University of Michigan ranked number 14 overall, and top American public university.

The University of Michigan was once disgraced with a nickname so disreputable, so slangy and vulgar, that an essay was published protesting its use. Even a newspaper in another city ran a disapproving editorial. That nickname was “U. of M.”

Some archaeologists have painted primitive societies as relatively peaceful, implying that war is a reprehensible modern deviation. Others have seen war as the midwife of the first states that arose as human population increased and more complex social structures emerged to coordinate activities. A wave of new research is supporting this second view.

Viewers of “Rise of the Planet of the Apes” may be surprised to learn that before our earliest ancestors arrived on the scene roughly seven million years ago, apes really did rule the planet. As many as 40 kinds roamed Eurasia and Africa between 10 and 25 million years ago. Only five types remain. Two live in Asia, the gibbon and orangutan; another three, the chimpanzee, bonobo and gorilla, dwell in Africa. All five are endangered, several critically so. All may face extinction.

3D printing is basically an inkjet printer which substitutes plastic or plaster for the ink. As the print arm adds layers of the printed material, the backing table drops lower with each pass, thereby layering up material on the third dimension as defined by the item’s design in a CAD program. The Duderstadt had two of these printers for rapid prototyping of parts and models in their space.

As a University of Michigan student a decade ago, Miller had the idea for a game that was sort of an advanced version of chess with a military theme. But after that single rejection, he had tabled the idea. Until September 2006, when he was looking for his passport and instead found his game files. He resurrected the project.

“The Bicycle Diaries: One New Yorker’s Journey Through 9/11” was written by Richard Goodman, a longtime New Yorker who in the first three months after the disaster rode his bicycle almost daily from the Upper West Side toward ground zero, getting as close as he could, then wrote about what he had experienced.