667 Episodes

  1. How often do people have sex?

    Published: 6/18/2022
  2. Maternity litigation, stars, bees and windowless planes

    Published: 6/15/2022
  3. Hannah Fry: Understanding the numbers of cancer

    Published: 6/11/2022
  4. Employment puzzle, pyramids and triplets

    Published: 6/8/2022
  5. Are girls starting puberty earlier?

    Published: 6/4/2022
  6. Jubilee costs, fuel poverty and imperial measures

    Published: 6/1/2022
  7. Noisy Decisions

    Published: 5/28/2022
  8. Germany’s excess deaths, Eurovision and teacher shortages

    Published: 5/25/2022
  9. Are just 100 companies responsible for 71% of global emissions and how stressed are South Africans?

    Published: 5/21/2022
  10. Did the WHO get some of its excess death estimates wrong?

    Published: 5/14/2022
  11. Have the oceans become 30% more acidic?

    Published: 5/7/2022
  12. Sweden’s polarising pandemic response

    Published: 4/30/2022
  13. Understanding India through Data

    Published: 4/23/2022
  14. Subitising and simplifying: how to better explain numbers

    Published: 4/15/2022
  15. Did tea-drinking cut deaths in the Industrial Revolution?

    Published: 4/9/2022
  16. Will the war in Ukraine cause a global wheat shortage?

    Published: 4/2/2022
  17. Pizza and Nuclear War

    Published: 3/20/2022
  18. Does the UK take in more refugees than other European countries?

    Published: 3/13/2022
  19. Numbers in Ukraine and low seas in Chagos

    Published: 3/6/2022
  20. Troop and Casualty Numbers in Ukraine

    Published: 3/2/2022

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