Fast-food workers in Detroit walk off job, disrupt business

(Reuters) – Hundreds of fast-food employees in Detroit walked off the job on Friday, temporarily shuttering a handful of outlets as part of a growing U.S. worker movement that is demanding higher wages   Original post on reuters.com    Comments on reddit.com   

A New Kind of Invisibility Cloak Demonstrates Better Cloaking Efficiency

Using a new kind of cloak that uses a very thin multilayer dielectric coating made of natural material, not metamaterial, researchers at Michigan Technological University demonstrated better cloaking efficiency than a similarly sized metamaterial cloak designed by using the transformation optics   Original post on scitechdaily.com    Comments on reddit.com   

Michigan woman spends 11 days in jail for swearing to herself

A Michigan woman spent 11 days behind bars for cursing to herself in a county clerk’s office before a retiring superior court judge mercifully overruled the judge who jailed her and ordered her release.   Original post on digitaljournal.com    Comments on reddit.com   

The United States of Amway

How to turn your middle class into a pyramid scheme I went to see a comic perform in Grand Rapids a few years ago and he said, “So, this is the tip of the pyramid?” And the crowd sighed out laughter, knowing exactly what he meant. Grand Rapids,…   Original post on eclectablog.com    Comments on reddit.com   

University of Michigan News Service – Biofuel breakthrough: Quick cook method turns algae into oil

ANN ARBOR—It looks like Mother Nature was wasting her time with a multimillion-year process to produce crude oil. Michigan Engineering researchers can ‘pressure-cook’ algae for as little as a minute   Original post on umich.edu    Comments on reddit.com   

Superman-strength bacteria produces gold

At a time when the value of gold has reached an all-time high, Michigan State University researchers have discovered a bacterium’s ability to withstand incredible amounts of toxicity is key to creating 24-karat gold.   Original post on msu.edu    Comments on reddit.com   

Evolution is as complicated as 1-2-3

A team of researchers at MSU has documented the step-by-step process in which organisms evolve new functions. The results, published in the current issue of Nature, are revealed through an in-depth, genomics-based analysis that decodes how E. coli bacteri   Original post on msu.edu    Comments on reddit.com   

From lemons to lemonade: Reaction uses carbon dioxide to make carbon-based semiconductor

(Phys.org) — A materials scientist at Michigan Technological University has discovered a chemical reaction that not only eats up the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide, it also creates something useful. And, by the way, it releases energy.   Original post on phys.org    Comments on reddit.com   

Popcorn lawsuit: A Michigan man has filed a lawsuit accusing a movie chain of price gouging. – latimes.com

A Michigan man fed up with the high price of movie theater popcorn and other treats has filed a class action lawsuit against price gouging.   Original post on latimes.com    Comments on reddit.com