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    Queuing Backwards

    Would life be better if we served the last person to join a queue not the first.

  2. China Stock Market Crash

    The Chinese stock market may have crashed but was it really 鈥楤lack Monday鈥�?

  3. The Elliptical Pool Table

    The geometric properties of an elliptical pool table.

  4. Worm Wars

    Are mass deworming projects a good idea?

  5. Wrestlers: Dying Too Young?

    Are WWE stars more likely to die sooner than their non-wrestling peers?

  6. Counting Foreign Fighters

    How many foreigners have joined militants in Iraq and Syria, and where do they come from?

  7. Life Expectancy

    How long might you live?

  8. Live 8, The G8 and Making Poverty History

    What has been achieved in the ten years since Live 8 sought to Make Poverty History?

  9. Greece Special

    Tim Harford looks at the numbers to tell the story of the Greek crisis.

  10. More or Less: The Greek Odyssey

    Tim Harford explains the Greek economic crisis with a little help from 蜜芽传媒r鈥檚 Odyssey

  11. Millennium Development Goals

    Have the eight goals for addressing extreme poverty set by the UN made a difference?

  12. Biggest Movies

    Jurassic World took $511m in its first weekend. Why have recent films done so well?

  13. Horoscope Health

    Can your horoscope predict which diseases you will develop?

  14. Global Footprint

    Do we need one and a half planets worth of resources?

  15. Qatar Migrant Worker Deaths

    Is the World Cup really responsible for migrant deaths in Qatar?

  16. John Nash

    The life and achievements of the mathematician John Nash

  17. Death Row

    Is it true that for every nine people executed in the US, there is one person exonerated?

  18. Big Numbers

    How a simple computer bug has led to explosions, missing planes and more

  19. Princess Charlotte

    Assessing the economic benefit of a new princess.

  20. Nuns on the Rise

    Are more women getting in the habit?

  21. Xenophobia in South Africa

    Are international migrants stealing jobs?

  22. A Liver Transplant

    A question from a listener about a living transplant

  23. The Ignorance Test

    Can you pass world health expert Hans Rosling鈥檚 Ignorance Test?

  24. Maths and Chess

    Is it really true that ability in mathematics and chess are somehow linked?

  25. How Safe is Flying?

    Following the Germanwings A320 tragedy, are plane crashes becoming more common?

  26. Does Breastfeeding Increase IQ?

    Do breastfed babies become more intelligent adults?

  27. Measuring World Health

    Will babies born in Rwanda be healthier than those in the most deprived 10% of England?

  28. The Future of Food

    Do we need to produce more food by 2050 than we have in the past 10,000 years?

  29. Black prisoners in the US

    Legend: 鈥楳ore black men under correctional control now than enslaved in 1850鈥�. True?

  30. Sleeping: the 8-hour myth

    Could having a lie-in lead to an early death?

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