Author: craigshields

Here’s an interesting piece of a unique solar-architected house, a concept that is under development in Morocco. From the piece linked above:

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In rendering Republican gerrymandering asunder, the Ohio Supreme Court demonstrated its understanding of the 14th and 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution that guarantees every American citizen an equal right. Anyone could have seen this coming.  The language in the …

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In this powerful but brief video, a Russian woman, who had been quite active politically, describes how she fled her homeland with her husband and son, immediately after the government announced a crackdown with harsh punishments for all dissidents. The …

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The Trump phenomenon is unique in many different ways, one of which is the sheer volume of evidence that the former president is a conman. What should we infer from Trump’s telling us that he is a “stable genius?” If …

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As shown here, this is about as close to the “good versus evil” narrative as you’re going to find.

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This is certainly the way I see it. Putin did very well at destroying the United States while Trump was in office.  Now he needs a new tactic. That seems to be making life tough for the Democrats, so as …

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We’d all like to see this change. And actually, it could happen, not through government, but by donations from the multi-billionaires.

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Here are some sad words from Diana L. Six, a forest entomologist and professor at the University of Montana. Her research focuses primarily on bark beetle ecology and forest adaptation to climate change. Her issue:  she’s gone from studying life to studying death.

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I’m not sure I would call this a “major loss,” in that there was no doubt from the very beginning that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine constituted not one but several different war crimes. How this will play out vis-a-vis international …

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Here’s a motor of the BMW’s 10-cylinder M5; compare to photo of Tesla’s below. When EVs first came on the scene, many people believed that the sheer simplicity of the concept, and the extremely high efficiency that it gave birth …

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