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Airships, AI and Alan Cumming: Tim Answers Your Questions

Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford

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The 50 Things That Made the Modern Economy

It's really hard for me to go from Celsius to Fahrenheit. And I don't have an intuition for Celsius, partly because it's weird. In Washington, D.C., the temperature range across the year is much more than the temperature range in England. But you do have to actually live under the other system to get that intuition.

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