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  • Friday, 9 April, 2021
    Tim Harford
    Could Covid help us tackle climate change?

    ‘We can adapt in extraordinary ways if we must and if we are willing to make big sacrifices for the common good’

  • Friday, 2 April, 2021
    Tim Harford
    Covid has been a catastrophe. Can it also be an opportunity?

    ‘Without diminishing its terrible health and economic costs, there are also reasons to be cheerful’

  • Friday, 26 March, 2021
    Tim Harford
    An economist’s tips on making email work for you

    ‘Email celebrates its 50th birthday this year yet it is hard to think of a more aggravating workplace practice’

  • Friday, 19 March, 2021
    Tim Harford
    What have we learnt from a year of Covid?

    ‘If you show us images of selfish covidiots, we are more likely to be selfish. Show us noble altruists and we aspire to be like them’

  • Friday, 12 March, 2021
    Tim Harford
    Technology has turned back the clock on productivity

    ‘Tools such as computers tempt highly skilled, highly paid people to noodle around making bad slides’

  • Friday, 5 March, 2021
    Tim Harford
    The painful politics of vaccination

    There is something powerful about the idea that until the lockdowns can be eased for everyone, they should be eased for nobody

  • Friday, 26 February, 2021
    Tim Harford
    Late greats: why some brilliant ideas get overlooked

    ‘The stories of Jansky, Mendel and Bayes hold out hope to anyone who feels that the world has not quite caught up with them’

  • Friday, 19 February, 2021
    Tim Harford
    The hard lessons of home schooling

    ‘There have been moments when 1.5bn children were missing school. This is apocalyptic’

  • Friday, 12 February, 2021
    Tim Harford
    From vaccines to homework, why humans can’t stop overpromising

    ‘Manufacturers expected to produce 800 million doses by the end of 2020. The reality was 20 million to 30 million’

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  • Friday, 5 February, 2021
    Tim Harford
    Why investing in data is never money wasted

    ‘Without good information, we can’t track Covid cases, see which hospitals need help — or rebuild the economy’

  • Friday, 29 January, 2021
    Tim Harford
    Covid-19: how close is the light at the end of the tunnel?

    Only now are the first vaccines starting to reduce the death toll — and we should see major progress soon

  • Friday, 22 January, 2021
    Tim Harford
    We’re living in a golden age of ignorance

    Diversions, political polarisation and conspiracy thinking have all contributed to this new era

  • Wednesday, 13 January, 2021
    Tim Harford
    Florence Nightingale: the pandemic hero we need

    Most famous as a nurse, her innovative use of data helped also prevent many deaths from infectious diseases

  • Friday, 8 January, 2021
    Tim Harford
    Is ‘first dose first’ the right vaccination strategy?

    Vaccine resistance and public trust are just a couple of the issues with this new approach

  • Thursday, 31 December, 2020
    Tim Harford
    What can we learn from the great WFH experiment?

    Working from home is more productive than we had guessed but face-to-face contact will still make a difference

  • Tuesday, 22 December, 2020
    Tim Harford
    Do bad gifts get a pass this Christmas?

    The arguments against poor presents are powerful. But has the pandemic changed all that?

  • Friday, 18 December, 2020
    Tim Harford
    Things (I think) I was wrong about this year

    ‘Was I wrong about lockdowns? I’m still sitting on the fence. I am too indecisive even to be wrong’

  • Friday, 4 December, 2020
    Tim Harford
    What puzzles and poker teach us about misinformation

    We cannot escape our emotions — but we can take them into account

  • Friday, 27 November, 2020
    Tim Harford
    Why we should celebrate rather than criticise Christmas newsletters

    In these polarised times, one truth unites the British commentariat: Christmas letters are ghastly

  • Friday, 20 November, 2020
    Tim Harford
    Why Covid-19 vaccines face a new obstacle course

    From a shortage of dry ice to Brexit traffic jams, hurdles still threaten our ability to inoculate the world

  • Friday, 13 November, 2020
    Tim Harford
    Why are we all so obsessed with saving Christmas?

    Politicians are willing to put Covid progress at risk for the symbolic value of December 25

  • Saturday, 7 November, 2020
    Tim Harford
    Working from home: when the cracks start to show

    Hazards range from missed meetings to yawning chasms of understanding about fundamental goals

  • Friday, 30 October, 2020
    Tim Harford
    Why tech isn’t always the answer — the perils of bionic duckweed

    Always waiting for the next breakthrough can keep us from taking action now

  • Friday, 23 October, 2020
    Tim Harford
    The power of negative thinking

    We should all spend more time considering the prospect of failure and what we might do about it

  • Monday, 12 October, 2020
    Tim Harford
    Winning bid: how auction theory took the Nobel Prize

    Paul Milgrom and Robert Wilson’s work transformed how countries allocate resources in the public interest

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