Living on the Real World

Living on the Real World, Perspectives

Want to make a difference in today’s political turmoil? Think like a meteorologist.

January 30, 2017

Do not answer a fool according to his folly, or you yourself will be just like him. – Proverbs 26:4...

Living on the Real World, Perspectives

The AMS has changed my life. How has it changed yours?

January 26, 2017

I’m Bill Hooke, and the AMS changed my life. A bit of departure from the usual fare for these posts....

Living on the Real World, Perspectives

The Signal and the Noise

January 26, 2017

“Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge: the serenity to accept the things we cannot...

Living on the Real World, Perspectives

More inaugural augury. The outlook for ethics, (and the 2017 AMS Annual Meeting).

January 20, 2017

Ethics: that branch of philosophy dealing with values relating to human conduct, with respect to the rightness and wrongness of...

Living on the Real World, Perspectives

The “augur” in Inauguration.

January 19, 2017

Many words could have been applied to America’s four-year swearing-in ceremony for new presidents, observed once again tomorrow. Why this...

Living on the Real World, Perspectives

(More) remedial reading: three remarkable books, and a call to action.

December 31, 2016

“In old days books were written by men [sic] of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written...

Living on the Real World, Perspectives