A year ago today was the publication of my very first article as Detroit Science News Examiner. To celebrate this anniversary, I am reposting my favorite article from 2009 in its entirety.  It is just as timely today as it was when I first posted it on Christmas Eve of last year.

( Watch evolution in action among last-minute Christmas shoppers )

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Josh Roseneau - Understanding Evolution is Important for Our Future. From Sum of Change's coverage of Netroots Nation 2010. For more coverage of Netroots Nation go to http://www.sumofchange.com

From panel:
Supporting Science, Benefiting Society
THU, 07/22/2010 - 9:00AM, Miranda 3-4
Despite the "Republican war on science," scientific research and ( Read more... )

Examiner.com: University of Michigan paleontologist finds ancestor of apes and Old World monkeys
By Vince Lamb, Detroit Science News Examiner

It is not every day that one goes out looking for dinosaur bones, but instead finds a fossil that may not be as glamorous, but is even more important to science than yet another dinosaur. University of ( Read more... )

In my last entry, I pointed to a cross-promotion between Zynga, one of the major purveyors of games on Facebook, and 7-11 as an example of how Facebook is thriving to the point where it's invading real life. I crossposted that entry as a comment on Daily Kos and got a response that pointed me to a scientific explanation.

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Detroit Science News Examiner: Watch evolution in action among last-minute Christmas shoppers

While other publications have done excellent jobs on this story (I particularly recommend Discovery News' article; they read the original and understood it, as well as getting a variety of quotes from experts about the research), I have to say that what I ( Read more... )