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How Deadly Was 1920s Melbourne?

How accurate is the murder rate in the crime series Miss Fisher鈥檚 Murder Mysteries?

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Why London鈥檚 Murder Rate is Being Compared to New York鈥檚

Finding out if London is now more deadly than New York.

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Are We Breathing Unsafe Air?

The W.H.O. say 95% of people in cities breathe unsafe air, but what does 'unsafe' mean?

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How Should We Think About Spending?

Tim Harford talks to economist Dan Ariely about the psychology of money.

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Puerto Rico: Statistics v Politics

Why some fear the statistics authority is about to lose its independence

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Exposing the Biases We Have of the World

Statistician Hans Rosling鈥檚 family talk about the book they co-wrote about preconceptions

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Tulipmania Mythology

What is the truth behind the 17th Century Dutch craze for tulips?

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James Comey: Basketball Superstar?

James Comey is very tall - but what are the chances he could have been a pro baller?

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Australia Calling

Do one in seven businessmen throw out their underwear after wearing them once?

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Harry Potter: How Many Wizards?

Fans have long debated - just how many wizards live among us?

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How Many Animals are Born Every Day?

From penguins to nematodes - is it possible to count how many animals are born every day?

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FIFA World Cup Extravaganza

How the 鈥榖eautiful game鈥� has changed鈥�through numbers.

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How Many Words Do You Need to Speak a Language?

How many words do you need to speak a language and how many do native speakers use?

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Running at the World Cup

Is it strange that Russian football players have run such big distances?

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Are There More Stars Than Grains of Beach Sand?

Stars vs Sand. We work out who wins the ultimate cosmic battle.

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Should We Have Smaller Families To Save The Planet?

Having one fewer child could be the biggest thing you do to reduce your carbon footprint

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How to Cycle Really Fast

How much better are the pros than the rest of us and how effective is slipstreaming?

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Getting Creative with Statistics

How big are your testicles and what does that mean?

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Carbs, Sugar and the Truth

Does a baked potato contain the equivalent of 19 cubes of sugar?

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Numbers Behind a Tweetstorm

How do you get a hashtag to trend around the world?

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Are Wildfires Really Burning More Land?

Are Wildfires in the United States and Southern Europe burning more land than before?

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Automated Fact-checking

Computer programmes are being developed to combat fake news.

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How well do you understand your world?

Tim Harford talks to Bobby Duffy about why we are often wrong about a lot of basic facts

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The safest car in the world?

A listener asks whether his Volvo is the safest car on the road

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DNA: Are you more Chimp or Neanderthal?

Is our DNA more chimp or Neanderthal?

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Trump and the Puerto Rico Death Toll

How can we calculate excess mortality after a natural disaster?

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Surviving the Battle of Britain

Were Spitfire pilots killed after an average of four weeks in the World War Two battle?

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Why are Lesbians More Likely to Divorce than Gay Men?

Tim Harford talks to economist Marina Adshade about same-sex divorce statistics.

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Paul Romer and William Nordhaus鈥� Big Ideas

The economists tackling climate change and growth

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Foreign Aid: Who鈥檚 The Most Generous?

In foreign aid terms what鈥檚 the best way of measuring how generous a country is?

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