This is worth listening to
https://timharford.com/2023/09/cautionary-tales-the-city-that-sold-itself-to-wall-street/
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Cautionary Tales – The City that Sold Itself to Wall Street

Cautionary Book Club:When Morgan Stanley offered to lease Chicago's parking metres for the princely sum of $1 billion, the City Council were convinced they had struck gold and hastily signed the deal. They soon learnt, however, that they hadn't just traded away parking revenue. They had traded away the streets them

https://timharford.com/2023/09/cautionary-tales-the-city-that-sold-itself-to-wall-street/

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Cautionary Tales – General Ludd’s Rage Against the Machines

1812. A band of "Luddites" is laying siege to a textile mill in the North of England, under cover of night. They plan to destroy the machines that are replacing their jobs. But mill owner William Cartwright is prepared: he's fortified his factory with skilled marksmen, fearsome eighteen-inch metal spikes and barrels of sulph

https://timharford.com/2023/08/cautionary-tales-the-assassin-and-the-machine/

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Cautionary Conversations – Andy Warhol’s Factory of Truth

Andy Warhol’s assistant, Gerard Malanga, is facing a long prison sentence in Italy. He’s forged several Che Guevara portraits and tried to pass them off as genuine Warhols. What happens next is a landmark moment in the history of art and authenticity…

Tim Harford is joined by Alice Sherwood, author of Authenticity,

https://timharford.com/2023/08/cautionary-conversations-andy-warhols-factory-of-truth/

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Cautionary Tales – The V2 Trilogy

We're releasing an epic three-part series about the V2 rocket - a terrifying and also bafflingly expensive weapon. How did Nazi Germany ever decide to build such a thing, and what does it teach us about grandiose projects today? Also - what does the shameful underbelly of the V2 programme tell us about complicity in the most dreadful crimes?

The full series is av

https://timharford.com/2023/07/cautionary-tales-the-v2-trilogy/

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Cautionary Conversations – When the Parakeets Plundered New York

This week I speak to Ben Nadaff-Hafrey about his podcast The Last Archive, the time the US started panicking about parakeets, population control, Ursula Le Guin, and more. Enjoy!

If you want to read my essay about the wonderful Elinor Ostrom and her intellectual opposite, Garrett Hardin, it's here (als

https://timharford.com/2023/07/cautionary-conversations-when-the-parakeets-plundered-new-york/

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Cautionary Tales – The Coup, the Poet and the Secret to Winning Wimbledon

“If you can make one heap of all your winnings and risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss..."

Those words -- from Rudyard Kipling's poem "If" -- were based on charismatic nineteenth century doctor Leander Starr Jameson. In Britain, Jameson was worshipped as a plucky hero: a bastion of courage and mental fortitude. Ironically, he was also

https://timharford.com/2023/07/the-coup-the-poet/

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Cautionary Tales – The man who played with hurricanes

Today, the idea of controlling the weather is controversial. Scientists who research geoengineering have even received death threats. But once upon a time, people were optimistic about remaking the climate in entire regions of the world. They approached this science with a touching faith in the power of human creativity.

Ab

https://timharford.com/2023/06/cautionary-tales-the-man-who-played-with-hurricanes/

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Cautionary Tales – Sonic Poison? The genesis of Havana syndrome

CIA agents in Havana complaining of mental fog, dizziness, ear pain in 2016. Children in Miami in 1974, hyperventilating and wracked with abdominal pain. A medieval outbreak of the “dancing plague”. A chorus of meowing nuns.

These mysterious events may have a single, simple explanation — one that’s often

https://timharford.com/2023/06/cautionary-tales-sonic-poison-the-genesis-of-havana-syndrome/

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Cautionary Tales – The Dark Money Behind Mother’s Day

Anna Marie Jarvis wanted a national holiday to honor the dedication and sacrifice of America's mothers. She wasn't the first person to propose a Mother's Day - but her campaign caught the imagination of the people and the ears of the politicians.

Congress officially recognised Jarvis's Mother's Day in 1914 - but the indefa

https://timharford.com/2023/04/cautionary-tales-the-dark-money-behind-mothers-day/

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The mounting horror of this podcast by @TimHarford , extraordinary storytelling but not for the fainthearted..

#CautionaryTales with Tim Harford: The Vigilante and the Air Traffic Controller

Episode webpage: https://omny.fm/shows/cautionary-tales-with-tim-harford/the-vigilante-and-the-air-traffic-controller

Media file: https://chtbl.com/track/39E17/podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/e73c998e-6e60-432f-8610-ae210140c5b1/c0ae8c6e-22f0-4e9b-ac1c-ae390037ac53/6e6d2bf2-1d45-4d6d-ba3e-afd200e8fd73/audio.mp3?utm_source=Podcast&in_playlist=7f5a4714-6b10-4ccf-a424-ae390037ac70
On @AntennaPod + Spotify.
https://open.spotify.com/episode/4sbNmm3rEHLg1l9gdFDMIy?si=l6hbifkUQlewvIQAmMxc5Q&dd=1

Cautionary Tales – the true scandal of Lydia E. Pinkham’s vegetable compound

It could cure almost any 'female ailment' - even cancer - said the adverts. But Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound was, in fact, just a concoction of herbs and alcohol of no proven medicinal merit. That didn't stop desperate American women from buying bottles of the stuff - and

https://timharford.com/2023/04/cautionary-tales-the-true-scandal-of-lydia-e-pinkhams-vegetable-compound/

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As we prepare to move from #DMIdk's university style offices to a new open plan office (with #hotdesking 😒) later this year, @TimHarford's podcast on how (not to) #design an office + associated concepts like #power + the ability to influence your own space seems very relevant.

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https://open.spotify.com/episode/3bNKDJFdns1tPCO07PV3Bo?si=sGGzx9EeTLGFRxxs51u2GQ&dd=1

Cautionary Tales – The Vigilante and the Air Traffic Controller

Air traffic controllers are meant to stop aircraft flying into one another... and if they fail, computer systems are installed to warn pilots of a coming collision. But sometimes these humans and computers give conflicting and confusing advice. Who to believe?

When a cargo plane and a Russian airliner co

https://timharford.com/2023/03/cautionary-tales-the-vigilante-and-the-air-traffic-controller/

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Cautionary Tales – Office Hell: The demise of the playful workspace

In the early 90s, cutting-edge advertising agency Chiat/Day announced a radical plan, aimed at giving the company a jolt of creative renewal. They would sweep away corner offices and cubicles and replace them with zany open spaces, as well as innovative portable computers and phones. A brand new era

https://timharford.com/2023/03/cautionary-tales-office-hell-the-demise-of-the-playful-workspace/

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Cautionary Tales – LaLa Land: Galileo’s Warning (Classic)

Galileo tried to teach us that when we add more and more layers to a system intended to avert disaster, those layers of complexity may eventually be what causes the catastrophe. His basic lesson has been ignored in nuclear power plants, financial markets and at the Oscars...all resulting in chaos.

Featuring: Archie Pa

https://timharford.com/2023/03/cautionary-tales-lala-land-galileos-warning-classic/

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Oh heavens, in this #podcast
@TimHarford will first entertain, then inform, and finally break your heart:

I was sceptical but gave it a go. A must listen.

The Hero Who Rode His Segway Off a Cliff

#CautionaryTales #Segway #PodcastRecommendation

Episode webpage: https://omny.fm/shows/cautionary-tales-with-tim-harford/the-truth-behind-the-death-of-segways-boss

Media file: https://chtbl.com/track/39E17/podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/e73c998e-6e60-432f-8610-ae210140c5b1/c0ae8c6e-22f0-4e9b-ac1c-ae390037ac53/ea752862-d724-409a-a674-af9c00ee47fd/audio.mp3?utm_source=Podcast&in_playlist=7f5a4714-6b10-4ccf-a424-ae390037ac70

@TimHarford I saw this while visiting the Museum of Flight in Seattle and thought of #cautionarytales

If you don't listen to the #cautionarytales podcast, you should. Tim Harford is an excellent storyteller and the most recent one is a gem.
https://timharford.com/2023/02/cautionary-tales-the-hero-who-rode-his-segway-off-a-cliff/

Notes to self:

When trying to clear space on your home Mac, do not accidentally put your main LightRoom directory with 800GB of catalogues & RAW photographs in the trash 😬

And if you do, do not empty the trash 😱

And if you do, thank yourself for having three full backups on separate disks on your desktop 👏

But do remember to recover the purgeable file space before restoring the deleted files (such a weird aspect of macOS 🙄)

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