Up, Up, and Away!
When seven-year-old Max Geissbühler wanted to make a homemade spacecraft, his father, Luke, was skeptical that it could be done....
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
The score? What score? You mean someone’s keeping score?
“He doesn’t know the score.” Years ago, when people wanted to belittle someone, to draw attention to his lack of...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Sustainability? Problematic not just in concept but also in execution.
The execution. Sustainable development, in the implementation, is seriously flawed, at all levels. You feel guilty, don’t you? You should....
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Sustainability? An oxymoron. We can only buy time.
We lack (and rather urgently need) a holistic approach to the real world. In fact, here’s the ideal: in every...
Framing the Framers: Updating Science Communication
Some of you may remember a lively panel on the Science of Communication at the 2008 AMS Annual Meeting. It...
Follow the Water
As the world’s population grows, so does water usage. As a result, the rate we pump water out of the...
Air Quality Monitoring Gets Smart
Smartphones continue to get more popular and, well, smarter, making them ideal for large-scale data-gathering projects. The concept is called...
Across AMS, Perspectives
Michio Yanai, 1934-2010
by Robert Fovell, UCLA, and Wen-Wen Tung, Purdue Univ. Professor Michio Yanai passed away suddenly at his home in Santa...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
The real world? The truth is, we don’t relate.
How many times have you heard someone say, “I can’t relate to him (or her)!…or… I can’t relate to that...
Across AMS
Warren Washington Honored by President Obama
AMS Past President Warren Washington, a leader in the development of climate modeling, was one of the ten winners of...
