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South Pole Race: When the Limeys Get Scurvy
Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford
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In the first two episodes of our three part series on the race for the pole, we heard about how british navy captain robert falcon scott had lost. But there's one mysterious feature of that race that we've barely discussed and it raises a much broader question. Why does hard won knowledge sometimes melt away in front of us? And so i present a third perspective from the race to the pole. This one, if you'll forgive the phrase, is served with a twist of lime. Pushkin.
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