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"Who would you dine with? Scott or Amundsen?" Malcolm Gladwell and Tim Harford in Discussion.

Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford

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I'd Rather Have Dinner With Either of Them, or Scott?

If you eat a choice between dining with two of them, who's your first choice for dinner to night? I'm not sure i'd really want to have dinner with either of them. But scott would just be fascinating. And he's so british. He's so of that period. You would die ot onscart stories for the rest of your life but if you had dinner with him, get him drown. The myth in that goes on afterwards as well. No matter what story you want to tell, he's there in the middle of it. So that a whole narrative that the british are telling about themselves throughout the twentieth century.

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