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  1. Sizing up cities

    Which are the world鈥檚 biggest cities, and what are their populations? Two simple we...

  2. Sir Roger Bannister's 鈥榠mpossible鈥� feat

    Sir Roger Bannister became the first man to run a mile in under four minutes 60 ago.

  3. Simpson鈥檚 Paradox: How to make vaccinated death figures misleading

    A tricky statistical phenomenon at play.

  4. Silicon Valley Bank: a very modern bank run

    How do bank runs happen?

  5. Should you wear a face mask?

    Tim Harford looks at the debate over making your own Covid-19 protection.

  6. Should you follow the 5 second rule? And does inflation hit the poorest harder?

    Does inflation hit poor households harder and how many people have died of Covid?

  7. Should we have smaller families to save the planet?

    Having one fewer child could be the biggest thing you do to reduce your carbon footprint

  8. Should the government target persnuffle?

    Plus, childhood obesity, birds hitting windows and Sir David Spiegelhalter鈥檚 origin story.

  9. Shopping, shipping and wind chill-ing

    We investigate the cost of a weekly shop and explore the workings of wind chill

  10. Shakespeare鈥檚 maths

    Author Rob Eastaway on the numbers in Shakespeare鈥檚 writing

  11. Shakespeare vs Rappers

    It's a 'fact' beloved of English teachers around the world: that Shakespeare, the in...

  12. Sexual violence statistics in Asia

    Almost a quarter of men in some Asian countries admit rape, it has been reported.

  13. Sex, coal, missing people and mice

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

  14. Sex on the Brain?

    Parents take note 鈥� what can numbers reveal about bringing up children? Plus, Tim if...

  15. Sex Every Seven Seconds

    We revisit some classic topics from past years

  16. Sex and the world wide web

    The world of porn is often exaggerated but does it really make up 37% of the web? And...

  17. Seven-day NHS

    Tim Harford asks if people admitted to hospital at weekends are more likely to die.

  18. Selfies, sugar daddies and dodgy surveys

    Women taking selfies for more than five hours a day and other junk adverstising surveys.

  19. Screening for Ebola

    Are airport screenings for Ebola really an effective way of stopping transmission of a...

  20. Scottish referendum polls

    Tim Harford talks to pollsters about how they are trying to gauge the political mood...

  21. Scottish Independence

    On this week's More or Less: Scottish independence, mobile phones and cancer, and is...

  22. Scotland cases, flood risk and taxing the poor

    Covid 19 cases are on the rise in Scotland, plus will your town be under water by 2030?

  23. Schools and coronavirus, test and trace, maths and reality

    Evidence on Covid-19 risks in schools, data on contact tracing, and a philosophical query.

  24. School spending, excess deaths and billions of animals at Heathrow

    Is school funding at record levels? Did 6.5bn creatures come to the UK by plane last year?

  25. School re-opening, Germany鈥檚 Covid-19 success and statistically savvy parrots

    Will re-opening some schools put children or their teachers at risk?

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

    Why the same data can produce different conclusions.

  27. Sainthood and Cup draws

    Your chances of becoming a saint, plus football odds.

  28. Ryanair punctuality; mistakes in academic papers

    Tim Harford examines Ryanair鈥檚 claim that more than 90% of its flights land on time;...

  29. Running at the World Cup

    Is it strange that Russian football players have run such big distances?

  30. Rounding up the weed killer cancer conundrum

    We examine the cancer-causing potential of the weed killer glyphosate

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