Tim Harford
Freelance Writer at Freelance
Presenter at More or Less: Behind the Stats
Podcast Host at Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford
Columnist, Undercover Economist at Financial Times
Author How To Make The World Add Up (UK) / The Data Detective (US). Cautionary Tales podcast. Undercover Economist at the FT. BBC More or Less. Views my own.
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timharford.com | Tim Harford
The annual Le Mans 24 Hour race brings in hundreds of thousands of spectators to watch the giants of motor racing put their endurance to the ultimate test. Every year, technology improves and the cars get a little faster. In 1955, that push for ultimate speed results in a catastrophe that changes the sport forever.
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ft.com | Tim Harford
Does he always chicken out, or doesn’t he?
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timharford.com | Tim Harford
When the thugs arrive — the Nazis and the Ku Klux Klan — who stands up to them? That’s a question raised by Rutger Bregman in his new book, Moral Ambition. Bregman, who is Dutch, was fascinated by the example of Nieuwlande, a tiny Dutch town whose residents concealed almost 100 Jews from the Nazi occupiers. “The concentration of people in hiding was higher than nearly everywhere else in Europe.” So what made the citizens of Nieuwlande courageous?
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businesstimes.com.sg | Tim Harford
YOU'RE not imagining it. There is something shallow about modern life - a sense that traditional virtues, from craftsmanship to professionalism to loyalty, have somehow been hollowed out. Don't get me wrong: I love living in the 21st century and believe that the world is a far better place in 2025 than it was in, say, 1975. Still, there is something amiss.
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timharford.com | Tim Harford
This episode is released exclusively on Pushkin+. Episodes are released on the main feed each Friday. The sewing machine was once thought to be an impossible invention. It was such a complicated contraption that it would take more than one inventor, with more than one good idea, to make it work. Each of these inventors, including the notorious Isaac Singer, wanted the credit (and the fortune that came with it) for themselves.
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