Living on the Real World
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
The American Meteorological Society speaks out – on weather, water, and climate priorities.
“Understanding how the Earth system works and transforming this knowledge into action will allow our nation and the global community...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Molly Macauley
“What is your only comfort in life and death?” – Heidelberg catechism, Question 1 Molly Macauley, by various turns economist,...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
W. H. Auden reflects … and unknowingly anticipates the 2016 AMS Summer Policy Colloquium.
“Thousands have lived without love, not one without water” – W. H. Auden LOTRW readers may remember my Starbucks anthropologist...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Memorial Day, Environmental Intelligence, and the Commercialization of Data.
“Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
John Knox election to Board of Education
You may have accidentally missed the latest edition of The Flagpole, a locally-owned newspaper in Athens, Georgia. Just in case,...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
The individual as “value proposition.”
“A value proposition is a business or marketing statement that summarizes why a consumer should buy a product or use...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
A procrastinator’s “Hair of the Dog.”
“If your job is to eat a frog, eat it first thing in the morning, and if your job is...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Saving for a rainy day.
“The shortest period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Red States and Blue States.
Here in the United States, merely to mention “red states and blue states” is to activate a strong Pavlovian response....
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Attribution.
Actual conversation this morning between an anonymous atmospheric scientist and an intelligent, educated, cheery layperson in his life (also unnamed) but...
