Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford

Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford

We tell our children unsettling fairy tales to teach them valuable lessons, but these Cautionary Tales are for the education of the grown ups – and they are all true. Tim Harford (Financial Times, BBC, author of “The Data Detective”) brings you stories of awful human error, tragic catastrophes, and hilarious fiascos. They'll delight you, scare you, but also make you wiser. New episodes every Friday.

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Sphygmograph Be Damned: The Science of Love

Sphygmograph Be Damned: The Science of Love

Chris McKinlay is a good-looking, smart student at UCLA, but he can't seem to get a girlfriend. He's a computing expert, so why not use his technology prowess to supercharge his search for a soulmate?...

13 Feb 42min

The Angels, The Stones and The Dead

The Angels, The Stones and The Dead

In the final days of the Sixties, The Rolling Stones join forces with other rock legends to plan a free concert at Altamont Speedway that will rival Woodstock. The "bad boys of rock" don't have the wa...

6 Feb 39min

Powered by Orgasm: The Rise and Fall of a Sex Cult - with Ellen Huet

Powered by Orgasm: The Rise and Fall of a Sex Cult - with Ellen Huet

Run by the charismatic Nicole Deadone, OneTaste billed itself as a sexual wellness startup celebrating the power of female orgasm. But behind the celebrity endorsements and promises of healing, lay a ...

30 Jan 41min

The WOW Machine Stops (Pt 2)

The WOW Machine Stops (Pt 2)

Tony Hsieh, the billionaire CEO of Zappos, is passionate about community. He pours his time, energy and fortune into building a network of like-minded people - first in Las Vegas, then Park City, Utah...

23 Jan 40min

Shoes, Booze and the Pursuit of Happiness (Pt 1)

Shoes, Booze and the Pursuit of Happiness (Pt 1)

They say the company Zappos is harder to get into than Harvard. Zappos may sell shoes, but its mission is to deliver WOW through a fun-focused company culture, making it one of the most coveted places...

16 Jan 38min

Liar, Bigamist, Brute: How Isaac Singer Liberated Women

Liar, Bigamist, Brute: How Isaac Singer Liberated Women

The sewing machine was once thought to be an impossible invention. It was such a complicated contraption that it would take more than one inventor, with more than one good idea, to make it work. Each ...

9 Jan 37min

Fritterin' Away Genius (Classic)

Fritterin' Away Genius (Classic)

Claude Shannon was brilliant. He was the Einstein of computer science... only he loved "fritterin' away" his time building machines to play chess, solve Rubik's cubes and beat the house at roulette.If...

2 Jan 37min

Photographing Fairies (Classic)

Photographing Fairies (Classic)

Sherlock Holmes is known for approaching all mysteries with cool logic - and yet when his creator Sir Arthur Conan Doyle saw photographs taken by two young girls purporting to show real life fairies a...

26 Des 202537min

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