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    Coronavirus, Jam, AI and Tomatoes

    Covid-19 stats, spreading jam far and wide, cooking with AI, plus James Wong on vegetables

  2. Tracking Terror Suspects

    Costing counter-terrorism, interrogating tomatoes, the UK's reading age, politics and GDP

  3. Coronavirus, emotions and guns

    Numbers that matter in measuring outbreaks, smelly stats around scent and more.

  4. Netflix and Chill

    The carbon consequence of streaming, stats on sepsis and stretching Bill Bryson to Pluto

  5. Going, going Ghosn

    Quantifying justice in Japan, the cost of Brexit, alligator speed and Liverpool FC's luck

  6. Australian Animal Deaths, Carbon Emissions, Election Mystery

    How many animals have died in Australia and how many Labour voters went Conservative?

  7. Election Special (2/2)

    Labour spending plans, Conservative claims on homelessness, the SNP's education record.

  8. Election Special (1/2)

    50,000 nurses? 40 hospitals? Corporate tax rises? Tim Harford looks at Election pledges.

  9. New hospitals promised, Aid to Ukraine, Bacon sandwiches

    Dissecting the government鈥檚 hospitals announcement and President Trump鈥檚 Ukraine claims.

  10. Austerity Deaths, C-Sections and being struck by lightning.

    Has Austerity caused 120 thousand deaths in the UK and does God hate men?

  11. Dementia, inflation and shark deaths

    Health risks for presidential hopefuls, falling inflation, shark deaths and salary claims

  12. Maternal deaths, taxi driver earnings and statistical pop music

    Are black women five times more likely to die in childbirth? Plus making pop music.

  13. Climate deaths, Austerity, Pet food

    Challenging the idea of six billion deaths due to climate change; plus what pets eat.

  14. Amazon fires, State pension, American burgers

    Are forest fires in Brazil the worst in recent times? What is the state pension worth?

  15. Exam grades, Chernobyl, Ethiopian trees

    Was your A-level grade correct? Plus were 350m trees planted in one day in Ethiopia?

  16. Are married women flipping miserable?

    Measuring happiness, university access in Scotland, plus will one in two get cancer?

  17. Hay Festival Special

    What does it mean to say that the UK is the fifth largest economy in the world?

  18. Eurovision and fact-checking Naomi Wolf

    The stats behind making a successful song, plus misunderstanding Victorian court records.

  19. Heart deaths, organised crime and gender data gaps

    Are more people dying from coronary disease? Plus how we need more economic data on women.

  20. Sex, coal, missing people and mice

    Are we having less sex? And what happened to coal? (These items are unrelated.)

  21. Nurses, flatmates and cats

    We look into sobering statistics about nurses and some curious claims about house-sharing.

  22. Hottest Easter, Insects, Scottish villages

    Should we be surprised Easter Monday was the hottest recorded?

  23. Climate change, Victorian diseases, Alcohol

    Tim Harford on climate change, Victorian diseases, maths mistakes and alcohol consumption.

  24. Teen suicide, Brexit business moves, Wood-burner pollution

    Tim Harford on teen suicide, Brexit business moves and wood-burner pollution

  25. Holocaust deniers, Venezuelan hyperinflation, Tinder likes

    Tim Harford on Holocaust deniers, food prices in Venezuela and dating app statistics.

  26. Domestic Violence, Jobs, Easter Snowfall

    Tim Harford on domestic violence, employment numbers, and the chance of a white Easter.

  27. Intersex Numbers, Fact-Checking Facebook, Jack Bogle

    Tim Harford asks whether 1.7% of people are intersex, and examines false claims about MPs.

  28. Sugar, Outdoors Play and Planets

    Tim Harford on sugar, train fares, children's outdoors play and Earth's closest neighbour.

  29. Loneliness, School funding, Same-sex divorce

    Tim Harford on a 蜜芽传媒 loneliness survey, school funding, same-sex divorce, loyal listeners.

  30. Surviving the Battle of Britain, The World Cup and domestic violence, Buckfast and arrests in Scotland

    Tim Harford on Spitfire pilots, and whether football triggers violence in the home.

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