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Cautionary Tales – Angels, Gold and Lust: John Dee and the Philosopher’s Stone (Part 2)

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Betting on risk changes the world

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Cautionary Tales – The Queen’s Astrologer: the Price of Prophecy

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When persistence prevails

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Cautionary Tales – The Drop of Paint that Sank a Submarine

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Cautionary Tales – Beware Tech Tycoons with Piranha Tanks, with Katie Prescott

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Lessons from your petrol pump

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Marathon day tomorrow…

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Cautionary Tales – Finding grace in a burger bun: an incrediburgible quest

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A $30mn lesson in patience

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Cautionary Tales – Run, Switzer, Run: The Women Who Broke the Marathon Taboo (Classic)

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How can we tell good AI from bad?

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Cautionary Tales – Bravo, Comrade Lysenko! The Man Who Failed To Feed The USSR

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Running a marathon for Winnie

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Cautionary Tales – The Lovestruck Explorer’s Deadly Guessing Game

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The usefulness of useless knowledge

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Cautionary Tales – The Mad Mystic and the Last Battle on English Soil

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What if AI just makes us work harder?

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Cautionary Tales – The Sightseeing Flight and the Invisible Mountain

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The refreshing power of disagreement

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