Living on the Real World
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
When it comes to STEM, “both-and” is better than “either-or.”
Last month, the White House issued an important statement on Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) education. The statement builds...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Climate change and the nation’s infrastructure draws scrutiny from the GAO… and the AMS
Climate change continues to draw attention and concern from those focused on long-range planning, and big-ticket items, such as the...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
The outlook for reducing losses from natural hazards
The other day a colleague was in my office and as part of the conversation she and I did a...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
A TALE OF TWO NAPA VALLEYS
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
NAPA weighs in on National Weather Service improvement.
When the National Academy of Sciences/National Research Council (NAS/NRC) released its report Weather Services for the Nation: Becoming Second to...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Chaos at fifty… and Mother’s Day
Chaos: When the present determines the future, but the approximate present does not approximately determine the future. – Edward Lorenz...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
More on Climate Change in the American Mind
As promised, the George Mason University Center for Climate Change Communication and the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication today...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Anchors Away! for robo-research
Still more on robotics and climate research, this on “autonomous research vessels,” from George Leopold: If you are an oceanographer...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Co-production of knowledge…the next big thing?
Returning to the current Congressional interest in criteria for funding research at NSF as well as other federal science agencies…...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Extreme Weather and Climate Change in the American Mind… and leadership.
Today the George Mason University Center for Climate Change Communication and the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication released their...
