Living on the Real World
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
(Incidental) environmental intelligence[1].
Dr. Kathryn D. Sullivan, Under Secretary of Commerce for Atmosphere and Oceans, and NOAA Administrator, has throughout her tenure, in...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Hope: GOES-R, the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument, and the people behind these achievements.
In the year 2000, Andrew Delbanco, a Harvard professor, published The Real American Dream: A Meditation on Hope. An excerpt...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Relocating meteorology.
To be a physical scientist is to operate in a very confined world, treating only a small class of variables...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Why Johnny can’t read: and what you can do about it.
Back in 1955, Rudolf Flesch wrote a famous book by this title. In it, he decried a sight-reading approach then...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Remote-sensing nostalgia
“Some days in late August at home are like this, the air thin and eager like this, with something in...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Every community needs a weather-ready stress test.
The story is heartbreakingly familiar. Once again[1], weather and water have hammered Louisianans. Figures put the recent death toll at...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
An earth observations dream gone awry.
“Dreams are never concerned with trivia” – Sigmund Freud “Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Speaking of driver ed…
An alert reader of the previous LOTRW post suggested I link it to the extensive body of material available on...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Weather-Ready Nation? Lessons from driver ed.
The previous LOTRW post touched on the idea that public schools teach kids important life skills in addition to the...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Weather-Ready Nation, Wood Shop, and Home Economics.
Really, Bill? Bear with me. It’s the weekend. In the later years of grade school in New Jersey and then...
