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Category: Think Check

Y2K: 20/20 Hindsight 20 Years Later

Posted on December 11, 2019 By Critical Links
Y2K: 20/20 Hindsight 20 Years Later

By Seanna Watson Twenty years ago, we were on the cusp of a new millennium. (Yes, I know that there are pedants who assert that the actual start of this millennium was January 1st, 2001, since there was no year “zero.” But I think most people were on the side of the “odometerists.” What they…

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The Tragedy of the Commons

Posted on December 11, 2019December 11, 2019 By Critical Links 1 Comment on The Tragedy of the Commons
The Tragedy of the Commons

By Sandra Dunham I have enjoyed the dramatic sound of this term since I first heard it studying undergraduate economics in the 1980s. Throughout the ensuing 30+ years, I have seen this tragedy play out many times and I am currently witnessing it firsthand with CFIC. The tragedy of the commons is a concept that was popularized…

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Buridan’s Ass, or How to be Rational by Being Arbitrary

Posted on October 30, 2019 By Critical Links

A donkey comes to two bales of hay, equally far from him and equal in size, quality, etc. He does not know how to decide between the two bundles of enticing food, and starves to death while vacillating endlessly between the two options. What should the donkey have done? Fields to think about: decision theory,…

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Sobriety, Addiction Treatment, and Secular Exclusion

Posted on October 28, 2019October 28, 2019 By Critical Links 4 Comments on Sobriety, Addiction Treatment, and Secular Exclusion

by Christjahn Beck Hi, my name is Christjahn Beck and I’m an alcoholic. This very familiar greeting formula is the way that I introduced myself to rooms full of strangers for a short time in my life. I am also a recent transplant from the United States to Canada, the child of two ministers, and…

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Gender Dysphoria: An introduction

Posted on October 26, 2019 By Critical Links

By Diane Bruce Gender dysphoria, also known by the terms gender incongruence and transgenderism , is defined by the World Health Organization (WHO) in its International Classification of Disease as “a marked and persistent incongruence between an individual’s experienced gender and the assigned sex.” In North America, the term gender dysphoria is more common, and is used in the latest version of the…

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