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Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford Episodes

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    RoboPod and the Perpetual Money Machine - Cautionary Questions 2

    Tim Harford and Jacob Goldstein answer more of your questions.

  2. Reason, Wrath and Rebellion on the High Seas

    History remembers Captain Bligh as a cruel, petty tyrant. The reality is more complicated

  3. Poles Apart: How A Journalist Divided A City

    Heroic explorer Frederick Cook has just returned from the North Pole...

  4. Number Fever: How Pepsi Nearly Went Pop

    Why some botched competitions ruin businesses, while others short-change consumers.

  5. Missing on "Dead Mountain": A Cold War Cold Case

    In winter 1959, nine experienced hikers led by Igor Dyatlov set out on an expedition.

  6. Masterly Inactivity Versus Micromanaging

    Lady Sale (Helena Bonham Carter) was part of a British retreat from Afghanistan in 1842.

  7. Martin Luther King Jr, the Jewellery Genius, and the Art of Public Speaking

    Some speeches help us dream of a better world鈥hile others become the stuff of nightmares

  8. Lights, Camera, Tax Break

    When Ernest Borgnine gets his big break, it's not the dream gig he thought it was.

  9. Le Mans 55: The Deadliest Race

    A race for speed ends in disaster, changing motor sport forever.

  10. Lab Leak: Could Smallpox Come Back?

    When a photographer begins to feel ill, doctors are mystified.

  11. La La Land: Galileo's Warning

    Giving an Oscar to the wrong film proved that some safety systems can increase mistakes.

  12. Introducing... The Science of Happiness

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  13. Introducing... Short History Of...

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  14. Into the Black Lair: V2 Rocket (Part 2)

    How Nazi Germany was convinced that they couldn鈥檛 afford to ignore rocket technology.

  15. How the Radium Girls Fought Back

    Tim Harford and Kate Moore discuss how the "Radium Girls" took on their employers.

  16. How Britain Invented, Then Ignored, Blitzkrieg

    Why organizations can't always see a brilliant idea that's staring them in the face.

  17. Houdini's Detective and her 1500 Dead Husbands (Part 2)

    Harry Houdini - part 2/3.

  18. Houdini: The Phone Call from the Coffin (Part 3)

    In 1926, Houdini's death shocks the world, but what follows is even more astounding.

  19. Houdini: A Message from the Spirits (Part 1)

    Part 1 of 3: Harry Houdini

  20. Glowing Peril: The Magical Glitter That Poisoned a City

    No-one saw this horrifying radiation accident coming. Should they have?

  21. Give Politicians a Raise, Smuggle Smartphones into School, and go Full Donk! Cautionary Questions with Risky Business

    Can game theory be used to win a world cup? Can you pay the way out of corruption?

  22. Frozen in a Burning 747 (Tenerife Air Disaster 2)

    Two airplanes have just collided on the runway at Tenerife Airport.

  23. Fritterin鈥� Away Genius

    Are restlessness and "fritterin'" important parts of a rich and creative life?

  24. Flying Too High: AI and Air France Flight 447

    Panic has erupted in the cockpit of Air France Flight 447...

  25. Florence Nightingale and Her Geeks Declare War on Death

    How the famed nurse battled to save lives...using statistics, graphs and colored pens.

  26. Embracing the Escape Fire (with Adam Grant)

    When the consequences of letting our ideas become part of our identity.

  27. Dr. Brinkley's Miracle Cure For Impotence (with Betwixt The Sheets)

    Tim Harford and Dr Kate Lister dive into the bizarre and grisly tale of Dr John Brinkley.

  28. Do Nothing, Then Do Less

    Sometimes doing less is the better option, as Chuck Yeager learned the hard way.

  29. Demonizing Dungeons & Dragons

    Dungeons & Dragons caused a global panic about the dangers of role-playing games.

  30. Darwin's Grandpa and the Art of Sex Appeal

    Charles Darwin was stumped by peacocks, due to his theory of evolution.

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