Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Tomorrow’s AMS for tomorrow’s Earth.
Came into the office this morning after the three-day holiday weekend to find the latest print edition of Science magazine...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
EPIC and its epoch.
Across the world, societies and their governments are straining to provide essential food, water and energy resources. They’re working at...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Ed Lorenz chats up three caterpillars.
(Exercising a smidgen of creative license) In 1961, Ed Lorenz went for a brief walk on the MIT campus while...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Surviving the Plastocene.
Megatherium – the giant sloth – failed to survive the Pleistocene. Can we do a better job navigating the Plastocene?...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Teaching global warming? Here’s help.
“In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Science and national interest.
“Be as shrewd as snakes, and as innocent as doves.” – Jesus (Matthew 10:16, NIV) “In capturing the rattler, to...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
July 4, then and now.
“…And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Followed by… and following?
My morning rhythm includes joining 800,000 others (give or take) in a DC-area-wide Metro commute. During rush hours, this includes...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
The latest UN report on species extinctions – climate change’s “nuclear winter?”
Print and virtual media have been abuzz these past several days with the rollout of a new United Nations report...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
A 72-hour exploration of the climate-change challenge – distilled into 5-10 minutes of your time.
Last Saturday (April 27th), at a meeting of the American Philosophical Society, Ernest Moniz, former Energy Secretary for President Barack...
