Perspectives
Horse whisperers…Earth whisperers.
“The best way to predict the future is to create it.”[1] The 21stcentury – the age we live in –...
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“Human flight” on the 21st-century Real World? 2. Think like the Wright brothers, not like Samuel Langley.
Wilbur and Orville Wright lived at a time in history when inventors of every stripe were feverishly building flying machines....
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“Human flight” on the 21st-century Real World? 1. The cockpit dialog.
Seven billion of us are co-piloting a 1.317 × 1025-lb, unpressurized, open-air planet through the hostile environment of space. You...
Eight Decades: Mapping New England Catastrophe
Eighty years ago today (September 21st), the Great New England Hurricane of 1938 ripped across New York’s Long Island and...
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Public-private partnerships and innovation.
Two weeks ago, Andy Miller of our group here in the AMS Policy Program DC office suggested we should all give a...
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Reflections on Hurricane Florence…human nature…and the Ulysses pact.
Is it just me? Or are hurricane forecasts and the resulting media coverage of hurricanes improving? Some subjective impressions: Forecasts,...
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Partisan (?) science continued.
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where...
How Hurricane Florence Could Turn Weird and Deadly
Hurricane Florence is forecast to slow to a crawl as it nears landfall in the next 24 hours. As a...
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New from Impact-based Decision Support (IDSS): The “food desert” is also hot.
The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care...
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Meteorologists celebrate Labor Day – and serve the world.
“Without labor, nothing prospers.”– Sophocles “Nothing will work unless you do.”– Maya Angelou A day off is a good thing....
