Published: 4/7/2010
Types: News, Science & technology
Last week's sunshine and warmth had me out raking and picking up the yard in anticipation of getting my garden growing. I even started some seeds germinating indoors and wondered if it was too early to put lettuce seeds in the ground. Lettuce does well in cooler weather and is one of the first thing...[MORE]
Published: 12/23/2009
Types: News, Science & technology
In a piece recently posted on the Harvard Business Review's website, Mark W. Johnson and Josh Suskewicz, of a Massachusetts consulting firm named Innosight, pointed out that the greenest city on the planet is currently being constructed in an area surrounded by the world's largest supply of oil: Mas...[MORE]
By Metro Times editorial staff
Published: 10/22/2008
Types: News, Science & technology
It should come as no surprise to anyone familiar with Metro Times that we would endorse Democratic Illinois Sen. Barack Obama for president over Sen. John McCain of Arizona. However, if you are tempted to view our support of Obama as knee-jerk progressive dogma, consider this: At least 25 news...[MORE]
Published: 6/11/2008
Types: News, Science & technology
When Eve Mokotoff, HIV epidemiology manager with the Michigan Department of Community Health, discusses the results of the latest annual review of HIV trends in Michigan, she labels them "stunning."And by stunning, she doesn't mean a thing of beauty. It's more like the shock or a hammer blow t...[MORE]
By Ann Mullen
Published: 3/8/2000
Types: News, Science & technology
After learning that the nation’s poor had the highest incidence of cancer and the lowest survival rate, Dr. Clarence Vaughn went to work in one of Detroit’s most impoverished neighborhoods. "I decided I needed to work in the city,&...[MORE]
Published: 2/2/2000
Types: News, Science & technology
Who owns the Internet? If you think the answer is "nobody," you’re right – for now.That’s why it has been such an astonishing innovation that has flourished so vibrantly at the grass roots. But this pioneering ...[MORE]
Published: 12/22/1999
Types: News, Science & technology
With experts predicting that some 30 million Americans will go online for health information by the year's end, it is not particularly surprising that nationally recognized doctors have teamed up with Internet entrepreneurs to get a piece of the ...[MORE]
Published: 9/15/1999
Types: News, Science & technology
With the Federal Communications Commission cutting off public comment this week on a proposal to legalize low-power FM stations, this is certain: The views of Michigan residents will be well-represented when a decision on the matter is finally made. ...[MORE]
By Curt Guyette
Published: 6/16/1999
Types: News, Science & technology
For Alison Sanders, the calculus of automobile safety and the vagaries of chance collided as dusk approached on a Sunday in October of 1995. Just a half-mile from her father’s home in suburban Baltimore, the 7-year-old sat on the front passenger ...[MORE]
By Ann Mullen
Published: 11/18/1998
Types: News, Science & technology
Ameritech Corporation is focusing work on suburban communities while neglecting Detroit, according to the president of the Communications Workers of America local that covers Detroit and several suburbs. The claim is based on internal ...[MORE]
Published: 11/18/1998
Types: News, Science & technology
You've finally decided to buy that new PC for your home. Prices are low, modem speeds are up and life is looking pretty OK. Breathe deep, read on. Whether you think the Internet is a vast wasteland or the mother lode of ...[MORE]
Published: 11/18/1998
Types: News, Science & technology
With all the attention given to the Silicon alleys, valleys and prairies, the Detroit area may finally make it on the map as the Silicon Speedway, partly thanks to some diligent visionaries sitting at high-powered computers in a converted doctor's off...[MORE]
By John Smock
Published: 2/24/1999
Types: News, Science & technology
Earlier this year about 8,000 southeast Michigan residents received letters from their physicians informing them that they will soon be issued a Medcard. About the size of an ATM card, Medcards carry health care information ranging from benefits coverage...[MORE]
By Curt Guyette
Published: 7/11/2007
Types: News, Science & technology
I call artist Jerome Ferretti and tell him we're starting this new column. The idea, I explain, is for a Metro Times writer to take someone interesting out to lunch and write about the experience. "I thought you'd be just the guy to get things off to a good start," I tell him. Then I suggest ...[MORE]
Published: 4/11/2007
Types: News, Science & technology
Food ain't what it used to be. At least not in the last 50 years. And we'd better face up to it. In the West, the use of chemical fertilizers, pesticides and genetic engineering (with generous government subsidies) has produced more food more cheaply than at any time in the history of the world...[MORE]
Published: 1/17/2007
Types: News, Science & technology
"You don't faint easily, do you?" Actually, yes, I do. I've blacked out before breakfast on more than one occasion. But no need to make the doctor nervous. On the way to the plastination laboratory, the one place that could be considered creepier than a morgue, where I'll soak in the sight of f...[MORE]
Published: 11/22/2006
Types: News, Science & technology
At the Detroit Department of Health and Wellness's sexually transmitted disease clinic, Dr. Jambunathan Ramanathan and his staff know they have to work a little differently with the teenagers who have chlamydia. Teens are more likely to have chlamydia, the most common sexually transmitted dis...[MORE]
By Curt Guyette
Published: 8/23/2006
Types: News, Science & technology
You might say it's a real head-scratcher: Why would the United States ban the use of a highly toxic pesticide on crops and animals yet allow the same substance to be rubbed into the scalps of children? It's a question that has no good answer, say the folks at Ann Arbor's Ecology Center and othe...[MORE]
By Curt Guyette
Published: 8/2/2006
Types: News, Science & technology
The allegations were bizarre. The person making them, a Detroit-area man in his mid-30s, contacted Metro Times to say he had both a story to tell and a haunting question he hoped could be answered. He claimed that more than two decades ago, starting in the early 1980s when he was about 12 year...[MORE]
Published: 7/26/2006
Types: News, Science & technology
For those of you interested in the subject of ethanol, our cover story on the issue last week ("Stalking the answers," July 19) generated some spirited debate on the Enviro-Mich listserve. The online forum sponsored by the group Citizen Action (you can view the archives on the Web at great-lak...[MORE]
By Traci Hukill
Published: 7/19/2006
Types: News, Science & technology
As I type these words, men and women of science are growing meat in a laboratory. That's meat grown independently of any animal. It isn't hatched or born. It doesn't graze, walk or breathe. But it is alive. It sits growing in a room where somebody has called it into existence with a pipette and ...[MORE]
By Ben Lefebvre
Published: 7/19/2006
Types: News, Science & technology
Bruce Dale got his education early. As a 12-year-old living in the mining town of Ruth, Nev., he saw his dad leave every morning to work at the nearby copper mines. Normally his father would come home and talk to his son about fishing, hunting or Bruce's schoolwork. But one evening it was diffe...[MORE]
By Jeff Meyers
Published: 7/5/2006
Types: News, Science & technology
It’s easy to see how the conspiracy theories got started. The commander in chief is an oilman. His vice president is an oilman. His former chief of staff was a former VP of General Motors. His secretary of state was on the board of Chevron. Is it really a surprise that oil industry profits...[MORE]
By Gordy Slack
Published: 11/2/2005
Types: News, Science & technology
Richard Thompson — the former Oakland County prosecutor who gained notoriety through his repeated efforts to put Jack Kevorkian behind bars — has taken up a new crusade. As head of the Thomas More Law Center, a conservative Christian advocacy group based in Ann Arbor, Thompson is in a Pe...[MORE]
Published: 10/12/2005
Types: News, Science & technology
Imagine for a moment that it’s 1905, and right-wing religious types are in control of the Michigan Legislature. Some of them, led by the Amish, have grave religious doubts about the morality of the newfangled horseless carriages. So they pass a law severely restricting research into these ...[MORE]
By Sarah Klein
Published: 10/12/2005
Types: News, Science & technology
Throughout the ’80s and ’90s, kids had the following government-produced catchphrase repeatedly beaten into the pink pulpy flesh of their impressionable young minds: “Reduce, Reuse, Recycle.” I remember being forced to draw the recycling pattern with my crayons in third gra...[MORE]
Published: 2/23/2005
Types: News, Science & technology
If you thought The X-Files was strange, try real life. My mother always said that truth is stranger than fiction, but I still had to do a double-take at this Washington Post headline: “U.S. Denies Patent for a Too-Human Hybrid.” Seems a New York professor tried to get a patent on a yet-to-be-creat...[MORE]
By Curt Guyette
Published: 12/8/2004
Types: News, Science & technology
Derrick Kelly lay unconscious on the deck of Eastern Michigan University’s Jones Pool, bloody foam oozing from his mouth and nose. At that moment on the night of Jan. 31, 2003, decades’ worth of effort on the part of Dr. Henry J. Heimlich came into play when the maneuver bearing his name was pe...[MORE]
By Curt Guyette
Published: 2/25/2004
Types: News, Science & technology
For the past few months, Lisa Goldstein has been studying a proposal to turn human waste into fertilizer. As director of the nonprofit Southwest Detroit Environmental Vision, Goldstein is trying to weigh the pros and cons of a plan that could have a significant impact on her community. Is it be...[MORE]
Published: 8/20/2003
Types: News, Science & technology
We’re a superpower with a Third World [electricity] grid. —Bill Richardson, former U.S. energy secretary, Aug. 15, 2003 Here’s a snapshot of the state of early 21st century technology: We can aim a missile at a specific building thousands of miles away and actually hit it. We can send...[MORE]
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