by Tim Harford | Feb 5, 2021 | Marginalia, Speeches
The Center for Global Development does amazing, evidence-based work on one of the most important challenges in the world. I’m so flattered that they are hosting my first event, with Amanda Glassman in the chair. Noon, DC time, on 10 February. Wednesday 10th Feb...
by Tim Harford | Feb 4, 2021 | Undercover Economist
The Florence Nightingale Museum in London, devoted to the pioneering 19th-century nurse, is closing its doors, indefinitely. The museum director, David Green, describes the plan as “hibernation”; the collection will remain on site at St Thomas’s Hospital. The timing...
by Tim Harford | Feb 3, 2021 | Marginalia, Resources
Chapter nine of “The Data Detective” / “How To Make The World Add Up” is all about data visualisation – its power, and its pitfalls. The overarching story is about how one woman launched a public health revolution, armed with a fancy pie...
by Tim Harford | Feb 2, 2021 | Marginalia, Other Writing, Radio
My book The Data Detective is out today in the US and Canada. (The same book is called How To Make The World Add Up elsewhere in the world.) To celebrate publication, Riverhead Books have teamed up with Pushkin Industries to release the final chapter of the audiobook...
by Tim Harford | Feb 1, 2021 | Marginalia, Resources
Do you want to be able to think more clearly about the world? Do you want to be able to evaluate the claims that swirl around you in the media and on social media? Do you wish you knew what questions to ask to sift out the truth from the misinformation? Are you a...
