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    Trump and the Puerto Rico Death Toll

    How can we calculate excess mortality after a natural disaster?

  2. How many schoolchildren are carers? Counting shareholder income, Museum visitors vs football fans

    Tim Harford on child carers, shareholder income, football, museums and dangerous sports.

  3. DNA: Are you more Chimp or Neanderthal?

    Is our DNA more chimp or Neanderthal?

  4. Male suicide, School ratings, Are female tennis players treated unfairly by umpires?

    Tim Harford on what statistics tell us about suicide, good schools and sexism in tennis.

  5. The safest car in the world?

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

  6. Heart age calculator; Danish sperm imports; The size of the services sector; The 'safest car on the road'; Counting goats.

    Tim Harford questions the usefulness of a popular heart age calculator.

  7. 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

  8. African trade tariffs, Alcohol safe limits, President Trump's popularity

    Tim Harford fact-checks EU trade deals with Africa, and whether one drink is one too many.

  9. Automated Fact-checking

    Computer programmes are being developed to combat fake news.

  10. A no-frills life, automated fact-checking, Lord of the Rings maths

    Tim Harford on no-frills living, automated fact-checking and Lord of the Rings maths.

  11. Are Wildfires Really Burning More Land?

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

  12. Numbers Behind a Tweetstorm

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

  13. Carbs, Sugar and the Truth

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

  14. Getting Creative with Statistics

    How big are your testicles and what does that mean?

  15. How to Cycle Really Fast

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

  16. 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

  17. Are There More Stars Than Grains of Beach Sand?

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

  18. Running at the World Cup

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

  19. 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?

  20. FIFA World Cup Extravaganza

    How the ‘beautiful game’ has changed…through numbers.

  21. How Many Animals are Born Every Day?

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

  22. How to Reduce Exam Revision with Maths, Infant Mortality, London's Murder Rate

    Tim Harford explains how maths can help lazy students reduce their revision workload.

  23. Harry Potter: How Many Wizards?

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

  24. The high street, Home births, Harry Potter wizardry

    Is WH Smith really the worst on the high street? Plus how safe is giving birth at home?

  25. Australia Calling

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

  26. Forecasting rain, Teabags, Voter ID trials

    How to read the weather forecast, plus measuring the amount of tea we drink.

  27. James Comey: Basketball Superstar?

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

  28. Child poverty, Progress 8, How green is grass?

    Are more working families in poverty? Plus exploring the new school league tables.

  29. Tulipmania Mythology

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

  30. Abortion, Modern slavery, Math versus maths

    The British abortion statistics gaining attention in Ireland's referendum debate.

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