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The Man Who Bet His House on a Pop Song - A Eurovision Tale

Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford

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The Story of Daniel's Stroke

Daniel had only seven months to live. Since the stroke, his health had been fine. He'd kept his apartment and not only that, he'd won a lot of money on Israel. It seemed like he was set for to go off on his travels and come back next year. A bit later in the year, just before one of his overseas adventures, he sent me a message about a strange pain he'd been having in one leg. The post-mortem found that it was cancer. His body was riddled with tumours. With hindsight, the dots were there to be joined. So what's the moral of this story? Because we've been telling Daniel's story as if it was

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