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  1. 07/12/2024 GMT

    Tim Harford explains the numbers and statistics in the news and in life.

  2. 30/11/2024 GMT

    Tim Harford explains the numbers and statistics in the news and in life.

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    Tim Harford explains the numbers and statistics in the news and in life.

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    Tim Harford explains the numbers and statistics in the news and in life.

  5. Do we have enough clothes for the next six generations?

    We delve into the stats on the scale of the fashion industry

  6. What can economics learn from sport?

    From loss aversion to game theory, how sports provide evidence for economic theories

  7. Is Trump right about violent crime in Venezuela and the US?

    Donald Trump says Venezuela is becoming safer than the US. Is he right?

  8. Nobel Prize: Why are some countries so much richer than others?

    Why Acemoglu, Johnson and Robinson won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics

  9. Uncertainty, probability and double yoked eggs

    Professor Sir David Spiegelhalter on his new book, The Art of Uncertainty

  10. Are 672 billion pounds of corn eaten in the US every year?

    A lot of corn is eaten in the United States, but is it really 2.5kg per person per day?

  11. The puzzles you鈥檙e meant to get wrong

    Alex Bellos sets Tim Harford logical conundrums designed to deceive

  12. Do 85% of the world鈥檚 population practice a religion?

    Counting religions across the globe 鈥� is the world getting more religious or less?

  13. Nate Silver: Do risk-takers run the world?

    Poker player and polling analyst Nate Silver on his new book

  14. Who pays when trade wars heat up?

    We look at Donald Trump鈥檚 claim that tariffs are a tax on other countries

  15. Where have Cuba鈥檚 people gone?

    We investigate the collapse in the Caribbean island鈥檚 population.

  16. Do we eat a credit card's worth of microplastic each week?

    We look at whether humans really ingest five grams of microplastic on a weekly basis

  17. Are companies making more money from their customers?

    We investigate claims mark-ups are larger than ever

  18. Is planet Earth getting greener?

    Jordan Peterson says Earth has greened by 20% in 20 years. Is he right?

  19. Does a language die every two weeks?

    Languages are disappearing. We investigate claims of how often this happens

  20. Are women 14 times more likely to die in natural disasters?

    We unpick the idea that women outnumber men by 14 to 1 as casualties of natural disasters

  21. Is increasing turbulence making flying more dangerous?

    Exploring the link between bumpy flights and climate change.

  22. Federer鈥檚 54%: Tennis stats explained

    How Federer became the best in the world winning just over half the points he played

  23. The magic of trigonometry

    Tim Harford interviews Matt Parker on his latest book 鈥楲ove Triangle鈥�

  24. How a tick box doubled the US maternal mortality rates.

    We investigate changes to the way the US gathers their maternal mortality statistics

  25. Do 鈥榩ig butchering鈥� cyber scams make as much as half Cambodia鈥檚 GDP?

    We investigate the money made by an international cybercrime operations.

  26. Shakespeare鈥檚 maths

    Author Rob Eastaway on the numbers in Shakespeare鈥檚 writing

  27. Why medical error is not the third leading cause of death in the US

    Investigating how many deaths are caused by mistakes by doctors and nurses

  28. Data for India

    Changing India in numbers: what type of country will the next administration lead?

  29. Is intermittent fasting going to kill you?

    Investigating research which suggested time restricted eating increased the risk of death

  30. Are falling marriage rates causing happiness to fall in the US?

    Investigating the relationship between matrimony and melancholy.

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