AMS Programs
The AMS Annual Meeting: Always a Need to Hear the Unheard
You’ve been here before. Those previous AMS Annual Meetings, for example, right here in Phoenix. You probably have some good...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Idled: an (imposed) loss of “agency” hurts our nation and the world.
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Bush 41 and climate change.
George Herbert Walker Bush. The world has completed a week of mourning and celebration of a life well lived and...
AMS Programs
Raise Your Voice for Science
by Sarah Benish and Rafael Loureiro Academic institutions are often highly regarded in terms of ground-breaking research, but less commonly...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
George Herbert Walker Bush, 1924-2018.
“I come before you and assume the Presidency at a moment rich with promise. We live in a peaceful, prosperous...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Dog whistling… and the latest National Climate Assessment.
Dog-whistle politics is political messaging employing coded language that appears to mean one thing to the general population but has an...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Real news, uncertainty, and urgency.
Quantification of ocean heat uptake from changes in atmospheric O2 and CO2 composition. The ocean is the main source of...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Think and act like a meteorologist: VOTE.
Back on October 17th, the Washington Post ran an article with this sobering title: Despite rampant voter enthusiasm, the reality:...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Tropical storms pummel, and bring to light, a third-world America.
“Out of sight, out of mind[1].” Most of us of a certain age are familiar with “third world” nomenclature. When...
Perspectives
Real-World management? Governance is the hard part.
Transitioning from happy-go-lucky living on the Real World to managing the planet poses daunting scientific and technical challenges. But these...
