Monthly Archives: May 2013

Chaos: When the present determines the future, but the approximate present does not approximately determine the future. – Edward Lorenz The May 2013 issue of Physics Today contains an interesting article on this subject, taking us back to that time … Continue reading →

As promised, the George Mason University Center for Climate Change Communication and the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication today released the second set of their latest survey findings, in a report entitled Climate Change in the American Mind: Americans’ … Continue reading →

Still more on robotics and climate research, this on “autonomous research vessels,” from George Leopold: If you are an oceanographer or climate researcher, the sheer vastness of the Earth’s oceans is one of the biggest challenges. Aside from gathering a … Continue reading →

Returning to the current Congressional interest in criteria for funding research at NSF as well as other federal science agencies… Recall that the suggestion from the House Science Committee Chair Lamar Smith is that …the NSF director… post on NSF’s … Continue reading →

Today the George Mason University Center for Climate Change Communication and the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication released their latest survey findings, in a report entitled Extreme Weather and Climate Change in the American Mind… April 2013.[1] How might … Continue reading →

Indications are that some in Congress are rethinking funding criteria for science… though upon inspection those new criteria might not look all that different from the criteria in place now: requiring that (1) funded research contribute to the national welfare … Continue reading →