678 Episodes

  1. Bonus Episode: Understand the Economy

    Published: 11/14/2022
  2. Improving the numbers in the news

    Published: 11/12/2022
  3. Lula’s “zero deforestation” plan for the Amazon

    Published: 11/5/2022
  4. Can China’s GDP data be trusted?

    Published: 10/29/2022
  5. Do half of new books really sell fewer than twelve copies?

    Published: 10/22/2022
  6. Ben Bernanke and the magic of banking

    Published: 10/15/2022
  7. Catching Chess Cheats with Data

    Published: 10/8/2022
  8. Teens and antidepressants, stamp duty savings and earthquake probabilities

    Published: 10/7/2022
  9. Teens and antidepressants, stamp duty savings and earthquake probabilities

    Published: 10/5/2022
  10. NASA’s asteroid collision: how many asteroids are really out there?

    Published: 10/1/2022
  11. Falling pound, the Queen’s funeral and is 0.5 on the Richter scale a big number?

    Published: 9/28/2022
  12. Ukraine’s progress in numbers

    Published: 9/24/2022
  13. Ukraine offensive, weak pound & how much do women really exercise

    Published: 9/22/2022
  14. How bad is fashion for the environment?

    Published: 9/17/2022
  15. Energy crisis plan, imperial measures survey, gardens v national parks

    Published: 9/14/2022
  16. Is a third of Pakistan really under water?

    Published: 9/10/2022
  17. Pakistan flooding, UK power prices and Boris’s broadband claim

    Published: 9/7/2022
  18. Can we use maths to beat the robots?

    Published: 9/3/2022
  19. Energy prices, excess deaths and the race to count to 200

    Published: 8/31/2022
  20. Kenya’s Election Rounding Error

    Published: 8/27/2022

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Tim Harford explains - and sometimes debunks - the numbers and statistics used in political debate, the news and everyday life