Smoking kills. A few people had suspected as much before the second world war, but it was not until 1950 that the scientific evidence began to accumulate that smokers were at dramatically higher ...

Does he always chicken out, or doesn’t he? Like all loyal listeners to the FT’s Unhedged podcast, I’ve been telling my friends about Rob Armstrong’s perfect new acronym: Taco — Trump Always ...

"Captain Kirk Forgot to put the Machine on Stun" Lying on the cold metal table, Voyne Ray Cox knew the drill. This was his ninth round of cancer treatment - which is why he was certain that what ...

Acclaimed author Michael Lewis discusses his time with Sam Bankman-Fried and why he thinks both high finance and Effective Altruism shaped the ‘Crypto King’s’ worldview, ultimately landing him in jail ...

This episode is released exclusively on Pushkin+. Episodes are released on the main feed each Friday. In the final days of the Sixties, The Rolling Stones join forces with other rock legends to ...

You’re not imagining it. There is something shallow about modern life — a sense that traditional virtues, from craftsmanship to professionalism to loyalty, have somehow been hollowed out. Don’t ...

Panic has erupted in the cockpit of AirFrance Flight 447. The pilots are convinced they’ve lost control of the plane. It’s lurching violently. Then, it begins plummeting from the sky at breakneck s… ...

“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 ...

Cautionary Conversation: Steve Jobs hated his phone so much that he smashed it against a wall. He also referred to mobile carriers as "orifices". Yet he went on to invent the world's most popular ...

When Ernest Borgnine gets his big break in Hollywood, he can hardly believe his luck. But soon he discovers his supposed star vehicle, Marty, is not the dream gig he thought it was. In this episode of ...

Minnie Smith had grown ill quite suddenly. She had been young, fit and healthy and the doctors were baffled. “A peculiar wasting illness,” they called it. But then, her sister Anna went… ...