nytimes.com: by Andrew C. Revkin

Michael Glantz, the social scientist whose program was recently cut by the National Center for Atmospheric Research, is in Libya at the moment working with the meteorological service there on education programs for North Africa. Before he left, he sent me an open letter calling on the center and its main source of money, the National Science Foundation, to “tear down” the wall between physical science and the social sciences that could help insure that knowledge is applied productively outside the walls of supercomputer centers. The letter is posted below. [ read more ]