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  1. 29/11/2025 GMT

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

  2. 22/11/2025 GMT

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

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

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

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

  6. Is your housework split sexist?

    Corinne Low explains the economics of women, men and housework

  7. Nobel economics prize 2025: What's the big idea?

    Tim Harford explains the ideas behind the winners of the economics Nobel Prize

  8. Are 72% of prison inmates in Switzerland foreign?

    Donald Trump says three quarters of Swiss prisoners are not Swiss. Is he right?

  9. Is the world getting less miserable?

    Exploring global polling data that suggests people in more countries are "thriving"

  10. The case of the missing US data

    Why does it matter that US government datasets are being deleted and discontinued?

  11. Is JD Vance right about left-wing violence?

    Following the murder of Charlie Kirk, what is the data on political violence in the US?

  12. Will the world really be 50 million workers short by 2030?

    Is Nvidia boss Jensen Huang right about a looming labour shortfall?

  13. Do 11,000 sharks die every hour?

    Investigating if 100 million sharks are killed by fishing nets every year.

  14. Are self-driving cars safer than cars with drivers?

    We look at claims that fully autonomous cars are 5 or ten times safer

  15. Do women feel the cold more than men?

    We investigate if air conditioning is set too cold for women.

  16. How weird was the Mediterranean Sea heatwave?

    Did the Mediterranean experience a 1 in 216,000,000,000-year sea temperature anomaly?

  17. Why it matters that Trump fired data chief

    The US president fired Erika McEntarfer over job numbers. What鈥檚 the potential fallout?

  18. Are abortion numbers rising in the US?

    Looking at the data behind abortion in a post Dobbs America.

  19. Does a single AI query use a bottle of water?

    We investigate how much water and power are used by artificial intelligence

  20. Are one in six children living through war?

    A Unicef event said one in six children are living though war. What does that really mean?

  21. Why Manchester United can afford to play badly

    How a successful football club doesn鈥檛 always require a winning team

  22. The economics of war: Vikings, Conquistadors and Vietnam

    Economist and author Duncan Weldon on his new book Blood and Treasure

  23. Has Russia suffered a million casualties in the Ukraine war?

    Making sense of the numbers around the Russian dead and wounded.

  24. How to spot a suspicious statistic

    Professor Alex Edmans on his book, May Contain Lies

  25. Could you be hit by a falling satellite?

    Investigating if 100,000 satellites could be orbiting earth in five years鈥� time

  26. Is the world鈥檚 population being miscounted?

    Investigating if the global population is really 2 billion higher than previously thought

  27. Factchecking the Trump administration鈥檚 Autism claims

    Why has the rate of autism risen so dramatically in the last 30 years?

  28. Is the UN underestimating the global fall in fertility?

    How one graph shows the conservative side of the United Nations鈥� population estimates

  29. How dead is the internet?

    We investigate the claim that bots make up 50% of internet traffic

  30. Warren Buffett鈥檚 brilliant bets

    How retiring Berkshire Hathaway boss Warren Buffett made his money and made a point

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