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    Will the population of Nigeria be larger than Europe’s?

    Will Nigeria’s population really reach 600million?

  2. Numbers of 2021

    The most significant numbers of the year

  3. The psychological economics of gift giving

    How to buy gifts people actually want.

  4. Does catching Covid give you more immunity than being vaccinated?

    Infection vs injection: Could Covid infection provide 27 times more protection?

  5. Does wearing a mask halve your chances of getting Covid-19?

    Is it true wearing a mask reduces Covid-19 incidence by 53%?

  6. Simpson’s Paradox: How to make vaccinated death figures misleading

    A tricky statistical phenomenon at play.

  7. A TikTok tale

    How a well-meaning TikTok disrupted 4,600 studies.

  8. The carbon cost of breakfast at COP26

    Can a vegan croissant really be worse for the environment than a bacon roll?

  9. Same data, opposite results. Can we trust research?

    Why the same data can produce different conclusions.

  10. The art of counting

    Tim Harford talks to author Deborah Stone about her book which explores counting

  11. The numbers behind Squid Game

    Could you survive a round in Squid Game, and how many have watched it?

  12. The prize-winning economics of migration and the minimum wage

    A look at the work of this year’s winners of the most prestigious prize in economics.

  13. Vaccinating the world

    How countries’ vaccination rates measure up – and the trickiness of comparing them.

  14. The Gender Pay Gap

    Can Machiavelli help women get a better deal in the workplace?

  15. Has the number of periods a woman has in her lifetime quadrupled?

    A claim about how many periods a woman has and a suspicious stat on single-use face masks

  16. How many holes are there in a drinking straw?

    Tim Harford talks to Jordan Ellenberg about the pandemic, geometry and drinking straws

  17. Is immunity from vaccines waning?

    How worried should we be about declining antibodies? Plus life-threatening hotdogs.

  18. The bill for Afghanistan

    Did the war in Afghanistan cost the US $2 trillion?

  19. Reason, numbers and Mr Spock

    What role do numbers play in helping us think more rationally?

  20. The extraordinary life of Robert Moses

    The life of mathematics educator and civil rights organiser, Dr Robert Moses

  21. How good were the performances at the Tokyo Olympics?

    What can the data tell us about the quality of the Covid hit games?

  22. Jab fears explained: a base rate fallacy

    Why increasing Covid infections amongst the vaccinated isn’t necessarily bad news.

  23. Breaking climate records

    The odds and probability behind record-breaking temperatures

  24. The Rise of Delta

    Where’s this new Variant spreading and what can be done to stop it?

  25. Long Covid and Vaccinating Children

    The world watches as the UK lifts its remaining Covid restrictions

  26. Are there 40 million Nigerians on Twitter?

    Recent reports have claimed that Nigeria has 40 million Twitter users – but is this true?

  27. Is Ivermectin a Covid ‘wonder drug’?

    What do we know about the efficacy of Ivermectin as a treatment for Covid-19?

  28. Maths and the Mayflower

    Are there really 35 million descendants of the Mayflower alive today?

  29. The origins of Covid

    How similar are the Covid strains?

  30. The doubling of life-expectancy

    The story of how data helped extend our lives

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