Pop-Up Ideas Podcast
Tim Harford presents a series of talks inspired by ideas in anthropology, culture and the social sciences
Episodes to download
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Simon Garfield: Maps and Mistakes—Series 2
New Year's Day 2014
3/3 Simon Garfield discusses the mistakes and deceptions in some of our best-loved maps.
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Jared Diamond: How Geography Creates History
Christmas Day 2013
The geographer and polymath Jared Diamond argues that apparently slight differences in...
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Jerry Brotton: Mapping History—Series 2
Wed 18 Dec 2013
2/3 Professor Jerry Brotton discusses how each period in history gets the map it deserves.
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Tim Harford: The Power of Maps—Series 2
Wed 11 Dec 2013
1/3 Tim Harford and his guests tell intriguing stories inspired by maps.
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Common Tragedy—Series 1
Tue 30 Jul 2013
4/4 Tim Harford reflects on the impact of mankind on the world around us.
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David Kilcullen: Feral Cities—Series 1
Tue 23 Jul 2013
3/4 Tim Harford is joined by influential counter-insurgency expert David Killcullen.
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Gillian Tett: The Anthropology of Finance—Series 1
Tue 16 Jul 2013
2/4 Financial journalist Gillian Tett describes how she predicted the financial crisis in 2008
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Malcolm Gladwell: Listening in Vietnam—Series 1
Tue 9 Jul 2013
1/4 Tim Harford is joined by Malcolm Gladwell for the first in this new series of talks.
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Tim Harford: The day the geeks took over poker
Wed 13 Feb 2013
Tim tells the story of Chris Ferguson who applied game theory to poker and won - big time.
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Tim Harford: The Indiana Jones of Economics
Wed 6 Feb 2013
Tim Harford tells the story of Bill Phillips - war hero, engineer, crocodile-hunter,...
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Tim Harford: War Games and Armageddon
Wed 30 Jan 2013
Tim Harford tells the story of Thomas Schelling, an economist who helped America and...
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Tim Harford: The Kidney Matchmaker
Wed 23 Jan 2013
Tim tells the story of Al Roth, who worked out how to create a clearing-house for kidneys.
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Tim Harford: Hotpants vs The Knockout Mouse
Wed 16 Jan 2013
Tim Harford weaves together economic ideas with remarkable personal histories in some...
