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Tim Harford explains - and sometimes debunks - the numbers and statistics used in political debate, the news and everyday life
How safe is the release of Fukushima nuclear plant water?
9 mins; August 26, 2023
How many butterflies are there in the world?
8 mins; August 19, 2023
Why is it so hard to predict the outcome of competitions like the Premier League?
9 mins; August 12, 2023
Are the media exaggerating how hot it is in the Mediterranean?
8 mins; August 05, 2023
Data, extreme weather and climate change
8 mins; July 29, 2023
Ukraine war: A new way of calculating Russian deaths
9 mins; July 22, 2023
Are more adult nappies sold in Japan than baby ones?
9 mins; July 15, 2023
Does it take 10,000 litres of water to make a pair of jeans?
9 mins; July 08, 2023
Immigration: A More or Less Special Programme
28 mins; July 05, 2023
Will there be just 6 grandchildren for every 100 South Koreans?
9 mins; July 01, 2023
Halving inflation, Scottish tidal power and have 1 in 3 women had an abortion?
31 mins; June 28, 2023
US National Debt: is $32 trillion a big number?
8 mins; June 24, 2023
Mortgages, birth rates and does space contribute 18% to UK GDP?
28 mins; June 21, 2023
Is breastfeeding the key to exam success?
9 mins; June 17, 2023
Electric vehicles, 600 million bottles and does oral sex cause cancer?
32 mins; June 14, 2023
Counting Hunger in India
9 mins; June 10, 2023
Lib Dem ambulance claims, affordable rent and goat meat
28 mins; June 07, 2023
A short history of data
9 mins; June 03, 2023
Food prices, net migration and beef about beef
30 mins; May 31, 2023
Are young people more single than ever before?
8 mins; May 28, 2023
NHS waiting lists, Voter ID and measuring divorce
28 mins; May 24, 2023
Detecting Bad Science with Data
10 mins; May 20, 2023
Do 94% of marriages in Portugal really end in divorce?
10 mins; May 13, 2023
Why is life expectancy falling in the USA?
10 mins; May 06, 2023
How much is the Coronation crown worth?
10 mins; April 29, 2023
The Pentagon Leaks and Fox News
9 mins; April 22, 2023
How accurate is baby's due date?
10 mins; April 15, 2023
How to better understand and explain numbers
10 mins; April 08, 2023
A groundbreaking new proof for Pythagoras’ Theorem?
10 mins; April 01, 2023
Covid vaccines and false claims about miscarriage
9 mins; March 25, 2023
Silicon Valley Bank: a very modern bank run
9 mins; March 18, 2023
Do fungi kill three times as many people as malaria?
8 mins; March 11, 2023
Does your jewellery contain stolen Brink’s-Mat gold?
10 mins; March 04, 2023
UK vs European energy prices, falling excess deaths and is 5 grams of cocaine a lot?
28 mins; March 01, 2023
Do 29,000 coffee pods really go to landfill every minute?
10 mins; February 25, 2023
Reoffending rates, Welsh taxes and the menopause
29 mins; February 22, 2023
Florence Nightingale and how she visualised data
10 mins; February 18, 2023
Nurses' pay, ambulance times and forgotten female economists
28 mins; February 15, 2023
Spreadsheet disasters
10 mins; February 11, 2023
The IMF and the UK economy, NHS staff shortages and British vs English
28 mins; February 08, 2023
Hannah Fry on using shopping data to detect ovarian cancer
9 mins; February 04, 2023
Brexit and trade, pensioner millionaires and Hannah Fry on loyalty cards and cancer
28 mins; February 01, 2023
Are wild mammals only 4% of the mammal population?
10 mins; January 28, 2023
Coffee with the Chancellor, inflation measures, GP numbers and toilet paper
28 mins; January 25, 2023
Does toilet paper cause 15% of global deforestation?
8 mins; January 20, 2023
Ambulance response times, teacher pay and Irish pubs
29 mins; January 18, 2023
How we shook the world of very large numbers
8 mins; January 14, 2023
A&E delays and deaths, religious identity in N Ireland and naming the monster numbers
28 mins; January 11, 2023
Can China's data on covid deaths be trusted?
9 mins; January 07, 2023
Irish pubs - a global numbers game
10 mins; December 31, 2022
Numbers of the Year 2022
8 mins; December 24, 2022
Qatar World Cup: the pressure of penalties
8 mins; December 17, 2022
Why are data so important in determining how we live?
8 mins; December 10, 2022
The World Cup: how many migrant workers have died?
10 mins; December 03, 2022
When do food shortages become a famine?
8 mins; November 26, 2022
A $220 billion World Cup?
8 mins; November 19, 2022
Bonus Episode: Understand the Economy
14 mins; November 14, 2022
Improving the numbers in the news
8 mins; November 12, 2022
Lula’s “zero deforestation” plan for the Amazon
8 mins; November 05, 2022
Can China’s GDP data be trusted?
8 mins; October 29, 2022
Do half of new books really sell fewer than twelve copies?
8 mins; October 22, 2022
Ben Bernanke and the magic of banking
10 mins; October 15, 2022
Catching Chess Cheats with Data
8 mins; October 08, 2022
Teens and antidepressants, stamp duty savings and earthquake probabilities
28 mins; October 07, 2022
Teens and antidepressants, stamp duty savings and earthquake probabilities
28 mins; October 05, 2022
NASA’s asteroid collision: how many asteroids are really out there?
9 mins; October 01, 2022
Falling pound, the Queen’s funeral and is 0.5 on the Richter scale a big number?
29 mins; September 28, 2022
Ukraine’s progress in numbers
10 mins; September 24, 2022
Ukraine offensive, weak pound & how much do women really exercise
28 mins; September 22, 2022
Ukraine offensive, weak pound & how much do women really exercise
28 mins; September 21, 2022
How bad is fashion for the environment?
8 mins; September 17, 2022
Energy crisis plan, imperial measures survey, gardens v national parks
28 mins; September 14, 2022
Is a third of Pakistan really under water?
8 mins; September 10, 2022
Pakistan flooding, UK power prices and Boris’s broadband claim
28 mins; September 07, 2022
Can we use maths to beat the robots?
8 mins; September 03, 2022
Energy prices, excess deaths and the race to count to 200
28 mins; August 31, 2022
Kenya’s Election Rounding Error
8 mins; August 27, 2022
The numbers behind “natural” birth control
9 mins; August 20, 2022
Is opinion polling broken?
8 mins; August 13, 2022
Debunking the Liverpool FC Conspiracy Theory
8 mins; August 06, 2022
How our world measures up
8 mins; July 30, 2022
Does the World Athletics Championships have a false start problem?
10 mins; July 23, 2022
Is Uganda about to become a middle income country?
10 mins; July 16, 2022
Does it take 10,000 litres of water to make a pair of jeans?
10 mins; July 09, 2022
How many American women will have an abortion in their lifetime?
9 mins; July 02, 2022
Covid climb, childcare costs and why can’t the French count properly?
29 mins; June 29, 2022
Ed Sheeran and the mathematics of musical coincidences
11 mins; June 25, 2022
Rail strikes, tyre pollution and sex statistics
28 mins; June 22, 2022
How often do people have sex?
8 mins; June 18, 2022
Maternity litigation, stars, bees and windowless planes
28 mins; June 15, 2022
Hannah Fry: Understanding the numbers of cancer
10 mins; June 11, 2022
Employment puzzle, pyramids and triplets
28 mins; June 08, 2022
Are girls starting puberty earlier?
8 mins; June 04, 2022
Jubilee costs, fuel poverty and imperial measures
28 mins; June 01, 2022
Noisy Decisions
8 mins; May 28, 2022
Germany’s excess deaths, Eurovision and teacher shortages
29 mins; May 25, 2022
Are just 100 companies responsible for 71% of global emissions and how stressed are South Africans?
8 mins; May 21, 2022
Did the WHO get some of its excess death estimates wrong?
8 mins; May 14, 2022
Have the oceans become 30% more acidic?
8 mins; May 07, 2022
Sweden’s polarising pandemic response
8 mins; April 30, 2022
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