667 Episodes

  1. Are falling marriage rates causing happiness to fall in the US?

    Published: 5/18/2024
  2. Is reading for pleasure the single biggest factor in how well a child does in life?

    Published: 5/11/2024
  3. Do one in five young Americans think the holocaust is a myth?

    Published: 5/4/2024
  4. Has Milei fixed Argentina’s inflation problem?

    Published: 4/26/2024
  5. 98%: Is misinformation being spread about a review of trans youth medicine?

    Published: 4/20/2024
  6. Tackling The Three-Body Problem

    Published: 4/13/2024
  7. Is loneliness as bad for you as smoking?

    Published: 4/6/2024
  8. Remembering Daniel Kahneman

    Published: 3/30/2024
  9. Bonus episode: Daniel Kahneman on Thinking, Fast and Slow

    Published: 3/28/2024
  10. What's happening to Arctic ice?

    Published: 3/25/2024
  11. Does the Russian government really spend 40% of its budget on the military?

    Published: 3/16/2024
  12. Is public speaking really our biggest fear?

    Published: 3/9/2024
  13. Ultramarathons: Are women faster than men?

    Published: 3/2/2024
  14. School spending, excess deaths and billions of animals at Heathrow

    Published: 2/28/2024
  15. NBA basketball: Is height more important than skill?

    Published: 2/24/2024
  16. Per capita GDP, MP claims and the entire EU budget

    Published: 2/21/2024
  17. The digital ‘robots’ unlocking medical data

    Published: 2/17/2024
  18. Debt, students, shark and chips

    Published: 2/14/2024
  19. The global gender split in young people’s politics

    Published: 2/10/2024
  20. Council tax weirdness: Hartlepool vs Westminster

    Published: 2/7/2024

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