Past studies have found strange things happening to frogs when they're exposed to farm chemicals. A new study shows estrogen in suburban areas is messing with frogs' hormonal systems too. More females frogs than males David Skelly is an author of the...
Bubonic plague has found its way to Michigan. The so-called Black Death killed anywhere from 75 million up to 200 million people in Europe and the Middle East throughout the 14th century. We're talking between 30% and 60% of Europe's total population...
In a turn of events that surprised many, Rep. Todd Courser resigned his position on Friday, while Rep. Cindy Gamrat became the fourth state legislator in Michigan's history to be expelled. John Lidstrom was one of the veteran Lansing political observ...
John U. Bacon joins us for this week's sports roundup. Wolverines moving forward Bacon tells us that despite the 24-17 loss to the Utah Utes last week, the Wolverines played far better football on both sides of the ball than I've seen in a long time....
That question might surprise those who didn't realize pigeons are a thing in the Metro Detroit area. Immigrants from Belgium came to Detroit and brought their national passion of pigeon racing with them and it spread from there. See this clip of an o...
In our selfie-happy world where we can take a photo anytime of anything we want, it's difficult to conceive of life in which photography is completely banned. No photographs, ever or face severe punishment. From 1996 to 2001, that was life in Afghani...
As you might expect, I spend a good deal of time talking to people about politics, at least if I can manage to get them not to run away. And I've noticed something remarkable this year. If I can badly abuse William Butler Yeats, the worst may be fill...
Telemedicine is the practice of treating patients remotely through telecommunication and information technology. It's on the rise in Michigan, especially in rural areas where they don't have enough doctors, physician assistants, or nurses. Nancy Derr...
If you count yourself among those who cannot imagine life without your faithful dog by your side, you would have been a pretty rare breed a century or two ago. That's when packs of feral dogs were roaming the streets of Detroit. People lived in fear...
The Next Idea In his recent op-ed piece in the Financial Times, Europe is a continent that has run out of ideas, Economics Nobel Laureate Edmund Phelps hangs the near collapse of the world's second largest economy on a failure of the collective cultu...