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  1. Fact-checking US gun crime statistics

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

  2. Fact-checking Boris Johnson

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

  3. Explaining maths without Numbers

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

  4. Exclusions, black holes and dividing by zero

    Plus special educational needs in Wales and Ghanaian nurses in the UK.

  5. Examining the numbers behind Andy Burnham鈥檚 鈥楳anchester Miracle鈥�

    Tim Harford examines 鈥楳anchesterism鈥�, hot cities, whales and CO2, and prime numbers.

  6. Exam grades, Chernobyl and Ethiopian trees

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

  7. Eurovision and fact-checking Naomi Wolf

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

  8. Eurostats - True or False?

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

  9. EU Migration

    What will happen to migration if the UK leaves the EU?

  10. Ethnic minority deaths, climate change and lockdown

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

  11. Esther Duflo and women in economics

    Discussing Esther Duflo, Abhijit Banerjee and Michael Kremer鈥檚 economics Nobel Prize.

  12. 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

  13. Eng26 More Or Less 2

    Tim Harford explains the numbers and statistics in the news and in life.

  14. Eng26 More Or Less 1

    Tim Harford explains the numbers and statistics in the news and in life.

  15. Energy prices, excess deaths and Wales v England in counting

    Is there an easy way to cut soaring energy bills?

  16. Energy crisis plan, imperial measures survey, gardens v national parks

    How much will the UK government鈥檚 plan to limit energy price rises end up costing?

  17. Employment puzzle, pyramids and triplets

    The UK has a low unemployment rate but lots of people not working 鈥� how come?

  18. Electric vehicles, 600 million bottles and does oral sex cause cancer?

    Is the weight of electric vehicles a risk to infrastructure?

  19. Electric cars, school-ready and feedback

    Will we need more power stations? Plus, are children in Manchester ready for school?

  20. Election Special: Tax, borders and climate

    Who pays income tax, cutting migration and where in the UK is cold?

  21. Election Special 1/2

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

  22. Election Special (2/2)

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

  23. Election endings, tennis and meeting men in finance

    The UK's money troubles, NHS managers and a 54% chance of winning a point in tennis.

  24. Election claims and erection claims

    What did Liz Truss do to mortgage rates? Do erections use a litre of blood?

  25. Election and Adultery Special

    Tim Harford and a panel of experts discuss pre-election polls and election fact checking.

  26. Egypt: Biggest protest in history?

    It鈥檚 claimed that Egyptians have taken part in the biggest uprising the world has...

  27. Education, Education, Education (and immigration)

    Tim Harford investigates migrants and jobs, VAT and private schools, and a hard maths exam

  28. Edith Abbott and crime statistics

    Social worker and economist Edith Abbott and her contribution to crime statistics.

  29. Ed Sheeran and the mathematics of musical coincidences

    Ed Sheeran thinks that musical coincidences will always happen鈥� but do the numbers agree?

  30. Economics of Overbooking

    Why airlines bet that not everybody will turn up for a flight.

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