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    Climate Change, Victorian Diseases, Alcohol

    Tim Harford on climate change, Victorian diseases, maths mistakes and alcohol consumption

  2. Climate change and birdsong

    With factories closed and flights grounded, what impact will this have on climate change?

  3. Climate bet; Africa Cup of Nations

    A four-year bet about global warming between two scientists is settled.

  4. Christmas Quiz

    Tim Harford poses a tough statistical challenge

  5. Chris Froome's Tour de France victory

    The winner of this year's Tour de France, British rider Chris Froome, faced numerous...

  6. China鈥檚 missing numbers

    How the Chinese state make inconvenient statistics disappear

  7. China Stock Market Crash

    The Chinese markets may have crashed but was it really Black Monday? with Tim Harford

  8. Child Poverty, School Inequality and a Second Wave

    As lockdown eases, why hasn't there been a spike in infections?

  9. Chess cheats and the GOAT

    What a statistical analysis of chess moves can teach us about this ancient game.

  10. Chavez's cancer claims

    President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela thinks the US may have developed a secret to give...

  11. Celebrity deaths

    Have more famous people died this year than usual?

  12. Catching Chess Cheats with Data

    A cheating scandal is rocking the world of chess - and data is at its heart

  13. Carbs, Sugar and the Truth

    Does a baked potato contain the equivalent of 19 cubes of sugar?

  14. Cancer screening, the Windrush Generation, Audiograms

    Calculating the benefits and risks of breast screening. Plus, patchy citizenship data.

  15. Can you fool your brain?

    Looking at the power of expectations

  16. Can we use maths to beat the robots?

    Why improving how we teach and think about maths could help us keep an edge over machines

  17. Can redheads handle 25% more pain than brunettes?

    We investigate if people with red hair have a hidden pain-blocking superpower

  18. Can maths prove the existence of aliens?

    We look a famous equation which tries to explain whether life exists in outer space

  19. Can Elon Musk save the US Government $2 trillion?

    We look at whether DOGE can successfully balance the US budget.

  20. Can drinking one less bottle of coke a day halve obesity?

    Plus, the UK鈥檚 expensive electricity, church counts and babies in the City of London

  21. Can chocolate be better than salad?

    We investigate a nutritional conundrum 鈥� can chocolate ever be better for you than salad?

  22. Can China鈥檚 GDP data be trusted?

    Are China鈥檚 most recent figures for economic growth wrong?

  23. Can China's data on covid deaths be trusted?

    Is China under-reporting data on Covid related deaths?

  24. Can big data save lives?

    With an avalanche of 2. 5 quintillion bytes of data generated daily, could this be used...

  25. Cameron鈥檚 1000 jobs

    Fact-checking the Conservatives' employment claims; the price of milk; unhappy how to...

  26. Calling the shots at Wimbledon

    Using statistics to prove or disprove the wisdom of tennis.

  27. C-sections and sharks

    Hospital births in China and whether it鈥檚 true 50% are delivered by caesarean section

  28. British Law - Made in Brussels?

    How much British law is made in Brussels - 75% as UKIP say, or 7% as Nick Clegg says?...

  29. Britain's 80,000 homeless children

    About 80,000 children will wake up homeless on Christmas Day, according to the charity...

  30. Brexit numbers

    Do the Treasury's Brexit numbers add up?

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