Perspectives
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Theory X, Theory Y, and the genesis of red tape in science.
“Suppose you’re running a widget factory. You can measure, very quickly, whether a man [sic] is working effectively or not...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
(living on the) Real-World reset.
Seven weeks have passed since the previous LOTRW post. For the world’s billions, life has gone on. LOTRW’s silence has...
From AMS Journals, Perspectives
AMS Summer Policy Colloquium–An Investment in Your Future
One of the special, life-shaping mid-career experiences AMS offers is the Summer Policy Colloquium in Washington, D.C. The AMS Policy...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
The 2016 AMS Annual Meeting, 3-fold problems, and Martin Luther King
If a man is thirty-seven years old, as I am, and compromises what he believes in or knows to be...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
The 2016 AMS Annual Meeting. Big Data.
Every year, I look forward to coming to the American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting. Some of the motivation remains the...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Weather stories that will endure throughout 2016 and beyond.
Weather has figured in the news as we close out 2015 and enter 2016. For example, writing in the Washington...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
My New Year’s resolution for 2016.
“If you find yourself in a hole, quit digging.” – Will Rogers “Your system is perfectly designed to achieve the...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Mary, did you know?
Work for the American Meteorological Society, and soon you’re using “meteorology” to refer to more than terrestrial weather. You come...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Congress signals its intentions toward the geosciences.
“The federal budget is a policy statement.” – widely-quoted Washington aphorism, of unknown origin. “Here’s the way to look at...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
The Paris postulate: the hidden assumption in the latest climate accord.
Postulate (n.) something taken as self-evident or assumed without proof as a basis for reasoning. – dictionary.com Read the draft...
