RSS Parrot

BETA

🦜 Tim Harford

@timharford.com@rss-parrot.net

I'm an automated parrot! I relay a website's RSS feed to the Fediverse. Every time a new post appears in the feed, I toot about it. Follow me to get all new posts in your Mastodon timeline! Brought to you by the RSS Parrot.

---

The Undercover Economist

Your feed and you don't want it here? Just e-mail the birb.

Site URL: timharford.com

Feed URL: timharford.com/feed

Posts: 10

Followers: 2

The lesson of Loki? Trade less

https://timharford.com/2024/05/the-lesson-of-loki-trade-less/

Published: May 30, 2024 16:46

The pages of the Financial Times are not usually a place for legends about ancient gods, but perhaps I can be indulged in sharing one with a lesson to teach us all. More than a century ago, Odin, All-father, greatest of the Norse gods, went to his wayward…

Fossil fuels could have been left in the dust 25 years ago

https://timharford.com/2024/05/fossil-fuels-could-have-been-left-in-the-dust-25-years-ago/

Published: May 23, 2024 16:27

Gordon Moore’s famous prediction about computing power must count as one of the most astonishingly accurate forecasts in history. But it may also have been badly misunderstood — in a way that now looks like a near-catastrophic missed opportunity. If we had…

The surprising data behind supercentenarians

https://timharford.com/2024/05/the-surprising-data-behind-supercentenarians/

Published: May 16, 2024 17:17

If there is a Dog Heaven, what must Bobi be thinking as he gazes down? Bobi’s place in the record books seemed assured when he died in October at the age of 31 years and 165 days — more than two years older than his closest rival for the title of the…

Why, deep down, we’re all ultramarathoners

https://timharford.com/2024/05/why-deep-down-were-all-ultramarathoners/

Published: May 2, 2024 16:51

Jasmin Paris is not built like ordinary mortals. Last month she won a moment of fame after completing the Barkley Marathons, a race so brutal that only 19 men have managed to finish in the past 35 years. Paris is the first woman to complete the race. It is…

Cautionary Tales – The Fraudster’s Guide to Magic Money

https://timharford.com/2024/04/cautionary-tales-the-fraudsters-guide-to-magic-money/

Published: April 26, 2024 04:01

Cautionary Tales will be LIVE on stage in London 21 May 2024. Tickets are on sale now.  Sam Israel had a problem. The investors in his hedge fund, Bayou Capital, were expecting spectacular returns. Sam himself had spent years proclaiming the fund’s…

Why the biscuit tax leaves a bad taste in the mouth

https://timharford.com/2024/04/why-the-biscuit-tax-leaves-a-bad-taste-in-the-mouth/

Published: April 25, 2024 16:41

Earlier this year, two distinguished gentlemen, Judge Hyde and his adviser Julian Stafford, sampled a mineral-enriched flapjack — alas, a year past its sell-by date — and pondered its qualities. (Flapjacks are slabs of oats stuck together with a glue made…

Cautionary Tales – Blood and Gold (with Dan Snow)

https://timharford.com/2024/04/cautionary-tales-blood-and-gold-with-dan-snow/

Published: April 23, 2024 05:10

Bonus: When Spanish conquistadors arrived in Peru in 1526, it was the beginning of the end for the Inca. Their bloody pursuit of gold, fame and fortune was rife with treachery and deceit. Within a few short years, the once-thriving Incan empire had been…

A TikTok ban won’t solve social media’s collective trap

https://timharford.com/2024/04/a-tiktok-ban-wont-solve-social-medias-collective-trap/

Published: April 18, 2024 16:37

US legislators are eager to ban TikTok. They are missing a bigger question: should they also ban Instagram, Facebook and the network formerly known as Twitter? The obvious answer is “no”, because although everyone grumbles about social media, we still use…