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David Collins

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…

6 min readOct 23, 2023

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EV Charger Lvl 2 Performance

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David Collins

Prelude to a First Date

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

5 min readOct 1, 2022

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An embarrassed boy

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David Collins

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…

5 min readMay 24, 2021

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From Citizen to Consumer: a Personal Observation

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David Collins

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…

3 min readMay 17, 2021

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Stop Teaching Math Before High School

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David Collins

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…

6 min readMay 10, 2021

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We weren’t sent here for the Honey

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David Collins

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…

7 min readMay 3, 2021

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Rose Blossom Honey in the Shenandoah Valley, USA

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David Collins

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…

3 min readApr 12, 2021

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Systematic Bias in Mathematics

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David Collins

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…

5 min readApr 6, 2021

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

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David Collins

A Tribunal That Lost the Trust of the Population it Serves

Disputes between landlords and residential tenants in British Columbia Canada are heard and resolved by the Residential Tenancy Board…

8 min readMar 30, 2021

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A Tribunal That Lost the Trust of the Population it Serves

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David Collins

Every day people move to greater Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, the Capital Regional District.

Sure, there are studies, reports and experts. Everyone has an opinion. Developers want to lower parking requirements because of costs…

5 min readMar 22, 2021

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Every day people move to greater Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, the Capital Regional District.

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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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