Perspectives
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Debating funding for geoscience and social sciences: is anyone convinced?
convince (v.) 1520s, “to overcome in argument,” from Latin convincere “to overcome decisively,” from com-, intensive prefix (see com-), +...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Climate Change in the American Christian Mind
In recent years, the George Mason University Center for Climate Change Communication and the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication...
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The case for the geosciences.
Recent months have seen a bit of back-and-forth between the Congress and the scientific community about the value of geosciences...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Women in weather.
Yesterday AMS and Northrop-Grumman put on a Google Hangout on Women in Weather. Their tagline? According to the National Science...
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Weather-Ready World
Why settle for a Weather-Ready Nation? Last week’s press release from the World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction, reprinted here...
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Disaster experts send a message from Sendai.
The UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction (UN WCDRR), held at Sendai, Japan from March 14-18 has reached...
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Blogging by the numbers: 5-0-247.
Social media are widely understood to provide extraordinary new opportunities for connecting people and sustaining conversation and dialog. This is...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Scientists and society: the social contract redux.
Some months ago, the folks at AGU were kind enough to invite me to write an opinion for Eos.org, reflecting...
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Valentine’s Day reflection for Earth scientists
“Out of the heart, the mouth speaks.” – Jesus (Matthew 12:34) “Love doesn’t erase the past, but it makes the...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
SB=IA as a guide for US investments in science. Annotations.
Last week’s LOTRW post introduced a new “equation[1],” reproduced here: (SOCIETAL BENEFIT)i = INNOVATION x APPLICATION A subsequent post will...
