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The Canal, the Crash and the Ketamine - Pushkin's Reign of Error

Heavyweight

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Metric confusion nearly causes disaster

Tim Harford begins the Air Canada Flight 143 story to show how unit conversion and lost institutional memory caused near catastrophe.

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