Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Let freedom ring!
“In the end, more than they wanted freedom, they wanted security. They wanted a comfortable life and they lost it...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Taming thunderstorm downbursts.
Here’s an anniversary worth marking! It’s been 20 years to the day since a thunderstorm downburst last triggered a commercial...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Could the culture of science have evolved along entirely different lines?
As reported in the June 14th print edition of The Economist, two major scientific studies, rooted in widely different fields,...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Unlimited resilience.
“My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work.” – Jesus (John...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
A “Bill of Rights”for people living on a dangerous planet
The 2014 Natural Hazards Workshop is underway; it’s the 39th in a distinguished series, and remarkable in several respects. Held...
Perspectives
Every Day Can Be World Oceans Day
by Anupa Asokan, AMS Education Program Most of us recognize that the ocean is a driving force behind our weather...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Shawn Achor’s happiness advantage.
One malady that afflicts most young professionals is the idea that if and when they “succeed,” they will be happy....
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
The AMS Summer Policy Colloquium: contributing to successful living on the real world.
Earlier this June, each of the 37 participants in the 2014 AMS Summer Policy Colloquium received a parting gift: a...
Moving Mountains, Not Meteorology
If you attended the joint AMS conferences—on Applied Climatology and on Meteorological Observation and Instrumentation—held in the shadow of Colorado’s...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
More on President Washington’s 1790 perspective.
Most 2014 Colloquium participants have returned home, but in that context it’s perhaps worth looking at four aspects of Washington’s...
