Perspectives
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Scientific Integrity? Simple and easy – until it isn’t.
This morning’s print edition of the Washington Post ran an op-ed authored by some former NOAA leaders who know their...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Queeg.
“Art imitates life.” – Aristotle “Life imitates art.” – Oscar Wilde, in his 1889 essay The Decay of Lying. Perhaps...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Dorian.
Huge areal extent. High winds at the core (at times, category 5 on the Saffir-Simpson scale). Slow-moving, featuring long dwell...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Tomorrow’s AMS for tomorrow’s Earth.
Came into the office this morning after the three-day holiday weekend to find the latest print edition of Science magazine...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
EPIC and its epoch.
Across the world, societies and their governments are straining to provide essential food, water and energy resources. They’re working at...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Ed Lorenz chats up three caterpillars.
(Exercising a smidgen of creative license) In 1961, Ed Lorenz went for a brief walk on the MIT campus while...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Surviving the Plastocene.
Megatherium – the giant sloth – failed to survive the Pleistocene. Can we do a better job navigating the Plastocene?...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Teaching global warming? Here’s help.
“In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Science and national interest.
“Be as shrewd as snakes, and as innocent as doves.” – Jesus (Matthew 10:16, NIV) “In capturing the rattler, to...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
July 4, then and now.
“…And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge...
