Living on the Real World
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
In Rwanda: Gender, genocide, and generations…
The most moving moments on this trip to Rwanda? These three topics win by a mile. The story threads are...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
In Rwanda… ignorance exposed closer to home.
I’ve been immersed in policy and away from science too long… On day two here in country, the nine of...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
In Rwanda…making my ignorance linear
The previous post suggested that we’re all living in the Age of Nonlinearity. One consequence is that most of us...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Our Age has a name…The Age of Nonlinearity.
“Linear problems are all the same. Nonlinear problems are all different.” – Robert Hooke (1918-2003) My father, a mathematician, once...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
$60B in relief for hurricane Sandy victims? Just a first installment on a $1T bill coming due.
Here’s how we can turn all that into good news. Let’s start with the backstory. When hurricane Sandy came ashore...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
(Some of) Dr. Martin Luther King’s thoughts about science.
Although Dr. Martin Luther King Day will be officially celebrated this coming Monday…fittingly, by Barack Obama’s inauguration as President for...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
The (first) Cuomo Sandy Commission makes its report.
This past Friday saw the release of a report: New York State 2100 Commission: Recommendations to Improve the Strength and...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Stove-piping: maintaining firewalls separating science/social relationships/spirituality
Stove-piping: we decry it in the workplace. What about when it separates science from relationships with others from spirituality in...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
A (weekend) benediction for the 2013 AMS Annual Meeting
In the Latin, “bene + dictus” connotes the idea of “good word” or “well said.” In English, “benediction” has come...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
WWBD…What would Boone do?
Here at the AMS Annual Meeting in Austin, Texas, some of the buzz is that the Earth observations, science, and...
