Facetime: It Works for Congress–and for Science, too
In an unseasonable lowering of temperatures last Thursday in Washington, D.C., both administration and Congress pulled back from catastrophic threats...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Mom…1920-2012.
Back in the late 1930’s, a dark time, when the Depression was in full force and the clouds of war...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Communicating uncertainty…a TED video
Just a quick footnote to the previous piece on this weekend’s National Communication Association Chairs’ Summer Institute. In setting up...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Rhetorically speaking…
This past weekend, the National Communication Association put on a three-day Summer Institute for chairs of communication departments, with the...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Fareed Zakaria’s latest thoughts on the benefits of U.S. science.
Just a short post on a Saturday night/Sunday morning to call attention to Fareed Zakaria’s most recent opinion piece in...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
The House looks at NWS mismanagement of appropriated funds
Washington being what it is, yesterday saw widespread interest all across town in the House Commerce-Justice-Science Appropriations Subcommittee hearing on...
OSHA Calls on Meteorologists to Help Prevent Heat Illness
Much of the country is feeling the heat this week at the official start of summer, with temperatures reaching triple...
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Turning Earth scientists into sparkling conversationalists
We Earth scientists can be great people on occasion…maybe even “the salt of the earth.” But we’re sometimes our own...
