Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford
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Subscribers: 11125
Reviews: 60
Episodes: 158
Dannie
May 21, 2025
Fabulous storytelling and exploration of ideas, produced to a high standard with great theme and other music. If it's too slow for you speed it up, where's the problem?? I love it so much I like it to take as long as possible.
Rafael
Mar 9, 2025
SK93
Jun 13, 2024
Valoria
Apr 26, 2024
Kuba
Oct 15, 2023
Oct 3, 2023
Aug 16, 2023
Jul 25, 2023
Chris Shaw
Jul 12, 2023
my new favourite podcast
Jun 27, 2023
Anthony
Jun 9, 2023
Enjoyed Segway episode but the accompanying sound track was soooooo annoying. Does every point have to be punctuated with spurious noises. Sometimes less is more. Great storytelling.
Mar 28, 2023
flemi
Jan 20, 2023
mildly interesting but every piece of information is delivered so slowly and with so much unnecessary fluff that i can't imagine listening to it on normal speed.
Wesley Morgan
Dec 25, 2022
So interesting! I love all the stories and the way they're presented. just wish the ads weren't so long.
my name=none of your business
Jul 1, 2022
I f**king love this podcast!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
L. Mueller
Jun 21, 2022
One of my most favorite podcasts!
A very captivating, educational and professionally produced podcasts that makes me lose track of time.
I highly recommend it!
Podcast Republic User
Jun 3, 2022
chimyo
May 19, 2022
Maj
Mar 17, 2022
This podcast is one of my favorites. The narrative style is completely engrossing, and the stories always teach something new and interesting. I love the way the multiple threads are woven together.
Elizabeth Northen
Feb 25, 2022
Tied for 1st place fave with Revisionist History
Feb 15, 2022
Description
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Roosevelt and the Renegade (Panama Disaster 2)
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May 23, 2025 |
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The Great Frenchman's Folly (Panama Disaster 1)
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May 16, 2025 |
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Lab Leak: Could Smallpox Come Back?
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May 09, 2025 |
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"Dangerously Near to Absolute Perfection"
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May 02, 2025 |
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Buried by the Wall Street Crash (Classic)
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Apr 25, 2025 |
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Presenting: You Must Remember This - Alfred Hitchcock
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Apr 18, 2025 |
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“I love being the person who doesn’t know anything” - Why Steven Levitt has swapped academia for podcasting
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Apr 11, 2025 |
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The Old Man and the Wrecking Crew
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Apr 04, 2025 |
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Houdini: The Phone Call from the Coffin (Part 3)
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Mar 28, 2025 |
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Houdini's Detective and her 1500 Dead Husbands (Part 2)
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Mar 21, 2025 |
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Houdini: A Message from the Spirits (Part 1)
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Mar 14, 2025 |
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Would You Trust a Gangster Nanny? - Cautionary Questions with Rachel Botsman
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Mar 07, 2025 |
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Lights, Camera, Tax Break
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Feb 28, 2025 |
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The Nursery Rhyme That Ruined a Rock Band
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Feb 21, 2025 |
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The Widow Who Disrupted Champagne (with Ben Walter)
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Feb 19, 2025 |
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The Thrill and the Drop: A First Date Rollercoaster
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Feb 14, 2025 |
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Dr. Brinkley's Miracle Cure For Impotence (with Betwixt The Sheets)
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Feb 07, 2025 |
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The Night of the Mugger
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Jan 31, 2025 |
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Missing on "Dead Mountain": A Cold War Cold Case
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Jan 24, 2025 |
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Frozen in a Burning 747 (Tenerife Air Disaster 2)
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Jan 17, 2025 |
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Cleared For Take-Off? (Tenerife Air Disaster 1)
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Jan 10, 2025 |
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Do NOT Pass GO! (Classic)
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Jan 03, 2025 |
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Demonizing Dungeons & Dragons (Classic)
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Dec 20, 2024 |
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Captain Coward and the Blame Game
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Dec 06, 2024 |
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Get Happier, Help Others: Some Good Ideas About Giving
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Dec 02, 2024 |
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RoboPod and the Perpetual Money Machine - Cautionary Questions 2
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Nov 22, 2024 |
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Darwin's Grandpa and the Art of Sex Appeal
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Nov 08, 2024 |
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The Edinburgh Body Snatchers: Murder at Halloween
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Oct 25, 2024 |
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Cautionary Tales Presents: Death Fraud and Other Risky Business
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Oct 14, 2024 |
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The Poet Who Toppled The British Empire
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Oct 11, 2024 |
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Reason, Wrath and Rebellion on the High Seas
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Sep 27, 2024 |
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Steel and Kindness: Clash of the Skyscrapers
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Sep 13, 2024 |
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The Nice Guy, the Bully and the Kiss
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Sep 13, 2024 |
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Tim's Tolkien Obsession & Amazon Prime's The Rings of Power
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Aug 30, 2024 |
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The Human Guinea Pigs of Camp Lazear
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Aug 16, 2024 |
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Embracing the Escape Fire (with Adam Grant)
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Aug 02, 2024 |
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Cautionary Tales Presents Vultures from Lost Hills: Dark Canyon
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Jul 25, 2024 |
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Flying Too High: AI and Air France Flight 447
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Jul 19, 2024 |
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Run, Switzer, Run: The Women Who Broke the Marathon Taboo
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Jul 05, 2024 |
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Adidas v Puma: A Battle of Boots and Brothers
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Jun 21, 2024 |
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The Revenge of the Whales
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Jun 07, 2024 |
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When the Robots Take Over... - Cautionary Questions
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May 24, 2024 |
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WW2: How Britain Ignored the Mother of All Secrets
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May 10, 2024 |
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The Fraudster's Guide to Magic Money
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Apr 26, 2024 |
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Blood and Gold (with Dan Snow)
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Apr 23, 2024 |
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The Rise and Fall of a Megalomaniac
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Apr 12, 2024 |
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Inside the Bizarre World of Dictators
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Mar 29, 2024 |
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Do Nothing, Then Do Less
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Mar 15, 2024 |
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Buried Evil: V2 Rocket (Part 3)
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Mar 01, 2024 |
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Into the Black Lair: V2 Rocket (Part 2)
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Feb 16, 2024 |
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Supersonic Nazi Vengeance: V2 Rocket (Part 1)
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Feb 02, 2024 |
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Tenerife: The Most Deadly Air Disaster
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Jan 30, 2024 |
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Martin Luther King, the Jewelry Genius, and the Art of Public Speaking (Classic)
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Jan 19, 2024 |
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DANGER: Rocks Ahead! (Classic)
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Jan 05, 2024 |
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When Stalin Killed the Weekend (with The Happiness Lab)
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Dec 22, 2023 |
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How the Radium Girls Fought Back
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Dec 08, 2023 |
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Glowing Peril: The Magical Glitter That Poisoned a City
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Nov 24, 2023 |
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George Washington's Beard of Beetles (with The Dollop)
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Nov 17, 2023 |
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Laser Versus Parchment: Doomsday for the Disc
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Nov 10, 2023 |
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Cautionary Tales Presents The Dream
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Nov 06, 2023 |
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Killers of the Flower Moon: Osage Chief Jim Gray In Conversation
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Oct 27, 2023 |
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Oil and Blood: The Osage Murders
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Oct 20, 2023 |
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DOUBLE BILL: A Monkey For Mayor / A Screw Loose At 17,000 Feet
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Oct 13, 2023 |
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"7000 horses are being flown across space..." - Cautionary Questions #2
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Sep 29, 2023 |
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Cautionary Tales Presents: Getting out of Dodge from Revisionist History
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Sep 19, 2023 |
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A Chorus of Contempt at The Sydney Opera House
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Sep 15, 2023 |
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The City That Sold Itself To Wall Street
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Sep 01, 2023 |
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General Ludd's Rage Against the Machines
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Aug 18, 2023 |
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Andy Warhol's Factory of Truth
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Aug 11, 2023 |
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Poles Apart: How A Journalist Divided A City
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Aug 04, 2023 |
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The Father of Space Travel
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Jul 28, 2023 |
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A Fascination with Failure: Death On The Dancefloor (Classic)
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Jul 21, 2023 |
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When Parakeets Plundered New York
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Jul 14, 2023 |
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The Coup, the Poet and the Secret to Winning Wimbledon
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Jul 07, 2023 |
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The Man Who Played With Hurricanes
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Jun 23, 2023 |
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Cautionary Tales Presents: Lost Hills - The Dark Prince
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Jun 15, 2023 |
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Sonic Poison? The Genesis of Havana Syndrome
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Jun 09, 2023 |
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Airships, AI and Alan Cumming: Tim Answers Your Questions
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May 26, 2023 |
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The Man Who Bet His House on a Pop Song - A Eurovision Tale
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May 12, 2023 |
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The Dark Money Behind Mother's Day
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Apr 28, 2023 |
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The True Scandal of Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound
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Apr 14, 2023 |
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What if Terrorists Could Weaponize Covid?
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Apr 07, 2023 |
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The Vigilante and the Air Traffic Controller
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Mar 31, 2023 |
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America's Mata Hari? The Double Life of Esther Reed
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Mar 24, 2023 |
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Office Hell: the Demise of the Playful Workspace
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Mar 17, 2023 |
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La La Land: Galileo’s Warning (Classic)
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Mar 10, 2023 |
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The Scientist and the Swindler
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Mar 03, 2023 |
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The Hero Who Rode His Segway Off a Cliff
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Feb 17, 2023 |
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The Mummy's Curse (Classic)
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Feb 10, 2023 |
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The Final Illusion of the Great Lafayette
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Feb 03, 2023 |
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LIVE: The Myth of the Million Dollar Tulip Bulb
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Jan 20, 2023 |
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DOUBLE BILL: When a Plague Struck World of Warcraft/Blood on the Tracks
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Jan 06, 2023 |
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"Snow Crashing Into The Metaverse" from Imaginary Worlds
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Jan 03, 2023 |
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The Company That Cancelled Christmas
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Dec 09, 2022 |
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The Wild Turkeys of Schleswig
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Nov 25, 2022 |
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Cautionary Conversation: The Blitz Spirit and the Blackout Ripper
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Nov 18, 2022 |
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The Inventor Who Almost Ended the World
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Nov 11, 2022 |
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The Halloween Poisoner
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Oct 28, 2022 |
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Cautionary Conversation: The Conspiracy Theorist Who Changed His Mind
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Oct 21, 2022 |
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Cautionary Tales Presents: Warfare, The Life of Anne Frank
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Oct 14, 2022 |
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The Online Date That's Too Good to be True
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Oct 07, 2022 |
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A Leap of Faith From the Eiffel Tower
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Sep 23, 2022 |
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Cautionary Conversation: Flying on Empty
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Sep 09, 2022 |
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Tim Talks Bicycles with Patented
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Sep 02, 2022 |
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"You’re Not Howard Hughes!"
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Aug 26, 2022 |
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"Who would you dine with? Scott or Amundsen?" Malcolm Gladwell and Tim Harford in Discussion.
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Aug 19, 2022 |
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South Pole Race: When the Limeys Get Scurvy
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Aug 12, 2022 |
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The Bowery Boys and the Black Tom Explosion
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Aug 05, 2022 |
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South Pole Race: “Mummy, is Amundsen a good man?”
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Jul 29, 2022 |
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South Pole Race: David and Goliath on Ice
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Jul 15, 2022 |
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Chicago When It Sizzles
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Jul 01, 2022 |
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The French Knight’s Guide to Corporate Culture
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Jun 17, 2022 |
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Frankenstein Versus the Volcano
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Jun 03, 2022 |
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Bless the Coal-black Hearts of the Broadway Critics
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May 20, 2022 |
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Monkey for Mayor from This Day in Esoteric Political History
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May 13, 2022 |
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When the Autopilot Switched Off
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May 06, 2022 |
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Cautionary Tales Presents: World's Greatest Con
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Apr 29, 2022 |
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Photographing Fairies
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Apr 22, 2022 |
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Tim Joins ‘No Such Thing As A Fish'
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Apr 15, 2022 |
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The False Dawn of the Electric Car
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Apr 08, 2022 |
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The Balloons That Ate Cleveland (A Cautionary Tales Short)
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Mar 25, 2022 |
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Death on the Dance Floor
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Mar 25, 2022 |
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Cautionary Tales Returns Every Other Friday from March 25th
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Mar 11, 2022 |
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The Mummy’s Curse
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Oct 29, 2021 |
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The Truth About Hansel and Gretel
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Oct 22, 2021 |
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Do NOT Pass GO!
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May 28, 2021 |
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Wrong Tools Cost Lives
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May 21, 2021 |
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Fritterin’ Away Genius
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May 14, 2021 |
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The Fan Who Infected a Movie Star
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May 07, 2021 |
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Whistleblower on the 28th Floor
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Apr 30, 2021 |
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Masterly Inactivity Versus Micromanaging
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Apr 23, 2021 |
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Demonizing Dungeons & Dragons
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Apr 16, 2021 |
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Number Fever: How Pepsi Nearly Went Pop
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Apr 09, 2021 |
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The Curse of Knowledge Meets The Valley of Death
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Apr 02, 2021 |
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The Dunning Kruger Hijack (and Other Criminally Stupid Acts)
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Mar 26, 2021 |
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Catching a KiIler Doctor
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Mar 19, 2021 |
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The Art Forger, the Nazi, and "The Pope"
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Mar 12, 2021 |
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Florence Nightingale and Her Geeks Declare War on Death
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Mar 05, 2021 |
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Martin Luther King Jr, the Jewelry Genius, and the Art of Public Speaking
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Feb 26, 2021 |
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Bonus: Why We Believe What Isn't True (with Axios Today)
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Feb 12, 2021 |
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The Data Detective
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Feb 02, 2021 |
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BONUS: Storks, Smoking and the Power of Doubt
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Sep 16, 2020 |
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How To End A Pandemic
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Jul 17, 2020 |
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That Turn To Pascagoula
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Jul 10, 2020 |
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The Village of Heroes
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Jul 03, 2020 |
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The Spreadsheet of Life and Death
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Jun 26, 2020 |
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A Tsunami of Misery
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Jun 19, 2020 |
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Fire at The Beverly Hills Supper Club
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Jun 12, 2020 |
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Cautionary Tales Presents: TED Talk Daily
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Jan 31, 2020 |
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You Have Reached Your Destination
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Dec 27, 2019 |
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Bowie, Jazz and the Unplayable Piano
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Dec 20, 2019 |
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How Britain Invented, Then Ignored, Blitzkrieg
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Dec 13, 2019 |
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Buried by the Wall Street Crash
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Dec 06, 2019 |
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The Deadly Airship Race
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Nov 29, 2019 |
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La La Land: Galileo's Warning
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Nov 22, 2019 |
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The Rogue Dressed as a Captain
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Nov 15, 2019 |
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DANGER: Rocks Ahead!
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Nov 15, 2019 |
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Introducing: Cautionary Tales
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Oct 22, 2019 |