Living on the Real World
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Further reflections on funding criteria for science.
Indications are that some in Congress are rethinking funding criteria for science… though upon inspection those new criteria might not...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
A change in funding criteria for NSF grants?
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) has been a major player on the scientific scene since its...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
The IPCC consensus process: lessons from the Manhattan Project, mapping the human genome, measuring GDP… and Charles Darwin
“False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Infrastructure and Resilience
Last week, Bracken Hendricks, Cathleen Kelly, and Adam James of The Center for American Progress released a well-crafted report entitled...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Earth observations, science, and services: How good is good enough?
Writing for the AMS blog The Front Page, Ellen Klicka posted a nice article building on last week’s AMS Washington...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Civil War
“The first casualty when war comes is the truth.” – U.S. Senator Hiram Johnson, 1918 America’s Civil War was, by...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Drones as Gap Fillers
a follow-up on drones from George Leopold… NOAA is moving out smartly on several fronts to help deploy robotic airplanes...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
What happens when everyone “leans in?”
Sheryl Sandburg, the Chief Operating Officer at Facebook, has become an overnight sensation, and deservedly so, for her new book,...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
At the AMS Washington Forum: Time to Man Up.
Throughout the day, including a session at the end, the talk at the AMS Washington Forum kept returning to community...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
At the AMS Washington Forum
Snippets from the sessions and the hallways: (Some friendly advice from one quarter, in reaction to some back-of-the-envelope estimates of...
