Perspectives
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Getting out the science message? Journalists need readers, viewers, hearers.
“full many a flower is born to blush unseen, and waste its sweetness on the desert air…” Thomas Gray (1716-1771)...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Getting out the science message? Custer’s scouts had it right at the Little Bighorn
Roger Caiazza provided a thoughtful comment to the last post. Roger first asks: “In your first paragraph you state that...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Getting out the Science Message
Environmental scientists are growing increasingly worried about their findings, and see urgent need for more-concerted public action. In fact, their...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
The Fourth Estate…now tending to Estate 3.5?
Conservatism is in these days, so perhaps it’s a good time to reflect on one of the many contributions of...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Ants redux…
Ants were the heroes of an earlier post. There they were lauded for their ability to create nearly Utopian conditions...
Perspectives
On the Road Again!
by William Hooke, AMS Policy Program Director. From the AMS project, Living on the Real World Remember those road-weather folks...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
On the Road Again!
Remember those road-weather folks who were meeting in Indianapolis around September 1st? They’re back. Many of those same players, and...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Stovepipes! The Musical
Once upon a time – actually not so long ago – in a place – not really that far away...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Want a future worth living? Here’s a first step
“The unexamined life is not worth living.” – Socrates (c. 469BC-399BC, as recorded by Plato) For many people, the name and...
From AMS Journals, Perspectives
Science Policy: What Would the Founding Fathers Do?
by William Hooke, AMS Policy Program Director. From the AMS project, Living on the Real World “Facts are stubborn things,...
