AMS Programs, Perspectives
Why We Need Public Education in Earth Science
by William Hooke, AMS Policy Program Director. From the AMS project, Living on the Real World Early in the Bush...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Diplomatic Wikileaks? University of East Anglia’s CRU on the Big Screen
For the past few days, media have been agog with the latest revelations from Wikileaks: about a quarter-million diplomatic e-mails...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Living Well on the Real World? Public education in Earth science holds the key.
Early in the Bush administration, sometime during the winter of 2001-2002, I got to sit in on a remarkable conversation....
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Getting out the science message? Journalists need readers, viewers, hearers.
“full many a flower is born to blush unseen, and waste its sweetness on the desert air…” Thomas Gray (1716-1771)...
It’s in the Bag
Grocery shoppers usually are prepared to answer just one question at the check out line: “paper or plastic?” In Iowa,...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Getting out the science message? Custer’s scouts had it right at the Little Bighorn
Roger Caiazza provided a thoughtful comment to the last post. Roger first asks: “In your first paragraph you state that...
Roadside Detraction
Broadcast meteorologist Kevin Selle posted this picture to his blog, Digital Meteorologist, with the spot-on comment: “Note to self. Switch...
Across AMS
Pioneering Space Weather Expert Dies
Paul Kintner, a Cornell University engineering professor and head of the university’s Global Positioning Systems Laboratory, died Monday at age...
Across AMS
A White House Moment
Yesterday at the East Room of the White House, President Obama honored the winners of the National Medal of Science,...
