Michigan in the news

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  Farmers who own and farm land with turbines are more likely to have a succession plan in place on their property, said Sarah Mills, senior project manager at the Ford School’s Center for Local, State, and Urban Policy: “What they told me was that the guaranteed income that comes from hosting a turbine was convincing their kids that farming wasn’t such a risky business.”

  USA Today
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  “It turns out that people are much more scared of things like shark attacks than vending machines despite the fact that people are more likely to die from a vending machine falling on them than a shark attack,” said Josh Ackerman, associate professor of psychology, explaining the fear surrounding the coronavirus.

  CNBC
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  Ellen Brennan, doctoral student in neuroscience, and Omar Ahmed, assistant professor of psychology and neuroscience, have identified a previously unrecognized excitatory neuron in mouse brains that may aid scientists’ understanding of how the part of the brain responsible for navigation — the retrosplenial cortex — goes about navigating prolonged distances. “The retrosplenial cortex is critical for spatial orientation, but is one of the earliest brain regions to show dysfunctional activity in (people with Alzheimer’s),” Ahmed said.

  Medical News Today