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密歇根新闻广播 把“nonplussed”理解成不加思索很正常
Nonplussed is one of those words that historically doesn't have a particularly complicated meaning, but it's one that people frequently misuse. In fact, the definition of nonplussed has become so muddled over time, people often use it to mean the com
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密歇根新闻广播 七十五年前百丽岛爆发的种族骚乱
Today marks an infamous anniversary in our state. Seventy-five years ago today, a brawl between African-Americans and whites began on the Belle Isle Bridge. It would soon devolve into a 36-hour race riot which resulted in the deaths of 34 people. Twe
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密歇根新闻广播 环境保护署希望你参与五大湖清理的下一阶段
The Environmental Protection Agency is starting to plan what's next for the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative. We're eight years into that huge cleanup and restoration effort. Chris Korleski directs the EPA's Great Lakes National Program Office. He
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密歇根新闻广播 在分开移民子女和父母的问题上保持沉默等于共谋
The Trump administration's zero-tolerance border policy has meant some 2,000 migrant children have been taken away from their families. A new Quinnipiac Poll finds only 27 percent of Americans surveyed back the president's policy. And even as some in
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密歇根新闻广播 非营利组织为非洲社区重新设计阿米什农场设备
When it comes to solving 21st century problems say food insecurity in developing countries everything old is new again. That's the message of Tillers International, a nonprofit based in Kalamazoo County. The organization is taking 18th century agricu
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密歇根新闻广播 密歇根土蜜蜂的秘密生活
Bees might be small, but they play an outsize role in food production. In fact, one of every three bites of food we eat is made possible by bees. While a lot of attention on the shrinking bee population focuses on honeybees, they aren't the only poll
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密歇根新闻广播 卡拉马祖的第一个公共图书馆是由女性建造的
The nation's oldest documented structure built for women, by women, was a lending library right here in Michigan. The Kalamazoo Ladies Library Association (LLA), loosely formed in 1852, has been holding meetings in its historic red brick Venetian Got
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密歇根新闻广播 人们为什么对使用“sensitive”敏感
For several months now, English Professor Anne Curzan has been combing through various editions of the New York Times Manual of Style and Usage to see how usage rules have changed over time. This project is the quintessential labor of love for a lang
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密歇根新闻广播 将中西部的淡水专业知识引入非洲五大湖
The North American Great Lakes region has some of the world's leading experts on freshwater issues. A new nonprofit wants to share this expertise with researchers working with the Great Lakes across the Atlantic in Africa. Ted Lawrence is executive d
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密歇根新闻广播 抑制藻类生物燃料
For years, scientists have been developing ways to put algae in your gas tank. It works, but we're still a long way from buying algal biofuel at the pump. Researchers at the University of Michigan have been experimenting with methods that could impro
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密歇根新闻广播 加拿大人买国货抵制特朗普关税政策
Canadians are unhappy. President Trump's tariffs on Canadian-made steel and aluminum exported to the US has fired up many Canadian leaders and consumers. On Sunday, Canada slapped tariffs on 12.63 billion dollars worth of American-made goods in retal
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密歇根新闻广播 企业在环保法规上的话语权将会非常大
New laws signed by Governor Rick Snyder last Friday set up commissions to oversee the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality. Environmentalists say those commissions will be stacked with business and industry people and give them more influence
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密歇根新闻广播 新应用帮助教师密切关注学生的行为和安全
Tracking a student's behavior is a big part of a teacher's job. Two Michigan teachers developed a new app to make that job a little bit easier. It's called TABS, Tracking Appropriate Behaviors System. Along with tracking a student's behavior, it can
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密歇根新闻广播 猫王神曲将在本周末的Elvisfest音乐节上演
It has been nearly 41 years since the passing of Elvis Presley, but The King can still draw a crowd. Continuing Stateside's look at Michigan festivals, we headed to Ypsilanti for Michigan Elvisfest, taking place July 6 and 7 at Riverside Park. Mary D
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密歇根新闻广播 公民问题可能会降低人口普查的参与率
Today a U.S. House Committee is holding a hearing to get a progress report on the 2020 census. If the Trump administration gets its way, the next census will have something that hasn't been on a census in 70 years: a question about your citizenship s
