667 Episodes

  1. What can economics learn from sport?

    Published: 11/2/2024
  2. Are older drivers more dangerous?

    Published: 10/30/2024
  3. Is Trump right about violent crime in Venezuela and the US?

    Published: 10/26/2024
  4. Do US crime statistics miss out the most violent cities?

    Published: 10/23/2024
  5. Nobel prize: Why are some countries so much richer than others?

    Published: 10/19/2024
  6. When are numbers like a horse at a gymkhana?

    Published: 10/16/2024
  7. Uncertainty, probability and double yoked eggs

    Published: 10/12/2024
  8. Should the government target persnuffle?

    Published: 10/9/2024
  9. Are 672 billion pounds of corn eaten in the US every year?

    Published: 10/5/2024
  10. How do you breed seventeen octillion rats?

    Published: 10/2/2024
  11. The puzzles you’re meant to get wrong

    Published: 9/28/2024
  12. Could the winter fuel cut cost more than it saves?

    Published: 9/25/2024
  13. Do 85% of the world’s population practice a religion?

    Published: 9/21/2024
  14. How do you count millionaires?

    Published: 9/18/2024
  15. Nate Silver: Do risk-takers run the world?

    Published: 9/14/2024
  16. How long does it take to turn around an oil tanker?

    Published: 9/11/2024
  17. Who pays when trade wars heat up?

    Published: 9/7/2024
  18. Exclusions, black holes and dividing by zero

    Published: 9/4/2024
  19. Where have Cuba’s people gone?

    Published: 8/31/2024
  20. Do we eat a credit card's worth of microplastic each week?

    Published: 8/24/2024

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