How To End A Pandemic

How To End A Pandemic

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Photographing Fairies (Classic)

Sherlock Holmes is known for approaching all mysteries with cool logic - and yet when his creator Sir Arthur Conan Doyle saw photographs taken by two young girls purporting to show real life fairies at play... he unwisely declared them genuine.How did Elsie and Frances fool so ma ...  Show more

"They fall behind and are slowly crushed" - Board Games and Economics with Richard Garfield

Playing board games and spending too much money are time-honored Christmas traditions, so to mark the festive season, Tim is joined by the creator of Magic: The Gathering - Richard Garfield - for a special Q&A about economics and game design.How should you go about building the p ...  Show more

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