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  1. Football Ranking Mysteries Explained

    Ahead of the 2014 World Cup draw next Friday, we look at world football rankings.

  2. Food waste and Scrabble

    Reports this week suggest that we are wasting 50 per cent of our food globally.

  3. Food prices, net migration and beef about beef

    Does Britain really have the most affordable food in Europe?

  4. Food Bank Britain

    Food banks are being used by a million people in Britain according to recent newspaper...

  5. Florence Nightingale and how she visualised data

    Tim Harford discusses the power of the nurse statistician鈥檚 groundbreaking diagrams

  6. Flood Defence Spending

    Is there a north-south divide in the amount of money spent on flood defences in England?

  7. Fit for work or at deaths door?

    Are thousands dying after being declared 'fit for work' by the government? Is sugar bad?

  8. Finding Mexico City鈥檚 real death toll

    How two amateur data detectives revealed the pandemic鈥檚 impact.

  9. FIFA World Cup Extravaganza

    How the 鈥榖eautiful game鈥� has changed鈥hrough numbers.

  10. Fertility: when is too late?

    Psychologist Jean Twenge argues that women in their late thirties shouldn鈥檛 be as of...

  11. Fertility rates: baby boom or bust?

    Fertility rates around the world

  12. Fergie Time

    This is the first in the new series of the programme. There鈥檚 a well-established get...

  13. Female Drink Drivers

    The Police Federation says female drivers aren鈥檛 heeding the drink drive warnings.

  14. Federer鈥檚 54%: Tennis stats explained

    How Federer became the best in the world winning just over half the points he played

  15. Fathers and babies

    Have only 1% of men taken the option of shared parental leave?

  16. Fat or Fiction

    A 鈥榥ew鈥� BMI calculation has been proposed by Oxford Mathematician Professor Nick a...

  17. Fantasy Football - How to win

    Figuring out the best strategy as a wannabe team manager.

  18. False negatives, testing capacity and pheasants

    How accurate are the swab tests used to diagnose Covid-19?

  19. Falling pound, the Queen鈥檚 funeral and is 0.5 on the Richter scale a big number?

    How worried should we be about the steep falls in the pound?

  20. Faith and Charity?

    "Religion Makes People More Generous"- according to The Daily Telegraph's of a new 蜜芽传媒...

  21. Factchecking Trump on Trade

    The US President regularly talks about America's trade deficit - do his figures stack up?

  22. Factchecking the Trump administration鈥檚 Autism claims

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

  23. Factchecking America

    US Presidential Election factchecked. Is Mitt Romney right to say that 47% of pay no...

  24. Fact-checking US gun crime statistics

    Tim Harford investigates gun crime statistics in the US. Plus, why death is not always...

  25. Fact-checking Boris Johnson

    Giant bombs, a war hero and the foreign secretary's stats.

  26. Explaining maths without Numbers

    Tim Harford speaks to mathematician Milo Beckman about the beauty of maths.

  27. Exclusions, black holes and dividing by zero

    Plus special educational needs in Wales and Ghanian nurses in the UK

  28. Exam grades, Chernobyl and Ethiopian trees

    Was your A Level grade correct? Plus were 350m trees planted in one day in Ethiopia?

  29. Eurovision and fact-checking Naomi Wolf

    The stats behind making a successful song, plus misunderstanding Victorian court records.

  30. Eurostats - True or False?

    Are there really more Porsche Cayenne owners in Greece than taxpayers earning over Can...

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