It’s an understatement to say that Columbia University was transformative for my Dad. He was a poor kid from a Depression-beaten family in the Irish ghetto of Dobbs Ferry. In 1939 Columbia gave him a $600 scholarship and a part-time job and said “Make it if you can.” Four years later he was an honors History graduate, managing the campus laundry service, and voted Most Likely to Succeed by his classmates. He never forgot the doors that Columbia opened for him, nor the personal potential that Columbia...

Pollution is one of the evident effects of human habitation across the earth. In today’s hi-tech era where development is fast moving ahead, the most affected is our environment. The impact of technological growth on our environment has adverse results, one of which is waste pollution. Waste pollution depletes the natural resources of our environment.
What are the solutions to stop our waste pollution problem? There are various ways to stop waste pollution. By recycling, by promoting...

The undesirable effects of human activity to our nature have greatly affected the way we live today. It’s true that in every cause there will always be a corresponding consequence. The rapid development and improvement of industries all over the world has extensively increased economic performance. The impact of this growth spurt can even be felt in less urbanized areas. Though our economy grows stronger our environment becomes weaker as a result. Definitely, the effects of industrialization...

For the past decades people have renewed their efforts in finding solutions in fighting pollution. We need to take actions to reduce environmental damage. We, as consumers the simplest way we can do is recycling. Recycling is the process of taking a product at the end of its useful life and using all or part of it to create a new product. This way we can help the environment by preventing its natural resources from being depleted. Other things we can do is segregating the biodegradable and...

After arriving from my High School Marching Band, I was delighted to see that there was no consensus in the computer model guidance that meteorologists use to predict weather events up to 16 days out.

This is good, as this is the joys of forecasting. When there's no consensus in the models, that indicates that this is a very difficult storm to track.

Bob Guercio might be interested in this, as on his profile description, it says he lives in New Jersey. ...