Author: craigshields

My friend Paul Scott has been active in the environmental movement and the push for electric transportation since long before he co-founded Plug-In America with Chelsea Sexton in 2005.  Accompanying his video here, he writes: Wanted to share a sliver …

Celebrating Nature’s Beauty with Plug-In America Co-founder Paul Scott Read More »

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Of all locations on the surface of the Earth, Australia is among the most vulnerable to the ravages of climate change, according to scientific reports. Moreover, the intensity of the current fire season validates scientists’ predictions: Australia’s bush fires will …

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There are dozens of different conjectures as to the cause of this retrograde era in the U.S. where white people seem to be doing things as despicable as anything they had done in the past. To be sure, there’s nothing …

Why America Is Going Backwards in Terms of Race, and Why This Is Probably Going To Turn Itself Around Read More »

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Yes, 2019 brought us great sadness in terms of environmental and humanitarian disasters, but it also packed a huge passel of joy for our Christmas stockings. In particular, the electric transportation space continued its expansion with the introduction of a …

Long-Range Electric Vehicles Multiplying Like Rabbits Read More »

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We commonly think of mathematics as an objective discipline.  Regardless of one’s sexual turn-ons or aesthetic sensibilities of favorite novelists, 2 + 2 still equals 4.  One might think this applies to political opinions, but here, things starts to get …

Where Mathematics Starts to Get Blurry Read More »

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Just a bit more than half a century ago, the right wing here in the United States was represented by our popular Republican president Dwight D. Eisenhower, who left us with this: Every gun that is made, every warship launched, …

American Values Used To Include Caring About Others Read More »

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The pic here is a good example of what psychologists refer to as functional fixity. We so strongly assume the mistake is in the array of numbers that our minds are “fixed” and we find it difficult to look elsewhere. …

Being More Fluid in Our Thinking Read More »

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Most of us don’t need an expert in crimes against humanity to tell us that what the United States has done to 5400 children and their parents on the southern border is disgraceful. For the rest of us, let me …

Committing Crimes Again Humanity Read More »

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From the New York Times:  In just three years, the Trump administration has diminished the role of science in policymaking while disrupting research projects nationwide. Experts say the effects may be felt for years.

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What would the American political scene be like if more people had the financial resources and emotional bandwidth required to immerse themselves into it? Think about this, for example:

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