Living on the Real World
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
What We Talk About When We Talk About the Weather…
Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.[1] Several years ago, the American Meteorological Society held its...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Insights from Aaron Goldner on the AGU Blogosphere
Aaron Goldner is this year’s AGU Congressional Science Fellow. Back in 2012, while still a graduate student at Purdue, he...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Almost heaven? For some, it feels more like purgatory.
Almost heaven, West Virginia, Blue Ridge Mountains, Shenandoah River. Life is old there, older than the trees, younger than the...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
William A. Anderson, 1937-2013.
On December 29, Bill Anderson died, suddenly and unexpectedly, while mountain biking in Hawaii. He was first and foremost a...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Brrrrrrr!
It was 70 Fahrenheit here in Washington, DC Tuesday morning. Over the past few days, the media have made much...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Resolve. Unchained.
Therefore, we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
The future of work. What jobs remain?
Yesterday’s post bid farewell to jobs that are going to disappear. What about the more positive side? What jobs will...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
The future of work.
When I was in high school and studying history, I made an electrifying discovery. Since the beginning of the Industrial...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Hope wins. It’s worth wondering why.
“My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter,...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Remedial reading: private-sector (internal) carbon pricing.
Seems I spend much of my life belatedly learning about things I should have known all along or heard about...
