Cautionary Tales - The Lovestruck Explorer's Deadly Guessing Game
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Cautionary Tales - The Lovestruck Explorer's Deadly Guessing Game
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The usefulness of useless knowledge
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When persistence prevails [FREE TO READ] After 593 monthly editions, a legend of role-playing games magazines has finally called it a day

In praise of sheer, epic persistence
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AI Risks - Marginal REVOLUTION Two new papers/initiatives indicate severe risks from AI, interestingly in opposite directions. The first is that the most advanced frontier models are now capable of finding and exploiting software i...

"It’s as if a private firm developed nuclear weapons and the American government refused to work with them because they were too woke. Okey dokey."
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When persistence prevails [FREE TO READ] After 593 monthly editions, a legend of role-playing games magazines has finally called it a day

In praise of sheer, epic persistence
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Canterbury and Whitstable Railway - Wikipedia

There was a railway really near Dunkirk from 1830. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canterb... the clash of ancient and modern is even more local!

Running the London Marathon in memory of Winnie Help Tim Harford raise money to support Teenage Cancer Trust

I'm now on an incredible £500 a mile raised for the wonderful cause of the Teenage Cancer Trust. Still room for more contributions! (Thank you.)
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7.2K views · 21 reactions | Tim Harford is running the London Marathon later this month. In preparation, he wanted to see just how fast he might be able to go. So, he went to get his VO2 max tested. Here’s how he got on. More or Less | Listen now on BBC Sounds | BBC Radio 4 Tim Harford is running the London Marathon later this month. In preparation, he wanted to see just how fast he might be able to go. So, he went to get his VO2 max tested. Here’s how he got on....

Somehow this seemed like a good idea at the time...
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The Mad Mystic and the last battle on English soil
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What if AI just makes us work harder? In a column in January about the paradox of work, I recalled the immortal Douglas Adams joke about working conditions: the hours are good, but “most of the actual minutes are pretty lousy”. The jok…

What if AI just makes us work harder?
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Lessons from your petrol pump [FREE TO READ] As consumers, sharp price increases are unwanted. But they send an essential signal

Lessons from your petrol pump
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Oil prices and futures are currently similar to the ECB's adverse scenario

- My newsletter explains how this fits into its three-pronged war strategy

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Lessons from your petrol pump [FREE TO READ] As consumers, sharp price increases are unwanted. But they send an essential signal

Lessons from your petrol pump
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Those share price graphs! 👀👀👀

And then this interviewwith me from a few years back by Steven Levitt of Freakonomics fame. Steve is such an interesting interviewer - he never sounds quite like anyone else.
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What is Rate of Perceived Exertion and How to Use it | EP 163 🎙️ YouTube video by The Running Channel

Popping up everywhere this weekend, to my surprise as much as anyone's.
First, delighted to have my question answered by the amazing team on the Running Channel - 37 minutes in
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And then this interviewwith me from a few years back by Steven Levitt of Freakonomics fame. Steve is such an interesting interviewer - he never sounds quite like anyone else.
freakonomics.com/podcast/tim-...

What is Rate of Perceived Exertion and How to Use it | EP 163 🎙️ YouTube video by The Running Channel

Popping up everywhere this weekend, to my surprise as much as anyone's.
First, delighted to have my question answered by the amazing team on the Running Channel - 37 minutes in
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxe3...

Our 6 year old got a label-maker ❤️

Cautionary Tales: The sightseeing flight and the invisible mountain
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The refreshing power of disagreement One of the most famous experiments in social psychology took place in the early 1950s. Solomon Asch, a professor at Swarthmore College, gathered together groups of young men for what he told them w…

The refreshing power of disagreement
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Cautionary Tales: The sightseeing flight and the invisible mountain
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The refreshing power of disagreement One of the most famous experiments in social psychology took place in the early 1950s. Solomon Asch, a professor at Swarthmore College, gathered together groups of young men for what he told them w…

The refreshing power of disagreement
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If you're interested in the Planet Money book, it's good stuff and it's pre-orderable here: www.planetmoneybook.com

Fairy servants | Dave Morris Get more from Dave Morris on Patreon

New Jewelspider post on faerie servants. This one is free to view, as long as you ask the fays properly.

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Running the London Marathon in memory of Winnie Help Tim Harford raise money to support Teenage Cancer Trust

Disclosure: the creator of the app made a donation to the Teenage Cancer Trust so I'm grateful to that. You can do likewise should you wish: www.justgiving.com/page/tim-har...

parkrun Course Calculator — Compare courses, know your real performance Calculate your Terrain-Adjusted Grade, predict times across 819 UK parkrun courses, and find the fastest courses near you.

I've had fun playing around with this parkrun calculator - put in your recent best at any parkrun, and it will adjust for the difficulty and predict your time at any other parkrun (or longer distances. Fun!
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If you're interested in the Planet Money book, it's good stuff and it's pre-orderable here: www.planetmoneybook.com

A $30mn lesson in patience [FREE TO READ] What we can learn from ‘the worst contract in sports history’

A $30mn lesson in patience
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