Has Milei fixed Argentina’s inflation problem?
What falling inflation means for Milei’s austerity plan and economic “shock” measures
- 9 mins
- 27 Apr 2024
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Tim Harford explains the numbers and statistics in the news and in life.
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Is misinformation being spread about a review of trans youth medicine?Investigating claims that the Cass Review ignored 98% of valuable evidence
- 9 mins
- 20 Apr 2024
Tackling The Three-Body ProblemIs the physics in Netflix's new show accurate?
- 9 mins
- 13 Apr 2024
Is loneliness as bad for you as smoking?The connection between being alone and an early death
- 9 mins
- 06 Apr 2024
Remembering Daniel KahnemanTim Harford on the great social scientist, who has died at the age of 90
- 9 mins
- 30 Mar 2024
What’s happening to Arctic ice?Arctic ice has been in long decline. Do recent fluctuations change the story?
- 9 mins
- 23 Mar 2024
Does the Russian government really spend 40% of its budget on the military?We investigate how much the Russian state is spending on the war in Ukraine
- 9 mins
- 16 Mar 2024
Is public speaking really our biggest fear?Tim Harford investigates the claim that public speaking is people’s number one fear.
- 9 mins
- 09 Mar 2024
Ultramarathons: Are women faster than men?Is it really true that in extremely long races, women run faster than men?
- 9 mins
- 02 Mar 2024
NBA basketball: Is height more important than skill?How much does a man’s height affect his chances of becoming an NBA basketball player?
- 9 mins
- 24 Feb 2024
The digital ‘robots’ unlocking medical dataBen Goldacre on OpenSAFELY, protecting patient privacy while analysing health data
- 9 mins
- 17 Feb 2024
The global gender split in young people’s politicsTim Harford investigates the growing political divergence between young men and women.
- 9 mins
- 10 Feb 2024
A pocket-size history of the calculatorTim Harford explores the history of calculators from clockwork to the Kashio brothers
- 9 mins
- 03 Feb 2024
Is Oxfam right about the world’s richest and poorest people?We investigate how Oxfam use wealth stats to illustrate global inequality
- 9 mins
- 27 Jan 2024
Are there more possible games of chess than atoms in the universe?We investigate how the vast possibilities in chess compare to the vastness of the universe
- 9 mins
- 20 Jan 2024
Do we see 10,000 adverts per day?We investigate the claim that each of us sees thousands of adverts every single day
- 9 mins
- 13 Jan 2024
How much money do the ‘Ndrangheta mafia make?We investigate whether one criminal group could have a turnover of billions of dollars
- 9 mins
- 06 Jan 2024
Numbers of the year 2023Hand-picked stats that tell you something interesting about the world
- 9 mins
- 30 Dec 2023
Can chocolate be better than salad?We investigate a nutritional conundrum – can chocolate ever be better for you than salad?
- 9 mins
- 23 Dec 2023
China’s missing numbersHow the Chinese state make inconvenient statistics disappear
- 9 mins
- 16 Dec 2023
