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The effective and equitable dissemination of climate forecasts is as important and challenging as their accuracy. During El Niño 1997-98, Peruvian fisheries showed the need to understand forecast use and all parties' interests.
Why did a light-hearted experiment attract so much attention from the media? The episode is an interesting lesson for those wanting to explain science to the wider public -- equations do not always scare people away.
In the wake of the tragic suicide of a US graduate student, research universities need to adopt a different system of monitoring the quality of graduate students' supervision. Anonymous evaluation could be the answer.
