Tim Harford talks to mathematician and comedian Matt Parker about what happened to Air Canada Flight 143.
https://www.pushkin.fm/podcasts/cautionary-tales/cautionary-conversation-flying-on-empty
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Cautionary Tales Ep 3 – LaLa Land: Galileo’s Warning
http://timharford.com/2019/11/cautionary-tales-ep-3-lala-land-galileos-warning/
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France 1346: The army of King Philip VI is Europe's pre-eminent killing machine. It's accustomed to crushing any force stupid enough to oppose it…
https://www.pushkin.fm/podcasts/cautionary-tales/the-french-knights-guide-to-corporate-culture
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Cautionary Tales Ep 4 – The Deadly Airship Race
http://timharford.com/2019/11/cautionary-tales-ep-4-the-deadly-airship-race/
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Claude Shannon was brilliant. He was the Einstein of computer science… only he loved "fritterin’ away" his time. Are restlessness and "fritterin’" important parts of a rich and creative life?
https://www.pushkin.fm/podcasts/cautionary-tales/fritterin-away-genius
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Her charts saved countless lives. But did Florence Nightingale open Pandora’s Box, showing that graphs persuade, whether or not they depict reality?
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The hijackers of flight 961 wanted its pilot to fly them to Australia - and wouldn’t listen to his pleas that there simply wasn’t enough fuel for the mammoth trip. What would cause them to totally disregard the advice of an expert when the stakes were so very high? The Dunning Kruger effect.
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People in Kansas are struggling to recover from the state's experiment with deep tax cuts. What happened in Kansas is similar in many ways to what Congress is attempting to do on a national level.
Think that running a membership site is the holy grail of online business? Barrett Brooks of Fizzle has a cautionary tale for you on The Get Paid Podcast.
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Kathryn Ryan talks with former rugby league player Sione Faumuina about his chequered past, and his desire to help the current generation of players avoid the same pitfalls
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