Living on the Real World
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
America’s $100 Trillion “Capture-Management” challenge.
“America is open for business.” – President Donald Trump. News reports have it that the president’s recent trip to Davos...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Want to be an effective voice for science?
Watch and learn. “It’s startling to know there are individuals on the brink of adulthood who have spent their entire...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Novim’s latest study: Warning Signs: Effects of Proposed Federal Funding Cuts to Environmental and Climate Research and Development Programs.
“The boundary between science and policy is only one of several boundaries that hinder the linking of scientific and technical...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Reflections on Martin Luther King Day.
“I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Thriving on Our Changing Planet: A Decadal Strategy for Earth Observation from Space
“This beast is best felt. Shake, rattle, and roll. We are thrown left and right against our straps in spasmodic...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
More good news to start 2018: 2017 was the safest year on record for air travel.
Continuing the good-news theme of recent LOTRW posts, the flight safety story lit up yesterday’s internet. This report, from Fortune’s...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Some “good news” from the AMS – on diversity and inclusion – to start off 2018.
If the world could stand a bit less in the way of scolding, per the topic of recent LOTRW posts,...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
At the risk of being the scold…
As a rule, with each LOTRW entry, I try to post a notice on Facebook, and tweet as well. This...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
What meteorologists might stand to learn from Taylor Swift.
This morning’s Washington Post ran an article on Taylor Swift and her 2017. Some excerpts. Two weeks ago, on her...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
U.S. social fabric – torn, frayed, unraveled by 2017’s hurricanes. But how badly?
Social fabric? Quite a bit of texture in what people mean by the term: social fabric: The composite demographics of...
