Perspectives
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
A TALE OF TWO NAPA VALLEYS
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
NAPA weighs in on National Weather Service improvement.
When the National Academy of Sciences/National Research Council (NAS/NRC) released its report Weather Services for the Nation: Becoming Second to...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Chaos at fifty… and Mother’s Day
Chaos: When the present determines the future, but the approximate present does not approximately determine the future. – Edward Lorenz...
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More on Climate Change in the American Mind
As promised, the George Mason University Center for Climate Change Communication and the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication today...
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Anchors Away! for robo-research
Still more on robotics and climate research, this on “autonomous research vessels,” from George Leopold: If you are an oceanographer...
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Co-production of knowledge…the next big thing?
Returning to the current Congressional interest in criteria for funding research at NSF as well as other federal science agencies…...
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Extreme Weather and Climate Change in the American Mind… and leadership.
Today the George Mason University Center for Climate Change Communication and the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication released their...
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Further reflections on funding criteria for science.
Indications are that some in Congress are rethinking funding criteria for science… though upon inspection those new criteria might not...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
A change in funding criteria for NSF grants?
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) has been a major player on the scientific scene since its...
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The IPCC consensus process: lessons from the Manhattan Project, mapping the human genome, measuring GDP… and Charles Darwin
“False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported...
