Category Archives: Thinking Broadly

Exploring new perspectives, new ways of thinking, or exercising critical thinking skills.

Flu Shots and Seat Belts

Posted on 01 November 2015 by Isabel Gibson

Some thoughts on the nature of advice, triggered by a flu shot. Continue reading →

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You Talkin’ for Me?

Posted on 23 October 2015 by Isabel Gibson

An open letter to the (soon to be) Right Honourable Justin Trudeau, on behalf of just me. (PS – Buddy! Get a head shot that doesn’t make you look like a Chippendale wannabe.) Continue reading →

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Honesty: The Best Policy

Posted on 27 September 2015 by Isabel Gibson

Thinking about what would happen if the warning labels on tobacco products were applied to government communication “products.” Continue reading →

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Hurricane Isabel and Me

Posted on 13 September 2015 by Isabel Gibson

A reflection on my own experience of Hurricane Isabel in 2003. Continue reading →

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The (Baby) Face of Canadian Politics

Posted on 16 August 2015 by Isabel Gibson

Musings about the current state of Canadian politics and why voting still matters, maybe more than ever. And that baby face? It’s not what you’re thinking. Continue reading →

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Electrical Failure, Logical Failure, and Political Discourse

Posted on 28 June 2015 by Isabel Gibson

We now join the conversation in progress . . . Engineer (casually): “It’s a condition called thermal runaway.” Editor (wide-eye-ed-ly): “It melted?” Engineer (indignantly): “No, we unplugged it before it melted. We’re not idiots.” While the Editor considers the evidence … Continue reading →

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What It Is to Scale the Heights

Posted on 22 March 2015 by Isabel Gibson

Putting genteel Georgia behind us, we angle across rural northern Florida to the Gulf Coast and hang a right. And then we drive. And drive. Most of those two days in early January is spent on the who-knew-it-was-so-wide Florida panhandle, … Continue reading →

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Trusting No One

Posted on 01 March 2015 by Isabel Gibson

“Is he turning he has to turn there are barricades why isn’t he signalling why isn’t he slowing down he’s going to crash into the barricades is he turning he has to turn he’s going to hit me I can’t … Continue reading →

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An Empirical Test Could Help

Posted on 25 January 2015 by Isabel Gibson

And, of course, you’ll see the water draining the other way. Before our trip to New Zealand and Australia, several people primed us to watch for a counter-clockwise spin in the bathtub or toilet. Coriolis effect, you know, they’d say. … Continue reading →

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