Living on the Real World
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
To march? Or not to march?
“…ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.” – John F....
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Meanwhile, outside the Beltway…
For me, the week after the annual AMS meeting each year is usually a week of catch-up in my home...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Amicus.
Amicus briefs are legal documents filed in appellate court cases by non-litigants with a strong interest in the subject matter....
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
AMS and the “Horton-Hears-a-Who” strategy for making a difference.
“A person’s a person, no matter how small.” “This,” cried the Mayor, “is your town’s darkest hour! The time...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Want to make a difference in today’s political turmoil? Think like a meteorologist.
Do not answer a fool according to his folly, or you yourself will be just like him. – Proverbs 26:4...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
The AMS has changed my life. How has it changed yours?
I’m Bill Hooke, and the AMS changed my life. A bit of departure from the usual fare for these posts....
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
The Signal and the Noise
“Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge: the serenity to accept the things we cannot...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
More inaugural augury. The outlook for ethics, (and the 2017 AMS Annual Meeting).
Ethics: that branch of philosophy dealing with values relating to human conduct, with respect to the rightness and wrongness of...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
The “augur” in Inauguration.
Many words could have been applied to America’s four-year swearing-in ceremony for new presidents, observed once again tomorrow. Why this...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
(More) remedial reading: three remarkable books, and a call to action.
“In old days books were written by men [sic] of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written...
