There's a set of questions that we as speakers use regularly and that we may not realize have their own special name. They're called tag questions, an...
Bees are disappearing. You might have heard that colony collapse disorder of European honeybees can nearly wipe out a hive. But native bees are also i...
The partial federal government shutdown could have wide-ranging consequences for the Great Lakes. There already are some problems, but things could ge...
The stereotypical picture of someone with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) tends to be a young hyperactive boy, who just can't sit stil...
Sometimes we like to ask people what a particular word or phrase means to them. Sometimes when we do that, we get several completely different answers...
In the frantic bill passing of lame duck, the state Legislature pushed through an A-F grading system for Michigan schools. It requires the state to gr...
Women make up just around nine percent of the workers in the skilled trades, according to 2016 data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. So, if you're...
Vehicle to Vehicle Communication, or V2V, is a potentially life-saving technology that allows cars to communicate with each other and with traffic sig...
It's that time of year again. You wake up with a scratchy throat, stuffy nose, a little achy maybe a fever. Is it a classic head cold, or do you need ...
It's jarring when you discover that a seemingly harmless everyday word or phrase has an offensive origin story. The Oxford Dictionary's blog has a lis...
