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March 17, 2021 at 1:15 PM Shares9 One year ago, I sat at a local pub and had a plate of fish and chips for lunch. It was St. Patrick’s Day, and it was the last day before all the restaurants closed in my little corner of the world. Hospitals filled up; lots of people died. We stopped doing almost everything, and struggled to find ways to do our remaining everyday tasks in a fashion that wouldn’t kill our (or anyone else’s) parents. Somewhere in there a mob of lunatics stormed the Capitol. So, yeah, not a great year. With everyone’s mental health shot, I think we could all use somethin...

th from 11:00 am – 1:30 pm, both virtually and in-person at the Riverhouse on the Deschutes. This year’s keynote speaker Tim Hartford, described as ‘perhaps the best popular economics writer in the world’. He is a behavioral economist, BBC radio and TV presenter, and award-winning  Financial Times columnist. Sometimes called ‘Britain’s Malcolm Gladwell’, Tim offers a distinctive blend of storytelling, humor and intelligence. He has written nine books, including  The Undercover Economist, which has sold nearly 2 million copies in over 30 languages. His BBC Radio 4 series,  Mo...

Tim Harford on The Data Detective, his new book about understanding statistics.

Ten Easy Rules to Make Sense of Statistics “Thanks to Tim Harford’s characteristic wit and magnetic storytelling, you may not realize you’re getting an advanced course in how to understand the kinds of statistics we’re all faced with every day.” –DAVID EPSTEIN, author of Range