Living on the Real World
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Craig McLean selected as Assistant Administrator for NOAA’s Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research.
“If you want to move a barge, and you kick it – you’ll just hurt your foot. But if you...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Going home… again?
“Don’t you know you can’t go home again?” the author Ella Winter[1] “No man ever steps in the same river...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Pushing the boundaries.
“The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.” – Albert Einstein This past Thursday, January 15,...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Four metrics: four conversations.
Four conversations – and their juxtaposition –merit our reflection on this three-day weekend. Interestingly, each swirls around an indicator. The...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Fulfilling the Vision of Weather, Water, and Climate Information for Every Need, Time, and Place
A tall order? That’s AMS President Bill Gail’s theme for the 95th AMS Annual Meeting getting underway here in Phoenix,...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
“I Am”… thoughts at the transition from 2014-2015.
The ninth of Bill Gail’s ten questions in his new book is this: do we live in a special time?...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Two books worth reading.
Regrettably, you usually see the word “reading” tied to the word “remedial” in these LOTRW posts. All too often I...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Innovation in space technology and its applications: stepping up the pace.
As hinted in an earlier LOTRW post, NASA’s Applied Sciences Program (ASP) and the 2007 NRC Report Earth Science and...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Do you hear what I hear?
Said the night wind to the little lamb, “Do you see what I see? Way up in the sky, little...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Two postscripts to What kind of world is likely/do we want?
1. Lessons from history. Does humanity serve technology? Or does technology serve humanity? History books tell us that during the 19th...
