: Can You Really Make Beer in Your Gut?” by Noreen Iftikhar, MD. 2018.  
• “Truck driver claims body produces alcohol, caused him to be drunk, crash and spill 11,000 salmon.” by Dana Hedgpeth. 2016.  
• “Case report and literature review of auto-brewery syndrome: probably an underdiagnosed medical condition.” by Fahad Malik, et al. 2019.  

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