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01/08/2026 04:50 GMT
Tim Harford explains the numbers and statistics in the news and in life.
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25/07/2026 04:50 GMT
Tim Harford explains the numbers and statistics in the news and in life.
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Tim Harford explains the numbers and statistics in the news and in life.
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Tim Harford explains the numbers and statistics in the news and in life.
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08/07/2026
Tim Harford explains the numbers and statistics used in everyday life
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Tim Harford explains the numbers and statistics in the news and in life.
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01/07/2026
Tim Harford explains the numbers and statistics used in everyday life.
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The messy history behind the modern calendar
Why is May, May? We explain the genesis of the modern calendar
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Benefits v minimum wage: Which pays more?
Tim Harford examines benefits v work, dangerous temperatures and the World Cup draw.
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Is the US worse than North Korea for malnutrition deaths?
Why have malnutrition deaths shot up in the US since 2012?
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Does Europe suffer more heat deaths than the US?
Tim Harford investigates heat deaths, the carbon footprint of eggs, and ironing out Wales.
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Andrew Ross Sorkin: What can the Great Crash of 1929 tell us about today?
The financial journalist Andrew Ross Sorkin on the numbers behind the 1929 crash
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Education, Education, Education (and immigration)
Tim Harford investigates migrants and jobs, VAT and private schools, and a hard maths exam
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Factchecking claims that 400 churches were burned to the ground in France
Looking into the numbers behind claims of attacks on churches
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Debunking the claim that migrants will get half of new homes
Tim Harford investigates migration and housing, Welsh literacy, and bond market drama.
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The known unknowns of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
The data race to find out how fast Ebola is spreading
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Does a fall in the UK's healthy life expectancy mean what you think it means?
Tim Harford explores healthy life expectancy, HS2 costs, VAT cuts and his marathon time.
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Is the 鈥榣oneliness epidemic鈥� real?
We investigate if loneliness is increasing at epidemic rates
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Are refugees more likely to commit crime?
Asylum seekers and crime, nuclear fish, the Quiet Revival and Sir David Attenborough.
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Erdos Problem 1196: Can AI now solve maths that no human can?
How a 23-year-old mathematician used AI to crack an unsolved maths problem
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Why it鈥檚 wrong to say vaping is as bad for you as smoking
Vaping vs smoking: how the evidence on cancer and other health risks compare
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Does it take 15,000 litres of water to produce a kilogram of beef?
How a stat about cows and water is not all it seems
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Have RFK and MAHA really changed American views on vaccines?
Why a Politico headline overstated vaccine scepticism in the US
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Is Trump right that wind turbines are killing millions of birds?
Investigating the scale of bird deaths caused by wind turbines
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Dr Spock鈥檚 dangerous advice on baby sleep
How evidence eventually showed front sleeping was linked to sudden infant deaths
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How likely is 鈥榣ikely鈥�?
Adam Kucharski explains what people really mean when they use probability language
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How much water does AI consume?
We take a deep dive into AI鈥檚 water consumption
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Paul Ehrlich: The man who bet England wouldn鈥檛 exist by the year 2000
Why Paul Ehrlich鈥檚 dire predictions about a population collapse failed to materialise
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Transgender women in sport: Does 鈥榗omparable鈥� mean 鈥榚qual鈥�?
Investigating a scientific paper analysing the strength and fitness of transgender women
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US-Israel war with Iran: Do the gulf states have enough interceptor missiles?
What we know about missile stockpiles following the US-Israeli strikes on Iran
