Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Renewal
“The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Value of Information: the imponderable
“In the end, more than freedom, they wanted security. They wanted a comfortable life, and they lost it all –...
New Survey Shows AMS Members' Positions on Climate Change
The vast majority of members of the American Meteorological Society agree that recent climate change stems at least in part...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Four trends ratchet up the value of Earth information.
Four seismic shifts are underway that will combine to make Earth information increasingly valuable – unimaginably more valuable – over...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
The value of Earth Observations, Science and Services – about to skyrocket.
“I can feel guilty about the past, apprehensive about the future, but only in the present can I act. The...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
The transcendent value of Valuation
“In the spring a young economist’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of… valuation.” “Valuations are nothing, but Valuation is everything.”...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Theory X, Theory Y, and the genesis of red tape in science.
“Suppose you’re running a widget factory. You can measure, very quickly, whether a man [sic] is working effectively or not...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
(living on the) Real-World reset.
Seven weeks have passed since the previous LOTRW post. For the world’s billions, life has gone on. LOTRW’s silence has...
From AMS Journals
The New Capital of Lightning
Imagine being awoken late one night by the near constant glow of lightning overhead—often flickering silently but occasionally rumbling deeply...
AMS Programs
Milestones for the AMS Education Program
In a milestone year for the now 25-year-old AMS Education Program, one of the proudest achievements was the successful completion...
