Monthly Archives: June 2014

As reported in the June 14th print edition of The Economist, two major scientific studies, rooted in widely different fields, and each highly touted in recent months, are receiving a closer, more skeptical look: Some excerpts: SCIENTISTS make much of … Continue reading →

“My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work.” – Jesus (John 4:34, NIV) Nations struggle to provide a meagre resilience with respect to hazards for their people, let alone a just resilience … Continue reading →

The 2014 Natural Hazards Workshop is underway; it’s the 39th in a distinguished series, and remarkable in several respects. Held in Broomfield, Colorado, it brings together researchers from the natural sciences and social sciences. It then mixes these two groups … Continue reading →

One malady that afflicts most young professionals is the idea that if and when they “succeed,” they will be happy. This is an illusion! When we “succeed,” the very act raises the bar for how we define success. The result? … Continue reading →

Earlier this June, each of the 37 participants in the 2014 AMS Summer Policy Colloquium received a parting gift: a copy of Living on the Real World. Here’s the reason why. All seven billion of us wake up daily purposing … Continue reading →

Most 2014 Colloquium participants have returned home, but in that context it’s perhaps worth looking at four aspects of Washington’s first Annual Message to Congress, January 8, 1790 additional to his emphasis on science, innovation, and education discussed in the … Continue reading →

Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness. – George Washington Yesterday, AMS Summer Policy Colloquium participants made the annual pilgrimage to Mount Vernon. We paid homage to a man, and to a generation, who could and … Continue reading →

“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” – Maya Angelou Pete Lamb, George Lynn Cross Research Professor in the School of Meteorology … Continue reading →