proceeding by inquiry
future spacing
Electric cars charging ahead in NZ
Transport — it’s all around us all the time, but how often do many of us actually think deeply about it?[A guest post I wrote for Sciblogs, published on 21/12/2015] ¶ Beyond banging our steering wheel in frustration at gridlocked traffic or a slow truck, or having an opinion about driverless cars, that is. Which brings me to electric vehicles (EV), one of my favourite topics of conversation, but one which has had very little real attention — public, private or government — in New Zealand so far. ¶ The subject’s seeing renewed public interest at the moment, due to the historic COP21 declaration…
aimee whitcroftDec 20, 2015
Ethically exhausted?
Can the cognitive load of trying to be good all the time make one behave badly?Many of us subscribe to a set of moral or ethical systems: ways of thinking which help us decide how to behave in various decisions, and which lay out for us the kind of people we want to be. ¶ I think of myself as a relatively ethical person — I screw it up regularly, of course, but I like to think I get better at being an ethical hooman over time, and that my views and behaviour become more nuanced, too.aimee whitcroftDec 6, 2015