667 Episodes

  1. Ukraine’s progress in numbers

    Published: 9/24/2022
  2. Ukraine offensive, weak pound & how much do women really exercise

    Published: 9/22/2022
  3. How bad is fashion for the environment?

    Published: 9/17/2022
  4. Energy crisis plan, imperial measures survey, gardens v national parks

    Published: 9/14/2022
  5. Is a third of Pakistan really under water?

    Published: 9/10/2022
  6. Pakistan flooding, UK power prices and Boris’s broadband claim

    Published: 9/7/2022
  7. Can we use maths to beat the robots?

    Published: 9/3/2022
  8. Energy prices, excess deaths and the race to count to 200

    Published: 8/31/2022
  9. Kenya’s Election Rounding Error

    Published: 8/27/2022
  10. The numbers behind “natural” birth control

    Published: 8/20/2022
  11. Is opinion polling broken?

    Published: 8/13/2022
  12. Debunking the Liverpool FC Conspiracy Theory

    Published: 8/6/2022
  13. How our world measures up

    Published: 7/30/2022
  14. Does the World Athletics Championships have a false start problem?

    Published: 7/23/2022
  15. Is Uganda about to become a middle income country?

    Published: 7/16/2022
  16. Does it take 10,000 litres of water to make a pair of jeans?

    Published: 7/9/2022
  17. How many American women will have an abortion in their lifetime?

    Published: 7/2/2022
  18. Covid climb, childcare costs and why can’t the French count properly?

    Published: 6/29/2022
  19. Ed Sheeran and the mathematics of musical coincidences

    Published: 6/25/2022
  20. Rail strikes, tyre pollution and sex statistics

    Published: 6/22/2022

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Tim Harford explains - and sometimes debunks - the numbers and statistics used in political debate, the news and everyday life