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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?

• 28 mins

60 Harvests and statistically savvy parrots

Can there really only be 60 harvests left in Earth's soil?

• 8 mins

Obeying lockdown, flight arrivals and is this wave of the epidemic waning?

What does the data show about whether this wave of the epidemic is waning in the UK?

• 27 mins

False negatives, testing capacity and pheasants

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

• 27 mins

Keep your distance

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

• 9 mins

Antibody tests, early lockdown advice and European deaths

Are more people are dying of Covid-19 in the UK than all the EU countries put together?

• 27 mins

Quarantine, Test and Trace and BODMAS

Is it true that Covid-19 mostly kills people who would die soon anyway?

• 28 mins

Who Should be Quarantined?

Tim Harford finds out which countries have the highest rate of Covid-19 infection.

• 9 mins

Child Poverty, School Inequality and a Second Wave

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

• 28 mins

A new Covid-19 drug and a second wave

Tim Harford looks into why protests haven鈥檛 led to a spike in Covid-19 cases

• 9 mins

Why did the UK have such a bad Covid-19 epidemic?

Was it bad decision-making, bad advice, or bad luck?

• 28 mins

Why Trump is wrong about the USA鈥檚 coronavirus case comeback

Are cases really rising in the US or are they just testing more? Tim digs into the data.

• 9 mins

Sweden鈥檚 lockdown lite

Sweden stayed open during the pandemic 鈥� how well did it work?

• 14 mins

Covid misconceptions and US deaths

How many of us believe the myths about coronavirus?

• 8 mins

Data in the time of cholera

A journey back to the birth of epidemiology

• 8 mins

Covid in Africa

Do we have enough data to know what鈥檚 happening on the continent?

• 10 mins

Melting Antarctic ice

If all the ice in Antarctica melted, would global sea levels rise by 70 metres?

• 8 mins

Hawaiian Pizza, obesity and a second wave?

Covid-19 cases are rising in the UK - is it a sign of a second wave of the virus?

• 27 mins

Belarus鈥� contested election

Tim Harford looks at the numbers behind the widely questioned election result

• 9 mins

A-level algorithms, poker and buses

We unpick the A-level algoshambles and discover what poker teaches us about statistics.

• 28 mins

Covid plasma therapy

Claims about a Covid-19 treatment, breast cancer screening, and 18th century sex workers.

• 27 mins

Schools and coronavirus, test and trace, maths and reality

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

• 27 mins

Covid cases rising, a guide to life鈥檚 risks, and racing jelly-fish

How worrying is the UK鈥檚 jump in cases? Plus balancing risks and the speed of jelly-fish.

• 28 mins

Covid testing capacity, refugee numbers, and mascara

Confusing claims on lab capacity, the UK鈥檚 record on asylum, and the volume of eyelashes.

• 28 mins

The magical maths of pool testing

Could pool testing hold the key to ramping up Covid-19 testing?

• 8 mins

Covid curve queried, false positives, and the Queen鈥檚 head

How fast are coronavirus cases doubling? Plus testing confusion and a royal face-off.

• 29 mins

鈥淩ecord鈥� Covid cases, Trump on the death count, and ant pheromones

Case counts in perspective, a suspect stat from the US, and life lessons from insects.

• 28 mins

Spreadsheet snafu, 鈥楲ong Covid鈥� quantified, and the birth of probability

Missing coronavirus case data, long-term symptoms, and a big mathematical moment.

• 21 mins

A short history of probability

Gamblers, millionaires and annuities

• 8 mins

Auction Theory - Paul Milgrom and Robert Wilson

This year鈥檚 Nobel memorial prize winners for economics and their work on auction theory.

• 8 mins