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

Episodes (787 available)

The data race to find out how fast Ebola is spreading
9 mins

Tim Harford explores healthy life expectancy, HS2 costs, VAT cuts and his marathon time
29 mins

We investigate if loneliness is increasing at epidemic rates
9 mins

Asylum seekers, nuclear power plants and fish, Sir David Attenborough and blue tit chicks
28 mins

How a 23-year-old mathematician used AI to crack an unsolved maths problem
9 mins

Vaping vs smoking: how the evidence on cancer and other health risks compare
9 mins

How a stat about cows and water is not all it seems
9 mins

Why a Politico headline overstated vaccine scepticism in the US
9 mins

Investigating the scale of bird deaths caused by wind turbines
9 mins

How evidence eventually showed front sleeping was linked to sudden infant deaths
9 mins
