Living on the Real World
Living on the Real World
The National Weather Service, NOAA, and their civil servants: Unbroken.
In 2010, Laura Hillenbrand[1] published her biography of Louis Zamperini, entitled Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience,...
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Former NWS Directors speak out.
This past week, the five living former directors of the National Weather Service issued an open letter to the American...
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Remedial reading – Laudate Deum
The previous LOTRW post, occasioned by the conjunction of Easter, Earth Week, and the passing of Pope Francis, took a...
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Laudato si’ – redux.
Praise be to you! Pope Francis died this morning. The news media are saturated with material and that material is...
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Resilience to hazards and disaster recovery? A FEMA mission, but much more.
The previous post revisited resilience to hazards and hazards recovery, LOTRW topics covered multiple times over past years. That reflection...
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Here in the United States, is a natural disaster an attack on one state, or an attack on all?
Hmm. Why does the question seem familiar? Oh yes! The same idea is enshrined in NATO treaty article 5: The...
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Bromley’s No science, no surplus – revisited.
In 1999, D. Allan Bromley, a former science advisor to President George Herbert Walker Bush, wrote an op-ed for the...
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Bullying? Not an effective habit for turbulent (or any other) times.
Tell me something I don’t know, Bill. Most of us consider this is something we’ve always known – innately, or...
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Effective habits for turbulent times #7. Sharpen the saw.
“Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.” –...
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Effective habits for turbulent times #6. Synergize.
E pluribus unum (out of many, one) For years, the unofficial motto of the United States[1]. …Our differences are our...
