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Tim Harford explains - and sometimes debunks - the numbers and statistics used in political debate, the news and everyday life
Did Mussolini make the trains run on time?
8 mins; December 21, 2024
How many Americans live ‘paycheck to paycheck’?
8 mins; December 14, 2024
Did one in 10 Greeks die in World War Two?
9 mins; December 07, 2024
Can Elon Musk save the US Government $2 trillion?
8 mins; November 30, 2024
Do fossil fuels get $7 trillion in subsidies?
8 mins; November 23, 2024
Did 20 million votes really go missing in the US election?
8 mins; November 16, 2024
Do we have enough clothes for the next six generations?
10 mins; November 09, 2024
What can economics learn from sport?
8 mins; November 02, 2024
Are older drivers more dangerous?
28 mins; October 30, 2024
Are older drivers more dangerous?
28 mins; October 30, 2024
Is Trump right about violent crime in Venezuela and the US?
10 mins; October 26, 2024
Do US crime statistics miss out the most violent cities?
28 mins; October 23, 2024
Nobel prize: Why are some countries so much richer than others?
8 mins; October 19, 2024
When are numbers like a horse at a gymkhana?
28 mins; October 16, 2024
Uncertainty, probability and double yoked eggs
8 mins; October 12, 2024
Should the government target persnuffle?
27 mins; October 09, 2024
Are 672 billion pounds of corn eaten in the US every year?
10 mins; October 05, 2024
How do you breed seventeen octillion rats?
28 mins; October 02, 2024
The puzzles you’re meant to get wrong
8 mins; September 28, 2024
Could the winter fuel cut cost more than it saves?
28 mins; September 25, 2024
Do 85% of the world’s population practice a religion?
10 mins; September 21, 2024
How do you count millionaires?
28 mins; September 18, 2024
Nate Silver: Do risk-takers run the world?
8 mins; September 14, 2024
How long does it take to turn around an oil tanker?
27 mins; September 11, 2024
Who pays when trade wars heat up?
8 mins; September 07, 2024
Exclusions, black holes and dividing by zero
28 mins; September 04, 2024
Where have Cuba’s people gone?
9 mins; August 31, 2024
Do we eat a credit card's worth of microplastic each week?
8 mins; August 24, 2024
Are companies making more money from their customers?
8 mins; August 17, 2024
Is planet Earth getting greener?
10 mins; August 10, 2024
Does a language die every two weeks?
9 mins; August 03, 2024
Are women 14 times more likely to die in natural disasters?
12 mins; July 27, 2024
Is increasing turbulence making flying more dangerous?
10 mins; July 20, 2024
Federer’s 54%: Tennis stats explained
8 mins; July 13, 2024
The magic of trigonometry
9 mins; July 06, 2024
Election endings, tennis and meeting men in finance
37 mins; July 03, 2024
How a tick box doubled the US maternal mortality rates.
9 mins; June 29, 2024
Election claims and erection claims
28 mins; June 26, 2024
Do ‘pig butchering’ cyber scams make as much as half Cambodia’s GDP?
9 mins; June 22, 2024
Worse mortgages, better readers, and potholes on the moon
31 mins; June 19, 2024
Shakespeare’s maths
9 mins; June 15, 2024
Leaflets, taxes, oil workers and classrooms
28 mins; June 12, 2024
Why medical error is not the third leading cause of death in the US
9 mins; June 08, 2024
Debate, Reform, tax evasion and ants
30 mins; June 05, 2024
Data for India
8 mins; June 01, 2024
UK growth, prisons and Swiftonomics
28 mins; May 29, 2024
Is intermittent fasting going to kill you?
10 mins; May 25, 2024
MP misconduct, NHS waiting lists and gold (gold)
29 mins; May 22, 2024
Are falling marriage rates causing happiness to fall in the US?
9 mins; May 18, 2024
Is reading for pleasure the single biggest factor in how well a child does in life?
10 mins; May 11, 2024
Do one in five young Americans think the holocaust is a myth?
9 mins; May 04, 2024
Has Milei fixed Argentina’s inflation problem?
8 mins; April 26, 2024
98%: Is misinformation being spread about a review of trans youth medicine?
11 mins; April 20, 2024
Tackling The Three-Body Problem
8 mins; April 13, 2024
Is loneliness as bad for you as smoking?
8 mins; April 06, 2024
Remembering Daniel Kahneman
8 mins; March 30, 2024
Bonus episode: Daniel Kahneman on Thinking, Fast and Slow
9 mins; March 28, 2024
What's happening to Arctic ice?
9 mins; March 25, 2024
Does the Russian government really spend 40% of its budget on the military?
8 mins; March 16, 2024
Is public speaking really our biggest fear?
8 mins; March 09, 2024
Ultramarathons: Are women faster than men?
8 mins; March 02, 2024
School spending, excess deaths and billions of animals at Heathrow
28 mins; February 28, 2024
NBA basketball: Is height more important than skill?
8 mins; February 24, 2024
Per capita GDP, MP claims and the entire EU budget
28 mins; February 21, 2024
The digital ‘robots’ unlocking medical data
9 mins; February 17, 2024
Debt, students, shark and chips
28 mins; February 14, 2024
The global gender split in young people’s politics
8 mins; February 09, 2024
Council tax weirdness: Hartlepool vs Westminster
28 mins; February 07, 2024
A pocket-size history of the calculator
9 mins; February 03, 2024
Measles, Traitors and the cost of Brexit
28 mins; January 31, 2024
Is Oxfam right about the world’s richest and poorest people?
10 mins; January 27, 2024
Shopping, shipping and wind chill-ing
28 mins; January 24, 2024
Are there more possible games of chess than atoms in the universe?
8 mins; January 20, 2024
Life expectancy, inheritance tax and the NHS vs winter
23 mins; January 17, 2024
Do we see 10,000 adverts per day?
8 mins; January 13, 2024
Deaths, taxes and missing cats
28 mins; January 10, 2024
How much money do the ‘Ndrangheta mafia make?
8 mins; January 06, 2024
Numbers of the year 2023
13 mins; December 29, 2023
Can chocolate be better than salad?
8 mins; December 22, 2023
China’s missing numbers
8 mins; December 15, 2023
Does endurance sport harm your heart?
8 mins; December 08, 2023
Will there be a billion climate refugees?
9 mins; December 01, 2023
A boy meets girl meets stats story
8 mins; November 25, 2023
Are women in the UK the biggest binge drinkers in the world?
8 mins; November 18, 2023
Can maths prove the existence of aliens?
10 mins; November 11, 2023
Do Indian women own 11% of the world’s gold?
8 mins; November 04, 2023
The Overlooked Mathematicians of History
9 mins; October 27, 2023
What do windscreen splats tell us about insect decline?
8 mins; October 21, 2023
Greedy jobs and the gender pay gap
12 mins; October 14, 2023
Are half the words in English from French?
9 mins; October 07, 2023
Vaccine claims, Alzheimer's treatment and Tim's Parkrun times
28 mins; October 04, 2023
Is the UK really ahead in cutting carbon emissions?
8 mins; September 30, 2023
NHS consultant pay, Net Zero claims and Scotland's ferry woes
30 mins; September 27, 2023
Which city has the longest canals?
9 mins; September 23, 2023
Social housing, NHS workforce and Liz Truss debt claims
27 mins; September 20, 2023
How to approach the world through numbers
9 mins; September 16, 2023
Skin cancer, London rents and your great great great granddaughter
28 mins; September 13, 2023
Did 35,000 Americans die building the Panama Canal?
14 mins; September 11, 2023
Covid deaths, North Sea gas and Chloe Kelly's World Cup penalty
28 mins; September 06, 2023
What percentage of our brain do we actually use?
8 mins; September 02, 2023
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