From AMS Journals, Perspectives
Science Policy: What Would the Founding Fathers Do?
by William Hooke, AMS Policy Program Director. From the AMS project, Living on the Real World “Facts are stubborn things,...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
The Twain of thought rolls on, and meets…data and environmental policy
“Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable.” – Mark Twain Yesterday’s post looked at Census data. We saw...
AMS Programs
A Vote for Weatherproof Elections
Predicting–as opposed to actually voting in–elections has become a national past-time, if one is to judge the media’s obsession with...
Getting Remote Data to Remote Regions
While Internet connections in more remote regions of the world have improved over the years, connectivity challenges still inhibit delivery...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Today’s Twain of thought – and its bearing on tomorrow’s elections.
“Get your facts first; then you can distort them as you please” – Mark Twain We are quick to see...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Triage
Triage[1]. Familiar with the term? It comes from the medical world. In wartime, or following a disaster, a hospital’s facilities...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Ask not what you can do for your ecosystem…ask what your ecosystem can do for you!
Over the past half-century or so, a new notion has emerged, and a wonderful new term has entered the lexicon:...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Full-cost accounting
Chances are you’ve grown cynical about discounts. You harbor the suspicion that the vendor has artificially marked up the retail...
Perspectives
…but not THE Bomb
Editor’s note: Having just posted on the record-setting central U.S. bomb below, it’s only fair to hear immediately from the...
The Bomb
The storm system moving through the Midwest today met the usual criteria–one mb surface pressure drop per hour over 24...
