Tim Harford @TimHarford
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. timharford.com Oxford Joined April 2009-
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Pause and read @EnumaOkoro about water and Venice. Reminds me of our niger delta and Gabriel Okara's "Call of The River Nun." ft.com/content/67e16b…
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
Why the biscuit tax leaves a strange taste in the mouth: timharford.com/2024/04/why-th…
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
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.) assoc-redirect.amazon.com/g/r/https://ww…
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…
The @RoyalStatSoc are looking for the next legendary super-team of statistical ambassadors! rss.org.uk/news-publicati…
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.
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. bbc.com/future/article…
"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:…
What does it mean to "learn how to think"? I stumbled upon this old column of mine, which I had quite forgotten, and found myself pleasantly surprised by the ideas in it. Being a writer is like that sometimes - on good days, anyway. timharford.com/2022/07/learni…
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@TimHarford FYI my paper on newspaper competition being presented at the NBER Summer Institute today. http://bit.ly/pDHqxp
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@TimHarford I think there are more puzzles here with respect to confusopoly. blogs.hbr.org/cs/2010/11/bre…)
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