I am writing today to announce the closure of the Michigan Messenger. After four years of operation in Michigan, the board of the American Independent News Network, has decided to shift publication of its news into a single site, The American Independent at Americanindependent.com. This is part of a shift in strategy, towards new forms [...]
An abstinence-only presentation provided to numerous school districts in Calhoun and Eaton Counties in October of this year provided false and misleading information to students about HIV, experts allege.
Two county registers of deeds filed a class action lawsuit Monday on behalf of Michigan’s 83 counties alleging that the Mortgage Electronic Registration Services owes millions of dollars in property title transfer taxes.
Despite evidence of the impact of mercury on children and public health, Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette last month joined with 24 other state attorneys general in filing a lawsuit to scuttle new EPA regulations that would reduce mercury emissions from power plants.
Just when new developments hold out the promise of doing embryonic stem cell research without any destruction of embryos, a new research study has rekindled another fierce controversy over the ethical uses of such research. Researchers in the UK and Brazil have announced that they believe it will be possible in the future to use [...]
Here’s this week’s dose of science and technology, including an excuse to get out that Pink Floyd album on Wednesday. How to see a total eclipse of the moon on February 20Mark your calendar; this Wednesday evening will be the last total lunar eclipse we’ll see for two years. If sky conditions are good, you [...]
Here’s your dose of science and technology to wind down or start up your week, depending on your point of view. The Power Plant in Your PantsInformation Week’s Cora Nucci is right: That’s a great tag line for the energy capture device that the University of Michigan co-developed with Simon Fraser University in Canada and [...]
Here’s a roundup of science and technology news from this past week. Venture Firms Peek Out Of Silicon Valley (Forbes.com)“We’ve got an enormous amount of world-class science coming out of these universities, and very few people paying attention to them,” says venture capital firm Venture Investors co-founder John Neis, in regards to University of Wisconsin-Madison [...]
With science playing a larger and larger role in public policy decisions, from stem-cell research to global warming to the teaching of evolution in public schools, a movement is building momentum to make scientific issues more central to the 2008 presidential campaign. ScienceDebate2008, a grassroots initiative spearheaded by a growing number of scientists and other [...]
As we reported in late November, the publication of two new studies that show that it’s possible to “reset” adult stem cells to an embryonic state has caused quite a stir in the media, the scientific community and among the conservative Christian opponents of embryonic stem cell research (ESCR). The papers were published by teams [...]
Here’s a Tech Tuesday offering for our technology savvy Michigan Messenger readers: Happy Patch Day to you, Happy Patch Day to you… Today is Patch Tuesday, when Microsoft conducts a monthly push of its accumulated patches to Microsoft users. This month’s push tentatively includes 6 “bulletins” or patches for Windows, and another “bulletin” for Internet [...]
Here’s your weekly roundup of science and technology news: Good News, Bad News: 300 MPH, 33+ MPG — but NOT made in MichiganAptera announced this past week that they are taking orders for their new Typ-1 personal vehicle, in buyer’s choice of All Electric or Hybrid models. The hybrid is expected to yield better than [...]
Here’s your weekly roundup of science and technology news for Michigan Messenger readers: MTU shorted on state funding yet againAlready ignored by state initiatives like that geared toward funding a life sciences “research triangle” in Lower Michigan, Michigan Tech must now find a way to fund a $1.4 million shortfall arising from the recent budget [...]
The great British biochemist J.B.S. Haldane was once asked by a theologian what his lifetime spent studying the natural world had taught him about the nature of the Creator. “That he has an inordinate fondness for beetles,” Haldane sarcastically replied. E.O. Wilson, the famed biologist and environmental scientist who spoke at Michigan State University on [...]
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