成人快手

Finding Mexico City鈥檚 real death toll

How two data detectives revealed the pandemic鈥檚 impact.

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Explaining maths without Numbers

Tim Harford speaks to mathematician Milo Beckman.

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The medical trial that proved Trump wrong

The Recovery Trial identified drugs that helped save lives.

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The Seaspiracy 鈥渧irtually empty ocean鈥� claim

Why it鈥檚 unlikely our oceans will be virtually empty by 2048.

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Wales Vaccine Success

How to distribute jabs efficiently; plus adding 28 to 47

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The doubling of life-expectancy

The story of how data helped extend our lives

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The origins of Covid

How similar are the Covid strains?

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Maths and the Mayflower

Are there really 35 million descendants of the Mayflower alive today?

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Is Ivermectin a Covid 鈥榳onder drug鈥�?

What do we know about the efficacy of Ivermectin as a treatment for Covid-19?

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Are there 40 million Nigerians on Twitter?

Recent reports have claimed that Nigeria has 40 million Twitter users 鈥� but is this true?

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Long Covid and Vaccinating Children

The world watches as the UK lifts its remaining Covid restrictions

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The Rise of Delta

Where鈥檚 this new Variant spreading and what can be done to stop it?

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Breaking climate records

The odds and probability behind record-breaking temperatures

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Jab fears explained: a base rate fallacy

Why increasing Covid infections amongst the vaccinated isn鈥檛 necessarily bad news.

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How good were the performances at the Tokyo Olympics?

What can the data tell us about the quality of the Covid hit games?

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The extraordinary life of Robert Moses

The life of mathematics educator and civil rights organiser, Dr Robert Moses

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Reason, numbers and Mr Spock

What role do numbers play in helping us think more rationally?

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The bill for Afghanistan

Did the war in Afghanistan cost the US $2 trillion?

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Is immunity from vaccines waning?

How worried should we be about declining antibodies? Plus life-threatening hotdogs.

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How many holes are there in a drinking straw?

Tim Harford talks to Jordan Ellenberg about the pandemic, geometry and drinking straws

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Has the number of periods a woman has in her lifetime quadrupled?

A claim about how many periods a woman has and a suspicious stat on single-use face masks

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The Gender Pay Gap

Can Machiavelli help women get a better deal in the workplace?

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Vaccinating the world

How countries鈥� vaccination rates measure up 鈥� and the trickiness of comparing them.

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The prize-winning economics of migration and the minimum wage

A look at the work of this year鈥檚 winners of the most prestigious prize in economics.

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The numbers behind Squid Game

Could you survive a round in Squid Game, and how many have watched it?

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The art of counting

Tim Harford talks to author Deborah Stone about her book which explores counting

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Same data, opposite results. Can we trust research?

Why the same data can produce different conclusions.

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The carbon cost of breakfast at COP26

Can a vegan croissant really be worse for the environment than a bacon roll?

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A TikTok tale

How a well-meaning TikTok disrupted 4,600 studies.

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Simpson鈥檚 Paradox: How to make vaccinated death figures misleading

A tricky statistical phenomenon at play.

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