679 Episodes

  1. Vaccine numbers

    Published: 14/11/2020
  2. How deadly is Covid 19?

    Published: 07/11/2020
  3. Asymptomatic Covid19 Cases

    Published: 31/10/2020
  4. US election: facts or fiction

    Published: 24/10/2020
  5. Auction Theory - Paul Milgrom and Robert Wilson

    Published: 17/10/2020
  6. A short history of probability

    Published: 10/10/2020
  7. Spreadsheet snafu, ‘Long Covid’ quantified, and the birth of probability

    Published: 07/10/2020
  8. “Record” Covid cases, Trump on the death count, and ant pheromones

    Published: 30/09/2020
  9. Covid curve queried, false positives, and the Queen’s head

    Published: 23/09/2020
  10. The magical maths of pool testing

    Published: 19/09/2020
  11. Covid testing capacity, refugee numbers, and mascara

    Published: 16/09/2020
  12. Covid cases rising, a guide to life’s risks, and racing jelly-fish

    Published: 09/09/2020
  13. Schools and coronavirus, test and trace, maths and reality

    Published: 02/09/2020
  14. Covid plasma therapy

    Published: 26/08/2020
  15. A-level algorithms, poker and buses

    Published: 19/08/2020
  16. Belarus’ contested election

    Published: 15/08/2020
  17. Hawaiian Pizza, obesity and a second wave?

    Published: 12/08/2020
  18. Melting Antarctic ice

    Published: 08/08/2020
  19. Covid in Africa

    Published: 01/08/2020
  20. Data in the time of cholera

    Published: 25/07/2020

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

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