Perspectives
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Remedial reading, and (noting the season), a regifting of the same: Beyond Persuasion: A Proposal for Invitational Rhetoric.
A week or so ago, had the pleasure to be interviewed as part of a survey conducted by Ioanna Cionea,...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Remedial Reading: Mike Hulme’s 2009 book, Why We Disagree About Climate Change
Want to make any scientist you know feel shame and guilt? Ask them about some journal publication or book bearing...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Dawn in America
Got up early enough this morning (at that time those in the military refer to as “oh-dark hundred”) to collect...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Scientists’ kith and kin.
What on earth, or who on earth, are kith? Merriam Webster’s website tells us this: Kith has had many meanings over...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
E pluribus unum.
“The economy, stupid.” – James Carville. In 1992, James Carville, then a strategist in Bill Clinton’s successful run for the...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
The innovation workforce pipeline.
The previous LOTRW post compared innovation to a tractor pull; throughout history, each increment of innovation is made a bit...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Innovation? It’s similar to a tractor pull. As a nation, we should take heed and prepare accordingly.
A vignette: in the 1990’s, I did a fair bit of government-related travel. Too many sleepless nights in distant hotel...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Remembering Colin Hines (1927-2020).
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
The Race Awakening of 2020: A 6-Step Guide for Moving Forward
If you’re a person of color in the United States, you’ve been living out the racism issue every single day...
