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Say Passive House without Saying Passive House

Mathematical models of the physics of heat transfer have been applied to building science for over 25 years. These models have been used to…

Aug 28, 2024

Say Passive House without Saying Passive House

Aug 28, 2024

Does Capitalism Perpetuate Poverty

Let’s define the terms and then examine the phrase. What I’m doing is examining the question, rather than try to answer it in this short…

Aug 14, 2024

Does Capitalism Perpetuate Poverty

Aug 14, 2024

EV Charger Lvl 2 Performance

I bought my 2015 LEAF in January 2022, twenty-one months ago. I bought a LEAF because there’s a third party app, LEAF Spy, to get battery…

Oct 23, 2023

EV Charger Lvl 2 Performance

Oct 23, 2023

Prelude to a First Date

We matched Saturday morning, but the conversation didn’t get going until Sunday. And boy did it get going.

Oct 1, 2022

An embarrassed boy

Oct 1, 2022

From Citizen to Consumer: a Personal Observation

I was nine years old when the change from citizen to consumer hit me. It was a change that happened 47 years earlier: 35 years before I was…

May 24, 2021

From Citizen to Consumer: a Personal Observation

May 24, 2021

Stop Teaching Math Before High School

Is the current educational paradigm, which began as the Industrial Revolution gained dominance, optimal as our society morphs from an…

May 17, 2021

Stop Teaching Math Before High School

May 17, 2021

We weren’t sent here for the Honey

The second 2200km road trip to Florida was the first one with a purpose. We traded driving to get there in one day, but we had the van if…

May 10, 2021

We weren’t sent here for the Honey

May 10, 2021

Rose Blossom Honey in the Shenandoah Valley, USA

This corner market was as good as any place to look for some local honey. We had driven southwest from Washington DC on a whim that we’d…

May 3, 2021

Rose Blossom Honey in the Shenandoah Valley, USA

May 3, 2021

Systematic Bias in Mathematics

An essay, There is No Such Thing as ‘White Math,’ by a Princeton professor of mathematics, Sergiu Klainerman, claims that the objectivity…

Apr 12, 2021

Systematic Bias in Mathematics

Apr 12, 2021

The Fallacy of “What you Eat” vs. “Eat Local”

A growing trend in the popular culture is to claim “What you eat” is more important than “Eating Local.” This claim fails in two…

Apr 6, 2021

The Fallacy of “What you Eat” vs. “Eat Local”

Apr 6, 2021

David Collins

David Collins

Climate scientist with a formal background in mathematics education, making climate science accessible to non-scientists through board game design.

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