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Tim Harford

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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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Some of the most admired gamebooks ever written, 99cents for the pdf on DriveThruRPG. Truly these are the days of miracle and wonder...
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Pause and read Enuma Okoro about water and Venice. Reminds me of our niger delta and Gabriel Okara's 'Call of The River Nun.'
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Hertha Ayrton, pioneering British engineer, inventor and suffragette, was born in 1854. In 1902 she became the first woman nominated a Fellow of the Royal Society, but because she was married she was not elected. In 1906 she was awarded our Hughes Medal.

Hertha Ayrton, pioneering British engineer, inventor and suffragette, was born #OnThisDay in 1854. In 1902 she became the first woman nominated a Fellow of the Royal Society, but because she was married she was not elected. In 1906 she was awarded our Hughes Medal. #WomeninSTEM
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Did we misunderstand Moore's Law? (Yes.)
Could we have left fossil fuels in the dust 25 years ago if we hadn't? (Probably.)
My column this week - enjoy...
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Did we misunderstand Moore's Law? (Yes.) Could we have left fossil fuels in the dust 25 years ago if we hadn't? (Probably.) My column this week - enjoy... on.ft.com/3UK0xsJ
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I read 'Piranesi' by Susanna Clarke earlier this week on a long train journey. What an absolutely magical book! Strongly recommended. (An added delight is that it provides inspiration for a project I'm engrossed in right now.)
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Cautionary Tales - the Fraudster's Guide to Magic Money. Enjoy!
Bonus: at the end of the episode I talk all things Ponzi with Robert Armstrong
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Cautionary Tales - the Fraudster's Guide to Magic Money. Enjoy! Bonus: at the end of the episode I talk all things Ponzi with @rbrtrmstrng timharford.com/2024/04/cautio…
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I read 'Piranesi' by Susanna Clarke earlier this week on a long train journey. What an absolutely magical book! Strongly recommended. (An added delight is that it provides inspiration for a project I'm engrossed in right now.)
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So exciting - a whole day with my Financial Times colleagues Cambridge University and Infosys examining the Moniac machine ….

…depicting the economy

Real machine from 1949 this afternoon. A digital version first

So exciting - a whole day with my @FT colleagues @Cambridge_Uni and @Infosys examining the Moniac machine …. …depicting the economy Real machine from 1949 this afternoon. A digital version first
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Back in the good old days, Columbia University would respond to student protests by calling in The Village People.

Back in the good old days, Columbia University would respond to student protests by calling in The Village People.
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How worried should we be about a world in which AI deepfakes are indistinguishable from real people online? Very worried indeed, argued the late, great Dan Dennett when I spoke to him at the end of last year.
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'You Are Lone Wolf' - pretty amazing story here from Imaginary Worlds podcast. On his death bed, legendary gamebook author Joe Dever wanted his son Ben to finish a long-running series of books. Problem: Ben had never read his father's books, and in fact resented them:…

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