Living on the Real World
Perspectives
Support for Science
Science in America has fallen on hard times, but there is a path to broadening public support for science and making that support more robust.
Perspectives
How Civilization Itself Will Die
Events of recent months have provided little reason for cheer, but there is some good news: Although we can only buy time, we can potentially buy immense amounts of it.
Perspectives
Living on the Real World—Origins (Part 2)
After 15 years and over 1,000 posts on a stand-alone platform before moving to Headlines, it seems appropriate to run a few posts on LOTRW’s origins.
Perspectives
Living on the Real World? Entropy Is the Real Enemy.
Today’s world would do well to focus on entropy, and how to tame it.
Perspectives
Thoughts on NCAR: Wither. Weather. Whither?
After the administration wielded the wrecking ball on federal agencies in 2025, now it's the turn of NSF and NCAR.
Perspectives
EPA Repeals Its Endangerment Finding; AMS Responds. What Comes Next?
The big environmental news this past week was the repeal of EPA's 2009 Endangerment Finding.
Perspectives
Artificial Intelligence: Remaking the AMS Annual Meetings. Part 2.
The continuing growth of the AI conference portends a hugely expanded, positive future for AMS meetings and for our community.
Perspectives
Artificial Intelligence Is Remaking the AMS Annual Meetings—(Likely? Possibly?) for the Good
The AMS 2026 Annual Meeting is now history. Time to take stock! One salient feature? This year’s AI Conference.
AMS Updates
The 2026 AMS Annual Meeting—and a Presidential Symposium for the Ages
Whether attending AMS 2026 in person or virtually, you won’t want to miss this year’s Presidential Conference. Eleven hours of...
Perspectives
Caving In to Climate Change?
In the face of climate change, the world’s peoples and the United States are advancing in some areas, stalled out in others … but not caving in.
