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    Maternity litigation, stars, bees and windowless planes

    Are damages for maternity mistakes now more than wages for maternity nurses and doctors?

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

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

  3. Maryam Mirzakhani 鈥� A Genius of Maths

    Celebrating the only woman to win the biggest prize in mathematics.

  4. Male suicide, school ratings, are female tennis players treated unfairly by umpires?

    Tim Harford with statistics on suicide, good schools and sexism in tennis. Plus goats

  5. Making music out of Money

    A musical interpretation of a chart depicting the yield-curve of American bonds.

  6. Mailbox edition

    Your questions answered - Do the Maasai in Africa number one million? Is it true that...

  7. Magic Numbers

    Do you have a favourite number - one you love, one you think stands out from all the...

  8. Lula鈥檚 鈥渮ero deforestation鈥� plan for the Amazon

    How much of the rainforest has been lost? And can Brazil鈥檚 new president save it?

  9. Love by numbers

    Can economics help you find love? Tim Harford and the team look at the maths behind...

  10. Long Covid and Vaccinating Children

    The world watches as the UK lifts its remaining Covid restrictions

  11. Loneliness; School Funding; Same-Sex Divorce.

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

  12. Loneliness, School Funding, Same-Sex Divorce

    A 蜜芽传媒 loneliness survey, school funding, same-sex divorce and the loyalty of listeners.

  13. Living standards and Kate Bush maths

    Are people's incomes falling? Plus singing Pi like Kate Bush

  14. Life-saving economics

    Professor Al Roth tells Tim Harford about the work for which he has just been awarded...

  15. Life expectancy, inheritance tax and the NHS vs winter

    How long will we live? Who pays inheritance tax? How did the NHS perform this winter?

  16. Lib Dem ambulance claims, affordable rent and goat meat

    Did 120 people a day in England die last year whilst waiting for an ambulance?

  17. Levelling the statistical playing field

    Given that some countries are richer than others, and some have larger populations, us...

  18. Less than a dollar a day

    Tim Harford assesses how global poverty is measured, as the World Bank releases the on...

  19. Leaflets, taxes, oil workers and classrooms

    We look at bad graphs, oil rig extrapolations and pupil populations

  20. Koalas

    Have bushfires destroyed 80% of the koala habitat in Australia?

  21. Killed for being female?

    Are 100 million women missing from the world? A listener asks More or Less to explore...

  22. Kidney donation: the chance of finding a match

    The chance of a successful kidney match between two unrelated people has increased in...

  23. Kenya鈥檚 Election Rounding Error

    Official figures didn鈥檛 add up - but due to rounding, not fraud.

  24. Keep your distance

    Tim Harford examines how can we avoid infection spreading, while getting on with life.

  25. Jubilee costs, fuel poverty and imperial measures

    We debunk a claim the government is spending 拢38,000 per household on the Jubilee

  26. Jab fears explained: a base rate fallacy

    Why increasing Covid infections amongst the vaccinated isn鈥檛 necessarily bad news

  27. Is your housework split sexist?

    Corinne Low explains the economics of women, men and housework

  28. Is Uganda about to become a middle income country?

    We assess President Museveni鈥檚 claim that Uganda is nearing a higher economic status.

  29. Is Trump right about violent crime in Venezuela and the US?

    Donald Trump says Venezuela is becoming safer than the US. Is he right?

  30. Is there really $500bn of Rare Earths in Ukraine?

    Trump wants access to Ukraine鈥檚 Rare Earth deposits.

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