Weather Quest Sleuths: Start Your Smartphones!
Students participating in the 2011 Weather Quest: Use your smart phone to read the qr code on the right to...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Gamers! Uncle Sam wants you!
And so do John Bull and Johnny Canuck. Mother Europa, Germania, Hispania, and Marianne want you. Bharat Mata and PakWatan...
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And Speaking of Fun…
by Steve Ackerman, Annual Meeting Co-Chair Raj concluded a posting about communications themes at the Annual Meeting by saying, “Have...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Playing poker against the real world? Definitely lose-lose.
“If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Placing trillion-dollar bets? How much would you pay to shave the odds?
Get used to trillion-dollar figures. Those are the numbers that matter these days. A billion dollars? A drop in the...
Making Yourself Known…from Someone Who Knows
Al Blackadar, AMS Honorary Member and Past President and veteran of countless AMS meetings, shared this story to us this...
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Leaders, do you want to make your workers more effective? Then lighten up.
All too often, today’s leaders feel isolated, beleaguered, exhausted, pressured, stressed. The key to being more effective? Doing less. Early...
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The Most Difficult "Way of Knowing": Listening
by Raj Pandya, Annual Meeting Co-Chair The theme of this year’s annual meeting is communication, and I think one of...
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Remembering Martin Luther King, Jr.
If a man is thirty-seven years old, as I am, and compromises what he believes in or knows to be...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Civility. Let’s hope it’s contagious!
A soft answer turneth away wrath. Proverbs 15:1 KJV Five reasons for tackling this topic now, and in this blog:...
