Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz…Why you and I can and should get a good night’s rest, despite the 2012 budget picture.
Yesterday’s post listed reasons why the President’s budget for 2012 triggered insomnia everywhere inside the Beltway. Some lost sleep because...
The Weather Museum Names Its 2010 Heroes
The John C. Freeman Weather Museum at the Weather Research Center in Houston, Texas, recently honored three weather heroes for...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
One-a.m. thoughts on the President’s FY2012 Federal Budget.
Living on another planet? Perhaps you’re unaware that today President Obama is making public his proposed 2012 federal budget. Those...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Valentine’s Day, the Real World, and the Five Languages of Love
You’re multi-lingual. Maybe you didn’t know that! But you are. It turns out, according to Gary Chapman’s best selling book...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
For whom the bell tolls
Yesterday morning I got an e-mail from a colleague and good friend, a hazards geologist. He mentioned in passing that today,...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
The Earth Whisperer.
Back in 1998 Robert Redford produced, directed, and starred in a remarkable film entitled The Horse Whisperer. [With those three...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Your peers’ view of your work? Maybe that’s not the view that matters most.
Scientists are understandably concerned that their work be evaluated by their peers – not by those who lack the education...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Peer review…back in the day.
Once upon a time, giants walked the Earth…or at least scientists version 2.0. Two of these were Isaac Newton (1643-1727)...
Commutageddon, Again and Again
Time and again this winter, blizzards and other snow and ice storms have trapped motorists on city streets and state...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Peer review – reviewed.
We’re entering a time when the process of scientific peer review will likely undergo a careful scrutiny from all sides....
