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Tim Harford @timharford.ft.com · 20h

New York billboards are advertising Cautionary Tales!
Wow. (I think this is Patreon's way of showing some love for my favourite podcast... www.patreon.com/c/Cautionary...)

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Tim Harford @timharford.ft.com · 5d

Missing Fish and Fatal Feasts: Ritual and Ruin at the Sun King's Table (Cautionary Tales)
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Tim Harford @timharford.ft.com · 4d

His book "What Art Does" is short and thought-provoking and original. www.amazon.com/What-Art-Doe...

What Art Does: An Unfinished Theory

What Art Does: An Unfinished Theory [Eno, Brian, Adriaanse, Bette] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. What Art Does: An Unfinished Theory

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Tim Harford @timharford.ft.com · 4d

Loved the conversation between Brian Eno and Ezra Klein. One of the rare skills Eno has is to discuss potentially-pretentious topics with neither a trace of pretension nor a trace of post-modern irony. He says insightful things in a straightforward way. www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfYY...

Brian Eno on AI, Art and What Makes Us Human

YouTube video by The Ezra Klein Show

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Tim Harford @timharford.ft.com · 5d

Missing Fish and Fatal Feasts: Ritual and Ruin at the Sun King's Table (Cautionary Tales)
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Chris Giles @chrisgiles.ft.com · 6d

The economics profession is almost united in calling for major reforms to UK property tax fast. They’re badly misguided

Think twice before rushing to fix the UK’s broken property taxes

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Tim Harford @timharford.ft.com · 5d

If AI lifts off, will living standards follow? timharford.com/2025/10/if-a...

If AI lifts off, will living standards follow?

Once artificial intelligence really gets going, how fast can the economy grow? Five per cent a year? Ten per cent? Fifty per cent? Name your number. If you want press coverage, make it a big one. A…

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Tim Harford @timharford.ft.com · 6d

In defence of digital ID
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In defence of digital ID

[FREE TO READ] Well-designed, it could strengthen the protection of important liberties

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Tim Harford @timharford.ft.com · 10d

The "testicular pie chart". A lost art.
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Dave Morris @davemorris.bsky.social · 12d

"The City of Bones" -- #Vulcanverse meets #DragonWarriors and #5e by way of Jason and the Argonauts... But be sure to double-check my stat blocks if you're using the Dungeons & Dragons version.
#ttrpg
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Danse Macabre (a rattling good adventure with Dragon Warriors and D&D 5e rules)

The Vulcanverse series consists of five open-world gamebooks designed for solo roleplaying, but they provide such a sweeping story arc that...

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Tim Harford @timharford.ft.com · 12d

Don't Panic!
Loved this conversation with Arvind Ethan David about how Douglas Adams was a master of the cautionary tale.
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Tim Harford @timharford.ft.com · 12d

Don't Panic!
Loved this conversation with Arvind Ethan David about how Douglas Adams was a master of the cautionary tale.
timharford.com/2025/09/caut...

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Tim Harford @timharford.ft.com · 12d

How to dodge the tourist traps
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How to dodge the tourist traps

Traffic jams, heatwaves and hidden charges: you know they’re coming but somehow they are impossible for the holiday-maker to dodge. This summer, after online comparison shopping, we paid a vast sum…

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Tim Harford @timharford.ft.com · 13d

Does economics use too much maths - or the wrong kind of maths? on.ft.com/3IqOgGb

The wrong kind of maths

[FREE TO READ] Why the mathematics used in economics for decades needs a rethink

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Tim Harford @timharford.ft.com · 13d

Does economics use too much maths - or the wrong kind of maths? on.ft.com/3IqOgGb

The wrong kind of maths

[FREE TO READ] Why the mathematics used in economics for decades needs a rethink

on.ft.com

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Tim Harford @timharford.ft.com · 16d

A lovely essay by RJ Andrews on lucidity vs luminosity in information design: www.chartography.net/p/clarity-un...

Clarity Unbound

Restoring Radiance to Information Design

www.chartography.net

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Robin Wigglesworth @robinwigglesworth.ft.com · 19d

Quite possibly the nerdiest Lunch with the FT we've ever run, featuring the inelastic markets hypothesis, 'econophysics', the Black-Scholes model's weaknesses and several drive-by shootings of economists. www.ft.com/content/6f54...

Investor Jean-Philippe Bouchaud: ‘The whole bull run is because of an influx of money’

The physicist and hedge fund manager on why the efficient markets theory is ‘all wrong’, economists with ‘mathematics envy’ — and what Camus can teach us about compromise

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Tim Harford @timharford.ft.com · 19d

Cautionary Tales - A Deadly Day at the Races: What Radical Protest Can and Cannot Do
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Tim Harford @timharford.ft.com · 19d

Cautionary Tales - A Deadly Day at the Races: What Radical Protest Can and Cannot Do
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Tim Harford @timharford.ft.com · 19d

My date with an octopus...
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My date with an octopus

A funny thing happened to me this week. After trusting a dating app to arrange dinner with a suitably vivacious and intelligent lady, I arrived at the restaurant at the appointed time to find that …

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Tim Harford @timharford.ft.com · 20d

It's Adobe Acrobat that's killing me at the moment. Simply will not let me read or search a PDF without plastering everything with pop-ups insisting I use AI instead...

Sarah O'Connor @sarahoconnorft.ft.com · 20d

I don’t know if it’s the tone or the frequency of these messages from Microsoft, but whenever they pop up I hear Regina George in my head saying “stop trying to make ‘fetch’ happen”

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Tim Harford @timharford.ft.com · 20d

Not sure quite what happened but a flurry of hugely generous donations in support of @teenagecancertrust.bsky.social . I'm so grateful to all.

Tim Harford @timharford.ft.com · Sep 7

I'm running the London Marathon in memory of my cousin Winnie - more about her, and the Teenage Cancer Trust, at the link. If you felt able to chip in a few quid I'd be hugely grateful. I'm confident that it's a very good cause.
www.justgiving.com/page/tim-har...

Running the London Marathon in memory of Winnie

Help Tim Harford raise money to support Teenage Cancer Trust

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Tim Harford @timharford.ft.com · 20d

Alexander von Humboldt taught us to try to understand the world both by looking at the data, and by going out, looking carefully and trusting our own senses.
With this in mind, I wonder what he'd have made of our debate about immigration?
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The UK’s problems aren’t caused by immigration

[FREE TO READ] It’s not hard to see how so many came to worry about the issue. But the data isn’t there

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Tim Harford @timharford.ft.com · 20d

Iced Latte from Monmouth is delicious. Otherwise I agree.

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Tim Harford @timharford.ft.com · 20d

Not sure quite what happened but a flurry of hugely generous donations in support of @teenagecancertrust.bsky.social . I'm so grateful to all.

Tim Harford @timharford.ft.com · Sep 7

I'm running the London Marathon in memory of my cousin Winnie - more about her, and the Teenage Cancer Trust, at the link. If you felt able to chip in a few quid I'd be hugely grateful. I'm confident that it's a very good cause.
www.justgiving.com/page/tim-har...

Running the London Marathon in memory of Winnie

Help Tim Harford raise money to support Teenage Cancer Trust

www.justgiving.com

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