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Teen suicide, Brexit business moves, Wood-burner pollution

Tim Harford on teen suicide, Brexit business moves and wood-burner pollution

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Climate change, Victorian diseases, Alcohol

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

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Hottest Easter, Insects, Scottish villages

Should we be surprised Easter Monday was the hottest recorded?

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Nurses, flatmates and cats

We look into sobering statistics about nurses and some curious claims about house-sharing.

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Sex, coal, missing people and mice

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

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Heart deaths, organised crime and gender data gaps

Are more people dying from coronary disease? Plus how we need more economic data on women.

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Eurovision and fact-checking Naomi Wolf

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

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Hay Festival Special

What does it mean to say that the UK is the fifth largest economy in the world?

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Are married women flipping miserable?

Measuring happiness, university access in Scotland, plus will one in two get cancer?

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Exam grades, Chernobyl, Ethiopian trees

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

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Amazon fires, State pension, American burgers

Are forest fires in Brazil the worst in recent times? What is the state pension worth?

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Climate deaths, Austerity, Pet food

Challenging the idea of six billion deaths due to climate change; plus what pets eat.

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Maternal deaths, taxi driver earnings and statistical pop music

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

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Dementia, inflation and shark deaths

Health risks for presidential hopefuls, falling inflation, shark deaths and salary claims

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Austerity Deaths, C-Sections and being struck by lightning.

Has Austerity caused 120 thousand deaths in the UK and does God hate men?

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New hospitals promised, Aid to Ukraine, Bacon sandwiches

Dissecting the government鈥檚 hospitals announcement and President Trump鈥檚 Ukraine claims.

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Election Special (1/2)

50,000 nurses? 40 hospitals? Corporate tax rises? Tim Harford looks at Election pledges.

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Election Special (2/2)

Labour spending plans, Conservative claims on homelessness, the SNP's education record.

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Australian Animal Deaths, Carbon Emissions, Election Mystery

How many animals have died in Australia and how many Labour voters went Conservative?

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Going, going Ghosn

Quantifying justice in Japan, the cost of Brexit, alligator speed and Liverpool FC's luck

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Netflix and Chill

The carbon consequence of streaming, stats on sepsis and stretching Bill Bryson to Pluto

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Coronavirus, emotions and guns

Numbers that matter in measuring outbreaks, smelly stats around scent and more.

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Tracking Terror Suspects

Costing counter-terrorism, interrogating tomatoes, the UK's reading age, politics and GDP

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Coronavirus, Jam, AI and Tomatoes

Covid-19 stats, spreading jam far and wide, cooking with AI, plus James Wong on vegetables

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Coronavirus special

The risks of Covid-19 for different age groups and what restrictions mean for the economy

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Coronavirus deaths, face masks and a potential baby boom

Is the coronavirus death count misleading because of delays in reporting?

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Supermarket stockpiling, A-level results and Covid-19 gender disparity

Is the coronavirus pandemic having a different impact on men and women?

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Comparing countries, the risk to NHS staff, and birdsong

We compare Covid-19 rates around the world. When is the UK going to be past the worst?

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Ethnic minority deaths, climate change and lockdown

Are doctors from ethnic minority backgrounds disproportionately affected by Covid-19?

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Testing truth, fatality rates, obesity risk and trampolines.

Did the UK really carry out 100,000 coronavirus tests in one day?

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