Monthly Archives: April 2013

The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) has been a major player on the scientific scene since its founding in 1848[1]. For 165 years AAAS has been a force for (1) advances in knowledge and understanding that are … Continue reading →

“False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for everyone takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness.” – Charles Darwin Call … Continue reading →

Last week, Bracken Hendricks, Cathleen Kelly, and Adam James of The Center for American Progress released a well-crafted report entitled Infrastructure and Resilience: Forging a National Strategy for Reconstruction and Growth. The report is worth reading in its entirety. Here … Continue reading →

Writing for the AMS blog The Front Page, Ellen Klicka posted a nice article building on last week’s AMS Washington Forum entitled The value of knowing our value. Her comments take off from the first panel at the Forum, which … Continue reading →

“The first casualty when war comes is the truth.” – U.S. Senator Hiram Johnson, 1918 America’s Civil War was, by any measure, horrific. Fought from 1861-1865, it cost the lives of 750,000 soldiers, to say nothing of civilian casualties. Wikipedia … Continue reading →

a follow-up on drones from George Leopold… NOAA is moving out smartly on several fronts to help deploy robotic airplanes carrying a variety of meteorological payloads to track hurricanes, monitor national marine sanctuaries and, soon, take the temperature of shrinking … Continue reading →

Sheryl Sandburg, the Chief Operating Officer at Facebook, has become an overnight sensation, and deservedly so, for her new book, Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead.  If you haven’t already, you should take time to view her … Continue reading →

Throughout the day, including a session at the end, the talk at the AMS Washington Forum kept returning to community concerns ranging from the continuity of funding for Earth observations, science, and services, and the resulting risk of disruption of … Continue reading →

Snippets from the sessions and the hallways: (Some friendly advice from one quarter, in reaction to some back-of-the-envelope estimates of economic value of the enterprise) when doing economics studies, use economists…. and don’t just use economists for budget justification… use … Continue reading →

“The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.” – Thomas Sowell Speaking of “firsts,” … Continue reading →