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Tim Harford
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FT columnist, BBC journalist, author, host of Cautionary Tales, professional nerd.
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ithout my fitness tracker I’d never have run so far. Or behaved so weirdly

The marathon, the algorithm and me

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Tim Harford: Without my fitness tracker I’d never have run so far. Or behaved so weirdly
[FREE TO READ] The marathon, the algorithm and me
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January 17, 2026 at 8:08 AM
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Cautionary Tales: Shoes, Booze and the Pursuit of Happiness (Pt1) timharford.com/2026/01/caut...
January 16, 2026 at 7:21 AM
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In which @soumayakeynes.ft.com eventually runs out of zombie puns

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Would a ‘mild zombie apocalypse’ be a good thing for the UK economy?
Business dynamism comes in many different forms
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January 15, 2026 at 1:08 PM
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Depressing as the thought of Farage as PM is, I'd just like to take the credit for having predicted it ten years ago in CAN YOU BREXIT?

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Can You Brexit
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January 15, 2026 at 1:42 PM
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January 16, 2026 at 7:21 AM
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Why populism became popular
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Why populism became popular
Say what you like about the tenets of populism, it certainly seems to be, well, popular. But what are the tenets of populism? It’s easy enough to say what a centre-left party is likely to stand for…
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January 15, 2026 at 5:36 PM
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Dumm und Dümmer : Hitler Invades Florida
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January 13, 2026 at 7:41 AM
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When psychologists mislead us
[FREE TO READ] From Piltdown Man to the Stanford prison experiment, many famous scientific discoveries have been exposed as hoaxes or distortions
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January 14, 2026 at 7:25 AM
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When psychologists mislead us
[FREE TO READ] From Piltdown Man to the Stanford prison experiment, many famous scientific discoveries have been exposed as hoaxes or distortions
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January 14, 2026 at 7:25 AM
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Dumm und Dümmer : Hitler Invades Florida
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January 13, 2026 at 7:41 AM
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January 9, 2026 at 7:34 AM
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Liar, Bigamist, Brute: How Isaac Singer liberated women
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January 9, 2026 at 7:37 AM
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Liar, Bigamist, Brute: How Isaac Singer liberated women
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January 9, 2026 at 7:37 AM
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January 9, 2026 at 7:34 AM
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How British queues got out of hand
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How British queues got out of hand
[FREE TO READ] We were a nation that didn’t mind waiting in line. But this is ridiculous
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January 8, 2026 at 7:59 AM
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How British queues got out of hand
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How British queues got out of hand
[FREE TO READ] We were a nation that didn’t mind waiting in line. But this is ridiculous
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January 8, 2026 at 7:59 AM
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Cautionary Tales: Fritterin' Away Genius
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January 2, 2026 at 7:57 AM
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Why self-improvement starts with maintenance
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Why self-improvement starts with maintenance
It’s the time of year to ponder self-improving resolutions, and I find myself consulting one of my favourite 87-year-olds: the visionary author Stewart Brand. But if Brand is right, perhaps self-im…
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January 2, 2026 at 7:59 AM
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Why self-improvement starts with maintenance
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Why self-improvement starts with maintenance
It’s the time of year to ponder self-improving resolutions, and I find myself consulting one of my favourite 87-year-olds: the visionary author Stewart Brand. But if Brand is right, perhaps self-im…
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January 2, 2026 at 7:59 AM
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Cautionary Tales: Fritterin' Away Genius
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January 2, 2026 at 7:57 AM
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Cautionary Tales: Photographing Fairies
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Cautionary Tales – 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 fairie…
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December 26, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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Why self-improvement starts with maintenance
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Why self-improvement starts with maintenance
[FREE TO READ] Whether you’re talking about armies, motorcycles or teeth, the same rule applies — what you care for will endure
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December 24, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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“They fall behind and are slowly crushed”: Board Games and Economics with Richard Garfield
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December 19, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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Santa Claus is still a woman...
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Santa Claus is still a woman
The first line of Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women is “Christmas won’t be Christmas without presents”, while Harriet Beecher Stowe’s 1850 short story The Good Fairy is about Christmas presents and,…
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December 18, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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From colonising Mars to measuring with Mars Bars — addressing your wilder monetary queries
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From colonising Mars to measuring with Mars Bars — addressing your wilder monetary queries
[FREE TO READ] In the latest of his Christmas columns, the FT’s Undercover Economist fields some of your most outlandish proposals, and concludes that there is no such thing as a stupid question
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December 18, 2025 at 6:23 PM