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Is the World's Population Growing Out of Control?

Is Sir David Attenborough right about global population projections?

• 9 mins

Have Mosquitoes Killed Half the World?

Have mosquitoes been responsible for the death of half the people who have ever lived?

• 9 mins

The Hawthorne Effect

The social study that showed that workers are more productive if they are given attention

• 9 mins

Nobel Prize puzzle

How the economist who called markets efficient is sharing top award with his big critic.

• 9 mins

How Long Can you Wait Until you Try to Have a Baby?

Why 300-year-old fertility statistics are still in use today

• 9 mins

Have 100,000 Christians died as martyrs?

How true are claims that there is an unreported global war on Christians?

• 11 mins

Does Politics Make us Get our Sums Wrong?

How researchers have measured the extent to which personal opinions cloud our judgement

• 11 mins

Sachin Tendulkar - the greatest, or just the 29th best test batsman of all time?

How do other measuring systems rate the Little Master?

• 11 mins

Could Statistics Cure Cancer?

Professor Terry Speed explains how statistics plays an important role in cancer research

• 11 mins

Football Ranking Mysteries Explained

How has Switzerland attained a seed when the Netherlands, Italy and England have not?

• 11 mins

Testing the PISA test

Are the OECD PISA rankings really as definitive as people believe?

• 11 mins

Genocide in South Africa?

Do crime stats show white South Africans are the victims of widespread racist killings?

• 11 mins

Global Wine Shortage?

It is reported that global wine supplies are running low but do the figures add up?

• 11 mins

The Numbers of 2013 - Part One

The most informative, interesting and idiosyncratic statistics of the year

• 11 mins

The Numbers of 2013 - Part Two

The most informative, interesting and idiosyncratic statistics of the year

• 11 mins

Counting the Dead in Iraq

How do you count those killed in war accurately?

• 11 mins

Could an Apple-a-day Reduce Illness?

A study has shown an apple-a-day will actually keep the doctors away but is it accurate?

• 11 mins

Alcohol and Cancer

Do two large glasses of wine triple the risk of mouth cancer?

• 11 mins

Immigration

Tim Harford explores the economic benefits of immigration, plus wedding guest strategies.

• 11 mins

Rising Drug Overdose Deaths

Deaths from drug overdoses in the United States are on the rise 鈥� but why?

• 11 mins

Love by Numbers

The maths behind modern matchmaking

• 11 mins

Neknomination Outbreak

How quickly will the online global drinking craze Neknomination spread - and fizzle out?

• 11 mins

The 10,000 Hours Rule

Is it possible to become an expert on practice alone?

• 11 mins

Modern Slavery

Are there 21 million slaves in the world today?

• 11 mins

Mailbox Edition

Your questions 鈥� from the USA, Australia and the world

• 11 mins

Missing Planes

Could Bayesian statistics help find Flight MH370?

• 11 mins

Is London France鈥檚 Sixth Largest City?

Are there really 300,000 French people in London?

• 11 mins

Freedom in Numbers

How many people in the world live in freedom?

• 11 mins

Freedom in Numbers

How many people in the world live in freedom? First broadcast live on 01 April 2014.

• 11 mins

Nigeria - Rich or Poor?

How did Nigeria become the largest African economy overnight?

• 11 mins