Tim Harford
@TimHarford
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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.
Oxford
Joined April 2009
Oo, first glimpses inside The Truth Detective, which is out next week! Ollie Mann has done a wonderful job bringing my ideas to life. For those asking, the book is aimed at 9-13 year olds, although I keep having to confiscate my copy from the grown-ups...
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The hall-of-mirrors economy: don't trade where you tweet! https://t.co/81JfB8hCoG
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Online conversations about hot meme stocks or cryptocurrencies are the source of some very bad decisions
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Cautionary Tales - Kyoto: The battle that defined climate politics (with Joe Robertson) https://t.co/ZjQ4FXC0Zb
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The hall-of-mirrors economy: don't trade where you tweet! https://t.co/81JfB8hCoG
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Online conversations about hot meme stocks or cryptocurrencies are the source of some very bad decisions
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I've always been curious about what it would be like to play D&D with a a professional DM... Last week I got the chance! https://t.co/BCyau8uPXW
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I’ve played tabletop role-playing games for forty years or so, but I’ve never played in a “professional” game. That changed last week when – as a guest of RPG Taverns …
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Over a decade late, I know, but finally got round to reading Isaacson's biography of Steve Jobs, and it's really, really good - vivid, readable, loads of telling detail, deft drawing of connections and conclusions without overcooking it. Recommended.
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Based on more than forty interviews with Steve Jobs conducted over two years—as well as interviews with more than 100 family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues—Walter Isaacson...
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Why populism became popular https://t.co/0BBvZx6xcc
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It appeals more to a way of thinking than to a set of ideas — but is it just wrong?
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Sombre but also good (as always) to talk to Malcolm Gladwell - in this case, about the death penalty in the US, and what it actually takes to kill someone in a way that doesn't qualify as "cruel and unusual". https://t.co/BzfYNojw01
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Last week, Cautionary Tales told the tragic story of Derek Bentley, exploring Britain’s troubled relationship with capital punishment. Across the Atlantic, Revisionist History …
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