How the famed nurse battled to save lives... using statistics, graphs and colored pens.
How the famed nurse battled to save lives... using statistics, graphs and colored pens.
Victorian nurse Florence Nightingale (played by her distant cousin **Helena Bonham Carter** ) is a hero of modern medicine - but her greatest contribution to combating disease and death resulted from the vivid graphs she made to back her public health campaigns. Her charts convinced the great and the good …
How the famed nurse battled to save lives... using statistics, graphs and colored pens.
Why some speeches make us dream of a better world... while others become the stuff of nightmares.
Why some speeches make us dream of a better world... while others become the stuff of nightmares.
One speechmaker inspired millions with his words, the other utterly destroyed his own multi-million-dollar business with just a few phrases. Civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr (played by **Jeffrey Wright** of ****_Westworld_ , _The Hunger Games_ , and the _James Bond_ films) and jewelry store owner Gerald Ratner offer …
Why some speeches make us dream of a better world... while others become the stuff of nightmares.
Tim Harford presents more salutary lessons from history's greatest crimes, mishaps and disasters.
We're no stranger to stories about misinformation or deliberate disinformation.
We're no stranger to stories about misinformation or deliberate disinformation. We live in a world where now more than ever, you have to be skeptical. That skepticism can be healthy, but it also can be used to cast more doubt and misinformation on data and statistics that are very real. …
Hear Tim Harford's "golden rule" for understanding statistics in this extract from his new book.
Cautionary Tales' host Tim Harford has a new book - _The Data Detective_ \- setting out ten commandments for understanding the numbers, charts, graphs and statistics that bombard us every day. In this free extract, Tim explains his extra "golden" rule that allows us to observe all his other commandments …
We are often encouraged to doubt statistics. Shame. They can save our lives.
It's easy to mock statistics or cast doubt on them... but we do so at our peril. Undermining our trust in facts and figures can cause great harm, and even death. We should guard against it. Tim Harford looks at how the seeds of doubt are planted in this mini-episode …
Even with a vaccine it took nearly 200 years to eradicate smallpox - so what can this long battle teach us today?
The eradication of smallpox is one of humanity's great achievements - but the battle against the virus was fought by the most unlikely of alliances. How did the breakthrough happen - and can we guarantee that the world is still safe from smallpox? This episode owes a debt to Stephen …
When a deadly storm turns away at the last minute... should we sign with relief or prepare like crazy for the next one?
When a deadly storm turns away at the last minute... should we sign with relief or prepare like crazy for the next one?
For years, people had warned that New Orleans was vulnerable - but when a hurricane came close to destroying the city, the reaction was muted. Some people took the near miss as a warning - others, as confirmation that there was nothing to worry about. So why do we struggle …